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811.
by somat 2y ago
No it's not, a major technological advancement was a machine that sews for you, there is very little hand sewing done any more. The second perhaps more important technological tour de force were the weaving machines, there is even less
812.
by somat 2y ago
Fair enough, I can see how this would be useful but I have to admit I was hoping it would be the opposite, how to log into a web page with a ssh key.
813.
by somat 2y ago
sandworms can get into your feet. And it sounds pretty terrible, which I guess you could say about most parasites. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas... https://www.cnn.com/201
814.
by somat 2y ago
But it's not the PC(the IBM 5150) or one of it's inheritor machines. To be honest I agree with you, If it is intended as a personal computer it's a PC. Yes tablets and phones(Pocket Computer???) included. But I understand t
815.
by somat 2y ago
Most importantly, it was also popularly published. So the critical but tricky to measure metrics now are "how much sales do we loose because we are now firmly labeled as a bully in peoples minds" and "how much potential licen
816.
by somat 2y ago
Dates and times are prime examples of modular systems that make the most sense when they start at 0. but most commonly start at 1. Think how stupid it is that the day start at 12 hours then goes back to 1 hour, at least 24 hour clocks do aw
817.
by somat 2y ago
No, it is worse than that, every detection capability humans have is only how em interacts with the electron shell around atoms. We have done some amazing things in spite of what appears a crippling limitation.
818.
by somat 2y ago
That is still the man-machine interface UX is just a weaselly sales term, "Our product is not some mere (sneers) interface, no, over here it is a whole experience , you want an experience don't you?"
819.
by somat 2y ago
There is an interesting project https://github.com/Abstrct/Schemaverse where the whole game takes place entirely within a postgres database that the players connect directly to. The author discovered quite a few... wel
820.
by somat 2y ago
I got nerd sniped by a recent xkcd. https://xkcd.com/3054/ (the scream cypher) And halfway through implementing it. I realized that these combining characters will attach to any letter, and it would be easy to have cra
821.
by somat 2y ago
The problem is that many time the person will say "The gimp ui is terrible" and they mean "the gimp ui is different than the photoshop ui" Basically in order to have a meaningful conversation you need to figure out how t
822.
by somat 2y ago
That is unfortunate. Not enough standards have rationale or intent sections. On the one hand I sort of understand why they don't "If it is not critical and load-bearing to the standard. Why is it in there? it is just noise that wi
823.
by somat 2y ago
The unix operating environment. I was going to say git, but really you need the whole environment.
824.
by somat 2y ago
Ha. so the reason that I is next to 8 is that early typewriters used the I as a 1(no independent 1 key) and the morse transcription company wanted to type years(1871) quickly. I love it.
825.
by somat 2y ago
I honestly don't know, that is my question as well. However note that we can only perturb the em field in photon sized energy levels, and we can only pick up disturbances of the em field in photon sized bunches as well. Not sure what t
826.
by somat 2y ago
I think the problem is in insisting on referring to the photon as a particle. In fact the photon may not actually exist. and I have questions as to what "single photon experiments" are actually measuring. let me explain. The EM fi
827.
by somat 2y ago
whats the Hilbert curve equivalent for hexagon tiles? I used the Moore variant(closed form vs open form) of the Hilbert curve once, I had this fever dream of how Monopoly would be more fun if the players had more agency. using the moore cur
828.
by somat 2y ago
It is a subject that bothers me far more than it should, but when I was first exposed to the term kanban I naturally look it up and go "what on earth does any of this have to do with software?" The term refers to a method to attac
829.
by somat 2y ago
It flows, you use fluid equations to describe it's state. I will grant that it flows in a different medium than molecular fluids. but that does not prevent it from being a fluid. As for what is flowing, my understanding is that it is e
830.
by somat 2y ago
Based on personal experience my guess is that the unreliability would be in the battery not the drive train. Or more precisely put, batteries are a sort of black box they ether work or they don't work but either way you are not going t
831.
by somat 2y ago
I don't know what you are talking about, electricity is a fluid.
832.
by somat 2y ago
Isn't bike-shedding when other people block you with low-effort critisism. """ Parkinson shows how you can go in to the board of directors and get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic power
833.
by somat 2y ago
The unix operating environment is integrated via the filesystem. a simple, easy to use hierarchical database that every object can slot into and access. in fact it is so simple and easy to use. it has become ubiquitous and regarded as commo
834.
by somat 2y ago
If I remember correctly to get transparent water the level also had to be re processed through the "vis" program with a transparent water flag set. vis did a precalculation for where a level segment(the partition in binary space p
835.
by somat 2y ago
Not sure what bash is doing but tested with ksh and it runs and picks up changes in both .profile(login shells) and .kshrc(all shells) so I don't think it is tmux that is interfering with that aspect. In fact I was a bit surprised that
836.
by somat 2y ago
it can carry more, the whole value proposition of dsl was a high speed link over existing cabling, I think the dial up limitation is what speed can you sneak over the existing speech focused analog signal processing equipment. where as the
837.
by somat 2y ago
Or "new". maintain discipline and rigorously avoid using new in an name. There is very little that is more soul crushing than having to explain how new-server is a legacy installation and will be replaced by new-new-server any day
838.
by somat 2y ago
same, I feel those cookie consent dialogs are solving the problem at the wrong level, remembering that in the end the cookies were always under your control. I think the gpdr opt in tracking requirements should have been interpreted as &quo
839.
by somat 2y ago
> but it bothers me that tmux sessions share the initial environment the first session was launched from. It does do this, but I am curious what would be better? I heard this complaint before and It baffles me. let me explain. environmen
840.
by somat 2y ago
There is a neat trick where ipxe can netboot dos from an iscsi target, with no drivers or config dos gets read write access to a network share(well, not a share, if you share it it gets corrupted fast, a network block device). it feels magi

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