the_mungler

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by the_mungler 1y ago
Yeah, definitely some tradeoffs there. I do like that it makes the common use cases easy. And yeah, I did make quite the "turduckin" as you put it . A more concrete criticism: suppose you wanted to embed some markdown, where all o
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by the_mungler 1y ago
I'm not the biggest fan of the embed block syntax, for two reasons. 1. Having `%\\\%` escape to `%\\%` is confusing. Assuming you want to embed kson inside kson it would look like this: ``` %kson: level 1 %kson: level 2 %kson:
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by the_mungler 3y ago
That's sort of the point. The EU is requiring Apple to allow alternative app stores with all the same features as the main one. Originally Apple decided to remove these features from Safari rather than allow actual alternative browsers
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by the_mungler 3y ago
A PWA usually makes use of a few features, most commonly push notifications, local storage, and install to home screen. The last one allows a web app to open as if it's a standalone native app, basically only a web view with no nav bar
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by the_mungler 3y ago
I've been looking through the repository on GitHub and I for the life of me can't figure out where the SQL code is. How is the database created? What do the tables look like? I've never looked at a php codebase before, I&#x27
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by the_mungler 3y ago
Yeah, the article certainly goes a bit over the top. As far as drm goes though, the lock analogy doesn't hold. You can't lockpick a house and then distribute unlimited unlocked free copies of it. DRM only needs to be broken once a
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Amazon, Audible uses drm to lock in customers(brandonsanderson.com)
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by the_mungler 3y ago
Rockets fall under some pretty big restrictions government wise. You know, guided missiles and all that. While SpaceX is a private company, the people allowed to work on their rockets are very much restricted. I believe they can employ Amer
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by the_mungler 3y ago
Even then, I don't believe they stream 4k to browsers. They only stream to devices like smart tvs or official Netflix apps with high quality. Your average browser is limited to 720p. This is the quintessential "pirating is better&
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by the_mungler 3y ago
"friction from the atmosphere" = drag. The previous commenter explains the effect friction has.
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by the_mungler 3y ago
I don't know exactly in this case, but congressmen have always been making NASA rockets more expensive. They often made it so that at least a part of the rockets were built in their respective states, making things more expensive than
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by the_mungler 3y ago
Usually there is a defined "flight envelope" and if it deviates from that, they detonate. I'm guessing they simply waited as long as possible, and once it left the designated buffer is when they finally detonated it.
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by the_mungler 3y ago
Not really. How would you test a rocket engine at low atmospheric pressure? You can't exactly stick a rocket engine in a vacuum chamber and light it. Then once you're launching something into space, you may as well have a first st
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by the_mungler 3y ago
Well, it did successfully lift off the pad. I honestly didn't think it would make it that far. "The ... Failure happens ... Before anything flies the first time" I'm no aerospace engineer, but I doubt this was the case i
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by the_mungler 3y ago
You're right, Mexico would be a better place to launch rockets from. You want to be close to the equator, and on an east coast so you can launch rockets over the water and avoid dropping boosters on people. Rockets generally are launch
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by the_mungler 3y ago
This is still in the USA. They still had to get approval from the EPA to set up all of this stuff. I realize this comment is satire, but the reason this location was chosen has to do with orbital mechanics. A launch pad close to the equator
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by the_mungler 3y ago
No, I'm talking about recycling fuel rods for use in our current nuclear reactors. I'm fuzzy on the details, but a fuel rod becomes unusable way before all the uranium is used up because of a build up of "nuclear poisons&quot
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by the_mungler 3y ago
The story gets better here when you consider that most "waste" can actually be reused (93% of uranium fuel rods used in LWRs could be recycled). Also consider, more radioactive materials (the parts we can't currently recycle,
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by the_mungler 4y ago
Yeah, you're right about that. I'll admit this topic sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole on how this could be accomplished. An alternative scheme could be a Vickery Clarke Groves or generalized second price auction. These bidding
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by the_mungler 4y ago
To be fair, rust at kernel level seems to have way more unsafe code than usual, though I have no experience in that area so I can't say much. In rust you absolutely can "just take a lock around some shared data", but it is a
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by the_mungler 4y ago
Good point, but you could address that by splitting up the seats into multiple auctions depending on the quality of the seats. People could even bid "conditionally" for multiple sections, and once bidding closes you resolve the se
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by the_mungler 4y ago
Why not have a big closed auction? Everyone has a week or so to submit how much they are willing to pay for a ticket. Once the auction closes, sort by price and take the number of seats available. Everyone pays the minimum price that still
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by the_mungler 4y ago
Hmm, that actually seems quite likely to me.
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by the_mungler 4y ago
What Clarence Thomas is saying is that these decisions shouldn't have been made by the supreme court, not that these things shouldn't be allowed. In his view these decisions require the legislative branch to rule on, not nine life
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by the_mungler 4y ago
>There’s also the obvious warmth and protection from the elements (like UV) they provide. If we only wore clothes for "warmth and protection" then why do we wear them indoors? The point is still valid.
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by the_mungler 4y ago
I've never had anyone ask me about my current salary in an interview, isn't that kind of illegal? Or surely at least considered poor form...