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This version is PyPi?
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https://theonion.com/scientists-warn-florida-will-be-under-6...
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Just now I was trying to find a microcontroller that would match the performance of the original Cray 1. But of course, it's complicated. Throughout of various floating point operations can vary by a factor of 100 on a simple machine.
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:-) It isn't systemd: > Containers achieve sub-second start times using an optimized Linux kernel config, minroot filesystem, and a lightweight init system, vminitd https://github.com/apple/containerization&#x2F
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Anywhere there's liquid water, we will find mildew. A bazillion dollars to explore new worlds, to find this mold that won't come off. Maybe it will talk to us.
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There was a discussion recently about macOS Serious changing the default implementation of rsync to OpenRsync. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605003 I posted a comment regarding Mike Bombich's "Carbon Copy
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FWIW, I wrote a book about Windows NT Server 4. Internet Archive has a copy you can read online: https://archive.org/details/windowsntserver400cowa/page/n9/m... I'm not sure how it holds up. This wa
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Some states don't require tax collection at point of sale, so things like basic food or essential clothing are not charged sales tax. There's no need to apply for refund when computing personal income tax.
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Democratic Party support in New Mexico is a more complicated beast than liberal refugees from Texas might expect. Descendants of Spanish colonial settlers have deep ties to the Catholic Church and cultural traditions that defy easy characte
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It says here [0] that the Social Security Trust currently holds about $2.6 trillion is US Federal securities. https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/investheld.cgi Cash money from payroll tax is sitting there collecting interest
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> have an obligation to invest their excess ... in federal securities. The Social Security surplus is pretty much required to purchase US bonds and other guaranteed Federal securities. But saying that "contributes to the Federal d
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In this article, the approach to streamlining USN ship design looks like reduced survivability to me, a random voice on the internet who has never seen combat. Or naval ship design. Of course, the LCS hull was considered less amenable to da
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Ok. Flying drones that we've seen in Ukraine lack the range to survive a naval deployment. Ukraine has had some success engaging Russian surface warships with small aquatic craft type drones. Does a ground-based operator pose a threat
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Another fun interaction of trailing dot in URLs and web browsers: password management. This is layers far above the curl internals discussed in the article. On some platforms, the built in web password management considers web passwords for
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Your argument is well stated, if I understand it, as the power of free markets to make better choices regarding resource allocation than redistribution by government bureaucracy. If so, then I can disagree. However the market behaves in the
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>> They were invaded by Russia. > Yes. But what is the war being fought for? Someone breaks into your home. Kills family members. They're still coming in. You tell your kids to get behind you. Then you turn to face the invader
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You don't have to be a billionaire to purchase a cabinet position in the Trump White House, but it helps. Trump makes the billionaires work for _him_.
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Getting downvoted for sarcasm is a noble act.
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This linked paper is a textbook chapter; it's intense. 40 pages of two-column astrophysical journal survey and analysis. I can see why it must be required reading for a discussion of TNO dynamics. Wow.
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The best study on the optimization of line breaking algorithms is now only on the Internet Archive. Lots of examples. "Line Breaking", xxyxyz.org https://web.archive.org/web/20171021044009/http:/&#x2
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Patches to mainline rsync added support for extended attributes, particularly for supporting macOS metadata. Bombich "Carbon Copy Cloner" is a GUI app that wraps it. https://support.bombich.com/hc/en-us/a
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Not bad for just "banging it out on the phone". Thanks!
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Remember where you were when the eighth drop of pitch fell in Queensland? Man, that was wild. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment
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As of iOS 18.4, macOS 15.4, Details/Summary HTML tags can be styled with CSS. Which might be an approach for the first few examples. I am sure there are other cases that would need anchors.
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"FRU" = "Field-Replaceable Unit" Sometimes, you needed to clean the mouse because it felt dirty after rubbing its ball. Easy enough to drop the ball after popping it out, then you're chasing mouse balls across the o
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Space Jam! https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
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Ideally enjoyed these. Can't find them as ebooks. The first one was where I first encountered the idea of the "One Electron Universe": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe A major plot p
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I bought a pair of utterly ludicrous Monster stereo speaker cables off eBay a coyotes of decades ago, when I was putting together a home audio system. Audio stereophile-wise, I could replace them with zip wire (two conductor, twisted 24-gau
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I first saw SheepShaver at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, a commercial product that enabled a Classic Mac environment on PowerPC-based BeOS hardware, the original BeBox. These days, if you are just curious or want to relive to glory days o
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I have always preferred BSD-style ports trees, which emphasize building the packages from source code. Easier to patch the source when needed, when adapting (porting) the package to a new environment. This made it easier to adapt large coll

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