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by shrubble 7mo ago
Consumer GPS chips are specifically nerfed for using them in rockets; they give erroneous readings on purpose if altitude is above a certain height and/or if speeds exceed a certain speed. That’s likely why the mid-course correction s
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by shrubble 7mo ago
If this was Usenet, your post would result in a “plonk” very likely. Why did almost all Presidents up to and including Eisenhower praise Robert E Lee? Was Eisenhower a traitor also?
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by shrubble 7mo ago
The fact that Koresh and his group held off Federal officers who stormed their building with simple guns that anyone can buy, is likely the point. Out of five and a half minutes of video, David Koresh appears for perhaps three seconds. It d
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by shrubble 7mo ago
Wouldn’t it require making a purchase and providing a shipping address? How would a VPN get in the middle of checking the physical address?
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by shrubble 7mo ago
This was done by “mail order bride” companies like those in Russia and Ukraine, that charge per message or letter sent back and forth, using their platform that does not allow for contact information to be shared; you are not talking to Ana
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by shrubble 7mo ago
Laurie Lee was born in 1914 and as a child, witnessed these changes, but he could also know from interacting with those much older, how little the basic rhythms of life had changed up until then. Literacy in earlier years, from a quick sear
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by shrubble 7mo ago
The Cotswolds documented at their tail end (ended by the motorcycle and car) by Laurie Lee in "Cider With Rosie" had about the same existence for centuries.
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by shrubble 7mo ago
Alan Kay famously said: "I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras."
129.
by shrubble 7mo ago
There’s a lot of different reasons that have nothing to do with this particular situation that has led to the saying that Boulder is “nine square miles surrounded by reality”…
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by shrubble 7mo ago
Yes they did. Reminder: your experience is 11 years ago and several Intel and ARM generations old. Also it’s more than $3 Trillion in revenue ago.
131.
by shrubble 7mo ago
That’s spending that is all on autopilot; how much time does any CEO spend on payroll? Approximately zero.
132.
by shrubble 7mo ago
It’s really an iPad running MacOS instead of iOS; the question is whether people want that. I’m not the target market since I require Linux compatibility but I realize that is not a necessity in the market.
133.
by shrubble 7mo ago
Tribblix does, which is based on illumos - I have a V210 I installed it on, not too long ago...
134.
by shrubble 7mo ago
It’s great for ZFS and for Zones, including Linux zones.
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by shrubble 7mo ago
Illumos/OpenSolaris etc are great and install about as easily as FreeBSD, on desktop and server systems with Ethernet. Other stuff like WiFi etc is not as well supported. It’s still my favorite OS, if it fits what I need it for.
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by shrubble 7mo ago
Clipper compatible language that compiles on Windows, Linux/Unix and Mac (I think) even today is at xHarbour.org . I have played around with it but never did Clipper development before, so can’t comment about compatibility.
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by shrubble 7mo ago
Only some people who were around at that time welcomed Windows NT; others decried the various failings of Microsoft…
138.
by shrubble 7mo ago
SSH v1 protocol would work; but it’s still considered insecure by SSH clients of the last two decades :-)
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by shrubble 7mo ago
That’s not true for the USA however. The large award for a medical malpractice trial was the reason for doctors pushing for a C-section if there’s any possibility of a complication. (Sometimes called defensive medicine.) Most people point t
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by shrubble 7mo ago
QEMU has a SPARC CPU emulator; it might be possible to run the operating system and database in a VM on regular x86-64 hardware.
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by shrubble 7mo ago
I’ve given to non profits where I know the people personally and how they operate; and to FreeBSD and NetBSD, which deliver pretty great results on a relative shoestring budget.
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by shrubble 7mo ago
I thought you might have “composable” pipelines!
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by shrubble 7mo ago
Fecalbook?
144.
by shrubble 8mo ago
I would try to add a fan or other cooling; my guess is that the CPU is handling thermal properly but something else is not.
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by shrubble 8mo ago
I’m glad that Rust users are willing to accept that other approaches to safety like Ada are also interesting or effective. In the past I had the impression that some thought that Rust was the first programming language to ever have the conc
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by shrubble 8mo ago
Has a Strugatsky Brothers “Roadside Picnic” feel.
147.
by shrubble 8mo ago
How would that even be legal? (Although I can't find such a startup with any kind of search engine)
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by shrubble 8mo ago
Due to the wonders of technology, you can now do the equivalent of the Steven Wright joke: “In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got
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by shrubble 8mo ago
Thanks for this! I have an SGI o2 with R5K CPU I need to get going one of these days!
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by shrubble 8mo ago
Was the statement that over 50% of the money from USAID never left the country, ever shown to be false? It’s clear that just like the California-spent billions on the homeless, a large amount of the money was going to support the nephews an

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