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(VSCode) Update RPM dependencies file for newer CXXABI requirement #115784

larkeith — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:11:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/115784

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585431

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New comment by larkeith in "NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy"

larkeith — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:39:50 +0000

In the long term, they're pretty much the most important missions possible - even absent disasters, Earth only has so many resources, so designing and testing the technology for extraterrestrial habitation is rather essential.

Admittedly, there are alternatives to manned colonialization (e.g. seeding), but it seems rather worth exploring multiple options, considering the stakes.

New comment by larkeith in "'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude"

larkeith — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:57:27 +0000

> You can't opt out of competition any more than you can opt out of gravity.

Perhaps not as an individual, but I wonder about as a society - I don't know how we would get to this point, but imagine the sheer potential we as a culture could unlock by moving to a more cooperative model; consider the billions upon billions of person-hours wasted on things like stock trading, internal politicking, and marketing/advertising: all the things that provide no value to the race, but "required" to facilitate interpersonal competition.

Of course, none of that is against your primary point, which is that hard work is still, on the whole, required. It just irritates me to see competition equated to a law of nature; we're not animals, we can choose whether and how competition applies.

New comment by larkeith in "Well, Actually – Physics Answers"

larkeith — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 06:44:50 +0000

> "Water is blue because it mirrors the sky."

Seeing that people believe this was quite unexpected, at first - it's such an obvious phenomenon looking down into any slightly deep body of water. But on reflection, it makes sense: many (most?) people in the world might live most or all of their lives without going beyond the shorelines of a sea, ocean, or larger lake/river.

It's a good reminder to always be critical of the assumptions you make, and how much they depend on your own context.

(If you ever get the opportunity, visit Crater Lake. The drop from blue to midnight to pitch is beautiful.)

New comment by larkeith in "Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)"

larkeith — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 02:54:26 +0000

Personally, I much prefer the manual ones, where I can trivially tweak the settings without having to think about it or look away from the road. But that's in part because I usually have the windows down, so constant adjustment is needed to compensate for speed, outside temp, wind speed/direction, etc. - at this point, changing it is second nature. With a touchscreen, even if I could get used to the lack of tactile feedback, it's impossible to know if the right screen is up without looking away from the road (the same issue arises with radio settings).

New comment by larkeith in "Apple removes then restores DoNotPay app in the App Store"

larkeith — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 05:47:56 +0000

This demonstrates the amazing savings of crowdsourcing appeals.

It only took 2-3 hours for Apple to assess the PR cost of banning the app and decide it's not worth the income increase.

New comment by larkeith in "Monitoring a high risk conjunction between two large defunct objects in LEO"

larkeith — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 07:53:20 +0000

Throw enough nukes around and Europa might start to look a pleasant alternative.

New comment by larkeith in "Project Cybersyn"

larkeith — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:30:03 +0000

And that's in the best case. In reality, consumers don't get anywhere near a local maximum, as they are neither well-informed nor entirely rational.

New comment by larkeith in "XB-1 Supersonic Rollout"

larkeith — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:19:36 +0000

Well, IIRC no BD-10 ever actually went supersonic.

New comment by larkeith in "The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday"

larkeith — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 06:18:02 +0000

Or the rest of Y2020, for that matter.

New comment by larkeith in "Is the web getting slower?"

larkeith — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 06:17:07 +0000

You can do some of that with uBO (see "hard" blocking mode), but my understanding is that uMatrix gives you more granular control. I need to learn more about using uMatrix to confirm, though.

New comment by larkeith in "The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday"

larkeith — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 06:10:37 +0000

`datetime.fromisoformat()`, as of 3.7 :D

Though `dateutil` is still recommended for most cases.

New comment by larkeith in "Is the web getting slower?"

larkeith — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 23:44:51 +0000

You can also disable JS via uBlock Origin by default, and enable it on a site-by-site basis.

New comment by larkeith in "URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web"

larkeith — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 08:11:18 +0000

IIRC you can mitigate this by lowering network.http.redirection-limit

New comment by larkeith in "The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s"

larkeith — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 19:40:51 +0000

$5m by 1985, with another $3.5m earmarked [1]. Accounting generously for inflation, that's $25m today [2]. It would be interesting to know what the price would look like if they tried the same thing today.

[1] https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1985/11/4/the-pentagon-f...

[2] https://www.inflationtool.com/us-dollar/1981-to-present-valu...

New comment by larkeith in "Firefox 80"

larkeith — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 19:31:55 +0000

It's very much not an ideal solution, but uBlock Origin lets you block large media elements (and reenable them temporarily or on a site-by-site basis), which might help.

New comment by larkeith in "The demise of the second-hand bookshop"

larkeith — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:17:43 +0000

Less than you would expect for Powell's, since they have an excellent online store for their books.

New comment by larkeith in "Herd of Fuzzy Green 'Glacier Mice' Baffles Scientists"

larkeith — Sat, 23 May 2020 08:08:38 +0000

It's not really hyperbolic - quote from the article:

> "We still don't know," he says. "I'm still kind of baffled."

Science doesn't yet know which motive mechanism these use (they might even use something novel), and that's really cool.

New comment by larkeith in "The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up"

larkeith — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:16:50 +0000

Disable Javascript and the modal goes away. As does most tracking and other irritations. I strongly recommend doing so for most news sites.

New comment by larkeith in "Single div Sierpinski triangle"

larkeith — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 08:29:25 +0000

Seems to be okay on Firefox on my S5 (though it takes a minute to load), in case you want to view it.