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by soneil 4y ago
They really don't explain the difference well. AIS is a local broadcast. It's like having a number plate that's visible from 10 miles away. VMS is 'phone home' system. It's like having a gps tracker with cell
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by soneil 4y ago
This is what ends up driving me nuts about IoT - these should be the kinds of low-hanging fruit that are already solved. Dishwasher, laundry, etc, should be able to ask the house when the most sensible time to run this load is. For grid-ti
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by soneil 4y ago
I've had An Post deliver some that weren't just partially addressed, but wildly inaccurately so. The most notable example was addressed to "correct name, house number (no street), wrong city entirely". It arrived two da
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by soneil 4y ago
It's sad how much of this sounded like pure sci-fi to me. And that's not to be critical - I'm in a world where observability means snmp and frequently modbus. So much of this hit home that I'm in the wrong century.
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by soneil 4y ago
Technically yes - but the difference amounts to 2 seconds per century. Your lunar clone would be younger than you, but the difference would be less time than you spent calculating the difference.
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by soneil 4y ago
The really weird part to get your head around here is that in case of relativistic differences, it's actually time that's changing. So cesium still has the same frequency, the same number of events per second, but their second is
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by soneil 4y ago
Every time I see someone propose scrapping timezones, they end up in one of two traps. Either unilaterally dictating that Australia, NZ, etc become fully nocturnal - or they end up re-inventing timezones with a different name.
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by soneil 4y ago
This is actually where the term comes from, lat. lunaticus "moon-struck". So the pun is almost full-circle.
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by soneil 4y ago
The difference between "effectively" and "literally". You're effectively giving Amazon your copyright because the contract gives Amazon control of who can make copies (and removes that control from the author).
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by soneil 4y ago
I genuinely find this useful, in scenarios where filters and regexes are likely to devolve into punctuation explosions otherwise.
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by soneil 4y ago
That did strike me too. Setting out into 100F with less than a (US) gallon of water, but a selection of knives .. Although if he was 50 miles away from the trail he was planning on, I'm not sure how much he was really relying on the p
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by soneil 4y ago
> If that happens, it should be able to brake on its own, but a human at a dispatch center might be brought in as copilot also, to ensure things go smoothly. I'm not sure I'd trust a human more than a machine in this circumstan
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by soneil 4y ago
I had no idea my podcast client (overcast) could do chapter artwork. Chapters are still somewhat cutting-edge, let alone per-chapter metadata. That episode felt like you went nought to sixty real sharpish. Credit is well deserved.
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by soneil 4y ago
A funny story that's vaguely related - Here in Ireland, alcohol sales were prohibited on Good Friday until surprisingly recently. But there were some exceptions, and one of those was travelling. I've heard stories of people buying
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by soneil 4y ago
They did throw photos in for their "weird boards" one, which was awesome (and really benefitted from it). Otherwise - it's a podcast, I suspect Youtube is just the easiest version to link to.
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by soneil 4y ago
It seems to me that a lot of waste in this area is tax dollars paying for commercial prices. The US has some truly insane baseline costs in healthcare. Having the state pay for them, or having the state provide an insurer, only kicks the b
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by soneil 4y ago
Seems somewhat ironic that this is tape?
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by soneil 4y ago
I think they're a lot more natural than you make it sound. I mean we have denonyms from placenames. Some of them are fairly rote (newyorker, londoner, dubliner), some take some imagination (okie, mackem, geordie). I really don't
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by soneil 4y ago
They’ve done a stellar job of standardising the name. So many different cables & capabilities, one standardised name.
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by soneil 4y ago
I love that board! I have one that's very much in the same spirit as "kludge.2" (and also red, for the same reason they describe), but the first (Gemini?) board made me realise I need to up my silkscreen game.
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by soneil 4y ago
They hedge in where they think the currency is going too, as they appear to avoid changing a price between releases. So it's USD * exchange rate * VAT + pessimism.
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by soneil 4y ago
DEL's an exception because it had to be all ones. The idea is you can turn any character into a delete character by punching out the rest of the row on a punchcard. Were it any other character, you'd potentially have holes you n
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by soneil 4y ago
It's a different experience, but not a superior method of data transfer. It's like the difference between a kindle, a book, and your grandfather's copy of the same book. Three very different experiences, without fidelity bein
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by soneil 4y ago
I do try to use some variation of my real name where it's available. Especially in my younger years, I did notice that I acted like more of a dick in pseudonymous communities than when my name was attached, so I stick to just enough o
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by soneil 4y ago
I don't believe mirrors and caches affect this behaviour. How this works is that the package index contains a stanza Phased-Update-Percentage: giving a number between 0 and 100. Then your client picks a number in the same range, and a
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by soneil 4y ago
As I understand it, either 'always' or 'never' actually solve OP's problem. (edit: was both/and - both sounds like a bad idea.) "always include" effectively puts you in phase 0 - if an update is bein
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by soneil 4y ago
My money would have been on a byte-order mark
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by soneil 4y ago
If not showing repeat vacuums does not improve clicks, I'd be very curious if it reduces clicks either. It seems like what you posit is only a mystery if we take it on faith that targeting works. Once that faith is lost, you can also
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by soneil 4y ago
What I'm not convinced of is that complexity is actually a necessity. For example, what's the real difference between operating a fire department in a town on the Faroes, vs a town in the Mid-west? It seems like a fairly cookie-c
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by soneil 4y ago
I always find "but they're small" to be a lazy argument for things like this - I heard it recently in regards to Estonia's digital services also. "It's easy for them to do, but we're a huge country with ne

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