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by vodou 1y ago
After years of maintaining and using an application suite that relies on multicast for internal communication, I would hesitate to use "reliable" and "multicast" in the same sentence. Multicast is great in theory, but co
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by vodou 1y ago
Some thoughts regarding this: 1. It is partly because the typical metrics used for software development in big corporations (e.g., test coverage, cyclomatic complexity, etc) are such a snake oil. They are constantly misused and/or misi
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by vodou 1y ago
Whatever the reasons are, decent countries should not fall for the temptation to launch embarrassing campaigns to rise the fertility rate. That is what totalitarian countries do. And all these campaigns seem to fail anyway. Sure, low fertil
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by vodou 1y ago
I remember this blog! It was posting diary entries 70 years after they were written. This was a good time in the history of Internet and the diary/blog ended at the dawn of the golden era of the "blogosphere". George/Eri
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by vodou 1y ago
Alright. Another case when "code of conducts" trumps manners or actually being a grownup. It really is a shame. Happened to a friend of mine on a rather big technical mailing list just for arguing for something that some people di
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by vodou 1y ago
I really understand your frustration. Everyone developing in Python for a long time has felt it a bit too often when breaking changes (even between minor version updates) once again ruins the day. But I also understand that the world is not
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by vodou 1y ago
A long time ago I was working in a big project where the PLs came up with the most horrible metric I've ever seen. They made a big handwritten list, visible for the whole team, where they marked for each individual developer how many b
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by vodou 1y ago
This is true, but only if you try to achieve the exact workflow that Office 365 offers. Maybe it is time to try to be a bit more subversive. Do we really need everything that Office can do? Is Microsoft's abstraction of office work rea
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by vodou 1y ago
How did they react? I would hesitate to show it to my children of the same age. It is a very grim and sad movie.
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by vodou 1y ago
Maternal mortality rate.
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by vodou 1y ago
Georges Perec did the same with his novel "La Disparition". What is almost as impressive is that these novels (at least Perec's) have been translated to other languages.
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by vodou 2y ago
Botswana is a democracy with a higher democracy index (7.63) than some European countries. Even close to USA (7.85). [1] [1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu
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by vodou 2y ago
A bit off-topic maybe: I really think the earlier film made by the same production team (Crazy Pictures), "The Unthinkable" [1], is a much better film than "Watch the Skies". But apparently IMDb does not agree: "The
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Mysterious Blue Spiral Lights Up Skies over Sweden and Europe(swedenherald.com)
2 points by vodou 2y ago|0 comments
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Isar Aerospace Spectrum Maiden Flight(space.com)
1 points by vodou 2y ago|0 comments
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by vodou 2y ago
How good/bad would it be to have a poor man's tape archival, using standard cassette tapes (C90, C120, etc)? For example, using something like ggwave [1]. I guess that would last way more than 5 years (although the data density is
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by vodou 2y ago
https://github.com/SatDump/SatDump/
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Inaugural Isar Aerospace Spectrum Launch Set for Late March(europeanspaceflight.com)
1 points by vodou 2y ago|0 comments
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by vodou 2y ago
It's worth noting that "easy swedish" isn't just for immigrants, it as also (mostly?) for people with an intellectual disability.
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by vodou 2y ago
This is cool! Some of Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators, at least PO-32 [1], uses a data-over-sound feature. Does Ggwave use a simple FSK-based modulation just because it "sounds good"? Would it be possible to use a high
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by vodou 2y ago
Probably not. It only mentions multi-threaded encoding. Not decoding. But for streaming it shouldn't matter a lot since you only decode smaller chunks at a time. Latency should be good. At least that is my experience and 95% of my musi
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by vodou 2y ago
One thing I've never understood with homeschooling: How come parents think they have the competence to be a teacher? Just because you are educated doesn't mean you are a good (pedagogical) educator.
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by vodou 2y ago
I love Buster Keaton. For me he might be the greatest performer ever. I actually watched the video linked in the comments with his greatest stunts and also one short movie together with my kids (5 and 8 years old) just the other day. They l
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by vodou 2y ago
Here is the stunt where he broke his neck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOo_ZUVU_O8&t=187s
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by vodou 2y ago
Quite common in space industry. It is the script language used in many (all?) SCOS-2000 based mission control systems. Yes, is is actually used to control satellites and spacecrafts.
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by vodou 2y ago
I don't miss physical media. Streaming works fine from a technical perspective. What I DO miss is the huge supply of films from all eras, forgotten gems, B-movies, etc. In my part of the world we had Lovefilm where I got rentals delive
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by vodou 3y ago
A disturbing thought here is that unit tests opened up an attack vector. Without the tests this would have been much harder to hide.
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by vodou 3y ago
Is it possible to search for a specific pattern in this (or any other) hex editor? E.g., if you have some sort of container format or aggregated file where you want to search for a specific instance of a pattern (starting from any offset).
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by vodou 3y ago
In Sweden, the EncroChat infiltration led to more than 1000 years of prison sentences.
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by vodou 3y ago
It doesn't affect the wage of the individual postal worker. What is interesting is how long can the main participant of the unions, in this case IF Metall, hold out. According to them, based on that the strike only affects around hundr

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