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by somat 1y ago
This mythical altMetric utopia requires everyone to actually count in base C (to use dc notation) as well. the main advantage is that thirds and quarters(the useful fractions) tend toward whole numbers. In base 10 all you get are halfs and
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by somat 1y ago
As compared to to what? where C and K are 273.15 apart. But joking aside, While you do point out some of the worst offences, 5280 foot in mile is a special sort of stupid. I do wish we would have metriced around base 12 like a lot of the ol
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by somat 1y ago
> it could be the phrase "total number of kittens" There is this minimalism present in math culture, while I sort of understand it, when tossing and mixing formulas it helps to have everything as small as possible. but later,
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by somat 1y ago
Those huge CRT vector consoles with the light gun are amazing as well. And, and, (I really am unable to contain my glee here) each one come with a cigarette lighter and ashtray. I love it. Growing up My father enjoyed classic cars and at on
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by somat 1y ago
Compare to the US Open Source Principles where things become public domain by default. https://www.usgs.gov/products/software
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by somat 1y ago
I like it, it presents a sort of integrity. My thought process was, this is going to be the actual flyby of new horizons past pluto, no wait it's not, this is just a fake flyby. but look how coarse the heightmap is, they did not just s
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by somat 1y ago
makes me think of the IBM AN/FSQ-7 built into the SAGE air defense stations, the largest computer ever built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FSQ-7_Combat_Direction_Cent... While realistically I understand i
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by somat 1y ago
I worry about this sometimes, there is this long tail of "reliability" you can chase, redundant systems, processes, voting, failover, "shoot the other node in the head scripts" etc. But everything adds complexity, now it
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by somat 1y ago
700 lines of yaml! The inner platform effect strikes again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
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by somat 1y ago
Note that the N64 was designed by SGI, And seeing as how influential SGI was for 3d graphics, I sort of assume the reverse, that the n64 probably has the most standard hardware of it's generation. I would be vaguely surprised if there
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by somat 1y ago
Does not help you but the question nerd sniped me to try it as an exercise in my preferred tiling WM spectrwm. https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm This lets it act as a sort of toolbar, present on all workspaces. in
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by somat 1y ago
Shouldn't the git native issue tracker be as simple as adding file pr/the_problem_i_am_having
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by somat 1y ago
corporations are not people, they don't have personal privilege, corporations are governments, they have governmental privilege. A corporation is the ruling apparatus for a group of people, which is a fancy way of saying government.
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by somat 1y ago
My understanding is that it was water that started the whole thing. water vapor is about ten times as effective a greenhouse gas as co2. and the runaway heat started with too much water vapor(closer to to the sun I think), leading to more h
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by somat 1y ago
"Venus is dry" I thought the Venus theory was runaway greenhouse driven initially by water vapor. Going off memory, H2O is roughly 10 times as effective a greenhouse gas as CO2, with Venus being closer to the sun A larger percenta
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by somat 1y ago
Yes, the tricycle. Masterfully combining the exposed position of a bicycle with the space requirements of a car. They really don't make sense in motorcycles, A large part of the point of a motorcycle is that you are willing to give up
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by somat 1y ago
Run your own recursive server that directly gets it's data from the authoritative servers. .... On second thought that is a bad analogy, that is more like running your own search engine. The dns equivalent to yandex would be 77.88.8.8
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by somat 1y ago
99 percent of the time the x11 select middle click paste behaviour is more ergonomic, to the point where when I don't have it I get cranky. Another case of where because the better system is suppressed on the more common environment, W
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by somat 1y ago
Did they? I am only an occasional blender user, but I have been using it a long time. since 1.7 the main key binds I have always used have not changed. tab, g, r s, e, b, A, f, ctl-click to add points. Are you telling me those are the indus
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by somat 1y ago
I vote blender. High density can and often is done wrong, but it is often the hallmark of interfaces for professional users, an intricate tool designed to be used as quick as passable for hours on end, to accomplish this you try and reduce
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by somat 1y ago
Openbsd went with a stringly typed system for their pledge api. I think it was for simplicity of use. But i find it a very strange interface from a bunch of C programmers. https://man.openbsd.org/pledge update: Found the co
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by somat 1y ago
The original typewriter had no "0" or "1" you were expected to use "I" or "O" in place. I suspect an authentic typeface should have trouble distinguishing them. and having said that, forget authentici
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by somat 1y ago
early typewriters had no 0 or 1, you were expected to use I or O. So at least there they were the same letter. There was a great article posted here not too long ago about the actual origin of the qwerty keyboard, spoiler, it was not actual
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by somat 1y ago
That first phone trunk scene in particular stands out as one of the finest hacking scenes in cinema.
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by somat 1y ago
It is not an incorrect comparison, superficially it is hard to tell the difference between organized crime and the legitimate government, they both provide the same "services", protection for a portion of the profits. There is a s
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by somat 1y ago
That is how I managed to talk myself out of investing in a home automation setup, none of the incompatible systems felt good and more importantly, they were all worse than having a physical switch I can toggle.
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by somat 1y ago
three phase, If we are going with unrealistic dreams, I want three phase to every house. "avoids eye contact as you patently explain that the only real benefit to three phase is for motors" But really the US is a 240V system. we j
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by somat 1y ago
A managed switch will allow you to power on/off specific ports. When I was looking at home automation systems and all the insanity found there. at one point I said "if I were to design a home automation system from scratch what wo
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by somat 1y ago
With regards to training for high tolerance situations. Places and times where a small error can have large consequences. Yes you ease into it, the first level of training is done in a safe environment, however as the person gains competenc
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by somat 1y ago
"Constant space tree traversal is impossible..." Naively I would expect something like left-hand-rule maze traversal to be constant space. The tree may need additional structures to support this sort of travel. Other thoughts: mos

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