shadowofneptune

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by shadowofneptune 6mo ago
Right, I forgot about that development. A very late change in program structure, and having your main lander option have an indefinite schedule is quite bad!
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by shadowofneptune 6mo ago
That is equally fair. My position I suppose is that my enthusiasm has been spent on so many half-finished ambitious programs like this that it has all run out by 2026. Constellation, Asteroid Redirect, Artemis. If I was older that would inc
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by shadowofneptune 6mo ago
A lot of the discussion overlooks or wishes to avoid an uncomfortable problem with the Artemis program: Artemis III's hardware will not be ready for the forseeable future. The program has had multiple shakeups so far. This is a program
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by shadowofneptune 7mo ago
That is also the curse of the US now. If your funding will only last a single presidential term, you can't ensure a livelihood. The instability of US budgeting and the wildly different priorities of incoming presidents is a huge source
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by shadowofneptune 7mo ago
A hit piece, and only a hit piece. If there really was a gay mafia, they'd fear publishing this. The sourcing quality is typical for lavender scare stuff too.
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Static stack allocation is the approach that the 6502 really demands, and it's cool to see in a conventional compiler toolchain. See the Cowgol language for another example: https://cowlark.com/cowgol/
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
> If he “was on a deserted island and [plastic] was all that was available,” Rogers says he’d opt for types two [High-Density Polyethylene] and five [Polypropylene]. These are both higher density formulas, used to contain liquids and man
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
If the workplace sucks, as most do right now, there's about three options for what to do: 1. Force out the people who are making it suck. This is difficult with how managers are trained nowadays, never to take sides even if one party i
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
The big thing seems to be less about GCC, and more a question of, "what should a compiler be?" He'd be better looking at smaller, less-known compilers, like the Portable C Compiler or the Intel C Compiler. If you want hyper-o
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Western Europe is very different from the Europe that Zamenhof grew up in. You get so many internationalist movements out of Russia because it already was in many ways international internally. Lots of languages and land, but both travel an
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Frankly, this is why despite my admiration for Esperanto, I do not engage in it. Posts like these are the 'no fun allowed' of constructed languages, and it pops up most often with Esperantists. Like a diplomat, you refuse to let p
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Esperanto was intended as a sort of diplomatic language. It's got flaws, definitely. The sounds and spelling are very much from the creator's native Polish, a lot of important terms are rather obscure («Usono,» from "Usonia&q
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
That's part of the idea. It's that you slow down, try to figure out what exactly the other person means by what they are saying. In a language with a fixed vocabulary, context becomes even more important than normal.
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Got diagnosed this year with mitral valve prolapse. It won't be an issue medically for some time, but it is definitely sobering to feel the heart beating so strongly.
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Personally, the split is a big problem. I don't keep a strict separation of left-hand and right-hand during typing.
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
See, you are demonstrating what I mean right here. I would like to switch just once. The Microsoft ergo model is the closest to a standard, it seems.
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
In my personal experience, you avoid repetitive stress injuries by shaking up how you type. Reaching for the mouse, moving where you hold your hands. It's the old way of teaching typing with a rigid posture that causes carpal tunnel, n
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Yeah. For everyone watching with excitement, keep in mind that the silicon semiconductor was for years worse in practice than germanium ones, even if it was theoretically better and cheaper. It took advancements in material sourcing, kilns,
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Read what I said again. People went from east and mideast to west by ship, and SF is the best port.
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
San Fransisco is the main port of the west coast. The Oregon Trail gets all the fame, but ship was usually how newcomers came to California and the other western states. During WW2, that role was naturally even a bigger deal than in peaceti
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
If it's any help... It has been a lot of shit, a lot of brutality, but it is changing. It is difficult to sustain such an environment forever. Most of the mega-laws that got passed in the last few decades, if they ever were, have bec
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Optum is an extreme example, but it's all of them. The non-profits run the same as the for-profits, and have converged more and more since 2000 or so.
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
The question is what you are angling for . If your goal is, sincerely, to provide better service, then you won't get it. Keep in mind that with so many patients nowadays being eligible for Medicare, the money will come in anyway. Nurs
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
A citation in this article can shed some light on how it is for gay people: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/people-wh... > In LGBTQ circles, placing a high value on friendship has l
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
It's possible, but for GCC requires optimizations to be enabled. MSVC is completely off-limits in that approach.
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
I've been able to get around this in language-to-C compilation by inserting trampoline macros. The first instance of the call deploys the trampoline function, further tail calls return to it with the next function pointer as a paramete
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
It may dissapoint you to know that in US medicine, body parts like the Purkinje fibers are most commonly called 'Pur-kin-dgee.'
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
Goes without saying for Hacker News, but this seems specific to one industry. I did get hired off of resumé and a phone interview in my first application—but that's nursing, where right now they'll hire anyone who moves. I think t
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
The TI-83 series of calculators not only uses decimal floating-point, but the format is documented: http://merthsoft.com/linkguide/ti83+/vars.html In practice, the cost is not that much different because four-func
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by shadowofneptune 3y ago
The focus on paper clip maximizers is always curious to me. A lot more people are willing to turn a blind eye to or debate suffering when the object is maximizing money.

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