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by wiml 3y ago
_Cadillac Desert_ (Marc Reisner) is the classic, though it's quite old now. I've heard people recommend _Dead Pool_ (James Powell) but I haven't read it.
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by wiml 3y ago
It'll convert the image to something that has the same overall statistics as the real data but may not bear any resemblance to reality in the details
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by wiml 3y ago
The Darwin nixpkgs is actually pretty active and healthy, in my experience.
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by wiml 3y ago
It's not that different from a multicellular organism. The vast majority of cells in your body are dead-end lineages. They've specialized into sterile forms so that a few cells in your gonads actually do have a chance to reproduce
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by wiml 3y ago
Why would a hurricane want to rock me?
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by wiml 3y ago
As other posters say, there's probably a better solution, but to answer your direct question about how to automate the "unplug this cable, plug in that one"... How about plugging all four cables into a managed Ethernet switch
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by wiml 3y ago
It's what FIDO/U2F does, right?
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by wiml 3y ago
Pushing this idea a little further, the only information that erlmacs uses that isn't available elsewhere is the value of ErlRoot. You could write a two-line script that simply emits erlroot on stdout (or fails), and invoke that from .
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by wiml 3y ago
Surely in the original the physicist was Archimedes of Syracuse?
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by wiml 3y ago
Dataclasses are basically just better namedtuples. They do work nicely with type-annotations, but the two features are kind orthogonal.
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by wiml 3y ago
All a Maxwell's Demon is is a one-way valve.
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by wiml 3y ago
The nature of a link tax makes no sense anyway. Can I charge someone for citing an article? Can I charge someone for mentioning an article even if they don't use MLA style? Can I charge someone for obliquely referencing the existen
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by wiml 3y ago
Proton decay may be a thing but it's not predicted by current models. But similar to your example, neutron decay is a thing (a free neutron has a halflife of about 10 minutes), and yet many nuclei are stable for much longer.
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by wiml 3y ago
Links? This has often been described as the obvious next step for consumer-unfriendly TVs, but I don't know which brands and models to avoid.
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by wiml 3y ago
> What do you, as an eager but uneducated layman, use to decide that? Is this a trick question? I use my doctor's expertise and advice, obviously. Just like I do for any other nontrivial medical question. This has happened to me a n
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by wiml 3y ago
As I understand it in the US you legally have access to the data as it's part of your medical records. In my experience it's as simple as asking, they give you a CD-R containing some DICOM files and a freeware DICOM viewer. Maybe
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by wiml 3y ago
"synthethization" ? I can't tell if this was written by a LLM or just not by a native technical English speaker.
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by wiml 3y ago
Git doesn't really. It does have a (more or less) immutable, append-only model, but the things stored in git are state snapshots, not events. The UI does tend to present it as if it were events but that's just for convenience.
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by wiml 3y ago
You might need to be more specific about what you're looking for. If you want a Make but not GNU, there's BSD Make. You could use Redo or Ninja or put all the build commands in a shell script surrounded by "if"s. You cou
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by wiml 3y ago
I've read that superconducting inductors are handy for making very high-Q filters (no parasitic resistance!) and are even used in places as prosaic as cellular towers (LN2-cooled microstrip structures).
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by wiml 3y ago
I'm just here for the spectacle of someone using the "you are nerdy, therefore wrong" argument on hacker news, of all places.
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by wiml 3y ago
That used to be what I used social media for, but Twitter lost its utility for that sometime in the early 2010s.
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by wiml 3y ago
The BBC isn't hosting anyone else on their instance (nor can I think of a reason they would want to). As I understand it it's just a way for their activity to be visible on the fediverse. That should make their infra costs minimal
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by wiml 3y ago
What exactly are the problems that you think would have been avoided? As far as I can tell, the stumbling block to v6 adoption is just the fact that v6-only and v4-only hosts can't communicate without help, and you would have that prob
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by wiml 3y ago
One thing I liked about Ada, the small amount I used it, is it has actual subtypes: you could define a variable as an integer within a specific range, and the compiler would (presumably) choose an appropriate underlying storage type for it.
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by wiml 3y ago
It's true, but it was horrible pre-pandemic, too. I'm not sure it's worse now. (Source: have lived here for a while.)
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by wiml 3y ago
Space is far, far too hot at 3 Kelvin, and most of it is too high-pressure, too.
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by wiml 3y ago
He's just making a reference to an old reddit joke, I don't think it's a CVSS 10
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by wiml 3y ago
AIUI, dark matter has to have some non-gravitational interactions in order to cool enough to produce the observed "clumpiness".
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by wiml 3y ago
Ha, that was my reaction to cable TV, too.

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