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mrec

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mrec
·avant-hier·discuss
Ah, I see. You're aiming to become the hashbrown of testing.
mrec
·avant-hier·discuss
Have there been any discussions about upstreaming this into cargo proper? Are there any significant downsides to nextest compared to its predecessor?
mrec
·il y a 12 jours·discuss
Huh? The Honor Harrington books are published by Baen (who are all DRM-free).
mrec
·il y a 19 jours·discuss
I'm sure they were originally hoping for mass-market success, but given the RAM drought and ensuing pricing, I'm guessing the best possible outcome at this point would be to break roughly even and learn, so that they can put out a more competitive revision if and when prices ever return to Earth.

With Windows becoming increasingly hostile, I do think there's room for a hardware/software integrated "just works" offering in the Linux PC space. Plus software pricing is probably a lot more competitive than console (dunno, never had anything to do with consoles, but my impression has always been that hardware is a loss-leader there).
mrec
·il y a 30 jours·discuss
Hard disagree. The war has been at least tacitly supported by the majority of the Russian public (via enlistment, taxation or just acquiescence) and it's very explicitly being waged against the Ukrainian public (via killing, occupation, expropriation etc).

"Define who we work with" is basically the point of sanctions. Unless you think they're too robust too, and we should limit ourselves to strongly worded postcards?
mrec
·il y a 30 jours·discuss
He's very proud of having been rejected by a Russian publisher for being "too dark".
mrec
·le mois dernier·discuss
<FourYorkshiremen>Luxury.</FourYorkshiremen> I'm still using a 1650 Super with 4GB VRAM and it's basically fine. Holding off on a few newer titles, but I'm old and my eyesight is going so 1080 resolution is plenty for me.
mrec
·le mois dernier·discuss
A noble principle, albeit not without its lamentable failures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer
mrec
·le mois dernier·discuss
But in that case this bit of TFA feels a bit out of place:

> To eliminate the possibility that the owl was [...] detecting heat from the body of the mouse (for instance, by sensing infrared light emitted by a warm body), the experiment is repeated with a mouse-sized wad of paper dragged through the leaves
mrec
·le mois dernier·discuss
> Over the next few days, the owl makes 16 more strikes at mice, missing only four times, each time by less than two inches.

How did the experimenter measure miss distance in pitch darkness? IR illumination is presumably out in case the owl was able to see it, and I didn't think thermal imaging was a thing yet in the late '50s.
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
That one's explicitly mentioned at the end of TFA itself, though.
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I wondered if this might have been the basis, either physically or at least aesthetically for the Aliens APC. Apparently not; while very similar in low-slung form factor, that was a Hunslet ATT77 air towing tractor: https://www.hooniverse.com/movie-cars-aliens-armored-personn...
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
`export template` was included in the C++98 standard without any experience, experimental or otherwise. The first implementation was achieved by EDG after enormous pain in the early 2000s, and their advice for any others attempting it was "don't". I'm not aware of anything else quite that egregious, though.

https://www.open-std.org/Jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n14...
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I read it as "agents can't program, and with each new generation of agents it's taking longer and longer to realize that that specific iteration can't". Maybe taking the Principle of Charity too far, I dunno.
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Agreed. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn: there's a reason it's a classic.
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
And meanwhile the webapp's library UI doesn't even let you filter by read status.
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Ooh, I honestly hadn't considered that; thanks for the tip. The waterproof seal around the screen has degraded too, but I very rarely read in the rain these days.
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Already do. I hate to think what it would be like now otherwise.
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
I was about to complain that my Paperwhite only lasts a couple of days between charges (it shuts down when battery drops to ~50%) but then realized that I've had it 7-8 years. No Indian heat here though, I'm in the UK.
mrec
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Not 100% sure whether you're being sarcastic but... yes? IMO more misses than hits, and the misses tend to miss by more than the hits hit.