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by somat 10mo ago
Speaking of prolog, any recommendations for resources learning it at a stage somewhere between "draw three circles" and "draw the rest of the owl" I don't have real work I need prolog for, but I find it an interesti
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by somat 10mo ago
bzflag, which apparently is still being developed. https://www.bzflag.org/
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by somat 10mo ago
Every person gets their own postgres schema, sort of a namespace, other peoples tables will be under name.table but they have to grant access. something like "grant usage on schema myname to public_user; grant select on best_books to p
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by somat 10mo ago
Unfortunately the whole thing is ip6 only. A side effect of how I wired everything up. I run the whole thing from my closet over an free he ip6 tunnel.
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by somat 10mo ago
Here is my take on the subject, in my case I was more curious what a shared public postgres server would feel like. https://www.public.outband.net It's a bit rough and lives on an old router in my closet so be gentle.
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by somat 10mo ago
Note that crt's did not have bad blacks, they were far better than lcd displays. I am currently using an ips display and it has pretty good blacks, notably better than a normal lcd display. But I remember crt's being even better(
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by somat 10mo ago
One of the more obscure things OpenBSD man does is provide tags to the pager(less). So you can do things like ":t test" in man ksh and end up right at that section. However while I think the feature is neat, a clever use of an exi
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by somat 10mo ago
What are the uniqueness requirements for titles, For the most part people are reasonable and don't want to stomp on each others names. however there are bad actors and this is usually where trademark law comes into play to help protect
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by somat 10mo ago
> And you don't nuke ships Not for lack of trying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUM-44_SUBROC And the Iowa battle ships were later equipped to handle "special weapons" But in seriousness, the restrai
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by somat 10mo ago
So what would a guided missile battleship look like? my guess would be trident sized(2m) silos as the main battery and you fill them with vls cells as a working battery. for armor It needs to be able to defend agenst it's own gun right
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by somat 10mo ago
In my case the gpu fan was not changing speed automatically, (something, something, linux) which I discovered after an embarrassingly long time of poking at other things trying to figure out why my system was crashing so much. And now inste
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by somat 10mo ago
An open question on fan curves Environment: I am currently playing with a pid control function for my gpu fan, that is instead of saying "map temp x to fanspeed y"(fan curve) say "set fan to speed needed for temp z"(pid
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by somat 10mo ago
> point-like Oh, your going to love this theory. https://fondationlouisdebroglie.org/AFLB-222/MARK.TEX2.pdf In summary, There is a way to model electrons as a twisted self enclosed em field. A decent digest summary
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by somat 10mo ago
> it is mechanically more sophisticated, even if not electronically. It can have greater value as a product of superb craftsmanship or as an object of art. On any objective measurement axis a $15 Casio is more sophisticated than a $10_00
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by somat 10mo ago
For the same reason I have decided I don't like fast travel in games. The whole thing becomes this strange distorted reality where the travel nodes and their immediate surroundings are over represented in your mental model but most of
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by somat 10mo ago
A picture is worth a thousand words -- but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of a thousand words can be adequately described with pictures.
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by somat 10mo ago
I vote the cardboard box, especially if it is a large appliance box, Unfortunately you can't really give someone a large cardboard box, but oh boy are they fun.
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by somat 10mo ago
Barely related but the headline reminded me of this video on the ontology of dogs and their infectious cancers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YerdELZuEhY (Clint's Reptiles "Not All Dogs Have Bones") A bit o
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by somat 10mo ago
So that's how you tell, salutes. Sometimes I worry that I inadvertently downvoted someone by mistake. "But you can just unvote if that happens" sure but how do you tell what was voted. Anyhow, I think if this was my forum I w
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by somat 10mo ago
I find it tends to be a structural thing, Tabs for indenting are fine, hell I prefer tabs for indenting. But use tabs for spacing and columnar layout and the format tends to break on tab width changes. Honestly not a huge deal but as such I
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by somat 10mo ago
It would be trivial to distribute a patch and a link to the original source. The patch can be distributed under whatever license the author wants. The resulting binary then becomes an unlicensed derivative work, the person who compiled it c
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by somat 10mo ago
The real reason Clair Obscure should not have received indie game of the year in the first place is that it was developed by Sandfall interactive and published by Kepler interactive and as such is not an independent game.
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by somat 10mo ago
True but it was a real consideration for a surprisingly long time. And you still find a lot of lawnmowers that tell you not to use E mixes in them, I am not sure why (my guess are either they are being super cheap on the rubber or just ackn
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by somat 10mo ago
It's not even that. alcohol destroys engines. Sure in retrospect lead is a bad idea. but for the sake of argument. If we ignore all the subtlety of the real world choices, research and development required the argument would probably b
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by somat 10mo ago
This is needlessly pedantic but postgres is not multi threaded, Or at least historically it was not I don't really know if threading is currently being added or if the cloudbased "postgres-buts" have threading. but postgres s
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by somat 10mo ago
> but you still cannot do things like “attach this surface of object A to that surface of object B)” Sure you can, but openscad is an imperative language so you need to do it in an imperative manner. a_cube_loc = [10, 5, 5]; a_
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by somat 10mo ago
but contrails are not made of soot, where I define soot as dark unburned carbon, contrails actual are made of water. There is also a highly likely chance I am being to literal and the word choice of soot was a bit of poetic license on the p
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by somat 10mo ago
Why does it matter? I mean I guess it did in this case but that is considered a top priority bug and quickly fixed. I guess my point is the way the internet works is that your traffic goes through a number of unknown and possibly hostile ac
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by somat 10mo ago
If you leave "Generated with claude-code" in the commit message, It was vibe coded.
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by somat 10mo ago
Very cool, I wonder why the service was never updated to work with saturn. No hdd would be my guess. with no hdd games have to be absurdly small to fit in ram. I will note that as I was reading the saturn specs(I am unfamiliar with the syst

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