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by derstander 2mo ago
> As i look through, my binder has so many backs of mailer's i've received and scribbled on. cant figure why. Is your mailbox a short walk from where you normally work? Walks have been credited for the assist in idea generatio
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by derstander 5mo ago
> Cool does mean detached, offhand, poised, aloof, unperturbed. Cool is from “Old English col "not warm" (but usually not as severe as cold)”. If you’re using it to mean detached you’ve already accepted that words can change me
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by derstander 6mo ago
The article is from February.
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by derstander 7mo ago
*32MB of RAM (plus 4MB of video RAM and a little sound and IOP memory).
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by derstander 9mo ago
Only a dabbler in Love2d here but I’d expect that update to be a bit down the line. If I’m not mistaken the current Love2d version 11.5 is (mostly) tied to Lua 5.1 because of LuaJIT, though I understand some later Lua features are backporte
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by derstander 1y ago
Picotron (also by Lexaloffle) might be an even better match for those wanting a retro workstation as opposed to a retro game console. https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php
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by derstander 1y ago
Wait until you hear about September through December not being the 7th through 10th months of the year. They don’t even give you a sense for _when_ they are. Or, more accurately, they give you the _wrong_ sense for when they are by name alo
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by derstander 1y ago
Should this be David Gingery instead?
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by derstander 2y ago
This is probably a reference to a quote attributed to Stalin: “The Pope. How many divisions does he have?” Stalin disregarding soft power in favor of military might for international diplomacy.
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by derstander 2y ago
I didn't say nor mean to imply it did. I assumed your initial question about a congressional mandate was about Artemis rather than the layoffs specifically as that's what sparked this comment chain (the wonderment at NASA spendin
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by derstander 2y ago
Here is a link [0] to the NASA Authorization Act of 2005. And here's a relevant snippet: "The Administrator shall ensure that NASA carries out a balanced set of programs that shall include, at a minimum, programs in— ... (A) huma
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by derstander 2y ago
This is a particularly bizarre part of the article to me. Certainly Eric Berger, the article's author who's written more than one book on space at this point knows this. The President appoints NASA's administrator (subject t
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by derstander 2y ago
> Laying off what is presumably the bottom 10% of the NASA workforce is probably a healthy decision in an environment where Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams still have not returned home. Per the article, the 10% includes both people that
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by derstander 2y ago
> But with SAR you're not beam forming. You're illuminating everything - the whole ground below you. And you get a return from everywhere all at once. Two equidistant reflectors will return signals simulatenously. If your fligh
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by derstander 2y ago
It's not clear to me that administering an entity with as many people and as much land as the United States could be done in a simple enough way that would satisfy these objections (not necessarily yours specifically, but this broad cl
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by derstander 2y ago
> Spread the entire budget out, all expenses line by line for all to see, and may they survive or be culled based solely upon their merits in the eyes of the American people. What do you envision this looks like? To my mind this is alre
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by derstander 2y ago
If you have cast iron and you’re having a lot of food sticking issues then you may need to reseason it. As a person that uses mostly cast iron, I prefer it, but I think it does require a bit more care.
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by derstander 2y ago
> It's weird af that Geerling ignores nVidia. “With the PCI Express slot ready to go, you need to choose a card to go into it. After a few years of testing various cards, our little group has settled on Polaris generation AMD graphi
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by derstander 2y ago
> Having things and photos are actually good for your soul. You go to a trip for one month, take photos, sometimes rewatching them helps them bring you back the good memories. Is this categorically true? Asking honestly. I’ve thought abo
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by derstander 2y ago
Oh yeah — I definitely understand that some people need ADHD meds to function normally: my partner is one of them, too. We joke during acute shortages that it must be exam season at the local colleges. But of course I know there are chronic
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by derstander 2y ago
> Hospitals are chalk-full of surgeons, doctors, and nurses that are all overworked, burned out, and half-awake. A friend, who switched from electrical engineering to medicine, told me that the medical residency program in the US was ess
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by derstander 2y ago
This is all true. My naïveté is showing; I assumed if they were developing a phone they’d just say so outright. I guess I don’t understand what benefits being vague about the kind of device gets them.
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by derstander 2y ago
I don’t particularly see the connection between Ive, OpenAI, and a new phone but are you maybe just looking for something like a PinePhone? I don’t use one but I have followed the company for some time due to their low cost laptops that run
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by derstander 2y ago
> If we are attributing these results to the the mass homeschooling experiment that was remote learning, what does that say about regular homeschooling that is still practiced? Probably not much? It seems pretty reasonable to expect that
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by derstander 2y ago
> Nvidia got the bid for Switch when they were basically dumping those unwanted Tegra to Nintendo for an incredibly low price. This seems pretty well aligned with Gunpei Yokoi’s strategy of “Lateral Thinking [with] Withered Technology”.
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by derstander 2y ago
Consoles (especially under the hood the last couple of generations) look a lot more like general purpose computers than phones do.
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by derstander 2y ago
I hadn't heard of this before, but here are some sources. Note this quote from [2], U.S. Customs and Border Protection: "Canines are taught to detect concealed U.S. currency and firearms. Both the Officer/Agent and canine ar
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by derstander 2y ago
> The way D&D worlds are usually structured could only work if everybody has a magic car and food is abundant. To be fair, that's kind of the case. Sure, not everyone is an adventurer, but level 1 adventurers probably aren&#x27
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by derstander 2y ago
Also really enjoyed What Dreams May Come despite its lack of success at the box office. People are probably already aware of the fact, but it is based on a novel of the same name by Richard Matheson — who also wrote I Am Legend (which has h
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by derstander 2y ago
Just going by the title, I thought this was going to be related to William Zinsser's book of the same name. It's not, though of course many of the topics are shared between the two. It's been a few years since I've retu

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