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I forwarded this to my dad who still works on RPG. This product is called "Software Sentinel":
It required an input key that was unique to our dongle series & our own code that was whatever we wanted. The reply was a hash of both values.
The last version we used was USB. They retired the parallel style long ago.
pigeons are domesticated rock doves. rock doves nest in small caves, so the only nest building they need to do is a few sticks to prevent eggs from rolling out of the caves.
recipients are non-astronaut employees. based on this site:
http://spaceflownartifacts.com/flown_silver_snoopy_awards.ht...
seems like in the apollo era crew carried a few in their PPK (personal preference kit), and in the later shuttle era they regularly carried 500-1000 pins per mission.
ReadEra Pro is an ereader app with a decent text-to-speech, I often flip between reading and listening.
I've never made music the old fashioned way so I'm guessing the same could be true for that as well
Yes, it is. You should try it.
Awesome, thanks so much!
I've been trying to put together a study group all week!
Is it possible to add a new course to the library? I'd like to make a group for CSS for JavaScript Developers by Josh W Comeau [1] but it seems like I can only make a group for courses in the library.
I like to take this a step further and try to have all my most important tooling be written in my projects major languages. It's not a must have, but having a build system for a go project that is also go under the hood means I'm more comfortable diving into the source if needed.
I don't think it's a requirement, but it's an advantage
It's amazing how many people in this thread are seriously suggesting that these a11y features are not important. Do HN readers not understand that someday they will grow old, and their eyesight will fail, and they will find themselves increasing the font size on their devices?
Assuming Jim Henson is the legal creator, it will enter the public domain in 2085.
My view is that all of those messaging platforms blocking alternative clients are equally problematic.
I've arrived at this position because I'm not able to use any of those platforms because they don't provide accessibility tools that I need. Beeper does, and most matrix clients do also.
I recognize that the open source "everything should be open" view is not remotely mainstream, but the only way forward is to demand better.
For once, I'm proud to be a customer of a company that is willing to stand up against monopolies.
The biggest strength of the fediverse is that every instance operator can make their own decisions on this matter.
I think people forget you can't live inside an index fund. It's hard to value a higher predicted YoY return when you have to spend a month out of every year moving because rent went up again.
That's not accurate. Star movements are on the order of mili-arcseconds per year. So around 1 arcsecond per star in a random direction over the last thousand years. Constellations would be different, but close enough that we could recognize.
I don't understand why people in this thread think is so unreasonable that a culture saw a new star in the sky 1/4 the brightness of the moon for 3 months, and somebody bothered to carve it on a rock.
I think it's worth noting that the inventor of the earthship plans does not himself live in an earthship. I have seen a lot of anecdotal accounts of people living in earthships developing health issues because of off-gassing from the tires. Also they are really optimized for desert environments, they don't preform as well in high humidity.
Do y'all really use ChatGPT for coding questions? Every time I have tried, the answer I get is entirely wrong, and I end up going back to either first party documentation, or Stack Exchange.
People needing to move non-trivial distances for periodic tasks shapes everything. Cars, and thus car parking, come about because of this need.
This is not true. Every city in the US used to have a robust public transit system. No cars or parking lots needed. You can hitch 2 horses per car space, and 10-20 bikes in the same space.
Those pre-car public transit systems were bankrupted by artificially low fares, and because a small number of cars literally got in the way: https://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8562007/streetcar-history-demis...
I'm currently running KDE Neon on a MBP 2012, and I've installed linux on a few apple devices from that era. The nvidia drivers can be a struggle, and wifi drivers have to be configured manually.
But the performance is awesome!
The hardware is still working. I think it's reasonable that the software should continue to work until the hardware is physically incapable of booting. An entire industry deciding that hardware "should" only last 6 years is shameful.
(Typing this on a macbook pro 2012)
all of the things this product wants to solved would be better served by removing cars from our cities. Like everything can be in walking distance, when they're built within walking distance in the first place.
The founder almost got killed by a car. it wasn't because he was on a scooter.
commenting is valid, it would be cool to see that in a feed reader. But ActivityPub can do that, I believe Write.as has comments.
but video ads? none for me thanks.
I don't believe it, its true.
I was on twitter for 7 years. Hundreds of followers, thousands of tweets. Maybe 6 actual replies in that time.
I've been on mastodon for 5 years now. I have people I'd genuinely call friends. A community. Regular meaningful engagement with actual humans about the stuff we make and share with each other.
Twitter isn't designed for engagement between people. its designed to make money by getting you to engage with twitter as a platform.
you need a proof of concept that centralizes various blogs into an updating feed of subscribed blogs.
its called rss
which would you rather have, thousands of people who maybe see your tweets, or a few people who actually engage with what you care about?
numbers vs community.
The article specifically says:
Originally writing in 1692-3, Daniel Defoe noted that the firemen were “very active and diligent” in helping to put out fires, “whether in houses insured or not insured”.[33] Insurance companies’ instructions to their firemen were clear – they were to attend and help extinguish “all” fires. [34], [35]
What specific issue with this do you have? Do you disagree with the content of “Of Assurances”, in An Essay upon Projects? Or the Union Fire Office Board Minutes?
Or did you just not read the article?
...Friends?
Probably internet friends if you have niche interests. But yeah, you're not going to get high quality discussions on arbitrary topics from strangers.
I think there's an axiomatic difference here.
I don't believe any large service is more stable in the long term than a small one. To put it morbidly, all will be dust eventually. At least mastodon has account migration baked in.
Additionally, why would I want all my content to last forever? If I want something to last forever I'll carve it on a rock, not toot it.
Pretty much everything else you listed is a positive.
I don't have access to this article so I'm not 100% sure, but at a guess they mean "many nations have made public claims that they plan to target reaching net-zero by around <some date>"
To my knowledge, carbon emissions are still increasing every year, and increasing in their rate of increase every year. I would love to be wrong.
This site doesn't include pandemic data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
This is the inciting incident for the author of the Mars Trilogy's recent book "The Ministry for the Future".
I highly recommend it if this stuff scares you, and you need a little climate hope.