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781.
by varjag 2y ago
display-buffer-alist appeared only in version 24 and is still only a hack to bludgeon the editor into somewhat less insane condition than the default.
782.
by varjag 2y ago
Is that long term or this year? Because honestly 6.6B is not a lot for their scale of operations.
783.
by varjag 2y ago
The US has a history of major data breaches by low rank IT security personnel throughout multiple branches of the government. A security monoculture is not necessarily a great approach on the balance of things.
784.
by varjag 2y ago
I've been using Emacs for 25 years daily and this is still the thing that I think hasn't been really thought through. Yes there are hacks to mitigate that but there are still many rough edges with them.
785.
by varjag 2y ago
Allow for user controllable window layout within the frame, objectively the editor's only significant drawback.
786.
by varjag 2y ago
It's adorable but my modern German car came plagued by software glitches, from a development team of 6000.
787.
by varjag 2y ago
1820s? Oh yes a ton.
788.
by varjag 2y ago
Latency? That's when Starlink comes into play!
789.
by varjag 2y ago
Electron apps are probably responsible for multiple Gigawatt-hours of wasted energy annually.
790.
by varjag 2y ago
Notice how I specifically talked about Syria and Libya. I (along with a lot of other people) opposed Iraq war as well and it took you to pull it here for lack of consistent argument. Don't see the point arguing with you further. Some d
791.
by varjag 2y ago
American military on the ground did not engage Syrian government forces except once in 2018 when they were attacked. They were there only for ISIS. See the sibling comment for human toll perspective.
792.
by varjag 2y ago
Human death toll in Libya and Syria differ by almost 60x. Half a million Syrians could have lived, the refugee crisis and the rise of far right in the West could be avoided had Assad been droned in 2013. Putin would also not have dared the
793.
by varjag 2y ago
The outcome was positive for Libya, as it experienced only a fraction of human suffering compared to Syria where the United States did not intervene against the regime. Either way Libya operation was spearheaded by France with Obama joining
794.
by varjag 2y ago
So the Great War with Pakistan turns out to be checks notes the raid on OBL compound?
795.
by varjag 2y ago
Their work does not advance the field of physics in any way, unless you insist to extend physics to each and every discipline out there.
796.
by varjag 2y ago
Naturally she's not happy https://x.com/skdh/status/1843592351736050053
797.
by varjag 2y ago
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny.
798.
by varjag 2y ago
It looks like a new iteration of Buildroot, which kind of slid behind Yocto/OE in professional community. Is there any summary why this would be preferable to either of those?
799.
by varjag 2y ago
Imagine going to space by lighting up rocket engines with giant matches: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a19966/russia...
800.
by varjag 2y ago
I remember a colleague leaving a debug popup "fuck is wrong with the data" in a product outsourced to us. Naturally it popped during the customer demo, in presence of someone like Germany's minister of something. We had a goo
801.
by varjag 2y ago
It releases energy, and energy performs work. The OP however wrote produce.
802.
by varjag 2y ago
Approximately the same but now you at least use units that make sense.
803.
by varjag 2y ago
However voltage does not tell you how much work a battery can produce.
804.
by varjag 2y ago
Building a fire detection system for tunnels out of a component in our tunnel evacuation system ( https://evacsound.com/ ), as it appears there's own market for that.
805.
by varjag 2y ago
I'm skeptical about the whole ordeal, but at $80/mo it would still be worth it unless you sit somewhere at the very bottom of outsourcing well.
806.
by varjag 2y ago
I think that's the point: correctness can be a sliding scale. There is Newton correct, and there's Einstein correct.
807.
by varjag 2y ago
They are extremely repairable due to low level of integration and commodity components. And many ICs (outside DRAM or PROM) can potentially last for centuries.
808.
by varjag 2y ago
Alcoholism is certainly destructive, but if you have predisposition to schizophrenia you really better off with drinking than smoking pot.
809.
by varjag 2y ago
Yeah there's Vipps in Norway, Swish in Sweden and I imagine something similar anywhere else. The market demand is too enormous to not be fulfilled by 2024.
810.
by varjag 2y ago
Many if not most European countries also have their respective payment apps.

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