skywal_l

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   by skywal_l 3y ago

   And of all of those, how many of them survived?
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   by skywal_l 3y ago

   Maybe my comment was poorly phrased. What I meant is: we arrived to a point where wealth is so much concentrated that, without connection to the happy few, life is miserable for regular folks. It should not be the case. You should be able t
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   by skywal_l 3y ago

   But maybe you should also be able to live a stable and fulfilling life while being a factory worker or a tradesman. There was a time when that was possible. Not everybody can be a banker or a rocket scientist.
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   by skywal_l 3y ago

   Somewhere between 4) and 5): it was a camera artefact.
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   by skywal_l 3y ago

   I would rather force companies to release schematics, specifications and documentations after, say 3 years and let the market decide which part must be made. With competition it would lower the parts price and potentially these parts could
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   by skywal_l 3y ago

   > If you can find a way for e.g., roofers to work in the shade, in sure you'd be handsomely compensated. Wear long sleeves. Contact me privately for details about where you should transfer my compensation.
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   by skywal_l 3y ago

   Seems to be down. This page seems to work: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2...
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   by skywal_l 3y ago

   I am always impressed by the collective memory of HN commenters.
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   by skywal_l 3y ago

   But technical people ofter block JS by defaut which prevent the button from closing the popup. Fortunately, reader mode on firefox solves the problem.
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    It would be interesting to apply this to the linux kernel mailing list and compare what you get with what Jonathan Corbet at lwn.net does "manually".
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/224/
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    Helium is not even the best lighter than air gas. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjBgEkbnX2I
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    Time to reread "Mission of gravity" by Hal Clement.
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    Funny how disinformation can spread so easily. Reading that stackexchange link throws a different shade entirely. The article, which is about the real subject of american incarceration rate, present those dudes as innocent bystanders commit
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    Although I am an advocate for nuclear power, I am a little worried about small reactors, which will inevitably warrant less attention and care. The smaller they are, there more there are, the more there is a risk of mistakes and disseminati
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    The difference I see is that you can live more than 3 days without iron ore. Water is *particularily* precious.
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    To have competition you need a market. What are these robots are going to do exactly? We already have robots replacing humans in almost any hard physical work. The rest of the physical work requires intellectual adaptability. Good luck havi
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    Look at Wikipedia [0], they have it planned for the next ten years like clockwork. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Generations
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    If these sites are scams or fishing, then the law should pursue them and put them in jail.
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    The Highly Ridiculous Over-Engineering of the Diamondback Nozzle [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by skywal_l 3y ago|0 comments
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    I think that all the elements present in the solar system that are heavier than hydrogen were made by previous stars and elements heavier that iron (or carbon I forget) were necessary made by stars that went supernova. It would be very surp
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    Decrusting the Axum Crate [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by skywal_l 3y ago|0 comments
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    The statement "Linux does not have a stable userland ABI/API" is about the kernel. If you are talking about glibc you are already in the Linux OS/GNU Linux (whatever it is called) domain. I think I correctly interpreted
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    > Linux does not have a stable userland ABI/API I don't think that is correct. Do you have an example? Linus is adament that "[they] do not break userspace". > it's very common for binaries built for one distr
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    Assuming you are talking about OS kernel API, what if you static link your libc? My understanding is that the linux kernel API famously does not change [0]. [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    Part of the "Fire Upon the Deep" series of novels (that particular reference is from the "A Deepness in the Sky").
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    Fire upon the deep, where space ships runs on a future version of unix and only one guy knows what the unix epoch means.
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    All this is true but you forget the cost. Mainframe do not allow to start small. I have no idea how much the cheapest mainframe cost but it's porbably more than a dirt cheap x86 server with a bunch of free software so important for stu
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    I hope Andrew does a Stream of preparing the 0.11.0 migration documentation like he did for 0.10.0. It gives a good insight on the new features in a conversational manner.
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    by skywal_l 3y ago

    https://ziglang.org/ ?