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by somat 8mo ago
Obviously(/s) the solution is to change to a sunset centered day. new day starts at sunset so people can get up late and enjoy the maxim number of daylight hours. I always find it strange how particular people are about the numbers att
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by somat 8mo ago
It is probably true, but it is also a useless statistic, let me explain. 8 billion people, avg lifespan 70 years, 115 million people die each year, percentage in capitalist economic zones... No clue, does china count? but probably 80 to 90%
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by somat 8mo ago
What a ridiculous law, smells of some sort of frog boiling scheme to me. step1: "lets see if we can get away with imposing a small easy requirement, you know 'think of the children'" step2: "now that we have a foot
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by somat 8mo ago
I have a theory that the renaissance and perhaps more critically the industrial revolution that followed was in a large part driven by coffee. Middle ages, things are a bit sleepy, dopey. Everybody is drinking beer all the time. progress ru
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by somat 8mo ago
Now I am curious, Understand that I am from the states, and consequently have zero intuition as to what a VAT is. But... the hard drive importer is directly using the HDDs and as such is not adding any value to the item, why are they paying
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by somat 8mo ago
TV's are optimized around decoding video, At least they can generally do this at full speed, this is coupled with the cheapest cpu the manufacturer can find. Even this would be manageable, There have been great UI's on weaker hard
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by somat 8mo ago
The history behind BAR is also fascinating. There was the Total Annihilation RTS and while it had the normal 2d overhead view, all the data was in 3d. A Swedish gaming clan put together an accelerated full 3d engine to replay Total Annihila
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by somat 8mo ago
I think that is the way it is headed. But you never know. Sometimes when comparing it helps me to reduce these things down to lower levels. What is a battery? A chemical cell to store hydrogen and oxygen(true, it does not "have" t
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by somat 8mo ago
I think you are right, One only provides directional thrust, a pair would be needed for rotational thrust. Most traditional tugs have a pair of screws for just this reason. Not so much to turn but by applying differential thrust they can pu
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by somat 8mo ago
I am a little sad that bare zero is not represented. This is my first exposure to Cistercian numbers but it looks like a unadorned staff would fit for the bare zero. The whole thing is a lot of fun, feels like a Myst puzzle. Or more accurat
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by somat 8mo ago
For what it's worth obsd vi (nvi) has multi level undo. it is just the slightly awkward 'u' to undo/redo then '.' to repeat the undo/redo.
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by somat 8mo ago
Apologies for the flippant one liner, You made a good point and deserve more than that. On the one hand, having the optimizer save you from your own bad code is a huge draw, this is my desperate hope with SQL, I can write garbage queries an
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by somat 8mo ago
I find where the argument gets lost is when undefined behavior is assumed to be exactly that, an invariant. That is to say, I find "could not happen" the most bizarre reading to make when optimizing around undefined behavior &quot
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by somat 8mo ago
That's the problem
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by somat 8mo ago
It is only backwards compatible two generations, occasionally something slips at the LTO trust (or wherever those things are designed) and you get three generations. But if I have a basement full of LTO1 tapes no currently manufactured driv
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by somat 8mo ago
> Also: I don't have a bd/dvd player in my house today You have just stumbled on the inherent problem with any archival media. You really think you will have a working tape drive after 40 years? Hell, in my experience tape driv
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by somat 8mo ago
I like the quote that claims that as a science history is probably closer to animal husbandry than anything else. Don't get me wrong I like history and think it a critical thing to study. but it is very telling to try ones hand at meta
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by somat 8mo ago
I want to complain about the terminology used. It is probably just me, but RCE implies no user action required. It is a stupid, bad error yes, but because it requires the user to load a payload file and click on a link I would not really ca
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by somat 8mo ago
The real sin is that if they went with electron, they probably could have gone with a web app, and while web apps have downsides, they make fellow user buy in trivial, instead of "download this client" it's "go to this w
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by somat 8mo ago
Hard to say, I don't really use discord so I think of it as voice chat as a service, and for pure voice chat it is hard to do better than mumble. However from the way people talk about discord, it is also a text chat screen sharing fil
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by somat 9mo ago
Valve did final assembly for the steam controllers in the US. Not sure if that counts or not. It was shortly after the portal 2 launch and they did a slick video of the process with portal music. https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by somat 9mo ago
My finest work on the 3270 was an analog clock screensaver. It was simultaneously the hardest and most pointless thing I have ever written. Our interface to the mainframe was CMS/VSE on Z-OS. We never touched Z-OS and I was a little af
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by somat 9mo ago
What are you talking about? The desktop experience on linux is far superior to that brain dead lowest common denominator junk as found on windows or macos. linux has(by personal preference order) middle click paste, tiling window managers,
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by somat 9mo ago
It was a mid sized mail order company, they had invested early with computers, and not changed much since. It was a very strange mix of odd old computer systems. An IBM mainframe batch processing backend with sco unix on the front end using
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by somat 9mo ago
Articles like this always paint a rosy picture of the 3270 but consider the limitations. Async style updates as commonly found on a VT designed program were tricky. Now admittedly my own experience with the 3270 was through about three laye
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by somat 9mo ago
I think of it like time dilation, such as near a black hole(see what I did there, tying the two singularities together). From the perspective of one experiencing time-dilation nothing appears unusual, everything appears normal, it only from
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by somat 9mo ago
Arcan is a display server, in the category of X, wayland or rio The focus of arcan is to make the final display target super flexible. So X was designed to be network agnostic, the programmer could use the same protocol and depending on how
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by somat 9mo ago
In that regard it's the plan9 of display servers. I love the idea of arcan, I like how as a counter point to waylands "X went to hard, the display server should be a dynamically linked shared object" there is one solitary guy
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by somat 9mo ago
The thing is, even when parsing html "correctly" (whatever that is) regexes will still be used. Sure, There will be a bunch of additional structures and mechanisms involved, but you will be identifying tokens via a bunch of regexe
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by somat 9mo ago
I would put the would put the wii firmly in the gamecube family line. it's a uprated gamecube with a weird controller. nes:snes = 6502 n64 = mips gamecube:wii:wiiu = powerpc switch:switch2 = arm

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