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by zgluck 3y ago
Wouldn't want to be a Roscosmos higher-up right now. I hope they manage to stay away from windows on higher floors. This was supposed to be Putin's triumph over the 'degenerate west'.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Wonderous: A showcase app for the Flutter SDK. Built by gskinner in partnership with the Flutter team, Wonderous deliberately pushes visual fidelity, effects and transitions to showcase what Flutter is truly capable of on modern mobile h
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by zgluck 3y ago
A little clickbaity... It's a commercial third party modification made for use as a kiosk.
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by zgluck 3y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15pxt76/why_ha...
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by zgluck 3y ago
It's a surprisingly cute building: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Building
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by zgluck 3y ago
Clarified this. Thanks.
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by zgluck 3y ago
The reason communications with the Voyager 1/2 twin probes have lasted for like 45 years: Voyager 2 is equipped with three Multihundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generators (MHW RTG). Each RTG includes 24 pressed plutonium oxid
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by zgluck 3y ago
So the result of me writing this was that John Gruber was added as the BDFL of Markdown. Creator, sure, BDFL, that's a stretch.
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by zgluck 3y ago
He forgot he wasn't 18 and not somewhat overweight. Jock things.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Also see - what happens when you leave a jock in charge of Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc (Ballmer: Developers, Developers, Developers! Extra Super Sweaty Edition)
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by zgluck 3y ago
Moneymaking has a way of ruining things, generally speaking.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Found this one while browsing the catalog. Cool. https://github.com/nasa/astrobee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-1j3sXTqA Three NASA Astrobee free-flying robots have been operating inside the Inte
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by zgluck 3y ago
Does anyone have any experiences to share about the performance differences between regular RDS/MySQL and Aurora for MySQL (I/O optimized config)? (The article is about the PostgreSQL variant.)
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by zgluck 3y ago
Like Ada? /½ s
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by zgluck 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life has a list of BDFLs. Bram is the first BDFL in that list who has passed away. We're in for a generational shift the coming decade(s). It makes sense to pr
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by zgluck 3y ago
Texan drop snakes - kind of makes you think of those supposedly mythological creatures in Australia.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Sounds hopeful to me - in contexts where the architects somehow only want to design buildings people don't really like, for reasons.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Corresponding AWS notice: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2023-... AWS customers’ data and instances are not affected by this issue, and no customer action is required. AWS has designed and
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by zgluck 3y ago
That was 4 days ago and this is the first we hear of it? This - 9 hours ago: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-cfo-kirkhorn-steps-down... Tesla CFO Kirkhorn steps down, replaced by chief accounting officer Vaibhav
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by zgluck 3y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1688662299857321984 I would like to thank Zach Kirkhorn for his many contributions to Tesla over the course of 13 often difficult years. Much appreciated and best wishes for
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by zgluck 3y ago
It most likely is and that's also Russia's responsibility. Remember: This is a country that projects itself as a technological soon-to-be-world-leader while it's actually a glorified gas stop with nukes that USSR era scientis
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by zgluck 3y ago
(Replying to a comment saying that western sanctions will cause deaths of Russian civilians.) No, the blame will lie with Russian regulators and airlines. Russian civilians can take the bus.
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by zgluck 3y ago
<title>Apple Vision Pro (Part 5A) – Why Monitor Replacement is Ridiculous - KGOnTech</title> I guess the poster did that mistake.
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by zgluck 3y ago
I think the CD-ROMs at archive.org are your best bet. (Spent some time looking for a functioning ftp mirror a while back and failed.)
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by zgluck 3y ago
I mostly remember that generation for the corresponding chipset's failing SATA ports :(.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Hardware companies often find it very hard to competently build software. They tend to lack appreciation/understanding of software in the first place (hardware-first thinking) leading to underinvestments. It's also hard for them t
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by zgluck 3y ago
There's a mirror available at ftp://foto.lu.lv/pub/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming. Only via FTP, as far as I can tell. It works well with e.g. Filezilla. Log in as anonymous...
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by zgluck 3y ago
Tactical noise!
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by zgluck 3y ago
I think... both for Finland and Sweden: We wanted to stand out internationally. And there were lots of clever people in the right places early on. And there was money to spend on that exciting new stuff, after the first few early press roun
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by zgluck 3y ago
As someone just getting access to the net in '94/'95 and also learning programming via Turbo Pascal around that time, ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi was a lot more important! Now sadly gone. ( https://groups.google.c

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