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by denton-scratch 2y ago
I see, so thus guy was probably licensed to carry passengers. Thanks. The seating arrangement was pilot in the front, passenger behind. When my son (about 8) get off his ride and was asked if he enjoyed it, he said "I prefer planes wit
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> One massive restriction on ultralight airplanes is that you can't carry passengers. Again, on paper, because of risk, but it ends up having some controversial effects. If you want to occasionally carry passengers, as many pilots d
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
"Voter literacy" is obviously a good thing; but blockchain and encryption are not part of that. Very few software developers, for example, are qualified to evaluate a crypto scheme.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> But it is possible that every extended family will have at least one member who can run a server That's as may be; but many, many people have no access to an "extended family". And extended families are not necessarily w
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> How costly can it be to test the file fully in a CI job? It didn't need a CI job. It just needed one person to actually boot and run a Windows instance with the Crowdstrike software installed: a smoke test. TFA is mostly an irrele
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> or there is no internal testing Thing is, as far as I can see, deploying this database update to a Windows machine will result promptly and unconditionally in a BSOD. That implies that this update was tried on exactly zero machines bef
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> Respect and endorsement are not the same thing. This is true, but has no bearing on posters that command neither my endorsement not my respect. You get my endorsement if I agree with you. You get my respect even if I don't agree w
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
But isn't that a fairly tiny risk, compared with letting a third party meddle with your kernel modules without asking nicely? I've never been hit by a zero-day (unless Drupageddon counts).
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
UK courts can also order a newspaper to publish a retraction or an apology, and can specify the prominence that should be given to it.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> (or in some cases that you have been abducted by aliens) Really? There are therapists who will try to convince you that you were abducted by aliens?
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Back in the 80s, we used to draw network diagrams on the whiteboard; those parts of the network that belonged neither to us nor to our users was represented by an outline of a cloud. This cloud didn't provide storage or (useable) compu
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
That sounds a bit like the patch cards for the EMS VCS3; you puhed pins into the square patchboard to connect-up the modules. If you mounted a piece of card over the patchboard and pushed the pins through that, the card became a record of y
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Didn't Stockhausen create a notation for electronic music? I was surprised TFA didn't mention it.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
That ball of ionized air is opaque to radar, making the rocket hard to detect. Or, so I read somewhere. I don't know at what speed a rocket has to be going, before the kinetic impact of 200Kg of solid metal exceeds the energy of 200Kg
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Thd only time I've ever heard a sonic boom was as a kid, on holiday in the south of France. They would regularly fly Mirage jets over the beach resorts. I suspect these flights were for when Gen. de Gaulle was in residence at the Chate
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
I used eXceed. Actually my boss wrote it; I worked for Hummingbird for a while.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
But they train their models on everything , regardless of the licence. It follows that the resulting derivative work likely mixes stuff that is under incompatible licences, with the result that it can't be distributed at all.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
"God" has some unique properties. One of those might be that God neither exists nor doesn't exist. If God has this property of 'neitherism', then the value of n is undefined. Neitherism has been attributed to many r
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
The question is malformed because it contains a term that cannot be evaluated.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> Let n equal 3 if God exists, or 5 if God does not exist. Is n prime? [Not yet finished the article] Author says the answer is True. I say the question is malformed, and cannot be answered.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
What's with Lifestyle Domain Holdings? Did they fold, or something?
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
I don't assume that; I simply observe that a toaster doesn't need software, that simple machines are more likely to be reliable than complex machines, and that the ability to run software makes a machine inherently more complex th
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> everything including your toaster is running software Doesn't that just support the author's claim that there's too much software? FTR, my Dualit toaster doesn't run software.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> generate a pretty good poem about my cat I do not consider a text generator to be the pinnacle of "great software", regardless of how well the code was written. I don't think "meh" is the wrong word.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> (not just engineers but designer and UX researchers as well as all the other support roles like project managers etc) Oh! I thought you were going to say "testing teams, design reviewers, trainers". I'm not on-board with
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> Religious or spiritual texts too have this problem. That's not simply a function of translation between languages; some of the ideas in religious texts resist even translation into language . In the Buddhist tradition I used to b
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
For many years I've wanted to build a digital clock out of fluid gates. The medium would be clear water; the 7-segment display would consist of transparent tubes, into which stained oil is pushed to activate a segment. I think a gate w
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> You want a President to be able to carry out the roles of the office without concern that his or her political opponents will use the courts to try to punish those actions. Why? In the UK we of course have no president; all government
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> like, those assume the court will find anything to be an official act, which is nonsensical. But the Supremes haven't said what they think an official act is; that's a matter for the court of first instance, according to the
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
I don't drink a lot of the stuff, but I haven't quit. I used to drink about a litre of brewed coffee a day, starting at 7AM and going on until 5PM. Eventually that fell away, without any decision on my part, and I now drink one mu

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