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by skywal_l 5y ago
I assume you are making a case in good faith. Saying the satellites were lost because of the geomagnetic storm could imply that the satellites suffered some sort of electronic damage. Which, as I understand, is not what happened. That is wh
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by skywal_l 5y ago
The storm is a single event in a chain of events that caused the satellites to fail. It's not the direct nor the first cause.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I wonder if terraforming is possible, not because of technological limitations but just because of the limitation of humanity's ability to execute such large scale projects. Given an unlimited amount of raw materials and energy, terraf
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by skywal_l 5y ago
They probably already generates a lot of revenue from scanning user's emails. If they were to make Gmail a paid service, they would probably lose a lot of people. Moreover, they are not necessarily competitive against other established
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by skywal_l 5y ago
As a die hard unix fan being forced to work on Windows, git bash is a godsend. Sure now you have WSL and countless other options but git bash is one click away and works surprisingly well.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Ok so what's slower is the JS engine which is a more reasonable claim. My experience is it depends on the types of work your doing but in general, indeed, chrome seems faster. But Firefox has improved a lot with quantum.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I didn't know that. Why would firefox be slower than say chrome when if you use WebGL, the work is being done by the GPU anyway?
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by skywal_l 5y ago
In a 4-stroke engine, throttle or not, intake valves are shut down when in compression so cylinders are sealed off, compression happens anyway, diesel or gas. Indeed, in 2-cycles engines there are not intake valve so LinuxBender's poin
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Interesting. But what do you mean by 4 cycles. The diesel engines I know all have 4 cycles. I though 2 cycles engines were found on old tractors from the 50s no? Edit: Looking at [0], assuming this is true, I understand the confusion now. I
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Diesel engines might not have throttle plate but they use injection which certainly do not inject air when acceleration is released, so the cylinders will act exactly the same way. Reading the web I see conflicting account on this subject.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
It's called slipstream I believe.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Diesel engines do not have engine breaking? Are you sure? For me, engine breaking is just the fact that the engine, without power, have moving pieces which, by inertia, is going to slow down the vehicle. Diesel engine being heavier than &qu
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Nobody was harmed in the Milgram experiment. That's the whole point of the experiment. It is to fake harm. The one seemingly receiving the electric shock is an actor faking pain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgr
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to have a binary containing multiple versions of your program compiled optimized for various CPU configuration and have a switch at runtime which would select depending on your CPUid. I think intel have a compil
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by skywal_l 5y ago
That and the tax heaven. /s
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by skywal_l 5y ago
But are jest and karma equivalent tools? My understanding is that karma is used to run tests in an headless browser while jest run tests in node.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Dude I am talking about Visual Studio 6.0, 25 years ago !
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by skywal_l 5y ago
A properly installed Ubuntu on a fairly modern laptop, with i3, firefox, xterm, webstorm/sublime text and VLC for the occasional video works like a breeze. Rarely use more than a few gigs of RAM even when multitasking on multiple proje
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Chip8 for example. /s
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I believe .NET was not open initially. Moreover, there are some patents involved I believe. Add to that the general distrust of Micro$oft among the open source community (especially in 2001).
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by skywal_l 5y ago
This article is interesting but not rigorous I think. * The inverse of a geometric shape makes no sense. We only inverse operations. * aa^-1 = 1 only if you consider the multiplication over reals. * 1/0 is not equal to infinity. Becaus
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by skywal_l 5y ago
An interesting take on this subject: https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/joe-rogan-podcast-covid-misin... Their take is that censoring Rogan is not the answer. Having a clear, science and common sense based communicati
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by skywal_l 5y ago
I don't know anything about anti-trust law and I don't like the idea of a company with that much power but what would be the basis of a regulatory action here? Google will tell you that there is no monopoly. Anyone can install fir
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Interesting but there is only a Part 0. Unless it is some sort of inside joke, I was hoping for more.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Yes, error messages in zig needs improving but that's not surprising. Rust error messages where pretty terrible back in the day. I found zig language reference pretty good[0]. It is simple, lot of example. I would find 80% on there and
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Nice write-up. I'll be interested in the sound subsystem. Seems to be the hardest part to get right on these kind of project.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Great! Would be nice to have a Turbo Pascal skin.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Well his history ended in 1992. The guy spent a life becoming an expert on Soviet imperialism and in a few days most of his knowledge became obsolete. I could see how he could say something like that.
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by skywal_l 5y ago
Check out the pre-dating french version ;) !: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkAAPcMvg4c
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by skywal_l 5y ago
It's been posted already but putting it here for better visibility: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908

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