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by somat 1y ago
Apprentice projects are still a thing where the apprentice system is still in place. It varies depending on industry but you will be given a low level mostly pointless high tolerance task you must complete(make a perfect(we will verify it w
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by somat 1y ago
I would guess not. indentation in python serves a very different purpose to the mandatory indentation as found in early cobol/fortran. I am not really an expert but here is my best shot at explaining it based on a 5 minute web search.
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by somat 1y ago
"Significance: In terms of syntax and semantics we don’t see much of COBOL in modern computing." Would I be wrong in saying that SQL has what feels to me to be a very cobaly syntax. By which I mean, I know it is not directly relat
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by somat 1y ago
I am halfway convinced the idea of a "10 foot ui" driven by a remote is... well not wrong, but perhaps we could do better. Have the big screen be for just that, a spot to display video. Have the remote control, with the entire UI,
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by somat 1y ago
I have a lenovo x131e I still use as a daily driver, It's getting up there in age, but I will be very sad when it dies, mainly because of it's perfect openbsd compatibility, sleep/resume works flawlessly, and it has three phy
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by somat 1y ago
It reminds me of the sulfur dioxide situation. I was trying to figure out why volcanoes sometimes have a global cooling effect, I mean the things are pumping out obscene amounts of carbon dioxide right, so whats with the cooling. Well it tu
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by somat 1y ago
Nothing special about that, here is the factory set trim tab on the p-47. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxWKOHPPNlM&t=298
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by somat 1y ago
For me it was the opposite. Learning how a monochrome CRT requires no mask sort of destroyed my world view of what a display had to have. pixels(even the quasi pixels as found in a color CRT mask) were not actually required or present. As a
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by somat 1y ago
I have this same ontological debate with myself, I settle it by having a rather stricter definition of classical music. Classical music is popular music that has remained popular for longer than two generations of listeners. Music that foll
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by somat 1y ago
Within a second apart. If I read the report right. The time resolution of the recorder? And yes, it does sound like it was probably intentional. I would still like to see an engineering review of the switch system. Are they normally open or
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by somat 1y ago
Company culture? lutron is used to selling a 20 year lifespan home switch. belkin expects their devices to stay around ~5 years.
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by somat 1y ago
I am curious, how did you find those? I like to think that it's (posh accent) "Yes good sir, I do indeed keep an extensive collections of references to exotic bridge layouts" What would be neatest is to learn that there is an
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by somat 1y ago
Your thoughts on scribus? https://www.scribus.net/ I am not in the industry and am unqualified to comment on it's qualifications. But it does appear to be trying to be a professional sort of DTP.
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by somat 1y ago
As far as I know the only actual rest implementation, as Fielding envisioned it, a system where you send the entire representational state of the program with each request is the system Fielding coined the term REST to describe. The WEB. Ha
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by somat 1y ago
I am from the California desert with family in Florida and 100 degree here is almost nothing, back east it is pure misery. As bonus the dry desert air retains heat poorly so it is always cool at night. The humidity there tends to keep it ho
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by somat 1y ago
> "like literally every other OS did (and continued to do)." If I remember correctly macs used a bare carrage return as the line delimiter. So the trick when you got a text document was to figure out where it came from. windows
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by somat 1y ago
BAR https://www.beyondallreason.info/ But... While bar is good, very good. It is also very hard to compete with, so I see it sort of killing any funding for good commercial RTS's for the next few years.
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by somat 1y ago
You need a cube that is a multiple of the width of a dollar on one side and a multiple of the height of a dollar on the other side. technically it needs to be a a multiple of the thickness of a stack of 100 dollars as well. us dollar size:
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by somat 1y ago
I call it my house-mind. However in my case it definitely is a homelab, as I am always tinkering with it and the router/server ratio is way to high.
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by somat 1y ago
First, I don't think sega's trademark was voided, it is more like "It is not a violation of a companies trademark to use it when they require using it to access the device." That is, the registered trademark still protec
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by somat 1y ago
See also: the game boy nintendo logo check. https://knight.sc/reverse%20engineering/2018/11/19/game-boy-... "The idea was that if you were an unlicensed Nintendo developer and you produced an unlice
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by somat 1y ago
Valve solves this problem in steam by shipping a stable runtime. Programs pick what stable runtime they want to target and because it is stable it does not shift around under them. This works great for the sort of closed source programs Val
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by somat 1y ago
For myself I just spool up a galene instance when I want to video chat someone, (honestly almost never, so not really a great recommendation ). but it is pretty easy to get running on my obsd vps. https://galene.org/ The th
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by somat 1y ago
Can confirm, Working programaticly with XML is not really that bad, there is a well formed query syntax(xpath), the dom api just works. Until some joker decided to employ xml namespaces, then everything turns ugly real fast. I am not sure I
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by somat 1y ago
I think the fundamental design flaw with the scale all screens approach that wayland(and mac and X11 when set that way) employs is that your application is unable to have better dpi aware rendering. however that may actually be an advantage
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by somat 1y ago
A quote from the article. "If you think this idea is a bit stupid, shed a tear for the future of the display servers: this same mechanism is essentially how Wayland compositors —Wayland being the purported future replacement for X— cop
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by somat 1y ago
I am not so sure. Assuming the program does not do anything undefined is sort of the worst possible take on leaving the behavior undefined in the first place. I mean the behavior was left undefined so that "something" could be don
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Mixed DPI in X11(wok.oblomov.eu)
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by somat 1y ago
X11 has had this since day one. However the trade offs to actually employing it are... unfortunate. It leans real hard on the application to actually cross screen boundaries and very few applications were willing to put the work in. so xran
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by somat 1y ago
Why do they need to change anything? As far as I know a privacy policy has zero legal weight, that is, a company can put anything it wants into the privacy policy, it has no effect on what is actually done.

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