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by teilo 5y ago
Not even that. Making it to the Karman line is a very low bar. They are nowhere close to being able to reach ISS. The leap from New Shepard to New Glenn is a rather big one.
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by teilo 5y ago
It's entirely about income. If you have a greater income, you can afford a house with enough property to have or plant trees. This is not complicated.
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by teilo 5y ago
Once it is granted that the objects and their detectable properties are real, and not illusions, there are really only a few possibilities. 1) Advanced and highly secretive technology developed by some government. 2) The same, but by a grou
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by teilo 5y ago
Were you alive during the cold war? That's what I think this is. A kind of cold war against a terrestrial foe, in this case one with superior technology.
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by teilo 5y ago
This is what I generally see happening any time these things come up. A dismissive half-answer that does not address the physical requirements of the phenomenon. I am not in the "it's aliens" crowd. But I am also not shutting
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by teilo 5y ago
Then your only tool is a hammer...
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by teilo 5y ago
And here we have another one. Add it to the same pile as the Riemann Zeta "proofs."
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by teilo 5y ago
All bluetooth is compressed with a variety of algorithms. Some are better than others, but none are lossless (not even aptX-HD). I believe Apple is about to release a firmware update that they claim will allow some of their cans and buds to
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by teilo 5y ago
If you think it is that simple, then you do not quite understand superdeterminism and the hard problem of consciousness. Also, your examples are not entirely accurate. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that zapping a part of the brain can
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by teilo 5y ago
Oh please. There are so many of these out there. How about you go through all of these and tell us why this one is any different: http://integers.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/08/30/023144
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by teilo 5y ago
It's not just about abstraction. VirtIO is significantly more efficient than SATA emulation, and as it is built into the Linux kernel it just works. There is also a Windows driver package that adds VirtIO support, but it's a bit t
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by teilo 5y ago
Windows is in serious need of a new audio subsystem. Something that can replace ASIO, be low latency, multi-channel, allow app audio sharing (which is hit or miss with ASIO), and support rate changes and automatic rate conversion. Essential
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by teilo 6y ago
Ah, Zope, that wonderful monstrosity. I build a purchase order system for my company in it back in the day. It made that type of business app very easy, as long as you didn't expect any kind of performance or scalability. The magic of
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by teilo 6y ago
Yes it does, both on the local device, and on the Unifi cloud service. This is true as of recent firmware versions. But 2FA in this case is useless. The hackers owned the UBNT servers. If they harvested user logins, then one can assume that
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by teilo 6y ago
Well, there's the Duhare: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-colony-sout...
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by teilo 6y ago
Non sequitur
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by teilo 6y ago
Dude, I used to use Visicalc.
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by teilo 6y ago
Borland had very little except "me too" products, TBH. Pascal, C++, etc. But Delphi was a nice system, FWIW. Of all the Borland products, this one had the longest shelf-life, now still actively developed by Embarcadero.
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by teilo 6y ago
And let's not forget Btrieve. Prior to my Clipper work, I did a lot of work building an estimation and accounting system based on Btrieve databases, using an obscure system called TAS Professional. Evidently it still survives in some i
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by teilo 6y ago
I entirely forgot about R:BASE. Thanks for the memories. I worked in it only briefly, as a teenager. My uncle, an early PC adopter, introduced me to it.
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by teilo 6y ago
Borland bought Aston-Tate in 1991, and thereafter owned dBase. Borland also developed Paradox prior to that acquisition. Clipper and FoxBase were dBase clones, and not always compatible. I did a lot of Clipper programming in the 90s, and a
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by teilo 6y ago
All I care about is an option for lossless. If by "HiFi" they mean 96K/24-bit (or more), then that's just snake oil. Don't even get me started on Tidal's MQA nonsense. For most material I cannot tell the differ
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by teilo 6y ago
Your Airpods are recompressing everything to 256kbps AAC to transmit over bluetooth. So once again, psychoacoustic bias.
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by teilo 6y ago
That's only true for uncompressed audio.
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by teilo 6y ago
The natural-cured tobacco that the natives smoked has almost no resemblance to cigarettes. The real problems began with sugar curing.
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by teilo 6y ago
Apple is not a good steward of open source projects. We saw what happened with CUPS. Apple took it over and it basically died.
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by teilo 6y ago
I don't disagree, but my point is, they are not even free-ish. That's fine. I have no problem paying $5/mo. for access to content like this. I mean, one of these books would cost me $30. That's 6 months worth of Medium a
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by teilo 6y ago
Regarding nutrition: this view is great until you define "science" as whatever advice your doctor gives you. The problem is that there have been plenty of studies long before these more enlightened times we live in, which demonstr
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by teilo 6y ago
That's a pretty big "-ish". Every chapter is an article. Try to read more than three chapters, and you're done.
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by teilo 6y ago
I gave up on Homebrew for Python development and now use Conda. Never looked back.

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