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by spauldo 1y ago
Windows NT was unlikely to be in the minds of many of the OEMs of the early 90s. It was marketed against UNIX, and the UNIX market was losing more and more users to the ever-more-powerful PCs running DOS and (usually) Windows 3, with a Nove
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by spauldo 1y ago
I've seen that plot used. In the Schlock Mercenary universe, it's even a standard policy to leave intelligent AI advisors on underdeveloped planets to raise the tech level and fast-track them to space. The particular one they used
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I would take pure greed over a company imposing its morals on me.
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That's absolutely not the reason. It started out that way, sure, but it's not why it's done now. It's done now out of basic tradition (father is circumcised, so son is too), conformity (his peers are all circumcised, we
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's what I know. I wasn't hired to program Windows machines, I was hired to program PLCs and SCADA systems. But every now and then something best done in .NET comes up and none of the Windows guys can get off their butts to do
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by spauldo 1y ago
> the 12 bits of meta data that God intended Naw, that's Dennis Ritchie. You're thinking of the other white-bearded guy that hangs out in heaven.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I tell my coworkers, "Hey, we need this coded up as a Windows service!" and I get crickets. So I spin up a Debian VM and POSIX the hell out of it. If they dare to complain, I tell 'em to do their damn jobs and not leave all t
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by spauldo 1y ago
You don't have to be hardcore MAGA to buy the bullshit. You just have to have the right assumptions beforehand, a limited and biased source of information, and enough lack of interest to not question what you're told. When you&#x2
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by spauldo 1y ago
Most of them survived well into the middle ages. There was an earthquake in the 14th century that loosened the casing stones and knocked quite a few loose. After that is when looting the stones really took off.
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Israel is a special case. Obama made some "maybe we should consider what the Palestinians have to say" noises and you see the political blowback he got over it.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Spend a bit of time talking with tradesmen and you'll change your mind on that. These people aren't stupid - far from it! I work with electricians all day and they're sharp as tacks. But most of 'em have been lied to so
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's not surprising given MacOS' lineage.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I suspect this is very subjective. I had a Radio Shack 200-in-1 kit when I was a kid and learned tons from it, working through the book and then designing my own projects. My current project just ties in my doorbell to Home Assistant. I cou
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by spauldo 1y ago
I would say that it failed in its primary goal - to be a single language used for government software. That doesn't say anything about the quality of the language, just that the goal for it was unrealistic. If the DoD had pressured Mic
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's basically what happened to the pyramids in Egypt. They were smooth-sided for over 3000 years.
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by spauldo 1y ago
The current theory on why they didn't use the wheel much is that they had no animals to pull a cart. Llamas aren't suited to it and never spread out from the Andes in any case. My only problem with that theory is that wheelbarrows
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by spauldo 1y ago
I would think pressure and angle sensors tied to a PID loop would suffice, but I'm not a roboticist.
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We might have issues with bone loss in low-g environments, we might not. The point is that we don't know. These are human beings we'll be sending. Taking a chance on "it'll probably be all right" just isn't acc
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by spauldo 1y ago
I've met a few people who have spent time in prison and developed the same habit of always sitting so they're facing the door. One of them told me he just can't feel comfortable otherwise.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Just FYI, my copy's 1500 miles away from me at the moment, so I can't give you page numbers and can only rely on my recollection of the book. Your scenario would indeed be a "backup" for the species, but only in the very
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by spauldo 1y ago
I have the same experience. I've got enough math and enough interest that I can follow concepts taught to math undergrads, if it's explained well and I play with it a bit. Wikipedia math articles may as well be line noise to me. F
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by spauldo 1y ago
Personally, I prefer more of both. You have to actually do things - as in, develop the engineering, test things, see what works and what doesn't - to advance the state of the art. We need robots for science, humans for engineering.
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by spauldo 1y ago
You might consider checking out the Weinersmiths' book "A City on Mars." It goes into great detail of what still needs to be developed before we can seriously consider colonizing another world. It's one of the reasons I
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The large contractors are usually based in cities, but their employees are wherever the work is. Often they'll have a small office at the facility where the work is being done. Long-term contract workers usually live nearby and keep th
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It is if you're writing vimscript.
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The humans at MIT's Project Athena, then.
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Those are primary pigment colors (arguably... Should be magenta, cyan, and yellow). Those remove light to make color. Red, green, and blue are the additive primary colors.
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Pseudocolor was a different thing. The palette wasn't fixed. The adapter could display any color in a 24-bit color space, but only 256 colors at once. So if you had one program that used one palette and another program that used a diff
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It didn't feel finished to me - you could wander around the forest and interact with some stuff but I was never able to figure out what the "game" was. That might just be me, though - I'm not a gamer, really. Note this w
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I used to use them in both X11 and CSS way back in the day. They were really common in X11, because a lot of users were on pseudocolor displays and it made sense to reuse colors as much as possible. If you used uncommon colors in your progr

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