shakow

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by shakow 4d ago
> operated profitably Until the oil shocks, and until “normal” planes became faster. I happen to know a couple older and very wealthy people, and they say that even though Concorde was a lot of fun when it was a novelty, they now prefer
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by shakow 8d ago
> I also don't think it's a conspiracy I don't think it's a conspiracy, it's a simple application of the purse theorem: if there is money to be spent, it will be spent, regardless of whether it makes sense to do
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by shakow 14d ago
I'm not criticizing Orion for that; I actually enjoy it quite a lot (and will do even more when they will have ironed out all the UI bugs). Also I'm eager to see how it will behave on Linux when they will have finished their port;
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by shakow 14d ago
That's self-inflicted though; they could just thesaurize that money and live on the interests to fund Firefox forever. That they decide to burn through it by paying 7 figures salaries for their C-suites, buying luxury offices at the he
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by shakow 14d ago
Orion is webkit-based though, not a whole independent browser like FFox.
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by shakow 27d ago
“Good” actor does not refer to ethical, but to lawful. > ethical porn Define “ethical porn”? Problem with ethics is that it varies from person to person; at least lawful has the taste of varying only from country to country.
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by shakow 27d ago
I don't think a proof that P = or ≠ NP would give you any polynomial-time algos for arbitrary problems either.
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by shakow 27d ago
> Typst is a good example of the readability argument: I'm afraid the author completely missed the point here. Typst is not more readable than (La)TeX because it's written in Rust, but because its DSL was so designed. It could
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by shakow 1mo ago
> because it's so sensitive to a single misplaced paren Much more than other languages are sensitive to misplaced braces/indentation?
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by shakow 1mo ago
Fair point, I was only looking at the structs, not the traits.
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by shakow 1mo ago
Those are integrated in the compiler and don't need a second tool to work. Also, AFAIK, they only leverage standard language behaviour and are not a hardcoded special case.
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by shakow 1mo ago
Is it an easter egg that I can move the donkey with A/D rather than move the car with Space?
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by shakow 1mo ago
How comes the modem panel is not “shader-ized” (scanlines + distortion)?
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by shakow 1mo ago
> let us ship delta updates over crappy wifi connections to Linux computers on robots How were you doing that? Running your own channels, or something more complex? Also, did you use a push or a pull model w.r.t. the robots?
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by shakow 1mo ago
> There is just way to much media out there to keep track of and especially with games you are looking at frequent updates and patches, that your DRM-free backup won't get, unless you turn backup up a full time job to keep track of
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by shakow 2mo ago
Convection cooling efficiency is mostly dictated by the delta in temperature between the hot and cold source. Coolant temperature in the core is in the 300C ballpark. So the river going from 20 to 30C is roughly a 0.3% change in cooling eff
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by shakow 2mo ago
Absolutely wrong. A difference of a couple degrees is not going to hamper cooling a reactor that is running at many hundred degrees. Just imagine what it would spell for your car otherwise.
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by shakow 2mo ago
Running it at a couple dozens jobs per second, and we're happy with it now that we polished the cutting edges (virtually the same thing as in TFA).
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by shakow 2mo ago
> I often see people targeting frame rates way beyond their display’s refresh rate Could this be to reduce input lag?
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by shakow 2mo ago
Interesting; French standard “x” is this one. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NCr5KgIXd2Q
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by shakow 2mo ago
How do you write it; two separate diagonal bars like described in the article? In this case, how do you “flow” it within a word?
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Buran: The Most Impressive Thing the Soviets Ever Built [video](youtube.com)
2 points by shakow 2mo ago|1 comments
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by shakow 2mo ago
A comprehensive video on Buran, from a Youtuber that does a lot of deep-dive on mostly cold-war tech. I personally strongly recommend his videos on the B-29 firing system[0] and tri-propellant rocket engine[1] as well. [0] https:/&#x2
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by shakow 2mo ago
Oh nice, I was taught to write it first a “barless small-case f”, then an “infinite” in the middle.
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by shakow 2mo ago
> Only й and э require two strokes Wouldn't the ф as well? > [for the x], I draw two mirrored c’s Isn't that what everyone is doing, or are we Frenchmen the exception? For reference if the author reads this, we write the lat
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by shakow 2mo ago
Why would they put phased arrays on UAVs? They are typically using beam-forming antennas + cheap gimbals for the same purpose. Phased arrays are nice when you want to scan a large angular surface very fast; when it comes down to optimizing
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by shakow 2mo ago
> Defense show = super expensive Really depends; there you can see both Lockmart exhibiting multi-billions project, and 150m after some Serbian company selling jet engines for UAVs for a couple hundreds.
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by shakow 2mo ago
But sysadmins should be there to deploy stuff and make sure the infra does its job, not get bogged down handholding some dev that can't even compile a project.
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by shakow 2mo ago
> That might have some defense application considering what's going on in Eastern Europe right now. This is a bog-standard phased-array RDF calibrated for WiFi freqs; that stuff is already in every single defense show. Also, that&#x
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by shakow 2mo ago
At some point, shouldn't installing a venv be a pre-requisite to actually be hired as a dev?

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