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by shagie 2y ago
Capacitor circuit network warning for alarm for "main grid is drawing on this bank - bad things may happen if capacity is not increased." Another "trick" is those burner inserters are black start capable. They can pick
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by shagie 2y ago
Full title: At Elon Musk’s Behest, Voters Cast Ballots for a New Town: Starbase, Texas Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/elon-musk-town-starbas...
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Voters Cast Ballots for a New Town: Starbase, Texas(nytimes.com)
2 points by shagie 2y ago|2 comments
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by shagie 2y ago
> orange cats are almost exclusively male This is also equally true for black cats as the genetics works the same for them too. However, it's more that "female cats can be tortoiseshell" and thus the ratios will get somewh
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by shagie 2y ago
As I understand it, it's more difficult than that... though I'm not a lawyer. Let's say {some company} and Apple have a cross patent licensing for some set of patents. Apple releases some softer under GPLv3. {Some company} s
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by shagie 2y ago
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt 11. Patents. A "contributor" is a copyright holder who authorizes use under this License of the Program or a work on which the Program is based. The work thus
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by shagie 2y ago
> Unconventional postcards: A thin sheet of plywood with a Sharpie address label is a fun postcard. (it just costs a lot more than a normal postcard) I've got a bunch of water color paper post cards from my days of random vacations
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by shagie 2y ago
Biological variety.
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by shagie 2y ago
Have you ever stumbled across the PEF/REV method for classifying bugs? https://www.fincher.org/tips/General/SoftwareDevelopment/Bug... The essence of it is that "PEF" is from the user's po
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by shagie 2y ago
The option is common (its particulars of the award is at https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70RCSJ24FR0000019... ). The fact that the option needed to be done rather than DHS continuing to support CVE and rela
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by shagie 2y ago
My {conspiracy | belief | suspicion} is that this was something that as part of the DoD they saw "Mitre Corporation" and that organization's relationship with MIT and were pulling funding for anything "elite liberal acad
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by shagie 2y ago
https://www.itpro.com/security/confusion-and-frustration-mit... > However, in an updated statement, the agency revealed it intends to maintain the database in a bid to prevent a lapse in CVE services. > “The CVE
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by shagie 2y ago
There's likely a good bit of analysis that could be done on TLAs. Consider TLA itself is {Adjective : Count} {Noun} {Noun}. Meanwhile, DUI is {Gerund} {Preposition} {Noun} with the stop word 'the' removed. It might be inter
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by shagie 2y ago
Most states have a WARN act that covers even more. For example, California - https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WARN... While federal law has: Plant closings involving 50 or more employ
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by shagie 2y ago
I'm reminded of the last part of 'TLA' form the Jargon File (I had a hard copy back in college that I read cover to cover). http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/TLA.html ... The self-effacing phra
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by shagie 2y ago
In a computer lab I hung out in back in college... We used rcp to keep passwords in sync. Add the account on the main machine, rcp the password file to the other machine. sudo rcp /etc/password other:/etc/passwd was mu
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by shagie 2y ago
Linus’s views on GPLv3 would be something to watch https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU?si=263GyZd9YaPu4-PC
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by shagie 2y ago
And has the value of "it doesn't go dead as easily" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier > The DOI for a document remains fixed over the lifetime of the document, whereas its loca
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by shagie 2y ago
There's a sequence of stories by different authors that allude to one another that I find to be an interesting read in that order. First, there's the BLIT stories by David Langford. Several of these are online. https:/&#x2F
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by shagie 2y ago
Add Diaspora by Greg Egan to the simulated minds reading list (the story Wang's Carpets within it is one of my favorites).
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by shagie 2y ago
... and then read The Freeze-Frame Revolution.
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by shagie 2y ago
What it was trying to be was misunderstood. Arguably, there were too few patterns and they were provided as a way to build software like LEGOs. I've read "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" which was the i
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by shagie 2y ago
We had it. Nobody cared. https://www.nspe.org/career-growth/pe-magazine/may-2018/ncee... > The Software Engineering PE exam, which has struggled to reach an audience, will be discontinued by the Na
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by shagie 2y ago
The chemicals aren't being made (sold) by Kodak anymore, but the chemicals are known and if you sat down with a chemical engineer you could brew up another batch. It certainly wouldn't be cheap, but it's not impossible. There
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by shagie 2y ago
(many hours later) ... I'm going to point out from the printer story... https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt And we just had to suffer with waiting. It would take an hour or two to
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by shagie 2y ago
Like with "practicing medicine without a license" or "practicing law without a license" ... what would constitute "practicing software development without a license?" The licenses are enforced by law... and jus
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by shagie 2y ago
https://kickstarterunited.org/first-contract/
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by shagie 2y ago
I'd point to Kickstarter United - https://kickstarterunited.org How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry ( 190 points | Oct 7, 2020 | 369 comments ) https://news.ycombinator.c
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by shagie 2y ago
Elseforum, I've debated this. I consider it to be more of an inside company lobbying group than a union. In particular, they have no ability to collectively bargain for a contract. None of their wins are things that have been able t
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by shagie 2y ago
If I took iText, made changes to it, rebundled that behind a web service - that would be in violation of the AGPL. The thing that prevents that from happening is that the AGPL prevents it based on copyright. It would be unreasonable to say

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