justin66

A number of his works are better than “okay,” today. You’re welcome to view that as a moral dilemma, or not.

I believe the remains of Asimov's literary legacy are probably managed by his daughter along with an agent. Presumably most of the money goes to her too, but I have no idea. In any case she always seemed nice enough.

He’s a seminal figure!

I doubt there’s any permanent damage to the battery. It’s just that the car is bricked and you need a tow truck (and a trip to the dealership to get the battery recharged) if the battery is depleted completely, hence the warning.

I don't get it. I put my Toyota hybrid in neutral while going through a car wash all the time.

I just googled this. I had no idea this was a thing some people worry about. I guess it's a problem if the hybrid battery runs out while the car is in neutral, but there's a meter right there to tell you how much charge it's got if you're really worried about it.

Given how many articles he's published in Reason Magazine over the years, Radley Balko might qualify as "libertarian" or perhaps "civil libertarian" rather than "progressive." Not that the labels ought to matter too much.

(I posted this article with its actual title a few days ago and it didn't pop at all, which is funny I guess)

I really think it's overly generous to throw people who do not understand the importance of extending Voyager's scientific mission into the "our best minds" category. I guess I agree with the larger point.

> Voyager is in maintenance, there is no big innovation or big progress to be made there.

This is just so blatantly ignorant. As if you believe there's some other space agency taking scientific measurements out past the heliopause.

They work for recruitment because... they're cool.

> I've not used a VCS with a worse UI

...than git? than hg?

> commented that it was fake, often with citations

Citations. I'll admit that I'm starting feel like I am culturally out of my depth somehow.

That’s just delusional.

Did anyone actually believe that was anything more than a joke? It was a disgusting and weird thing to suggest about a disgusting and weird guy, and highly immature, but it's only libel if it's presented as being true.

Hopefully it goes without saying but the person you're responding to was just giving an example. The contractor vs. permanent employee pay gap absurdity they're highlighting in government contracting is often much more profound than 20%. 100% higher pay for contractors doing the equivalent work in the US isn't uncommon.

On the contrary, populism and its effects are well understood by historians. This is just another wave.

> Yes, 8GB of RAM is a real limitation. But give it a year and the next version will almost certainly ship with 12GB and a modest CPU bump.

We'll be able to have six browser tabs open instead of four?

I'd say party leadership endorsing a 78 year old candidate for US Senate is not how voting and elections ought to work - I'd say it's a pretty big problem. You're welcome to agree or disagree with that, but more relevant to the context of this comment thread, it is not a problem that would be solved by congressional term limits.

> young people today are bigoted and feel they deserve more than all generations that ever preceded them throughout all of history.

Each generation doing materially better than the previous one used to be a widely agreed upon goal in the United States. Perhaps not really relevant to this comment thread.

> Term limits would fix it

This is really obviously not true. The Democrats' preferred candidate for Maine's US Senate seat, Janet Mills, was 78 years old. She had never served in congress. (she dropped out of the primary when her impending loss became obvious)

> the database got corrupted

What caused that?

That was baffling a quarter of a century ago and it's even more baffling now.

> USB-C is very far from a perfect connector. The female side still has a fragile plastic tongue that can break. They also reliably wear out with use, both the cables and the socket. We've all seen them fail.

Strange comment. My USB C cables have only ever failed around the strain relief after lengthy use, as with any cable that gets handled a lot. I've got a few where I can feel the resistance gradually lessening when plugging and unplugging, but nothing has failed. As someone who wants to keep devices for a while the greatest thing about the USB C power standard sounds a little like faint praise, but: pretty much all my laptops relying on USB C for power will allow me to plug power into a different USB C port if the one I habitually use wears out.

Lightning was more failure prone, not just wearing out the goofy plugs but with failures on the device side. Micro-USB was a nightmare.

> They say themselves they were from US State department or CIA histories of those countries.

Given Wikipedia’s rules and origin, it’d make perfect sense if the early articles referenced the CIA World Factbook when describing countries, if that’s what you’re talking about. There was a dearth of online, open source material to draw from 25 years ago, and on the uncontroversial basic facts the factbook would be fine as an up to date online reference until something else was available.

That would be a rather different issue than CENTCOM employees altering descriptions of the history of US government atrocities.

> I'm guessing the idea on this was that if you needed that much RAM, the sacrifice of L2 cache was a worth while trade off.

The idea was that nobody in their right mind would at the time populate that particular consumer motherboard/chipset with hundreds of megabytes of RAM because it would be hilariously expensive. If you needed that kind of RAM, you were purchasing a much more expensive workstation anyhow.

By the time 384MB was a merely expensive amount of RAM, nobody would be interested in installing it in a Pentium. Those were the days when Moore's Law was still a very big deal. For that reason the firmware probably never received an update to fix the problem, even if that were possible.

The docs on that motherboard sort of suggest that the motherboard could cache up to 512MB. This motherboard uses the new pipelined burst cache technology with 512K size and the memory cacheable size from 64MB to 512MB. I can't imagine they ever actually tested that.

I use a UCA202 for the same purpose. Does yours output static sometimes when it sits for too long? Based on my testing this seems to be a Linux thing instead of a Behringer thing.

The comment you were replying to was talking about funding. If you could develop a scientifically plausible model to defend the "burning fossil fuels is not so bad, actually" thesis, your funders would include the oil companies and the greater petrochemical industry. There is a lot more money to fund projects there than... anywhere else in the world, really, by a wide margin.

Who cares what exogany says about it when actual juries have ruled on the matter?

If there's not a table somewhere maintained by the US government that associates social security number with citizenship status, that's because a choice was made by the government not to do that. It would be a simple enough thing to do.

(yes, checking against name / DOB / ssn always has some inherent messiness to it)

I hope people focus on the nature of the ads as much as the impressive quantity of them. The extent to which quality software and hardware was expensive is probably the main thing people should appreciate. The thing that always strikes me is how long the z80 held on as a thing people would pay for.

Has anyone archived the foreign language editions?