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phonethrowaway··on Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
they have that too...

https://expanscape.com/teenyserv/the-teenyserv-prototypes/

phonethrowaway··on Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?
This is a better example IMO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPS/UPS

It spans 8 timezones.

Europe is just larger in capacity, not breadth.

phonethrowaway··on Why Does the U.S. Have Three Electrical Grids?
That's not a very large area, to be fair. That's about the size of half of the United States, in distance/spread. Europe isn't a continent in the traditional sense, it's a region, and not a huge one.

This might counter the grandparent poster if Asia was on the same synchronous grid, but it's not.

phonethrowaway··on Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?
Rúgbrauð (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈruːɣprœiθ]) is an Icelandic straight rye bread. It is traditionally baked in a pot or steamed in special wooden casks by burying it in the ground near a hot spring, in which case it is known as hverabrauð or "hot-spring-bread". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BAgbrau%C3%B0
phonethrowaway··on Malloc Geiger Counter
Here's a similar thing I did once...

https://github.com/gordol/ld_preload-sounds

Generates WAV output by hooking malloc() and read().

You can totally hear the standard libraries loading in, I started this thing on a whim of silliness...

It started out as just 38 lines of code.

https://github.com/gordol/ld_preload-sounds/commit/2d51b3e7b...

phonethrowaway··on Why are CEOs failing software engineers?
amygdala, dopamine reward.

it's a feedback loop of reinforcement.

phonethrowaway··on Quantum fluctuations have been shown to affect macroscopic objects
particle/wave duality. it means neither fully encapsulates "light".
phonethrowaway··on Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table
enjoy. https://www.science-frontiers.com/sourcebk.htm
phonethrowaway··on Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (1999)
Are free shell accounts still a thing?

looks like it..

https://sdf.org/

they have gopher hosting still...

phonethrowaway··on Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)
Nadal cavity. Already exists...
phonethrowaway··on Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux
huh, watchutalkinbout?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhyve

phonethrowaway··on Filling in PDF forms with Python (2018)
I've had great success with this library:

https://github.com/christopher-ramirez/secretary

phonethrowaway··on macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated
> Regarding performance, on the other hand Linux/BSD still don't match macOS real time audio capabilities.

Got a source for that? I use a Debian machine for an audio workstation. I moved there from OSX and am using the same DAW and get less latency now. Especially because I can run a real-time kernel...

phonethrowaway··on Two Years of Vanlife: A Retrospective
I have a Delorme Inreach. Highly recommended... Apparently Garmin bought them.

https://explore.garmin.com/en-US/inreach/

phonethrowaway··on Music Generates Feelings That Are Only Weakly Bound to the Music
I do this with code and architecture, or any complex system really... It works pretty well! It's similar to physical space having a sort of memory... except it's mental space.
phonethrowaway··on Keystone pipeline shut after spilling 1.4M litres of oil in North Dakota
This technique is already used for fuel piping and storage tanks.

The area between the double-walled pipes is called an interstice, and that's how leaks are detected. Additionally the interstice drains to a containment sump, so if any liquid is present, the leak is obvious, but there are sensors there too.

Fuel is more corrosive than crude oil. However the sludge in crude can cause pitting corrosion over time. These systems are built such that corrosion and leaks are expected and inevitable. Gas stations and places like data centers, or anywhere with fuel storage or dispensers must be inspected monthly for this reason.

Source: I work for an environmental compliance company, and built software to model and report on these types of fuel storage, transport, and dispensing systems.

phonethrowaway··on Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
MITM is not mitigated at all by HTTPS. What makes you think that? Do you understand how certificate signing works?
phonethrowaway··on 2019 Python Developer Survey
The way they implemented type hinting has been a huge turn off to me. What are your thoughts?
phonethrowaway··on Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
But git already has a built in webserver...

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb

phonethrowaway··on All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic: researchers
Where are you from that you think avocados "became a thing" recently?
phonethrowaway··on It now costs $350k a year to live a middle-class lifestyle in a big city
utter nonsense
phonethrowaway··on Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POCSAG
phonethrowaway··on Ibera is gutting Travis CI just a few weeks after acquiring it
that was February
phonethrowaway··on California Earthquakes Disrupted HF Propagation on West Coast
You mean like this? http://ericpdollard.com/2014/06/23/the-landers-facility-of-e...
phonethrowaway··on What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today
They should have used UTC for the transitions. This is an entire article built around a faulty presupposition and naive objects.

I wrote about this here a few years ago: https://gordol.github.io/date_time_manipulation.html

Everyone here saying to use pendulum... you should definitely read this, because it's about a very similar bug in pendulum with datetime transitions across time change thresholds.

phonethrowaway··on What the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 Tells Us About Python Today
https://gordol.github.io/date_time_manipulation.html
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