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byVaccinesCauseAdults
January 31, 2026 @04:55AM
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Attached to: UK's First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding
Dumb comment.
Electric trains are far better, removing pollution from urban centres, similar to London ULEZ.
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
anuary 25, 2026 @08:34PM
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Attached to: Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM
Iâ(TM)m aware of this. We have thousands of Linux workstations running (mostly) RHEL 9 Rocky, both as dedicated developer and artist machines, and in site farms for distribute compute.
What I meant was, it still isnâ(TM)t Year Of Linux On The Desktop because only some tiny percentage of machines in the world with local users are running Linux.
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
anuary 25, 2026 @03:43PM
(#65948460)
Attached to: Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction
Oh i missed that. I assumed we were talking about modern wind turbines in wind farms. Those are the ones Trump hates around his golf courses, or around the entire United States for that matter.
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
anuary 25, 2026 @03:18PM
(#65948426)
Attached to: Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM
"Large language models" are "artificial intelligence" in much the same way that "Linux" is "on the desktop".
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
anuary 18, 2026 @04:20PM
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Attached to: Astronomers Finally Explain How Molecules From Earth's Atmosphere Keep Winding Up On the Moon
Updated Summary
They followed the atrocious cartographic design choices and âoeprogrammer artâ interface of Google Maps
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
January 17, 2026 @05:18PM
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Attached to: Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction
It is also partly due to the wind farms near his golf course in Scotland. He totally got his knickers in a twist about them, and now sets US energy policy based on his mood.
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
anuary 11, 2026 @05:32PM
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Attached to: How Many Years Left Until the Hubble Space Telescope Reenters Earth's Atmosphere?
Every measurement in the article has been converted from metric to noddy units, and spurious significant figures have been added.
373 mi = 600 km
326 mi = 525 km
248 mi = 400 km
94.5 in = 2.4 m
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
January 06, 2026 @08:27PM
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Attached to: Nvidia's New G-Sync Pulsar Monitors Target Motion Blur at the Human Retina Level
By comparison, Unicode mojibake on this Soviet-era bulletin board of a website is visible even at 1000 Hz.
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
January 06, 2026 @08:24PM
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Attached to: Nvidia's New G-Sync Pulsar Monitors Target Motion Blur at the Human Retina Level
When the eye follows a fast, high-contrast object â" such as a mouse pointer or a tracer round in a video game â" the displayâ(TM)s frame rate causes the object to appear as a series of successive images. This occurs because the eye smoothly tracks the targetâ(TM)s average position, while the target itself jumps discretely from one frame to the next. The effect remains visible even at 120 Hz or higher, and under certain conditions can persist beyond 200 Hz.
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
anuary 04, 2026 @09:53PM
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Attached to: What the Linux Desktop Really Needs To Challenge Windows
I forgot version control for staging and commits, merging and conflict resolution, branch management, editor blame annotation, pull/merge request reviews etc. With the items I mentioned a lot of development can be done entirely within VSCode, albeit with the right plug-ins installed. I still hate it though!
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
anuary 04, 2026 @09:46PM
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Attached to: What the Linux Desktop Really Needs To Challenge Windows
* classify VSCode as an IDE.
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
anuary 04, 2026 @09:46PM
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Attached to: What the Linux Desktop Really Needs To Challenge Windows
I personally hate it, but VSCode allows editing, building, running, debugging, testing, project configuration for platforms and build targets, code browsing, language syntax highlighting outlines with live symbols, editor indications of warnings and errors for compiler errors, style guidelines for lint or name standards, etc etc. I think this covers a lot of what people mean when they say Integrated Development Environment. Personally I use Clion because features are higher quality and a lot less faffimg around with plug-ins, but I would still classify as an IDE.
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
anuary 04, 2026 @06:22PM
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Attached to: NYC Phone Ban Reveals Some Students Can't Read Clocks
Good to know. That would have been great thing to say in the original post. Because saying “it has lots of kids and a big budget” leaves the per student budget unknown.
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
January 03, 2026 @06:56PM
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Attached to: The US Invaded Venezuela and Captured Nicolás Maduro - But ChatGPT and Perplexity Disagree
Oh the United States. I missed the 77 million reference at first..
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byVaccinesCauseAdults
January 03, 2026 @06:38PM
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Attached to: The US Invaded Venezuela and Captured Nicolás Maduro - But ChatGPT and Perplexity Disagree
Okay I give up. What country are you talking about?
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