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by syncsynchalt 6mo ago
... matter of fact it's all dark. (The moon has an albedo of 12%)
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by syncsynchalt 6mo ago
Take a look at https://issinfo.net/artemis.html Your illustration is about right, but the angle they're catching now is even a bit further than you've shown.
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by syncsynchalt 6mo ago
Sunlight is yellowish in atmosphere since some blue's been scattered by the atmosphere[1], but it's white in space. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering
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by syncsynchalt 6mo ago
This is not universally applicable, especially if an algo isn't deterministic. For example if you were to time "bogosort of 100 items" you'd see increasingly better times the more runs you performed.
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by syncsynchalt 7mo ago
Or the now-ubiquitous footer: "Store cookie? [Yes] [Ask me again]"
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by syncsynchalt 7mo ago
Pretty standard option for any home with a teenager, to be honest. Long enough to drag the handset into the nearest coat closet when needed.
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by syncsynchalt 7mo ago
And of course, you can use the ~v / ~V commands (as listed in the ~? menu) to increase/decrease verbosity after the connection is established. That lets you `ssh -vvvv` to a host then once you've figured out the issue use ~V
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by syncsynchalt 7mo ago
I see this take a lot but I'd argue what Docker did was to entice everyone to capture their build into a repeatable process (via a Dockerfile). "Ship your machine to production" isn't so bad when you have a ten-line scri
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by syncsynchalt 7mo ago
There's usually an easy-ish way to override malloc/calloc/realloc/free on Unix, as it's very useful to do when debugging issues or just to collect allocation metrics. In ELF objects (i.e. on Linux) this is usually d
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by syncsynchalt 7mo ago
> a search engine for search engines… Everything old is new again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler
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by syncsynchalt 7mo ago
The ~ character for home directories was an old convention that dates from the ADM-3A (1976) terminal used by some early Unix users. The keyboard on that terminal happened to have the cursor control word "Home" on the "~&quo
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by syncsynchalt 8mo ago
I didn't want to mention that CRI is matched against the spectrum of _daylight_ because of the confusion that happens with color temperature when you mention the "daylight" word. You're right though, the CRI reference sp
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by syncsynchalt 8mo ago
Look for the CRI rating of bulbs that you buy. It's a measurement of how close to a blackbody spectrum the bulb is putting out, the highest fidelity being 100. Note that this is not the temperature measurement, and you can have e.g. 27
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by syncsynchalt 8mo ago
Thank you for tracking this down! I made some half-hearted stabs at who it might be but wasn't even sure I was reading the "ADR" right.
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by syncsynchalt 8mo ago
The note is actually from Chuck Baker, the editor of that issue of Datamation. You're not alone in assuming DEK wrote the note, a lot of people seem to attribute it to Knuth.
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
Don't forget his claim that master hypnotists are using camgirls to give him super-orgasms to steal his money. He was a nutter in more ways than just his politics. https://web.archive.org/web/20201108112121/ht
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
It benefits the grid to have people consume extra power when there's an oversupply, store it and give it back when there's undersupply. Why shouldn't it be allowed (even encouraged)?
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
It could be as simple as their surveillance / censorship tools not fully supporting IPv6.
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
Correct, click the "Min/Max scale" toggle to get a zero-based graph that shows the v4 reduction in context.
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
I didn't know this, so I pulled up a cite for anyone else interested: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-expands-sanctions-exception...
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
Tools to evade state surveillance and censorship are explicitly exempted from US sanctions against Iran. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-expands-sanctions-exception...
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
I meant the url `steam://install/92`
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
Oh, it includes the Abuse-like HL2 platformer that I played while waiting for HL2 to install, apparently named "Codename: Gordon". https://delistedgames.com/codename-gordon/ I'm glad I found this, as it
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
> A gift card isn't a credit card, though... ? I supposed it's a matter of semantics, is a prepaid credit card that is gifted not a "gift card"?
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
The page talks about what I'd consider the first web _site_, but is missing info on the first web _server_, which was preserved and is displayed at a CERN museum. Wikimedia link to an image: https://commons.wikimedia.org&#x2
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
I think the author did it for C64 reasons, but for other reasons it was a vibe in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors
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by syncsynchalt 9mo ago
Note to readers: the heavily dithered websafe thumbnails lead to full-color photos when clicked.
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
This is my first time noticing one of their posts, but to me it evokes the ideals of the Long Now Foundation, putting our thoughts in a future-forward stance.
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
Here's an example image: https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2022/09/Prorotype-Digit... Captured on Kodak film, I suspect.
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
The PetaPixel article has a sample, though the original photo from this article is lost. https://petapixel.com/how-steve-sasson-invented-the-digital-... https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2022&#x

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