thecosmicfrog

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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
Please tell me you have a blog/archive of these somewhere. This was such a joy to read!
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
Is WAP really considered a failure? Or just a transitional technology for an era of low-powered mobile devices? I downloaded my fair share of games and ringtones from "wap dot" sites.
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
I've regularly exceeded 24 GiB of VRAM in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Imagine a huge airport environment with high levels of detail, plus AI aircraft in the ground and sky. Then, on top of that, terrain and textures of the surroun
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Mtr, a Network Diagnostic Tool(github.com)
3 points by thecosmicfrog 2y ago|0 comments
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
Interesting! Although it'd (presumably) only be useful for the 787, short of heavy modification to existing aircraft. Even the Airbus A350, an aircraft from the same era, uses a traditional bleed system. If planes continue down the ble
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
Airliners are regularly and routinely shut down. "Cold and dark" is a common startup procedure for the first flight of the day.
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
Aircraft with INOP APUs can generally be "air started" with a ground-based high-pressure air system. It's relatively common and I've been on a plane that had to do the procedure. It was entirely undramatic other than eng
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
> I don't think airplane software ships updates the way npm packages do. I'd ideally like to sleep tonight, thanks.
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
Thanks OP. I appreciate that Hacker News has rules on post titles so it's nice to see you self-correct in the comments!
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
> Compared to a standard JPEG, a JPEG XL file is up to 55% smaller I still find JPEG "XL" to be such a bizarre name. I would intuitively think it would result in larger file sizes.
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
As soon as a streaming service starts having availability issues, it will garner a reputation very quickly and lose customers just as quickly. Being able to serve N amount of content reliably and consistently (even if less than M amount)
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
It has just been introduced in Ireland under the name "Re-turn".
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Get ready for OpenTofu 1.8.0-beta1(opentofu.org)
2 points by thecosmicfrog 2y ago|1 comments
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
That's the one!
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
Written by Tim Bajarin, who appeared on a few episodes of Computer Chronicles. I'm currently binge-watching episodes of it so I recognised the name.
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In Pictures: Boom Supersonic Unveils Overture Superfactory in North Carolina(simpleflying.com)
3 points by thecosmicfrog 2y ago|1 comments
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OpenTofu Gains State Encryption, So What's Next(thenewstack.io)
3 points by thecosmicfrog 2y ago|0 comments
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
I think my favourite feature of this repo is the `README.md.d` directory. That's actually a nice idea. Could maybe drop the `.md` I guess.
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
SFO has some appropriately Silicon Valley-themed waypoints: the SSTIK5 departure procedure has "CISKO", "EBAYE" and "UTOOB". SFO also has the SNTNA2 departure which has "KYNNG", "KRLOS" and
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
SFO has some appropriately Silicon Valley-themed waypoints: the SSTIK5 departure procedure has "CISKO", "EBAYE" and "UTOOB". SFO also has the SNTNA2 departure which has "KYNNG", "KRLOS and "
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
AWS CLI uses JMESPath.
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
HCL has been the infrastructure-as-code language I've enjoyed using most in the last few years of doing platform/DevOps'y stuff. The only time I feel like pulling my hair out is when trying to do complex loops. Anything beyon
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
When in an Uber from the airport in San Francisco, I remember seeing a giant billboard for Twilio. I had a similar reaction.
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by thecosmicfrog 2y ago
Found on Reddit (posted by u/NeillDrake) and thought HN would find it interesting.
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Google Pixel camera consistently blurring out The North Face logo(old.reddit.com)
127 points by thecosmicfrog 2y ago|33 comments
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
Time to add a `--stardate` flag to the `date` command then?
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
Sparky!
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This 1990 NES soundtrack just blew my mind [video](youtube.com)
25 points by thecosmicfrog 3y ago|3 comments
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
This is why Star Trek uses "subspace" as a plot handwavium[1] to explain how a starship can hail Earth from hundreds of lightyears away with seemingly no latency. [1] handwavium, my favourite new word: https://www.urban
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
Agreed wholeheartedly. Techmoan is one of those channels I'm always excited to see a new video from.

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