adhesive_wombat

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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I can honestly say that has never once been a problem I have had, and I've had git information in the prompt for over 10 years. Also how is "enter" less convenient than literally any other command that you'd still have t
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
And in the spirit of the Uncomfortable Ruler, this has the same frustrating design flaw: the scale doesn't start in the corner so you can't butt it up against something and use it like a depth gauge!
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Assuming an architect doesn't have the right kind of workshop needed to make them herself, the capital outlay to tool up any of those objects except the broom and the fork (for which you'd take existing products and modify) would
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Git information is extremely useful to me. I notice colleagues who don't have that tend to struggle using git on the command line and use git status nearly every other command (much as I tend to do when I'm remoting into a shell w
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Honestly, sounds low. Technical debt is just like real debt: a useful tool to allow you to borrow against the future to get things done today, and an existential threat if not serviced before it gets out of hand. A tool that everyone else i
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
That's a funny one too me, because they do some very good journalism that spans many many years on many people up to no good. Frequently, they're the only ones doing anything more investigative than rewriting press releases and ne
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Does that stay true when exercising? At rest, with a tidal volume of 500ml ish, lungs are least 5/6 full of stale air, round down to 3% ish CO2. When exercising, the tidal volumes are far higher (2-3L), and you breathe faster, so the l
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I believe the 1979 original read "...Therefore a computer must never make a management decision". https://constelisvoss.com/en-gb/pages/a-computer-can-never-b...
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
WiFi backscatter "radar" is another one that is surely going to find uses all along the useful-innocent-seedy-nefarious-malicious spectrum.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Wayne Gretzky's post-retirement career in semiconductor engineering may not have been expected, but seems to be going well.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It is. William Boeing's father was German and was called Wilhelm Böing. Source: entered "Böing" into a search engine.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
> algorithms governing that were closely-guarded secrets Do many lifts have fancy algorithms in practice? I don't think I've ever had one go backwards to pick up a nearby floor, for example. I suppose optimising where the lift
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
The Nam-shub of Hockney?
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
They're not different codepoints, they're being rendered as mathematical markup by MathJax. This rendering includes using a LaTeX-esque font rather like Computer Modern. Arxiv does this presumably because some papers have mathemat
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It's not irrelevant to why Eindhoven is how it is today, in the same way that HP is a split-up shadow of what is former influential self, but it's partly why Google now is in Silicon Valley.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Plenty of things that used to be Philips are still in Eindhoven, like NXP (semiconductors) and Signify (lighting, including Hue). Philips has been a huge part of what made the Eindhoven area a high-tech industry hub, even if much of it is u
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
There's a fairly large advanced hi-tech industry hub in the Netherlands. Philips and ASML are big names, but there are very many more. As they're all fairly near each other on the scale of things (often near Eindhoven, with more &
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Seems completely nuts that you have the "shuck" entire assembled computers for this. Reminds me of the story about the Soviet factory ordering tractors just to remove some component like a single bearing for manufacturing somethin
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
> it's far easier to change the workflow than it is to fix the software This is just something software seems to do. There's a mature and fully-fledged industry in modifying entire workflows to fit software which is implicitly
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Some BMW 5s can do regenerative braking and use it to charge the "normal" (well it's a big stop-start one these days I would think) battery instead of having the alternator load the engine. So the electrical systems can be ru
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Indeed. Could you understand "unexpected item in bagging area" in, say, Russian or Arabic? Hell, I have no idea how to translate "bagging area" from/to my second-best language and I've been learning it for over
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It was an interesting (to me) footnote to the point that even if you massively overspec your audio stream to the point of physically being unable to record the audio at that quality (the footnote being why it's unfeasible), you can s
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
But if we put it on The Blockchain, you can mint PodCoins by listening to podcasts! Of course, to ensure you're really listening, you'll also need a secure cryptographic module installed in your auditory cortex. Depending on how w
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
If the sample clock edges aren't very (very very very) regular, on a sample-and-hold ADC, the waveform isn't sampled evenly and that manifests as noise that swamps the detail provided by the higher bit depth. This is called "
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Right, but in the context of an audio stream, it's not going to matter these days. Even a hugely overkill uncompressed 8-channel, 32 bit, 192kHz sample rate audio stream[1] is under 50 megabits/second. Any digital cable and transc
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gift#Verb And here's an use of it from 1670, so it's not a recently-verbed noun: https://archive.org/details/nature00lucy/page/137/mode/
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Indeed, the same reason Brother makes sewing machines and printers.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Certainly it's questionable that it encourages market participants to be informed, rational and consenting actors, which we are told is a foundational principle of a market economy.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
There's also the user-contributed (but Dash-hosted) docsets: https://zealusercontributions.vercel.app/
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Considering that the brine output of a single large-ish plant might be 150,000m³ per day[1], that's a hell of a mine shaft to take it continuously. The rock with the same volume as a day's brine would weigh a million tons. The ent

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