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by tpmx 3y ago
You're technically correct, but aren't Usenet gateways a bit out of date? I thought Usenet was primarily used for, eh distributing linux isos these days. I made a bidirectional gateway to/from the https://en.wikipe
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by tpmx 3y ago
California-based HN/YC doesn't comply with that kind of request, for instance. They offer to rename the user to something random but that's it.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Incorrectly removed.
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by tpmx 3y ago
You're conflating crawling with querying/ranking in a weird way. And: grep - are you serious? (Yes, you also namedropped Pagerank for some odd reason.) The thing is, though: You can't easily outsource the crawling and then do
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by tpmx 3y ago
"Gfycat is currently owned by Snapchat." (Wikipedia.) Edit: That appears to have been incorrectly removed by someone who was probably reading my comment. News of Snap Inc acquiring Gfycat can be seen here: https://www.l
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by tpmx 3y ago
> businesstheater I've seen a lot of that crap on e.g. the Oslo Stock Exchange over the past two decades. Lots of money from local and very inexperienced (e.g. fishing/shipping/oil money) companies/people, looking to
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by tpmx 3y ago
Note also that, at least at the start of that 3 year period, they simply bought in results from Bing rather than build their own index[1]. That sounds to me like they failed hard, both from a technical point of view and marketing-wise. (T
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by tpmx 3y ago
There are times and places that call for extreme levels of cynicism. This is not it. Again, it's a (relatively) super cheap satellite explicitly meant for comms experiments.
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by tpmx 3y ago
> EEs are IMHO underpaid in both sides of the pond though. Because of EEs in PRC and Taiwan with relatively speaking much lower salaries for about the same level of competency [who also have native-level access to the design/supply
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by tpmx 3y ago
Ah. That sentence you quoted: "Throughout the exercise, ESA had access to the satellite's systems to retain control and ensure a return to normal operation." My reading of this: ESA let the teams attempt their hacks on the re
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by tpmx 3y ago
The mentioned satellite (OPS-SAT) is in orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPS-SAT https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/OPS-SAT Launch took place on 18 December, 2019, when OPS-
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by tpmx 3y ago
People still strongly dislike FB/Meta though.
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by tpmx 3y ago
That's a ~9 hour trip including the drive and 30 minutes safety margin.
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by tpmx 3y ago
I suppose the downside of all that secrecy is balanced with the upside of having lots of competent and smart colleagues. In my experience that is worth even more than a very high salary for your quality of life. (That 1958 article morkalo
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by tpmx 3y ago
Also: That competence (the radiation safety technician).
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by tpmx 3y ago
The end-game is a Hong Kong-like residential architecture, then? I would think programmers could understand that brute force resource allocations have very real consequences for the feel and behavior of a city along with hard to predict con
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by tpmx 3y ago
So live somewhere else. I get that this has been talked to death, but it still kind of boils to a simple fact: We live in an actual, physical world. We can't build more than e.g. one apartment in the same physical space. I would think
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by tpmx 3y ago
That was certainly an unusual choice of language for a problem like that. But, I guess, use what you know. Seems like a decent fit, I didn't expect that - I mostly know Tcl from very odd Tcl/Tk GUI apps in the 90s/early 00s.
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by tpmx 3y ago
"Pay rises are around 0% for most people I know." Some data: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor... Growth in employees' average total pay (including bonuses) was 5.8% and growt
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by tpmx 3y ago
Most of these outages during the past month have hit during European working hours, while most Americans are asleep. grumble European working hours == Github maintenance window? F that.
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by tpmx 3y ago
That was a great demonstration of why this technique is so effective. Thank you, Pulcinella!
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by tpmx 3y ago
There's nothing contradictive between being fine with short-term failures and celebrating long-term successes.
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by tpmx 3y ago
So Microsoft's Windows team can't use it then. Allegedly.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Historically there's often been a lot of bluster about forcing everyone to the new weird version by this and that date, then backtracking with the dates until the major issues have been resolved with a new major version that reverts th
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by tpmx 3y ago
Whew, thought it was to Windows 11. Win 10 21H2 to Win 10 22H2 wasn't a very dramatic change for my gaming/etc machine.
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by tpmx 3y ago
I quite like this modern reimplemention of GW-BASIC: https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/
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by tpmx 3y ago
I'll try to make a list over the coming week or so and email you.
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by tpmx 3y ago
When faced with undeniable criticism: I believe China/CCP learned this "defense" tactic from the Soviet Union, who if, not inventing it, at the very least brought it to new standardized levels.
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by tpmx 3y ago
I think you know that this black box will end being used as the dominant source of truth.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Sigh. I guess we'll have to build nukes (again, sort of). And a delivery mechanism (again, sort of).

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