sirtaj

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by sirtaj 2y ago
You are incorrect, Wikipedia [1] cites [2] to suggest that the expected lifespan at age 15 was 28-33. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Variation_over... 2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2
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by sirtaj 2y ago
Back then they barely lived past their 20s, I assume they spent more time worrying about red meat eating them.
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by sirtaj 2y ago
The cost/benefit analysis was probably seen differently back then. At that point it was a space race against the Big Bad and winning was more important than a certain threshold of safety. Now? I can't see the benefit of risking th
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by sirtaj 2y ago
What does this prove other than that you can often spend less on a phone if you buy Android? Dividing the price of a phone over its expected lifetime, the monthly "rent" of iPhones and flagship Android phones can seem fiscally irr
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by sirtaj 2y ago
Racks of N100s.
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by sirtaj 2y ago
Without a counter-argument it just becomes a statement of faith, of the "it's so obvious that god exists that I don't have to prove it" variety. You're entitled to your opinion, but expecting others to take your wor
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by sirtaj 2y ago
Yes Arnt, I'm the canonical one!
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by sirtaj 2y ago
I suspect that it's not the same Coolo you're thinking of.
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by sirtaj 2y ago
What is there to explain further?
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by sirtaj 2y ago
The user you're responding to is Jason Scott of TIA.
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by sirtaj 2y ago
The interfaces by which the system communicates with the drive have been heavily abstracted though, which means spinrite is now similar to a block copy with failure retries.
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by sirtaj 2y ago
I remember running Spinrite regularly on my 286 as a kid in the early 90s like some sort of maintenance ritual, watching the magical blob pulsing like it was doing something deeply important. Meanwhile, each time it ran it would either 1) t
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by sirtaj 2y ago
In India it was pretty common for phones put in semi-public locations to have a lock on the dial to stop people making outgoing calls. But if you were motivated enough, you could still dial out by tapping the number out on the switch hook.
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by sirtaj 2y ago
The "everything is a database" took two forms. First, apps had no filesystem available, only a database which they could use as a datastore. It was not a particularly powerful or fancy database, everything had to be done via the C
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by sirtaj 2y ago
These days it's fashionable to say that your database is not an app integration interface, but imo Palm OS did this right. Having a single, omnipresent DB with published schema for important PIM databases was a pretty great thing for a
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by sirtaj 2y ago
Could it be that they're simply idle sleeping to save power? My first ESPhome device confused me by dropping off and on and it turned out that was the problem, idle sleep was configured by default - the device would wake up, report its
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by sirtaj 2y ago
I've been to universities in India where the CS faculty put their "free" Microsoft software boxes on display because the state government has made a deal with MS, but are running Linux on all the computers.
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by sirtaj 3y ago
Your prof is not wrong in theory, but in practice we are failing at 3. plant more trees.
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by sirtaj 3y ago
Rather not mention their name here without their permission, sorry! But this is one of the outcomes[1] 1. https://www.disguise.one/
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by sirtaj 3y ago
There is a digital artist who does live show effects for some of the largest bands in the world, he got his start learning 3D programming as a teen on the Unicorns in the BBC's excellent structured BASIC.
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by sirtaj 3y ago
> SCL Fab in Chandigarh, which back in the 1980s used to sell Intel knockoffs to the Soviet and Indian defense industries before it was burned down during the Khalistan insurgency. Among other things, they also made a BBC Micro clone cal
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by sirtaj 3y ago
You can hardly compare a grandfather dictatorship that's smaller than most major cities as something that western countries would want to emulate. Aside from the fact that it's the kind of place where they'll put you to death
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by sirtaj 3y ago
Which countries would you suggest emulating?
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by sirtaj 3y ago
It's funny, I still fondly remember the Borland IDEs in the 90's when full, context-specific library documentation was a keystroke and less than a second away. All these advances in the power of an IDE, and searching google and pi
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by sirtaj 3y ago
I'm saying it didn't appear in the last ten years. And eating fresh food is pretty much a tropical standard, except for preserved items (pickles etc). It changed only with refrigeration.
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by sirtaj 3y ago
This sounds a lot like a specific caste's food culture than general Indian culture. Dhabas and street vendors didn't pop up overnight.
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by sirtaj 3y ago
From what I understand, the barrier devs are planning to add Wayland support via libei [1]. I guess this should be relevant to you too? 1. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2023-Ma...
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by sirtaj 3y ago
It's literally the translation of "console" to German.
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by sirtaj 3y ago
This sounds suspiciously close to re-inventing ARP and IP.
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by sirtaj 3y ago
I don't think Steam requires or even pays for platform-exclusive games. If your game doesn't need Steam-specific features, you can sell it on Steam and anywhere else you like. Even the DRM is entirely optional.

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