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by the_biot 4y ago
Spare batteries go for peanuts. The fact that you can charge one off of your truck, which then loses the corresponding charge, is entirely irrelevant. At best it's a silly sales pitch for something you'll never use, like that Rivi
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by the_biot 4y ago
But you're mistaken. The Cybertruck has none of those features, since it doesn't exist. It's entirely vaporware. When they start shipping them -- if that ever happens -- then you can list what features it has, and what they c
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by the_biot 4y ago
I contracted at this telecom for years, and a few years after I left the guy I'd reported to told me that they'd actually replaced me with a team of five people. So I guess 5x :-) I mostly did custom network management, provisioni
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by the_biot 4y ago
But wokeness is not a reaction to any of the things you mentioned. It's social justice turned up to a lunatic setting, divorced from reality.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Dyson is only a premium brand if you think so. Their products are, and have always been, garbage. It is a marketing company, not a premium household products company. As another commenter here said, this is an obvious case of planned obsole
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by the_biot 4y ago
That adding offsets sounds like it could easily be compiler output. Elegant-looking jump table code is actually pretty standard for a compiler to generate. On the other hand, carefully hand-crafted and super clever machine code written in t
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by the_biot 4y ago
What's the point of this? That article is so paywalled it only shows the same title as the post. It's literally not worth clicking the link.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Actually, his grand linguistic theory (universal grammar) has been comprehensively disproven. So I'm not so sure he's regarded as an excellent linguist anymore. Though I suspect he hasn't changed his mind about it. Evidence a
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by the_biot 4y ago
One of the pioneers of electronic music. Listening to his "theme from Antarctica" is like sinking into a warm bubble bath.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Isn't this just a regular ISO-7816 smart card? In which case there's a standard USB device class for it, and certainly a standard device driver for it in any OS. It's perhaps surprising that it took until Windows 7 to get add
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by the_biot 4y ago
That sounds like a fun project, but I think you're overthinking how hard this needs to be. Instead of 3D printing an enclosure to fit the laptop, just fill it out with some goop like sugru or something. It just has to not rattle, is al
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by the_biot 4y ago
As always, the problem with Linux Foundation projects is that there's no way for a willing and experienced open source guy to help out. If you show up as a non-corporate-aligned person with ideas and code, they look at you like you hav
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by the_biot 4y ago
> There are no legitimate arguments for C. Bullshit. You're not helping your argument by denying the counter-argument's right to exist. > more people pick up C++ for professional use each week than the total now employed cod
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by the_biot 4y ago
The board never arrived. At some point (after months) I asked them about it, and they said it had been returned to them due to not deliverable. When I asked them to send it out again, they demanded extra money for postage. The amount they w
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by the_biot 4y ago
Vocore2 is the only time I've ever been ripped off on a crowdfunding project. Not impressed.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I don't see how it's NOT going to devolve into a battle of wills until only one is left standing. The combined company now has two very visible projects that don't make money: Cura and Thingiverse. Considering both will fall
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by the_biot 4y ago
Can we cut this shit out? It's 2022, IPv6 has worked fine for decades , and Google is seeing 40% IPv6 usage on their services: https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/ipv6-deployment-passe...
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by the_biot 4y ago
That is exactly what I have.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Nope.
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by the_biot 4y ago
If only they could keep their website reachable, that would be the icing on the cake. Like every time I see them linked on HN, I click and cannot connect to their website. Last time somebody from fly said they'd look into it, but alas.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Not regular people, just people that are super conservative and closed to all things new. There are indeed plenty of those, but it's not what most people are like.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I really don't remember the details, but he went off in a metaphysical direction, personal philisophies and such, and it was just gibberish. Really not what you're looking for in a technical talk about a filesystem.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I saw him speak about reiserfs at FOSDEM once, before the murder. That was the only time I ever left a talk in the middle of it because it was entirely clear the speaker was insane.
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by the_biot 4y ago
My guess is on an easter egg gone wrong.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Anymore? Gnome/GTK has been like this for a long, long time. The relentless taking away of options, choices, the ridiculous "everything mobile UI" drive, that's been going on for YEARS. I used to use gnome-terminal, the
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by the_biot 4y ago
Why would that be the EU's job? You might argue for EU funds that nudge things in a certain direction -- ubiquitous and secure encryption, say -- but general software development really is not in the EU's remit.
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by the_biot 4y ago
That is entirely irrelevant to the point. All the money consumed by EU instutions is taxpayer money. Not a constructive comment.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I've been enjoying redactle [0]. Try to figure out the title of a wikipedia page with most of the words blanked out. [0] https://redactle.com/
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by the_biot 4y ago
It looks like they're active, but not working on git.io URLs: https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/status I have no idea how to submit shortened URLs to URLTeam, but if anyone can find out I'll be happy to scrape
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by the_biot 4y ago
The git.io link in at least the first paper that comes up on your search ( https://git.io/sosr15-int-demo ) appears to have been archived by archive.org, which shows the redirection and then follows it to the archived version

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