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by vvillena 2y ago
"Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story" by John Bloom is a must-read for anyone remotely interested in satellites, communication networks, or corporate management. The project achieved several outstanding engineering feats, then fum
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by vvillena 2y ago
Nah. This is timeless.
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by vvillena 2y ago
Don't worry. It only needs to happen once!
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by vvillena 2y ago
Funny how the most stable-over time OS I've ever used is Arch Linux. I had it running on an old netbook for almost 10 years, until they ended support for i386. I also have a laptop running Arch since I bought it on 2018, so it's b
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by vvillena 2y ago
Bear in mind, those arcane cookie forms are probably not compliant with EU laws. If there's not a "reject" button next to the "accept" button, the form is almost definitely not to spec.
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by vvillena 2y ago
And yet, you would be surprised at the amount of people who react like that's an ignorant statement ("not feasible in real world conditions"), an utopic goal ("too much time to implement"), an impossible feat (&quot
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by vvillena 2y ago
Well, Cloudflare seems pretty cagey about what their prices are, given they don't reveal them to clients until they are completely tied in.
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by vvillena 2y ago
You don't have to be an expert, but knowing the basics of Lisp helps. The full definition of the example "ntpd" service is clear to read. > the actual guile scheme documentation didn't seem to explain that syntax at a
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by vvillena 2y ago
Scala-cli would be even better. It explicitly supports Java too!
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by vvillena 2y ago
Redis puts Redis into the open, and companies exposing Redis put everything they use to expose Redis into the open too. The key enabler in that whole business is still Redis, so the knowledge exchange appears fair.
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by vvillena 2y ago
The celining in Madrid airport is gorgeous, but it feels completely disconnected from the actual space below. The end result gives a feel similar to a convention center, where they built a big enclosed space, then fitted an airport terminal
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by vvillena 2y ago
The FM trick is that the available parameters that can be modulated through velocity result in a wider range of tonal variation, where traditional subtractive synthesis is usually simpler, and velocity changes affect parameters that don&#x2
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by vvillena 2y ago
FM plus distortion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbFcjn_08Fo
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by vvillena 2y ago
It's definitely a design non-conforming with the current customs, but it's also a fine choice for this type of project. It feels like bland minimalist design has become so prevalent that people are horrified by any deviation from
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by vvillena 2y ago
Also, the struts are much smaller than the legs, and there's no need for moving parts or hydraulic mechanisms.
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by vvillena 2y ago
The Switch SoC is now built on a 16nm process, so there's no need to go for the cutting edge to achieve a sizable improvement. The Samsung fabs Nvidia relied on until very recently could do the job.
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by vvillena 2y ago
If the product is the result of compiling all the open source code out in the wild into a LLM, it can be argued that the derived product, the LLM itself, must follow the licensing requirements of the used source code. The AI companies don&#
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by vvillena 2y ago
There's scala-cli, which has become the default Scala run command since Scala 3.5 but is also available separately. It has all those bells and whistles and allows scripts to grow organically. And no matter the name, it handles Java cod
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by vvillena 2y ago
According to that Wikipedia article, the modern Atkinson cycle trades time spent creating power in the compression phase for time spent extracting energy during the expansion phase, gaining efficiency at the cost of total power.
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by vvillena 2y ago
Fully agree. At that level, the justification for using MongoDB usually boils down to not wanting to deal with table schemas or SQL. In both cases, there are better alternatives.
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by vvillena 2y ago
The above is a super concise syntax example that showcases multiple things at the same time. It is function definition mixed with pattern matching, with some advanced pattern matching features, like the '...' and '||' sy
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by vvillena 2y ago
Starship famously has one mandated mission: colonizing Mars. Most design decisions revolve around it.
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by vvillena 2y ago
No. If someone enters your home, as in, you live there, the city has you registered into that address, and/or your ID card states that's your address, it's not squatting. That's trespassing, and the police will happily a
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by vvillena 2y ago
The different icon colors and shapes help a lot. It doesn't look uniform, and this is actually a big plus, as there's less thinking required to identify the target. The new interface looks nicer, but interfaces should focus on bei
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by vvillena 3y ago
> There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. As infuriating as this is, it's the reason I still use Spotify. A music service that hides their c
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by vvillena 3y ago
Arch has a policy to keep package patching to a minimum. If the newer xz version doesn't have a backdoor, they will probably follow upstream. Also, Arch doesn't appear to be affected by the vulnerability: >> openssh does not
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by vvillena 3y ago
The lock is there because traditional auto gearboxes can still move when the engine is stopped, as if it was in neutral position, while a manual gearbox in gear has to overcome the engine cylinder vacuum. The difference is people not trusti
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by vvillena 3y ago
Park position flips a lock into the gear ring to ensure the gearbox doesn't move. This achieves the same effect as leaving a manual gearbox in gear. In a manual gearbox, the engine holds the rest of the gearbox in place, but in a tradi
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by vvillena 3y ago
The position is "park" because it parks the gearbox mechanism, not the car. It's clear that many people misuse it, to the point that manufacturers overengineer the gearbox lock so it's able to serve as a parking brake.
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by vvillena 3y ago
Why do people rely on automatic gearboxes to keep cars in place? Trusting the "park" position is like leaving a manual gearbox car in gear: it can do the job, but it's not the right tool for the purpose. The handbrake is ther

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