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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I assume that it's legal to ride a gasoline-fueled moped in the bike lane. Does this make everyone happy?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No wonder agile is hated

I think that the basic ideas are reasonable. Keep in touch with your team and evaluate the current situation, track progress, stuff like that.

It's just that the excessive codification of the practices becomes overbearing.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Byte order in which Unicode encoding? UTF-16LE?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah, gotcha. What type of cheese did it turn into, out of curiosity?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

I've had no problem with various tools to compute ReplayGain levels. I currently use bs1770gain.

What about volume normalization is problematic for you?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I wouldn't. I'd leave things at now.

I think that the Internet has pretty much monotonically improved over time. Oh, sure, there are some things that I miss, but overall? Today wins solidly. Today:

  • Bandwidth is much higher.

  • Availability is much more widespread.

  • Security is a lot better in most respects. Used to be most traffic on the Internet wasn't encrypted.

  • Flash and ActiveX are gone on the Web.

  • IPv6 is widely available, alleviating address constraints.

  • Email spam is more or less solved, though it does make running your own mail server today a pain.

  • Open source is a lot more widespread and mainstream.

  • I'd say that the reliability of a lot of online services is better.

  • The widespread use of containerization and VMs has dramatically reduced the cost of having a small server in a datacenter.

  • GOG and Steam are pretty amazing ways to buy video games. The selection is inexpensive, readily available, and ludicrously vast.

  • Ditto for Amazon compared to brick-and-mortar plus mail order.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

I liked the first book a lot, and recall liking the series less as it went on.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I guess...uh...that it'd be less dense, so that'd dick up tides on Earth.

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html

Mean density (kg/m³): 3344

https://eurekamag.com/research/001/061/001061121.php

At 8 deg C, mean densities of blockformed and conventionally-hooped cheeses were, resp., 1.094 and 1.091 g/ml.

So that's 1094 kg/m³.

Basically, Earth's tides would be about a third as strong, which I imagine would affect a bunch of things, especially coastal ecology. Dunno how much tides affect weather.

Also, probably alters the reflectivity of the Moon, so would affect the brightness of the Moon. Might affect a lot of nocturnal critters and such. Hard to estimate, since that depends a lot on what cheese is involved.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Less energy density, though.

On the other hand, maybe a less-fire-risky battery would be grounds for increasing the current 100Wh maximum that the FAA places on laptop batteries.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

While details of the Pentagon's plan remain secret, the White House proposal would commit $277 million in funding to kick off a new program called "pLEO SATCOM" or "MILNET."

Please do not call it "MILNET". That term's already been taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILNET?wprov=sfla1

In computer networking, MILNET (fully Military Network) was the name given to the part of the ARPANET internetwork designated for unclassified United States Department of Defense traffic.[1][2]

[–] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 5 days ago

Probably have better luck working on making mines that self-disarm to bound the time that they're a danger. If states assess mines to be militarily-important


and this war has shown them to be pretty useful


they probably won't forego them.

[–] tal@lemmy.today -5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Harris raised a lot more than Trump did in the last presidential general election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/us/politics/trump-harris-campaign-fundraising.html

The Democrats, their allied super PACs and other groups raised about $2.9 billion, versus about $1.8 billion for the Republicans.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25722259

FYI: I ended up posting this with some reservation. Pravda's mediabias is mostly factual. The story sounds quite credible. Other media's report are more or less similar, but weren't as complete. check out telegraph

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