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skovati

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About skovati

hacking on space stuff

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    Comment #44007027

    I'm curious how many ICs are truly excited about these advancements in coding agents. It seems to me the general trend is we become more like PMs managing agents and reviewing PRs,…

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    Comment #42951215

    Congress hasn't actually agreed on a FY2025 budget though right? We're just running on Continuing Resolutions currently. So the budget is actually subject to change when this CR ru…

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    Comment #42204851

    reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/1172/

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    Comment #41588585

    If you haven't already, look into the avionics and flight software of the Ingenuity helicopter. First time Linux ran on Mars!

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    Comment #39080365

    Interesting note about this: the speed of sound on Mars is only ~70% of that on Earth, due to less atmospheric density. Might change your Mach numbers!

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    Comment #38557359

    Signal does have offline backup support though? https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

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    Comment #37816917

    FWIW, Java does have the "final" keyword.

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    Comment #35647131

    My philosophy has been to let the distro package manager handle system packages (kernel, OpenSSL, etc) but then use flatpak [1] to install user progs like Chromium and VSCode so I …

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    Comment #35328132

    FWIW, musl has implemented DNS-over-TCP recently [1], so future Alpine releases shouldn't have DNS issues in k8s anymore. [1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/43#…

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    Comment #34583012

    Interesting read on the official golang.org proxy DoSing git.sr.ht https://sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-gomodulemirror/

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    Comment #34560190

    They've recently built their own proxy [1], not sure how much of their total traffic it handles though. [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...

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    Comment #33688075

    Essentially, energy is carried throughout a circuit by the electric field created by a voltage differential, not by electrons pushing other electrons like how sound is transmitted …