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by somat 1y ago
I settled on two, I don't really need a lot of knots but wanted to do better than the overhand. Anyway the two I settled on were "putting a loop in the end of a rope" The bowline. and "tying something down on my truck&qu
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by somat 1y ago
Slightly related: the ultimate move prop laptop was from "Twister" where they had sgi laptops. Note that sgi never made a laptop. However what is even cooler is that someone actually circuit bent a sgi O2 into laptop form factor.
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by somat 1y ago
Fair enough, probably my fault for having linux and openbsd as my two reference systems and assuming most other unixen went the same way. Now That I am second guessing myself I am not even sure about openbsd, My assumption is mainly based o
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by somat 1y ago
It is almost the other way around, which is to say, the same as you said but approached from the other direction. The unixen I know(linux and bsd) implemented the threading concept(shared memory execution environments) by taking their execu
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by somat 1y ago
I think it is because your lever to control the plane does not go up or down but forward and back. and then you pitch the lever the same way you want to pitch the plane. forward to pitch forward and back to pitch back. Same reason throttles
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by somat 1y ago
I got nerd sniped by this xkcd and was happily working my way through an implementation and realized that the accent combiners work with any character. It is trivial to add bad steganography to your bad encryption. r̊e̝q̝ůěs̔t͞ p̊e̝a͞c̍e̊
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by somat 1y ago
One of the things that blew my mind is how the calculations for large buildings like this were done. They design it upside down with string! the suspension of the string will produce the correct shape for compression in the domes and arches
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by somat 1y ago
Minecraft is wierd because all that amazing modding that is done is in spite of mojang not because of them. I have not played minecraft in a few years but I think nothing has changed. Mojang, even pre microsoft, has never provided any sort
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by somat 1y ago
Trying to jam your configuration into a generic object notation is always going to be awkward and ugly, the only real saving grace might be that it is a standard syntax. I use a lot of openbsd and one of the things I really like about it is
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by somat 1y ago
As far as I know there are three ACPI AML stacks, the reference intel one, linux uses this, miscrosoft has one, and those crazy hackers over at the openbsd project decided to make their own.
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by somat 1y ago
Being charged and or rotating changes the dynamics of where the event horizon is in interesting ways, If I understand it correctly it forms a sort of shell where you have two event horizons one inside the other. and the theory being that if
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by somat 1y ago
If we are doing a survey. I found a few more. It feels like we need to get everyone together in a room and say "we will let you out when you decide on a standard non-blocking address lookup" What a mess. - OpenBSD: getaddrinfo
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by somat 1y ago
Doing this at the system level was one of the better ideas to come out of unix.
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by somat 1y ago
Sometimes my depth perception goes off after getting a new pair of glasses with no prescription change, I always figured I had ended up with a different IOR poly-carbonate formulation in the lenses. But I have no idea if that can actually c
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by somat 1y ago
I remember when experimenting with win98 emulation ~ 10, 15 years ago that this nearly made the vm useless. windows just sitting there busy waiting. I did find a patch that somehow added a HLT state to the kernel. If I remember correctly th
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by somat 1y ago
I don't know what the situation is now. but one of the more surreal aspects of the war was how the gas pipelines through Ukraine were kept open. Ukraine desperately needed the transit fees. and Russia desperately needed to sell it&#x27
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by somat 1y ago
What sort of backwards system is this? Why is this not in DNS? Just drop an RFC that says how to add a trust demarcation record already. Here is a how i would do it. TXT v=ps1 ;trust boundary at this point TXT v=ps2 exception1.my.network. ;
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by somat 1y ago
Well shit, I completely missed EUI48, there goes my excuse, time to start collecting mac address. My vague hope in storing these is it will help with dhcp setup and network host identification tooling. I even came up with the reverse record
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by somat 1y ago
DNS (queue the "now you have two problems" meme) Theoretically SRV records can be set in dns to solve the port issue, realistically Nothing uses them so.... You are probably out of luck there. The way SRV records work is you are s
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by somat 1y ago
I think the arcan project is doing good work here. But honestly I suspect the days of networks attached displays is slowly coming to an end. Our modern alternative is probably the web, where you ship the program to the display server to run
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by somat 1y ago
Only slightly related, but I recently wanted to show some instrumentation on an old android phone. Now there are many good ways to do this. But I chose none of them, Instead I had just installed termux on the phone and noticed they had some
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by somat 1y ago
Piracy is a real crime, I like to define it as theft of goods in transit. however it might be more specifically be the above in international free zones. I always find it funny how people want to try and inflate one of the lesser crimes &qu
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by somat 1y ago
Too true. For clarification, unhinged "free market" is how you end up with capitalism, try the the same with the "fair market" you get communism.
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by somat 1y ago
Isn't amazon the metaphorical guy selling shovels at the gold rush.
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by somat 1y ago
Unrelated, but the title made me think of this video where AT&T failed over old switch frames to new ones by manually cutting all the cable bundles, very dramatic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk (Speedy Cut
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by somat 1y ago
Usb historically solved this with ended connectors It was why you had "A" and "B" sides. usb C has an awful lot of user hostile fallout considering it's stated goal of "a cable that just works for everything&qu
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by somat 1y ago
Sort of, They are called Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) used where you need a small amount of super reliable power. Mainly used on deep space missions where there is not enough sunlight. The soviets also used them in unmanned d
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The art of lettering and sign painter's manual (1878) [pdf](ia600606.us.archive.org)
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by somat 1y ago
Speaking of chalkboards, next time you have to give a presentation, bring a chalkboard and do your slides in realtime. Something about the visual show, auditory overload, and not least the novelty of the act makes it much more impactful and
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by somat 1y ago
I love it when some company gets one of the engineers to do a demonstration, you know you got an actual engineer because it will be the worst sales pitch you ever received. They will tell you in excruciating detail all the problems with the

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