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by somat 28d ago
I am in that club. As someone who quite enjoys writing sql but does not like the big sql strings intermingled in the rest of the code I even wrote a clever little python library that loads the queries from files as a function call, that is,
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by somat 1mo ago
openbsd.amsterdam is notable because they use the openbsd native vmm as the vm host. It is obsd all the way down over there. It is a small and no frills service but the sys-admin, who runs the project, is very helpful and attentive. That is
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by somat 1mo ago
My rather limited understanding is that. first there is a lot going on and due to the forces and gravitational gradients involved, matter itself probably would not survive the journey that close to the horizon. But ignoring that, When in co
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by somat 1mo ago
They are, but there are some interesting theories about their internal structure. Be aware that this is probably junk science but I have currently been enjoying this effort to describe them via the em field. https://quicycle.com&
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by somat 1mo ago
My rather pop-sci understanding is that when you start playing around with relativity math, trying various masses and densities you hit something rather worrisome. As you approach some great, but still possible, value the plot goes infinit
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by somat 1mo ago
Hell, critical thinking in general will collapse. I mean, even more than it already has due to easy access to the internet. Thinking through a problem is hard. For the most people will take any chance they can get to not think. Myself incl
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by somat 1mo ago
Probably a stupid question, but what is your mechanical process? that is, how do you make entering a em-dash natural? Personally, I am of the nature that if it does not live on my keyboard I am probably not going to use the character, And I
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by somat 1mo ago
My go to example: IPFS is Plan9 to bittorrent's UNIX. Some achingly beautiful design, willingness to completely disregard existing messy conventions(for example: The ipfs unified url format) and, like you said, still not enough better
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by somat 1mo ago
For large transfers on a network I control I would use bare netcat, much faster than going over ssh and without having to figure out rsync server (probably easy, but I don't need another distraction. nc -l 8888 | tar -C /dir -
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by somat 1mo ago
That is sort of where I ended up, Not that it matters, Pixels should probably never actually be used. It just offends me that a unit that is sort of messy and tied to physical hardware but does provide measurement that can not be found else
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by somat 1mo ago
The spec fafs around a bit talking about how the px is a "visual angle unit" But I am unable to form an interpretation where the "reference pixel" is anything other than 1/96 inch. https://drafts.csswg.or
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by somat 1mo ago
What I want to know is who decided to break px, the last thing we need is yet another screwball physical measurement, css was already full of them. But what "tut tut, everybody is using px and these new hi-dpi displays are rendering th
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by somat 1mo ago
An interesting bit of schadenfreude, How does management feel when you try and communicate with them via AI? In my experience communication via LLM is easily the worst part of them, it feels absolutely miserable to receive that big blob of
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by somat 1mo ago
What always got me at the time was retry is understandable, but what the heck is the difference between abort and fail? I don't want to complain too much it was probably in the manual, but as a young teen during my DOS days (there are
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by somat 1mo ago
On the subject of being slightly too pedantic for my own good, using "disk" in a conversation sort of worries me, It does not really matter, everyone knows what you are talking about, but it is not often an actual disk anymore. Is
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by somat 1mo ago
The article covers it, but to reiterate. Yes, The idea is to have a mechanism to map phone numbers to hosts. The normal path for voip phones given a phone number is to end up at a sip trunk provider go over the traditional phone network (wh
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by somat 1mo ago
Scorched Earth always comes to mind as an influential early artillery game, but it too was PC, so hard to say. I actually remember it's stupid tagline better than the name, "The mother of all games" indeed. But that is what I
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by somat 1mo ago
I am always hit hard by the paradox of choice, it is very hard for me to just rank something, But it is easy to compare two items. Considering the metaphysics of this a little too hard I put together this silly little web toy to explorer my
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by somat 1mo ago
It does not matter, X11 is also not a display server it is a protocol. That distinction changes nothing. For what it's worth Xorg is the display server, before that it was XFree86, there was also Xsgi and Xsun and for mac Xquartz, I ev
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by somat 1mo ago
I mean sure, but anything the build script could do, the build artifact could also do, That is to say, if you don't trust your source why do you trust the thing it compiles into?
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by somat 1mo ago
The theory is simple, it is a 90 degree rotated polarizing layer, How comfortable you are doing surgery on the delicate LCD assembly is another matter. If I were to do it I think I would buy a couple cheap watches to practice on first. And
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by somat 1mo ago
Probably. I was trying to figure out if it could be done with an address family translation, and while ip4 is trivially embedded in an ip6 address, going the other way just does not have enough information. but if you know the domain, that
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by somat 1mo ago
It may be a case of needing write only logging, I always think of the nuclear power station logging all events to the line printer, But I can see a NOC doing the same, How finger ended up triggering it would probably be a fascinating case s
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by somat 1mo ago
It does not help that things fundamental to the new tech, even though they took real effort to develop, are now exactly those items that are now "obvious to experts in the field" and "overly broad" And then have fun tryi
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by somat 1mo ago
I don't think patents are inherently evil, however they certainly can be used for evil. But The basic idea is sound. If you invent a novel mechanism and publish it the government will grant you exclusive economic exploitation rights to
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by somat 1mo ago
The wright brothers patent was not on wing warping, it was on controlling a vehicle in the air. In short the Wright brothers did not invent the aeroplane they invented how to control a aeroplane. https://www.wright-brothers.org&#
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by somat 1mo ago
The turbo button was always on, or it should be. you would turn it off to downgrade your pc to run at the speed of the original IBM PC in the mostly vain hope that whatever old game that was programmed for that exact speed would start to ru
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by somat 1mo ago
A lot of early dos development was trying to see how many unix concepts they could fit, directories, pipes, environment, devices.
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by somat 1mo ago
2BSD is still hanging on getting updates and forked projects to this day. My understanding is that it's longevity in the face of the existence of 4bsd is because it is 16-bit clean, These days it is mainly for people who want a unix fo
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by somat 1mo ago
Glad I am not the only one who carts an id1 directory around. Mine originally came from a retail disk with a funny story, I had bought it for a friend. a birthday present. and a couple years later I bought their old pc from them and that qu

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