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901.
by somat 2y ago
Point of interest: the infamous tulare lake. A massive[note 1] lake that does not exist any more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake And not on this map(for two reasons), the salton sea, a massive lake that did
902.
by somat 2y ago
Eh, the original post wanted a convex disk that would have a uniform gravitational pull, flatness was already thrown out as a design requirement. Once convex disks are allowed, a specific category of convex disk that provides a uniform perp
903.
by somat 2y ago
I love shell, I think it's killer feature are pipes and whoever figured out how to design so you can pipe in and out of control structures(Doug Mcilroy?) is a goddamn genius. however, after writing one to many overly clever shell scrip
904.
by somat 2y ago
yes, we call it a sphere. I am just joking with you, I know what you mean, however the fruit was hanging too low not to pick.
905.
by somat 2y ago
nobody cares enough to actually do it. but what would it take to have near instantaneous channel changes again?, prestarting a second stream in the background? And realistically the linear array of channels is also dead so it really does no
906.
by somat 2y ago
My plan, if I ever need long haul(>3meters) video or audio links, is to get the signal into ethernet(or even better ip) and use common network equipment to transport it. The theory being ethernet is such a well developed, easy to source
907.
by somat 2y ago
It is also why high speed trading firms invest in microwave radio links the speed of light through air is enough faster enough than the speed of light through glass that they feel this gives them a trading edge. Honestly, gaming the system
908.
by somat 2y ago
There is something subtly wrong with the world as presented in that "documentary" in general it is that somebody has to keep the lights on, the machines running, that is, there is too much working infrastructure for the citizens
909.
by somat 2y ago
Trusts etc. are mechanisms to move inheritance from personal law into corporate law. This lets you game the system as corporate privilege often handles this more gracefully than personal privilege(wills and inheritance). Probably want to co
910.
by somat 2y ago
see also: The surprising effectiveness of simply asking the spam server to try again(sometimes called graylisting). It shouldn't work at all, but proves to filter an awful lot of the worst mail noise. http://man.openbsd.org&
911.
by somat 2y ago
right, infringement is not theft, and corporations are not people. Corporations are governments. The corporation you probably thinking of right now is a small private government to run a for profit endeavor. But note that cities are also co
912.
by somat 2y ago
As a consolation there is good ol' U262D. I have mine set up as <Multi_key> <c> <c> <c> <p> : "\xe2\x98\xad" #symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial wo
913.
by somat 2y ago
That knuth check story was pretty great. it reminded me of when I had to write pow() from scratch many years ago. However mine was not optimized in any way, and was a very sluggish naive implementation of an algorithm I found in the nist ma
914.
by somat 2y ago
Now I have never used redis in this capacity but these sorted sets(a data structure that maintains it's sort as data is entered I assume) how is that different from "create index on player_score (score)"? that is, an index on
915.
by somat 2y ago
Whenever I see these tricks(see also: the quake 3 fast inverse sqrt) involving using, not casting, but using integers as floats directly and floats as integers, I wonder if there is a way to do it without the jank. Because what do you reall
916.
by somat 2y ago
It makes me think of linux distros. there are the ones that closely follow software updates and you get to complain that things are breaking all the time. and there are the stable distros, now you get to complain how old and out of date eve
917.
by somat 2y ago
For what it's worth(not much), but if we are doing a survey... (US/western, not coastal) I pronounce it ess que lite. and always letter out SQL. postgresql is the tricky one, naively there is no good way to pronounce it. so when f
918.
by somat 2y ago
This is an interesting case to me and thus my questions. Don't feel you need to answer to some stranger on the internet interrogating you. Public domain is largely a US government concept, I think the was the main reason that sqlite wa
919.
by somat 2y ago
The article reads more like pr damage control than an actual complaint. epoll has a reputation as a fragile, hard to correctly use interface. and kqueue as relatively simple and sane. So the question always is. why didn't linux just ad
920.
by somat 2y ago
Fun fact, on openbsd(at least, I don't know about freebsd) select and poll were reworked to use kqueue internally. The thread is an interesting read as it sounds like the naive approach has negative performance implications, knowing op
921.
by somat 2y ago
No good way to manage(save/restore) the keys. but the real killer for me was that it requires a hardware token to work, while a hardware token is better, it sort of sucks as a hard requirement for all users. Really, I don't want t
922.
by somat 2y ago
The implementation ends up being a new key gets generated per domain, which is actually what you should be doing with your ssh-keys as well something like "ssh -i server.domain.net server.domain.net" Because webauthn is such a non
923.
by somat 2y ago
I was messing with implementing webauthn the other day, mainly because I like public key authentication. I was hoping for something sort of like ssh keys. and they were close, so close, to having something good that could replace password a
924.
by somat 2y ago
It is a windowing system, but one taking more inspiration from X than wayland. So it is all about remote programs and transferring displays from one device to another. Personally, I find this area of study much more compelling than wayland.
925.
by somat 2y ago
"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson Unfortunately Daniel Webster ruined that for the rest of us.
926.
by somat 2y ago
"update ... from ..." still uses that syntax and it throws me for a loop every time. I have to stop and think about it while convincing myself it is doing the same thing as "join on". https://www.postgresql.or
927.
by somat 2y ago
The one I liked was the postgres genetic optimizer. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/geqo-pg-intro.html The theory being an exhaustive search of all possible query plans is np-hard and would take too long, so yo
928.
by somat 2y ago
I am not exactly sure what makes a modern mainframe(same architecture as a historical mainframe I guess) but for historical machines I consider the wide machines(like the 36-bit pdp-10) mainframes, where minicomputers were usually narrower.
929.
by somat 2y ago
What does 3d printing provide other than a terrible house with unusable curved walls? By which I mean the walls of a house are one of the easiest parts to build, you still would need exactly the same utilities, foundation, pipes, wiring, ro
930.
by somat 2y ago
Every time I see it used I go "your using that term wrong" however I will concede that if everyone is using the term wrong, then perhaps it is actually I who is using the term wrong. Anyhow, I like this meaning so I will share it

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