ben_bai

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by ben_bai 2y ago
Funny enough filenames are just byte sequences. So almost anything goes. There was just some patch that added '/' protection, because that's the only character that's not allowed in filenames. https://git
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by ben_bai 2y ago
Recent research showed the increase in the number of programmers twofold every year all over the world. That means 75% of Programmers (SW Developers) have less then 2 years of experience! We are still a very inexperienced and unre
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by ben_bai 2y ago
by convention: if it's not NUL terminated, it's not a c-string.
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by ben_bai 2y ago
that would be wcslcpy(3)
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by ben_bai 2y ago
i guess that's what spikes interest. although strlcpy was first introduced in openbsd 2.4, 26 years ago! back then as a drop in replacement for strcpy. so yeah, good things need time to adopt, no wonder it's not up-to-date tech, l
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by ben_bai 2y ago
it's like 6h when you know what you are doing :-)
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by ben_bai 2y ago
Love it, play this once in a while. 6 hours of fun.
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by ben_bai 2y ago
yeah it's other peoples mouse courser, as they browse the site.
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by ben_bai 2y ago
It's one of those condom-style things.
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by ben_bai 2y ago
Yeah the Minecraft and MC anarchy community is insane. If you found this amazing, take a look at this, it'll blow your mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea6py9q46QU and https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by ben_bai 3y ago
In short: Sand for industry scale heat storage, water for private heating storage. Using a heat pump will increase the yield. Usable temp range from 95C water all the way to 0C ice in theory (latent heat). And a modern isolated home helps,
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by ben_bai 3y ago
It's more effective volume wise. I did the math, some time ago here are the rough numbers. Sand has way less heat capacity then water per kg (about half). Water can be heated to 95C with standard unpressurized vessel. Sand in this appl
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by ben_bai 3y ago
It is also a fertilizer, providing Carbon and Minerals to the farmland.
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by ben_bai 3y ago
I would add that it's "doing nothing important". Like when someone asks: What did you do today? And the german answer is just "Nix" ("Nichts", aka. nothing important)
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by ben_bai 3y ago
Just like C, COBOL will always be with us. > According to research, up to 850 billion lines of COBOL code are currently running in nearly 30,000 organizations, typically in critical production environments. 90 percent of Fortune 500 comp
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by ben_bai 3y ago
HAHA, Xorg will always be with us. GNOME and KDE will maybe do something like that, but that's no problem.
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by ben_bai 3y ago
And Erlang the Movie II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
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by ben_bai 3y ago
Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2724/ and Tech Connections Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections/search?query=...
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by ben_bai 3y ago
I think the engines worked perfectly. The booster broke up in the middle, at least it looks like it on the everyday astronaut feed.
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by ben_bai 3y ago
Gathering data and making orbit. Plan was to return the booster near the launchsite and make a water splash down. The ship should make a single suborbital flight with orbit velocity to simulate reentry and should have splashed down near haw
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by ben_bai 3y ago
There was a estimated 1/16 failure possibility for the first couple flights. Lots of edge-cases where: If XYZ happens, you die. But we were in a hurry, so it was just part of the project.
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by ben_bai 3y ago
Apollo was a one off government program, which was unrivaled for 50 years. And never even tried since then. You have to understand this is a private business doing it on a budget and fast. Yes, NASA is involved...
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by ben_bai 3y ago
When you have multiple cycles per day, the higher price of flywheels trumps over the limited but cheaper battery lifespan. Batteries degrade with charge cycles.
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by ben_bai 3y ago
Since the announcement mentions "existing LTE phones" it seems to be no problem, power wise. So, it all depends on the satellites antenna.
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by ben_bai 3y ago
Then don't run a OS with a kernel written in C. That would rule out Windows, Mac, Linux and *BSD.
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by ben_bai 3y ago
And now they have to repair the launchsite, which they already did. And add water deluge, which they already did. The upside was they got lots of data to improve the next rocket, which they already did. It's ready to go again, just wai
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by ben_bai 3y ago
Interesting question. They are called Sea Vegetables. But they do need seawater. Now seawater aquariums are a thing so it should be manageable to "farm" those.
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by ben_bai 3y ago
Or printers that would accept refilled cartridges, good times.
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by ben_bai 3y ago
Also, 30% of new car purchases in 2023 were EVs (in Germany)
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by ben_bai 3y ago
> They have low labor cost, insanely good infrastructure and logistics, cheap energy and weak labor rights. You're not gonna outcompete them on manufacturing. Sorry to bust your bubble but that has slowly been changing. Mexico and I

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