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by lambda 3y ago
Grope has the same meaning in American English, and used in that context could be fine ("grope around"). But I have never heard "groper" used for anything other than some engaging in sexual assault. The benign sense of &
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by lambda 3y ago
Yeah, I was responding to the "why wasn't it ever official even when it was reasonably popular", not why it's not now. Those threads I linked to were from 10 years ago or more. I tried looking for any direct discussion i
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by lambda 3y ago
Even in its prime, it simply didn't have enough interest from Debian developers for maintaining an official port. With each release there are roll-call emails to help judge whether a port has sufficient maintenance to be included in th
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by lambda 3y ago
Where are you getting the "vastly larger installed base"? On popcon riscv64 is a lot higher than sh4: https://popcon.debian.org/stat/submission-1year.png There may be more hardware out there with SH4 processo
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by lambda 3y ago
John Goodenough, one of the inventors of the lithium ion battery, also kept working this long; just passed away a month ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
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by lambda 3y ago
My favorite "accidentally load bearing" artifact that I've found was a misconfigured sudo that would easily allow arbitrary code execution as root (it allowed passwordless sudo for a find command, which could be used with -ex
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by lambda 3y ago
I have had one issue related to systemd; at one point when doing a routine update there was some dangling symlink issue that caused systemd to crash. This wasn't catastrophic; a lot of things didn't work, but I was able to cleanly
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by lambda 3y ago
Generally, the displaced threshold is not because of the load of touching down, but because of clearance of obstacles. When landing, where you are aiming to land, and a standard glideslope, puts you over obstacles at a certain height. In so
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by lambda 3y ago
Beta ALIA-250, an eVTOL, and CX300, a conventional takeoff and landing aircraft that's basically the ALIA 250 with the lift motors and supporting structure deleted to get through certification sooner, and serve a few markets that don&#
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by lambda 3y ago
It's true that energy density of batteries is a lot lower than gasoline, but electric motors are a lot more efficient. It doesn't make up the whole difference, but it does make up some of it. Also, battery technology is improving
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by lambda 3y ago
I'm a big proponent of EVs, I drive an EV car and work on EV aircraft, but they aren't yet ready to replace every segment of the market. Electric motorcycles are only just becoming viable, and are a lot more limiting compared to e
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by lambda 3y ago
Ah, sorry, I'd missed that you were discussing completely synthetic fuels. Yeah, those are a possibility, but a lot further out; those are not going to be showing up in production quantities in the next 5-10 years. And an ICE engine is
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by lambda 3y ago
Growing crops for biofuel is more land intensive, and thus involves cutting down more forest and removing carbon sinks, than the equivalent solar power. Yes, bioruels are better than fossil fuels, but worse than clean electricity. Anyhow, i
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by lambda 3y ago
Don't forget walking, bicycles, e-bikes, electric motorcycles, working from home, buses, etc. Yes, we are behind schedule, and we can't get there just by replacing ICE cars one for one with electric cars, but there is plenty more
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by lambda 3y ago
https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2023/05/17/this-week-in-r...
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by lambda 3y ago
JWTs are the poster child of fragile signature design. If something is like JWTs, you should reconsider. Many implementations allowed JWTs with a null signature scheme, completely bypassing any security!
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by lambda 3y ago
Schematics are available https://the-analog-thing.org/docs/dirhtml/rst/schematics/ though usually Open Source Hardware refers to releasing the original design files, including schematic and board layout,
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by lambda 3y ago
Yep, I got this too. Absolutely unacceptable.
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by lambda 4y ago
And it sucked. The drivers could never find where I was, or wanted to go. It took a lot longer for them to arrive when they could find me. I had to carry cash, because half of them claimed their credit card readers were broken. There are pr
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by lambda 4y ago
So, as someone learning to fly, I can say that the METAR format is actually pretty quick to learn and the standardization does make it pretty quick to read, effectively acting as a shorthand. I'm not going to say it couldn't be im
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by lambda 4y ago
Advertising and selling a feature that you don't have sure seems like fraud to me. If it's "the feature is nearly ready but just needs some polish" there's an argument to be made that maybe you were just being a bit
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by lambda 4y ago
Nah. There are various people who call for policies like this, but then most reasonable instance admins ignore them, and the fediverse continues to operate. The same thing has happened in the free software movement in general; some folks ha
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by lambda 4y ago
There were $13 billion in loans, and private investments from other folks like Larry Ellison and Suadi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as well as some private equity firms. So yes, there are shareholders, and there are creditors, it's just t
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by lambda 4y ago
Yep, thanks! Was looking for a chart like that but didn't find one on a quick search. And yeah, that's a huge improvement in safety. So while the general shape of airplanes, and range and speed might seem similar, the airplanes th
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by lambda 4y ago
We basically built towards a local maximum of what's physically possible for fossil-fuel powered sub-sonic aircraft; we also pushed into super-sonic, but the efficiency and noise pretty much preclude that for all but military and niche
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by lambda 4y ago
I don't think "promoted" is the right way to look at it. That kind of implies some kind of paid marketing campaign, while as far as I can tell, the interest in Rust tends to be organic. The thing is, Rust is a bit more novel
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by lambda 4y ago
It's called a "ground source heat pump". Unfortunately, they require either a very large area to dig very shallow, or they require drilling down very deep, or they require a pond. I got quotes for the drilling once, and it wa
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by lambda 4y ago
> Casuals get fleeced rapidly It's funny how the meta-game works here. Fleecing the casuals is, of course, the way the pros make money; so it's basically the point of the game. But I can see how fleecing the casuals slowly is p
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by lambda 4y ago
There's more than one surviving Link Trainer in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Trainer#Surviving_trainer... The gauges on that particular one have been removed; on others, they may have been replace
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by lambda 4y ago
Yep, I'm not saying it's a big limitation, given the VTOL capabilities and availability of airports. Just that there will be few windy days in which we might not be able to fly, but that's the case for pretty much all small a

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