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by somat 3mo ago
It may also be telling to figure out why no startup is offering $400 ambulance rides and dominating on volume.
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by somat 3mo ago
Unbound can do authoritative dns. It is a bit clunky so usually what you do is have NSD for the authoritative parts and unbound for the recursive parts. but unbound has local-zone: stub-zone: forward-zone: auth-zone: directives. I am not th
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by somat 3mo ago
And as a counter example here you have openbsd "we are going to install a bgp daemon on every single device, because you never know when you may need one" I am not complaining, I like the feeling that I could single handedly rebui
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by somat 3mo ago
That does not match my experience with obsd. It is not so much minimalism as they are not afraid to reinvent the wheel. A obsd install is full of services, more than most linux installs I have seen. For example you can imagine my disappoint
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by somat 3mo ago
Has anyone ever made a monospace font with dynamic kerning? Which is a silly thing I never thought of until I read the above comment. This sounds nonsensical at first glance(and it may be) but hear me out. We use monospace fonts for a reaso
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by somat 3mo ago
In the devils advocate position. The union is a club you join with dues paid every month, in the sort of vague hope this will get you greater bargaining power with the employer. And it mostly works but there are downsides. If there is any m
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by somat 3mo ago
Did WRT mean anything? Wireless RouTer?
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by somat 3mo ago
But why?? We have had rocket powered anti-aircraft interceptor drones that go at mach 3 since 1955.
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by somat 3mo ago
It is sort of the same for DOS. When you start digging around in the source you realize it is only really half an operating system and a surprising amount is done in the BIOS.
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by somat 3mo ago
With regards to the user agent matching it reminds me of the time I loaded the full useragent database(the same data php get_browser() uses) into postgres and landed my first 3+ hour query. from log join ua_data on log.useragent ~ ua_da
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by somat 3mo ago
Generated content has a real duality to it. I would describe it as It feels great to use. It feels terrible to have it used on you. Very few people appear happy to receive generated content. It is fun to make however. We as a society will p
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by somat 3mo ago
Is that not the same with anything published to the internet. For example I could keep your comment published and available for as long as I had interest in doing so despite any effort you may take to remove it from HN. I mean I guess tech
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by somat 3mo ago
In windows the shadow copy facility is used to sneak files around when they are open. I remember using a utility called "hobocopy" (a sort of pun on the more famous robocopy) that provided a command line user interface around shad
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by somat 3mo ago
Javascript does have structs, it calls them objects. If I parsed an emailAddress the thing that came out it would look like {'domain':'example.com', 'user':'john-doe'} or emailaddr.domain emailaddr.us
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by somat 3mo ago
"TypeScript is structurally typed, which means two types with the same shape are the same type. string is string is string" I don't speak typescript so am probably missing something obvious. but. why would you parse an email(
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by somat 4mo ago
I have only messed with midi virtually so don't know much beyond the bit packing. But when you go to actual hardware and cables is there not a rigid speed it should be running at. 30Kbaud or something. That is, why is the interface ru
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by somat 4mo ago
Isn't this the underlying phenomena as to why free markets outperform managed markets. Because theoretically the controlled market can be much more efficient than the free market, you know, because people don't have to fight each
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by somat 4mo ago
it's all just silly semantics but even under the highly specific definition in the article I would say water is wet. the articles definition "a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface" Water has this propert
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by somat 4mo ago
Simutrans? Half joking because if you are really into TTD The Simutrans interface feels terible(It looks like TTD but does not feel like TTD, this is often why photoshop people hate the gimp so much) but... I started with simutrans, and hav
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by somat 4mo ago
After reviewing a few options I think "Just print it out" is still the best choice for long term archival. The density is not high however the hardware requirements being just one mark 1 eyeball(hardware that self replicates and h
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by somat 4mo ago
copyright infringement is not theft, it is also not piracy. Piracy is a real crime, I am tempted to describe it as theft of goods under transport. But it is probably much more complex than that. It also shares many similarities with organiz
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by somat 4mo ago
There is a good epigram about DRM that goes something like "Asking a computer to not copy things is like asking water to not be wet."
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by somat 4mo ago
Here is a good video on the swift rescue mission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0LNTMPnjI Pegasus to the Rescue: 'The Edge of Feasibility' (Alexander the ok)
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by somat 4mo ago
It is also a case of different focus. in retorspect Id had a rather narrow focus. They made solid top tech engines and their games were fun. But very simple. The build engine and later the unreal engine the focus was more on having more fle
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by somat 4mo ago
Does reactos even target powerpc? Update: no, the answer is no. It may be possible to port it to other architectures but the only build targets are i386 and amd64. I suspect a powerpc build would be a huge messy project.
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by somat 4mo ago
For bulk shippers the USPS will penalize you if you have... well it was not bad addresses but non-standard addresses. The mail order company I worked for a few years ago put more effort than I expected to normalize and verify addresses met
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by somat 4mo ago
What if we put a large wind turbine on a ship? A sort of modern set of sails if you will. A mid sized cargo ship has a 50_000Kw engine. A mid sized offshore wind turbine makes 1_000_000Kw. So depending on which way the wind is blowing it co
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by somat 4mo ago
That's the paradox that causes the problem, perhaps paradox is not the correct term, conflicting view points?. From above(the manager of the program) the job is to budget the funds thriftily and fairly, each project getting the amount
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by somat 4mo ago
I think that the open source systems being behind is sort of the point, they are the baseline. A paid proprietary system must be better than this. An example. If you want me to pay for your compiler it must be that much better than the comp
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by somat 4mo ago
Sometimes(most of the time?) that is the only way to get a pay bump.

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