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by t43562 2y ago
A gaggle of governments with conflicting interests are less fearful than some private individuals with simple goals - like getting rich. Currently private companies rule the browser world and they wield incredible power over everything from
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by t43562 2y ago
My parents were Irish,English so I'm always caught in the middle. It's obvious that many English people are inclined to ignore the opium trade or the famine and think about bits of history that make them feel good. I'd just
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by t43562 2y ago
I understand that but what's nagging at me is this: I think civilisation is about building dependence really. Civilisation is organising in larger and larger groups - everyone becoming more dependent on each other and having laws an
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We haven't built quite as much of a security dependence on China so I think this is more like the US becoming "another China."
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The threat is something Denmark will have to respond to in some way. The rest of this is specious.
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Because the US helped an enemy in the middle of a battle and prevented us from using aircraft and equipment we bought....in the middle of battle. You can argue the rights and wrongs if you want but all that matters is the US cannot be trust
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by t43562 2y ago
It is weak to not recognise the change that has happened. It has been telegraphed for many years. What has happened in the US could happen to us and we must prevent that while we hope that more sensible people eventually prevail there.
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by t43562 2y ago
What I always wanted from Clang and was not smart enough to understand was how to use it to get an AST or similar so that I could rewrite code. I was working on a big project with old code that needed a radical overhaul to make it ready for
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by t43562 2y ago
If we cannot achieve Mars colonisation now then in a "worse time" we won't be doing it either.
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We don't even know if we can live healthily in mars gravity. That's how clueless we are. The main reason, however, is that humans can't co-operate on a scale that would be needed to do it. World events show it clearly right n
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by t43562 2y ago
Lunar Pathfinder. https://www.sstl.co.uk/what-we-do/lunar-mission-services QUOTE: A constellation of interconnected lunar orbiters will enable surface missions operating on the far side of the Moon, without direct
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by t43562 2y ago
I had to deal with a horrendous skilled person who made every meeting hell for those concerned. It's hard to fire people where I am but in the end we managed it. I am delighted to handle all the problems this caused because they are
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by t43562 2y ago
It often has practical problems with tossing people out like: I'm not going to get the money to be able to replace them. OR they know a hell of a lot and it will be years or never before someone can solve the brutal problems they can
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by t43562 2y ago
I read this book about a defector from the GRU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarium_(Suvorov) I can't remember the exact quote but his suggestion was that everyone needed a "sponsor" or patron above th
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by t43562 2y ago
To me it seems more like "How to be horrible to everyone" or "How to arm-twist people into becoming 'resources'" or "What to do when your spanner, er sorry human being, gets uppity." Normal people are
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by t43562 2y ago
I am a fan of the LuGRE instrument from Italy. It's a sneaky little precursor to the ESA Lunar Pathfinder which will put a lunar communications system and positioning system into orbit. That will be able to use the LuGRE instrument
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by t43562 2y ago
Well, the universe is fairly big and humankind even if you add it all up is quite small. So....I don't think it will be a great problem for a while.
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by t43562 2y ago
What is futurist about an oligarchy...or a monarchy? Surely it's essentially what China is now. We want that?
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by t43562 2y ago
On the minus side of the equation, large controversial changes, more often outside the kernel but still important nevertheless, do get pushed through by people who are employed at important companies. If your fulltime job is Linux it does g
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by t43562 2y ago
Well, exactly. I don't know if the complexity was worth it or not because I'm not an expert. For comparison there were apparently 30 NK-15 engines on the first stage of the N1. (from Wikipedia of course) What I did read somewhere
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by t43562 2y ago
I think the US has learned from others without saying a word about it. e.g. the N1 had a lot of smaller engines rather than a few huge ones - so they could be mass-produced. They were also pretty efficient. They lacked the control systems
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The German part of Rolls Royce - that's where the new B-52 engines are coming from for example.
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by t43562 2y ago
half the time it's my choice of security settings and not Firefox. So... IMO %$#^% it - if a site doesn't support firefox I'm strongly disinclined to load up chrome to use it. There are lots of sites and lots of businesses.
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by t43562 2y ago
I think it's just as well not to have a monoculture (i.e. chomium-based-browsers). Just being different and capable of rendering websites makes the web a place where standards matter. It doesn't have to be noble to make this happe
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by t43562 2y ago
It seems to be for interactive shells. So I probably hit a problem while shelling out from my editor but potentially any IDE that has a command prompt will have trouble if it's trying to set environment variables.
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Cambridge dictionary: the act of killing a something in large numbers, or reducing something severely. Not totally gone or almost gone, merely "severely" or in "large numbers".
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So e.g. when I get an interactive shell from vim, for example, or an IDE it will execute .bashrc which can blow away settings I want for building.
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Of course their interpretation matters. That's why such salutes are banned in Germany whatever the excuse about them might be.
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I know it isn't worth replying but I never heard of 99% as the definition of decimated.
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FWIW in bash I have 2 functions: path_add() { export PATH=$PATH:$(string_join ':' $@) } path_prepend() { PATH=$(string_join ':' "$@"):$PATH export PATH } These can join an arbitr

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