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  1. Artlav

    Humor Woman dobs in drug dealer who sold her sugar instead of cocaine

    So... Time to legalize medical cocaine and get these scammers under control?
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    News Raspberry Pi computer, is it rational?

    Yeah, why would anyone ruin a perfectly good computer by putting Windows on it...? On a serious note, how usable is it? Is there any software available for ARM Windows? I suspect it's no longer compatible with Windows CE of the 00s, the last time i saw such a combination.
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    Discussion JWST delays

    In 2026. Source: https://xkcd.com/2014/
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    Internet Cthulhu, an Arduino shield that lets you taste the Internet

    K-tuu-l-huu, obviously. At least, that's what it is in cyrillic versions.
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    Malaysian airlines aircraft "shot down", SA-11 apparently

    Your conspiracy sites aren't high grade enough. I've seen satellite images of the said jet, with the jet caught in the middle of firing a missile at the Boeing. ...except the "conspiracy sites" were regular news sites, and the "satellite images" were painfully obvious photoshops.
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    News Raspberry Pi computer, is it rational?

    Speaking of temperature ratings, by now i got quite a few of them doing stuff like being cameras or being an exit node for a network of sensors in unheated places. No problems were observed during the winter, with temps as low as -30*C (CPUs on Pis never got below zero, however). So it's not...
  7. Artlav

    Orbitr mobile phone app

    Hmmmmm. Why not? ( Context: https://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=587353&postcount=25188 , Something like that should also be practical in Orbiter using a custom graphics engine )
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    Do you ever think of your car as a spacecraft?

    Not usually, but i do notice myself going through a go/no go sequence before long trips. :/
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    Humor Random Comments Thread

    The realization that helped me the most in programming was to keep code simple within each level of abstraction. In practice, that means making bits of code that do one thing only. IDCT bit does IDCT, huffman decoder does huffman decoding. JPG parser use both to do JPG parsing, image library use...
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    Humor Random Comments Thread

    And that here perfectly sums up the entire 15 year history of Spaceway development... 2007, no? Or what kind of iPhone are you talking about?
  11. Artlav

    Humor Random Comments Thread

    ARG as in alternate reality game? Isn't it some marketing shtick from the 00s?
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    Humor Random Comments Thread

    Seeing how New Horizons is doing got me into a mood to play with virtual space probes. The old Spaceway engine can't really do bilobale asteroids, unfortunately, but whatever is doable should be good enough. Instrumentation modules like a camera carry their own renderers, so i could ignore...
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    Problem OGLA: Frustrated to my wits end

    Orbiter 2010 and OGLAClient... Feels like it was a lifetime ago. Two lifetimes, to be precise. :/ I would hazard a guess that this got something to do with GDI emulation layer (which was always lousy and imprecise), so either MFDs or panels. If so, try isolating it to a single one. As the last...
  14. Artlav

    Escape room fire kills five teenagers in Poland

    From the sound of it the room was not properly equipped, that is it was locked for real or lacked fire exits. Knowing Poland, it might be either lack of regulations or lack of effs given about them.
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    Science New process endows wood with super properties

    Densified wood? Isn't that a really old idea? Like, 19th century level old. What's new about their way of doing it?
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    Humor Random Comments Thread

    Indeed. Having made a game and an auto-update system, i had to bundle arcane update instructions several times before just settling on game.exe and assets.zip, each being separately updated as a whole. Even if it's a NUSPI, making differential updates is a whole project on it's own. Well, it was...
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    Rant Royal Mail criticised for D-Day stamp mix-up

    Well, one day they would make a stamp commemorating the anniversary of the first photo of the far side of the Moon, and use a photo of Mercury. They are both gray cratered spherical rocks in a vacuum, who would notice the difference? :/
  18. Artlav

    Rant Royal Mail criticised for D-Day stamp mix-up

    On the bright side, screwups like that tend to produce the most valuable collectibles a few generations later.
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    Humor Random Comments Thread

    Hm? All the controllers are USB these days, and perfectly compatible with a PC. I.e i got a PS4 controller for VR use some time ago, never had any problems with it under both Linux and Windows. It even works over bluetooth. It even works over bluetooth when connected to a microcontroller on a...
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