This is cool- hopefully this allows standardized podman-compose.
Readit NewsclSTophEjUdRanu commented on The Docker Compose Specification docker.com/blog/announcin... · Posted by u/alexellisuk
People running this new “PALM” company probably never even had experiences with Palm products
I remember my father's palm Vx
Is this actually new? With that said, bring back the Palm Pre
I bought a palm pre when I was in infantry school and learned a week later I'd be assigned to a unit in Okinawa Japan where the phone wouldn't work. Cool device though.
clSTophEjUdRanu commented on What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? science.howstuffworks.com... · Posted by u/TenJack
I wouldn't call it "hidden", it's public knowledge. It needs to be filled however because oil is so cheap.
And for the keyboard nay-sayers that are typing on a keyboard made of ABS, walking their down on a nylon leash, holding their iPhone in a TPU case, drinking from a polycarbonate reusable water bottle, wondering how we're going to refine steel for wind turbines, oil is an incredible useful substance.
Let's learn from the N95 mask shortage. It's incredibly important to have national stockpiles to decouple ourselves from the events in the world (like the one happening now).
Oil is useful. I get it. How much oil is burned in comparison to oil used in manufacturing? When we typically talk about eliminating oil we are talking about not burning it anymore.
clSTophEjUdRanu commented on How much space would it take to store every word ever said? blog.jldc.me/posts/word-s... · Posted by u/jonluca
That must be an absurdly small subset of the universe of sentences; for example, this sentence itself has likely never been spoken or typed until now.
There are 7.06e57 combinations of playing cards. Odds are that every time someone shuffles a deck of cards it's a unique shuffling.
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Worst April fool's joke of all time.
clSTophEjUdRanu commented on Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls autocar.co.uk/car-news/mo... · Posted by u/trenning
The sad but real reason a ton of this is happening is one very big word that is typically not present in things like car / airplane design: flexibility... flexibility to change the user controls, flexibility to fix problems, flexibility to let the SW team work up until the last minute to get stuff working, and the second part that goes with this is cost. Touchscreens mean increased flexibility for the design and better control over cost to deliver features. Unfortunately, if the display dies and you can't see anything, then the car or plane may crash... so sadly it will probably take a couple of those events happening for this to be changed to have some kind of redundant systems that the pilot can use when the display dies suddenly.
You'll often see screens surrounded on all sides by physical buttons. The screen can be updated and changed over time but the interaction is still physical.
clSTophEjUdRanu commented on Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls autocar.co.uk/car-news/mo... · Posted by u/trenning
Look at the cockpit of any modern airliner and you will see screens, but they are never interactive. There are hardware buttons, dials and lights all over the place. A tactile interface is both more obvious, sturdy and more stable, and therefore safer. The problem that touch interfaces solve, ever since the advent of the first smart phone, is that the interface is now dynamic. You can change it without having to replace the hardware. Here's the catch: for safety critical interfaces, YOU DO NOT want the interface to change. The point is moot.
Touch screens will hopefully never make it into any critical pilot systems, because safety and stability matters to airline manufacturers, current ongoing scandals notwithstanding. I only wish automobile manufacturers took their job equally seriously.
I'd argue that humans have evolved to physically manipulate their environment. Safety critical systems are the last place you want UI variation. Things need to be predictable and tactile to build muscle memory.
I don't get how sites like Meetup can be "struggling". Shouldn't a company that runs a site like Meetup be pretty lean, only needing a handful of people to work on it? Seems like it would cost very little to maintain, but what do I know.
I thought the same thing about Uber.
Keyboard rant: I'm appalled that it's so hard to find a good mechanical keyboard that is not meant for gamers with those RGB lights. Part of the problem is Europe, some options either don't get here or are usually out of stock. But even looking at the total market there are just not that many mechanical keyboards with quality switches, a simple backlight light and a USB hub with a couple ports in the keyboard.