drpixie

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by drpixie 2y ago
> they almost always culminate in the pilot failing to control the airplane "failing to control the airplane" is a little like saying everyone dies of heart failure. Yes their heart stopped - but why!? The real cause is somewha
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by drpixie 2y ago
Minimal traffic? An ATPL pilot here. Fly into any major airport and you'll see that it can be REALLY BUSY. The system is based around separation down to about 1 minute. Major airfields are all traffic limited (hence "slots"
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by drpixie 2y ago
Strong agree - it's horrible. I can't get past the enormous amount of boilerplate code that's required to do anything - even the proverbial Hello World.
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by drpixie 2y ago
In Australia "baked in store" actually meant baked in Ireland, frozen, shipped to the other side of the would, and warmed-up/finished-off in an oven at the supermarket!
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by drpixie 2y ago
Why not something a little simpler, like a universal sales/VAT/transaction tax offset by a UBI. This simpler model provides fewer opportunities to build or exploit loopholes. The universal tax would be at a relatively low rate, be
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by drpixie 2y ago
Can you give an example? In general, searching any significant space is very slow, applying heuristics is much quicker.
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by drpixie 2y ago
And a really bad example - apps from a certain large search/email/ad company where the progress bar moves even when nothing is actually happening ;(
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by drpixie 2y ago
Yes - Anyone who's FAQ answer to "How to avoid being scanned" is "We don't have an opt-out, you must block all these addresses" isn't behaving like a legit business. "Nice network you've got ther
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by drpixie 2y ago
> calling it "heat death" makes me think how the whole thing is steadily unraveling "Heat death" seems especially appropriate when talking about google results being pages of nothing but scraped results of SEO rated p
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by drpixie 2y ago
I really hope that someone, somewhere can tell us the origin of the window ;)
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by drpixie 2y ago
> Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels Nothing insufficient about monowheels. Should not the title be "When one is sufficient"?
102.
by drpixie 2y ago
Sounds like the start of a proof by contradiction that the universe is not infinite, merely very, very, very large :)
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Linux fu: getting started with systemd(hackaday.com)
92 points by drpixie 2y ago|60 comments
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by drpixie 2y ago
> Like many long-time Unix users, I’m not a big fan of systemd. Then again, I’m also waiting for the whole “windows, icon, mouse, pointer” fad to die down. I like a writer with perspective :)
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by drpixie 2y ago
In Australia, a "chick magnet" is a large attention seeking car owned by a young guy. It is intended to attract girls (chicks). It always has a serious stereo, and probably has a modified exhaust. Young guys spend a fortune on the
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by drpixie 2y ago
So many people assume that everything that came before they were at school was primitive, and barely chugged along :) A little reading shows the opposite. Most of our smart ideas were already used in 1940s/50s/60s computers, and a
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by drpixie 2y ago
Yes - normal people normally pay everything they can afford on their house, so it's peoples' income that determines house prices. Interesting that almost everyone is happy to drive around in a mass produced car, precisely the same
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by drpixie 2y ago
Different but similar. I once wrote a trivial lotto number selector app, at the request of some colleagues. It just emitted a few unique random numbers. Silly but why not. They hated it. I added moderate, random delays before emitting each
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by drpixie 2y ago
I would have thought a $5k change was normal random bumps for bitcoin ;)
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by drpixie 2y ago
Very nice. Takes a special mind to think about tweaking the contents of ping packets :) Now, by rights, you've shown that I shouldn't trust anything I receive from anybody .
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by drpixie 2y ago
Sounds like (another) good reason for IPv6 - your box can have many, very obscure addresses :)
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by drpixie 2y ago
When I managed software for a large corporate, I kept a box of pencils on my desk. For around 1/2 the information requests that came through the department (always very important, we need the info now , it will save/make big d
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by drpixie 2y ago
Similar. I though it would be a media file format ... containing audio, video, tags, pics, etc.
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by drpixie 2y ago
Hmmm. I went to the doco hoping for something about the file format :( No doco for me. I guess that would be too old fashioned. It seems to be "read the code" or nothing - which is fine until they update the code... It's gr
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by drpixie 3y ago
And the author specifies Z85 only for 4 byte chunks of data - not all data comes in 32 bit chunks. If the authors want Z85 to be widely used, specifying padding would be helpful. Anyway, it all seems a bit https://xkcd.com&#x2F
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by drpixie 3y ago
> You can build gates, which is nice for switching packets, but how do you store data? Logic gates can be the fundamental building block. So if you can build logic gates, then you can use those to build flip flops (the basis of static RA
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by drpixie 3y ago
I've been using log2ram (github/azlux/log2ram) and been happy with the results. It mounts a ramdisk on /var and only occasionally copies the logs from ramdisk to SD card. That way I can still see all the logging without
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by drpixie 3y ago
Yes. And I monitor my network link and automatically power-cycle the modem, if the worst happens. (Which is rare, but the network link has been the source of most of the few problems I've had.) And use a wired network connection for an
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by drpixie 3y ago
And the intriguing load/store scheme. There were no LOAD or STORE instructions. Instead there were "address" registers (18 bits wide), matched to each "operand" (60 bit data) register. When you updated an address re
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by drpixie 3y ago
And even more specifically "On the Costs of Linux Syscalls on Intel processors". I would like to see this extended to other processor families.

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