restalis

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by restalis 3mo ago
"The energy density of batteries is an order of magnitude less than fossil fuels, and you have to carry the heavy batteries with you the entire trip (vs burning off fuel as you fly)." It's even worse. Nowadays, in order to
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by restalis 3mo ago
"For jet engines, the only thing that comes to mind is electric aircraft. No single-crystal turbine blades needed at all. I may have picked a bad example, but the principle stands." I understand the idea you wanted to convey and
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by restalis 4mo ago
Your range checking requirement is just one of many things that may or may not be necessary to someone using this. Taking them all into account (besides the fact that may be unfeasible, if there happen to be some conflicting requirements) w
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by restalis 5mo ago
While there are indeed "details" out there that have a great impact on the macro-dynamic, and even pose as blockers, history also provides us many counter-examples. The steel-making process has been invented and reinvented many ti
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by restalis 5mo ago
You two debated this as a philosophical or even moral issue, but it changes everything when you look at it from the natural hazard prospective. It doesn't even have to be a subjective matter. Picture this - you know the climate change
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by restalis 5mo ago
The dilemma of spending significant amount of effort and resources for a colonizing project when the result won't benefit the enterprising society is not new. When looking for a reason, considering only the (individuals' or collec
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by restalis 5mo ago
It's also called "vision". It's what provides and powers directions on large and long term scales. Those "simple" and "mundane step-by-step issues" are just chores by themselves, yet at the same time
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by restalis 5mo ago
In the open space, shades get very cold, like a few degrees over absolute zero cold, because even without a medium to facilitate convection and (atmospheric contact) conduction, the loss of heat through mere radiation (into the pitch black
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by restalis 5mo ago
"to Thai, squid, octopus, and cuttlefish are all ปลาหมึก. For English speakers, those are similar things, but all clearly distinct. But for Thai speakers, they're all ปลาหมึก, just different types." Then, ปลาหมึก = coleoide
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by restalis 6mo ago
Also, the kind of satellites that aren't much more than mirrors, even with today's knowledge, they can be designed to change their profile/surface and thus reduce the absorption of the incident radiation, if they'd had t
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by restalis 7mo ago
"I’ve seen too many «well crafted» implementations of such technically vexing features as «fetching data and returning it» that were so overengineered that it should have been considered theft of company money." This judgement h
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by restalis 8mo ago
"We should look at how people are using LLMs right now instead of chasing promises of superintelligence." This. When more computing power and memory resources became available to software engineers, we've seen how that impa
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by restalis 8mo ago
rsync does what was designed to do and the lack of scope creep is not a bad thing. There is "fpsync" - another tool on top of rsync (which was mentioned in one of the comments at article's page) that covers the parallel proce
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by restalis 9mo ago
"No stuffing about with swapping physical hardware just because I've temporarily relocated myself." That's exactly the use case for which the carriers offer roaming plans. The bonus is that you (as in your phone number
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by restalis 9mo ago
Managing the light source, specifically the 13.5nm length on the wave spectrum, that gets generated from overheated tin plasma, is in fact the most challenging part of the machine. Here "managing" includes the process of hitting a
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Fixing the ReactOS Test Suite(reactos.org)
5 points by restalis 11mo ago|0 comments
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by restalis 11mo ago
I was thinking about this too. When you read a program, there is this information payload, which is the metaphorical ball you have to keep your eyes on, and more or less forget about the rest as soon as it isn't relevant any more. In t
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by restalis 11mo ago
Most likely, it didn't happen (yet) due to kernel related stuff being still actively worked on¹ and (more importantly) due to a shortage of developers willing and capable to tackle that kind of challenge. ¹ At the time of this writing,
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by restalis 11mo ago
"putting yourself and your hard work in legal risk" Like what? I'm genuinely curious what personal risks faces anyone from contributing to ReactOS. I also am curious what kind of legal risk may threaten the work? I mean, ev
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by restalis 11mo ago
"A good example I think has adjusted the behavior of the ecosystem is Rust: it makes certain things much easier than before and slowly the complex bug-mired world of software is improving just a little bit because of it." From a
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by restalis 11mo ago
The transition from kilobytes to megabytes is not comparable to the transition from megabytes to gigabytes at all. Back in the kilobytes days, when the engineers (still) had to manage bits and resort to all kind of tricks to somehow make it
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by restalis 1y ago
This fits your description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_quantity
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by restalis 1y ago
This tendency of requirement overloading, for what can otherwise be a simple solution for a simple problem, is the bane of engineering. In this case, if security is important, it can be addressed separately, e.g. for the underlying text tre
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by restalis 1y ago
Whereas it may be used in outdoors-like natural lighting, it is not (always) true that it is "usable in the sun". On one such product¹ there's this "Important Notice" advising users to "avoid exposing the E-ink
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by restalis 1y ago
The world is dependent on plastic by now, and needs a lot of it. The negative stigma it got lately is due to playing fast and loose with it in the past, but it is a necessary class of materials, and having sustainable means of mass producin
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by restalis 1y ago
The main benefit for me with this approach is that the boundries are not transparent anymore. That content printing is such a boundry. Your data is about to exit through there and you're summoned to handle that. The inconvenience that
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by restalis 1y ago
"Isn't 10-15% faster compression, and 5-10% faster decompression, a very nice «feature»?" Although much code can be optimized to get it to run 10-15% faster, if that comes at the expense of legibility then such "featur
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by restalis 1y ago
"It's a leaked copy of the Windows source code from a long time ago that has been hacked on." That's a claim that... at best it seems that hasn't yet gathered behind it enough motivation to clarify anything, and a
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by restalis 2y ago
It would be annoying. If the use-case is as a portable application, but the application would want to let the user know (in a sufficiently loud manner) that it can install itself, then either the user would be forced to pay attention at tha
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by restalis 2y ago
For people comparing this to existing solutions: this is an open-source work, ready for anyone with chip production capability, with no product licensing involved or due royalties to be paid. And, given chip's simplicity, the productio

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