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by somat 2y ago
The US Navy also had strategic woodlots, and as they keep a wooden ship around for ceremonial duties, currently maintain at least one woodlot to provide wood for it. https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2015/05/11&#x2
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by somat 2y ago
> Thou shalt not sign arbitrary plaintext Really I am not an expert in this field, but As far as I can tell signing arbitrary plaintext is a core mechanism in how public key auth works. The theory is you have to sign something to prove y
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by somat 2y ago
Isn't this why postgres exists. My understanding is that when Stonebraker went back to academia after the commercially successful ingres database project. He had some interesting ideas on how to apply object orientated principals to th
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by somat 2y ago
You probably know most of this, so sorry for the over simplification. but you asked. A passkey is an implementation of public key authentication. The private part should stay with you, this is your identity. The public part gets shared with
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by somat 2y ago
Sometimes the realtime clocks were based on watch movements, ok, I only know of one instance, but it is fascinating. these movements were purpose built as a low power embedded device that does one thing well, drive a seven segment display t
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by somat 2y ago
Had to look it up but apparently rexx was first released in 1979. My first thought for a contender was the Bourne shell for unix but it too was released in 1979. The earlier Thompson shell(1971) apparently was not really designed for script
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by somat 2y ago
"I have observed an interesting N type negative resistance effect that happens only when the tip of a very sharp aluminum electrode is just barely touching the top surface of the solution." What exactly does negative resistance me
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by somat 2y ago
Why does the fork have to gain traction? You keep and maintain your local fork that does what you need it to do. perhaps if you are charitable you share it with others. but you don't need to do this. and it just adds support burden.
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by somat 2y ago
I would say it is not the place of posix to prescribe how it should be, the job of posix is describe what it is, a common operating environment. this is why posix is such a mess and why I feel it is not a big deal to deviate from posix, how
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by somat 2y ago
I really like awk, I mean, it is not a perfect language, but it fits this really nice spot for a small language with enough features for useful everyday one off tasks. If I had to teach my mother one language awk is a strong contender. I me
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by somat 2y ago
Wouldn't the states be the software. Or more precisely the enumeration of the states.
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by somat 2y ago
There is a very well written history of the US navy's first shipboard computer system. https://ethw.org/First-Hand:No_Damned_Computer_is_Going_to_T... The article shows up here fairly regularly. I mainly bring it up as
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by somat 2y ago
Their monetization strategy appears to be largely modeled after flightsimulators. DCS specifically comes to mind. As in DCS you don't buy the game you buy the plane. On the one hand I am fine with this. on the other I vaguely expect DC
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by somat 2y ago
I think my biggest beef with the game is how unstable it is. The game design is a bit grindy, whatever, lets grind away then, however any time I start to make any progress the game crashes. After two or three of these I loose interest. Only
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by somat 2y ago
When your threat model includes distrust of your tools, you can run your tools in a vm then exfiltrate the files from there. perhaps even fingerprint the whole vm to analyze if there were shenanigans afoot in the archive. If your threat mod
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by somat 2y ago
One of the things I liked about the Heavy Gear table top game was that the roll mechanic was to roll N dice and pick the highest. where N was your skill level. Now this did make the game somewhat brutal. but there was a lot less of the absu
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by somat 2y ago
Pulsar: lost colony, which is a spaceship bridge simulator game has an amazing bot interface. It is nowhere near as good as playing with friends. but it lets you play alone or to fill the ranks if you can't find four other people to pl
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by somat 2y ago
I wonder if it would be better to pretend to have a captcha but really you are analysing the user timing and actions. Honestly I half suspect this is already going on. If you wanted to go full meta "never go full meta" you would t
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by somat 2y ago
With no disrespect to the blender team they are doing a bunch of good high quality ui work. As a longtime casual blender user(since the late 90's version 1.7 on irix) that was less a "complete ui change" than it was a "w
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by somat 2y ago
> You generally shouldn’t use absolute paths in your programs. This is true, but I was enjoying the irony that there is an old sys-sdmin adage that you should only use absolute paths in your program(usually a shell script, in this enviro
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by somat 2y ago
While I enjoyed 4dwm when I had a sgi, I am not convinced the desktop environment was that great, it did however have a very nice file manager, which I guess is 90% of a desktop environment, so perhaps it was pretty good after all. The best
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by somat 2y ago
That was part of the original ip specification, it was modeled after army telecom patterns. where there are priority levels baked in. when the net starts to overload the lower priority traffic gets discarded first. https://www.rf
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by somat 2y ago
So the problem with Postel's law is that people don't follow Postel's law?
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by somat 2y ago
I tend to abuse fossil for it's wiki. Mainly because it is zero fuss to setup. https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/wikitheory.wiki
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by somat 2y ago
I am a bit surprised Apple allows it. I am not really familiar with the apple ecosystem, but my understanding is that they frown on open execution environments, that is emulators, virtual machines, interpreters etc. and a system that lets a
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by somat 2y ago
Disagree, but then again my soulless engineer's heart has close to zero tolerance for design for design's sake, so what do I know? The most important part about convoying that an item is CSS is including the letters CSS. So while
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by somat 2y ago
It probably was interference, however note that removing left bias has exactly the same result as adding right bias. I guess what I am trying to say is measuring bias sounds like a long and profitable academic career in itself. That is, har
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by somat 2y ago
No swap on nfs is strange. Mainly because as far as I can tell swap over nfs has always been a thing on bsd. here is the openbsd manual on setting up a diskless system(note the bootparams swap line), however it picked up it's netboot
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by somat 2y ago
It is unfortunate that most of these services don't have a pre pay tier. On the one hand I get that if your business depends on such a service you don't want it to suddenly go down. But on the other hand there is almost never a ha
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by somat 2y ago
I love the quake .map format. It is like this glimpse into an weird alternate history. A sort steampunk ascetic to graphics. The article touches on this, but for them unfamiliar, the quake .map format is the editable text based format. but

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