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Autotools is the de facto build system for most of the GNU system programs. The bit about dependency management mostly fits but I would argue that letting us figure out how to buil…

In Seattle it will often also be a Subaru driver.

Yeah anecdotally I’ve hopped on a couple planes this year where masking is required. Normally my wife and I get sick from the plane. But since we’ve been wearing KN95s the whole ti…

In my state the vaccination rate is above 70% and the hospitalization rate has decoupled from the positive rate. The spike this winter ended in October whereas last winter it didn’…

I want legislation that the manufacturer has to publish, online and in a conspicuous place, full board-level schematics, parts lists, and service notes for household appliances no …

What proof do you have that enumeration of function is equivalent to understanding? If I encounter a building-size device filled with large cogs and two stones, I can’t immediately…

I can’t put my finger on why though.

In my state prospective teachers are fingerprinted and their prints are run through the FBI database when applying for the certification. My prints are in that database.

The other point that’s being missed here is that pedestrians need a bunch of stuff that’s ignored: * to be able to walk from business to business in minutes or seconds * to feel sa…

The US definition sucks.

I think if it’s water efficiency you’re after you should check out my proof of millet system. It continues to produce new coins even in deserts and historic droughts. And you don’t…

They hit the ground at the same speed but with significantly more impulse.

So in other words it’s useful for feeling morally superior.

That’s really only been my experience with telecoms. Other companies I’ve called in to have absolutely put me in touch with higher level managers who can actually resolve the probl…

The reason it’s okay to be deterministic and wrong in engineering is because it’s a lot easier to explain the conditions under which the wrong result will be produced and how you c…

When interpolation goes wrong it’s predictably wrong, which is not true of more complex algorithms using AI. If we can predict how it goes wrong we can extract the meaningful infor…

you might get better results with a run-length encoding on a dithered image. I’m not aware of any modern image formats that use RLE though.

That’s not “hassling,” that’s “clarifying criticality.” The notion that we can’t even pass complaints along to support agents isn’t helpful. In my case when I lodge a complaint or …

Also Ubuntu in Azure.

If you did start something like that you could call it Labcorp and make sure it’s the only game in town.

It’s even a microcontroller that emulates the original SIM, so it can have whatever specs they want.

This was driven home to me many years ago when I popped a SIM from a Mexican carrier that had an embedded Dominos Pizza app on it. Suddenly the Windows Mobile phone I was testing h…

A better hardware architecture for running a gui with some real-time requirements is often to move the real-time stuff into a separate microprocessor entirely. I’ve run into some t…

I don’t understand. Are you saying there’s some negative impact to allowing people to have children who otherwise couldn’t? What problems do you foresee?

Just a nitpick but the process of crystallization evolves energy rather than involves. So it’s proceeding to a lower-entropy state. If we wanted to trigger such a transformation we…