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by ur-whale 2y ago
> with some setup, of course Care to share the config ? [EDIT]: and on the topic of modern terminal emulator vs screen/tmux type solutions ... there is of course some feature overlap for which modern terminal emulators are clearly b
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by ur-whale 2y ago
The release page doesn't make it very clear what Cosmic is and does. The product page is better: https://system76.com/cosmic [EDIT]: also useful : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cosmic+des
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by ur-whale 2y ago
No mention in the article of the hygiene related aspect of the plan. Can racoon be trained to pee / defecate outside ? What do they smell like ? Sure, these issues can likely be bred out of the current animal, but still.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
The first thing I wanted is not trivial to find (vids on github don't load for me), so here's a bunch of links: https://www.youtube.com/@alien-project/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw
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by ur-whale 2y ago
This raises an interesting question: when you piss off the current hegemon (for good or bad reasons, not the point anyways), where can you currently go to get out of its reach ? Asking, because his "plan" is very likely that. Some
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> One scammer operating a monetary ponzi scheme is suing another scammer for taking advantage of the ponzi to scam other people That's an old argument, best summarized as "when it comes to milking the masses, the government doe
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by ur-whale 2y ago
XRP (Ripple), the "crypto" currency with none of the attributes that make real cryptocurrencies interesting: - XRP is managed centrally by mostly unknown folks (this is its worst attribute) - therefore supply isn't
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by ur-whale 2y ago
The OneTab extension is your friend. Lets you, among other things, archive however many tabs you have open and re-open them later. I flush my open tab once a week with it, and whenever I search for something I was looking at a couple of wee
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> I have a hard time believing it'd be worth the risk Well, isn't that nice, we get to do a Gedankeexperiment. You get choose between the two following scenarios: - bringing a shotgun onboard, using it to defend your lif
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Go team Beast! It's all fun and games until someone brings a shotgun aboard.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Is there a machine-verifiable version ? I mean ... 800 pages, I'd say the benefit of the doubt applies.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Given the natural built-in introspection capabilities of the language, I never understood why something like that wasn't also a built-in part Python. I mean the number of times I've bumped on json not being able to dump the conten
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by ur-whale 2y ago
I have to ask: given the vanishingly small half-life of these elements (order of milliseconds) and tiny, tiny number of atoms produced ... what is the point of these experiments ? What can they possibly teach us ?
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by ur-whale 2y ago
I worked on one of these, this was a nice machine. Unix was a little weird, but the graphics subsystem was very impressive for the time, almost on par with SGI's offering.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
If this actually works (remains to be seen), I can only say: 1) Kudos 2) Finally !
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> I understand it refusing to comment on Trump vs Biden Why ?
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> a lot faster than the rest of the world can keep up. Not like they have much choice given where their demography is going.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Also, rocket science is just Newtonian physics. Disagree. The newtonian physics part of flying a rocket is indeed the boring part of rocket science in these days of Ghz computing. But all the engineering (an altogether different - if r
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> So because an incumbent exists ESA should give up No. But they should learn their lesson and try to run instead of plodding along at a glacial pace. Oh but wait, they're govt funded with no success incentives other than some sort
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> 6-10 years from now Ariane Next/SALTO will aims replicate Falcon 9 efficiency and the design will be very similar: And by then, SpaceX will be 10 years ahead of them with a next-gen platform. Not a great sounding story.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Any kind of additional competition is worthwhile. Agree with the sentiment, but is Ariane actually competitive with SpaceX And if so, how ? Pricing for payload maybe ?
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Does it mean the 88Mhz -> 108Mhz frequency band will go to back the auction block ?
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by ur-whale 2y ago
This was back in the days when folks in Europe were still capable of doing really ambitious technical things. That particular project may have turned not to be economically viable, but it was at the very least thought of and studied serious
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by ur-whale 2y ago
What could possibly go wrong ? My money is on what happens every time governments stick their hairy knuckles in the delicate mechanics of the free market: the economy works around them. IMO, in this case, it will foster a huge black market
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> And comparatively the French train network is excellent I don't think we're talking about the same country here. Are you a regular user ? "Comparatively" ? Sure, if you compare it to the US train network or to Ugand
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by ur-whale 2y ago
I would have felt a tad better if such tool had originated in Switzerland rather than France. The railway system in Switzerland is far, far more reliable, far more central to the Swiss economy and proportionally (Switzerland is smaller than
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by ur-whale 2y ago
No attempts at generalization to larger numbers of digits?
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General to board. Very typical move of a company planning to enter the military supplier space.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> much ado about nothing Did you seriously expect this to have an impact over a timespan weeks ? Geopolitical stuff, with some exceptions, tends to unravel over years or decades. This is a sizable event, and it will likely have quite an
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Relying on GPT style systems to translate high level math to lean stuff strikes me as dangerous unless you're going to double-check by hand that the LLM didn't suddenly decide to hallucinate parts of the answer. Granted, the hallu

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