jasonpeacock

Maybe I misinterpreted the statement - I thought it was talking about the time from detection to sending the command to the satellite, not the time until the satellite actually took action.

> react within an hour of the maneuver being detected I'm curious at what steps were involved took an hour. Running the calculations should be quick (computers are fast), as is transmitting co…

My house originally had a recirculating pump for the hot water but it burned out. Somehow though, it still (mostly) worked and had instant _warm_ water. I think it was through natural convection/…

Growing up (born in late 70s), all I heard was “OMG OVER POPULATION” and how the planet can’t support the projected N billion people who will be living on it. Now the birth rate actually slows down to…

OTECs are amazing, and step 1 of "The Millennial Project: Colonizing the galaxy in eight easy steps"[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project There&…

This is neat, but it's not zettelkasten - it's building a browse-able knowledge DB from content. Zettelkasten is about about writing down your ideas in response to content, with a link to …

> rampant monkeypatching that made the standard library hard to count on That was very frustrating when doing regular development after using Rails, all the "built-ins" were actually patc…

> What I want is a dispassionate discussion of how different language features impact code quality This can be difficult because code quality, productivity, safety are hard to objectively define an…

Not a belief, but my experience. Maybe I've had a blessed experience with LFS? It's always "just worked" for me.

> Perforce checkout requests always do the round trip to the server That's literally the antithesis of Git. If that's a requirement, then yeah - Git's the wrong thing. It's like…

From the user's perspective, when setup correctly Git LFS is transparent and they don't see the text pointers - the binary files are replaced on push and pull to the server. It's the sa…

Perforce’s binary support is basically equivalent to Git LFS, it does the same thing. What does Perforce binary support have that Git LFS doesn’t? AFAIK, the base issue that Perforce is already in …

"If productivity can be measured by throughput then it shouldn't be done by humans." I forget the author, or the exact quote, but basically this. Brainless jobs should be automated, nob…

There's also the simpler/smaller git-worktree-switcher (`wt`): https://github.com/yankeexe/git-worktree-switcher It does what it says on the tin.…

I mean, the same thing would happen if Bash stopped writing to `~/.bash_history` and its last item was `rm`, right?

> produce memory safe software with a bit of discipline "a bit of discipline" is doing a lot of work here. "Just don't write (memory) bugs!" hasn't produced (memory) s…

This is why I de-Alexa'd my house. I was fully invested in Alexa & Echo devices to have a voice-activated computer agent in every room, but each new "feature" was launched enabled-b…

It's not that slow? Cargo only recompiles the crates that you edit, after the first build of the dependent crates it's quick to iterate. Compilation is not the bottleneck, it's the huma…

What you're asking for is called "kiosk" mode. Here's a random app I found: https://www.mackiosk.com/ …

I just use Rust to do any "scripting" work. I stopped using Python and write it in Rust instead, and I'm more productive than before. What do you need a scripting language for that'…

New trains: padded schedule Old trains: padded schedule So really, all train schedules are padded - which makes sense, you need buffers to absorb variance in performance to have reliable schedules.…

That's a lot of words for "We put some industrial shelving in a closet with a keyboard and computer monitors, and we made it all beige."

When I grew up in Alaska, because of all the fishing/boating, swimming was both included in elementary PE and a high school graduation requirement. Oddly, swimming is not required curriculum in H…

Am I completely misunderstanding the problem, or is the math in the example solution wrong? Bursting 1 first gives you 3×1×5=15 coins. <-- OK... Bursting 3 first gives you 1×3×1=1 coins. …

What amazes me is that this wasn't the original plan. What product manager thinks "the best thing for our customers is to delete their data!". > We understand these links are embedde…

To keep things simple, "activity is better for cognition". It doesn't have to be outside. Let's start with just promoting any activity... There's already well-known studies sh…