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by torginus 9mo ago
I remember reading somewhere that satellites are extra expensive for 2 reasons: - launch costs are so high that doing exotic bespoke engineering might be worth it if it can shave off a few pounds - once again because launches are expensive
902.
by torginus 9mo ago
I guess he adds the weight of all the hardware to make the whole thing work.
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by torginus 9mo ago
How much maintenance do you need? Lets say you have hardware whose useful lifespan due to obsolescence is 5 years, and in 4, the satellite will crash into the atmosphere anyways. Let's say given component failure rates, you can expect
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by torginus 9mo ago
I have not used Wayland specifically, but did do this for X11, Windows, Qt, too much stuff to count... It usually takes the form of an api call like DispatchEvent(&MouseEvent{MOUSE_L, 1345, 3432}); It's almost literally always th
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by torginus 9mo ago
From what I've heard a W3C standards meeting is basically a Zoom call between Blink and Webkit engineers.
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by torginus 9mo ago
I don't really like how Claude Code kind of obscures the actual code from you - I guess that's why people keep putting out articles about how certain programmers have absolutely no idea whats going on inside the code. It's tr
907.
by torginus 9mo ago
Which is kind of a bummer - it'd have helped the standards based web to have an actual powerful entity maintain a distinct implementation. Firefox is on life-support and is basically taking code from Blink wholesale, and Webkit isn&#x2
908.
by torginus 9mo ago
To this day I cannot wrap my head around the fact why did Microsoft allow a culture to grow inside the company (either through hiring, or through despondence) that at best is indifferent towards the company's products and at worst open
909.
by torginus 9mo ago
So the recent surge in demand for storage is to because we have to store that code somewhere?
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by torginus 9mo ago
Yeah. I honestly feel 1m LOC is enough to recreate a fully featured complete modern computing environment if one goes about it sensibly.
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by torginus 9mo ago
Does Swift not have an automatic bindings generator for C headers?
912.
by torginus 9mo ago
Thanks for the answer, that sounds reassuring. I have another question, from what you said, it sounds like you remove restrict from the whol argument, but technically, afaict, the Rust borrow rules still prevent anything inside those struct
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by torginus 9mo ago
Oh god, I hope I read this wrong. I thought Rust finally fixed C/C++'s worst issue which is aliasing, which means that if you pass a struct by pointer to a function, since any number of other mutable references might exist to it,
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by torginus 9mo ago
This. We ported a huge component, an ASP.NET server hosted Windows to Linux (/w Docker). We did the initial migration in a couple of days, and only after a couple of months, we basically managed to bring all production installs to Linu
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by torginus 9mo ago
I personally find that it's easier to iterate on 'something' and find what's wrong with it and fix it, than theorycrafting staring at a blank paper.
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by torginus 9mo ago
I'm not familiar with the space, but wouldnt something that streams the whole screen like a video (WebRTC or Moonlight and VNC works like this ) work here too as well, and would be universal? Wayland already supports screen capture (in
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by torginus 9mo ago
The biggest problem with metals is the same as crypto - there's no fundamental underlying value like P/E or product announcements you can anchor the price to - so its free to fluctuate. How much of a problem that actually is we go
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by torginus 9mo ago
Thanks for posting this, but if we look at the World Bank's data, we see that outside of Covid, Chinese GDP growth has been in the 5%+ range consistently, something the US hasn't been managed to do even once, and Germany, the econ
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by torginus 9mo ago
I feel one upshot of AI coding is that people finally recognize 5 layer enterprise architectures for what they are - useless slop whose purpose is to make solutions more 'professional' and complicated to make the people who write
920.
by torginus 9mo ago
If that were true, Euro and US models would cost the same in China as they do in Europe - after all they dont have import tariffs, and all the stuff you listed - but they're priced in accordance to the local market. As for subsidies, a
921.
by torginus 9mo ago
You're describing gouging and gold rush pricing, which thankfully not a feature any major economic system relies on for everyday operation. It's entirely reasonable to expect logistical costs to inflate the price of a good, so the
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by torginus 9mo ago
Personally I'm less and less inclined to believe in capitalism and money as a concept - we've long past moved the concept of money as universal barter, and into strange and speculative theories about how things ought to be valued,
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by torginus 9mo ago
I might be utterly ignorant about the happenings in the world around me, but it seems there's less of this funky experimentation and pushing boundaries not directly tied to hitting some economically valuable goal nowadays.
924.
by torginus 9mo ago
I'm also wondering why people are so enamored with these humanoid robot - what they've accomplished is impressive, but from the perspective of replacing humans, I'm sure we are many years away from the versatility required to
925.
by torginus 9mo ago
Great website, not going to downplay the problem, but you can check out other countries, and see that a lot of places - particularly in the West - are f*cked. That China is too, is not much of an upside, Honestly its kinda shocking how bad
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by torginus 9mo ago
Afaik due to how .NET webassembly works, it expects to own the main loop, so I think the main motivator of this change was to enable .NET in Wasm builds.
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by torginus 9mo ago
My skill level when it comes to CMake is just north of nonexistent, but I was highly motivated as it kinda blocked me in what I actually wanted to do.
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by torginus 9mo ago
I think its like being in a horror movie - you know the axe guy is in there with you, but you don't know when he's going to get you.
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by torginus 9mo ago
Prices of investments will also go down - stocks certainly, although precious metals were traditionally recession proof, we've never had such a bull run on gold/silver in anticipation of recession. My guess is that it won't h
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by torginus 9mo ago
I don't understand why people expect the Chinese economy to crash - they can basically make everything, a lot of which is internationally competitive, they can trade for the resources they don't have with the goods that they do -

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