emondi's comments

emondi | 3 years ago | on: $3.3B of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB

We had foreign banks who advertised that as a strength and sent their profits to their countries. But when there was a crisis they said we are just a local bank with the same brand as a US bank and won't give the customers their savings back.

emondi | 3 years ago | on: Pelé has died

Maradona was anti-establishment. Compare Pelé with Sócrates for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3crates

emondi | 4 years ago | on: Webster’s 1913 Dictionary for macOS

On debian you can install it with the package dict-gcide

https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/dict-gcide

emondi | 4 years ago | on: Driving with D

What do you mean with "push it hard"? Maybe try a manual next time. Half of the fun of driving for me is switching gears.

emondi | 4 years ago | on: Nano 5.7

Wouldn't modifying some GNU emacs shortcuts to his liking be easier than mantaining that editor?

emondi | 4 years ago | on: Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey

I don't know about orbiter but FlightGear uses JSBsim for flight dynamics modeling which can be very accurate and was even used at NASA. You are correct that as space is not the primary use case for FG the shuttle developers had to start from scratch on many things.

emondi | 4 years ago | on: Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey

This FlightGear's shuttle is the most accurate version. I think the choice of shuttle mission was because of the unusual transpolar trajectory.

emondi | 5 years ago | on: Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005)

Where it says FileName.Extension[,Version] MONITR.EXE,4 What was the version used for? Did it track the changes?

emondi | 7 years ago | on: Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del`

Sure, also it works for me because it is on a system that is frequently turned off. If it would have to stay on for a long time it would fill /tmp with garbage.

emondi | 7 years ago | on: Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del`

I move to /tmp and it gets deleted on next reboot.

emondi | 7 years ago | on: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

I do the same but sometimes I get email from google telling that I should disable access to those unsafe apps.

emondi | 7 years ago | on: What is 1e100.net?

But then NYC would not be LGA but JFK.

emondi | 7 years ago | on: What is 1e100.net?

Interesting that they group the machines by IATA airport codes. I guess that's the nearest airport for that datacenter.

emondi | 8 years ago | on: Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard

People just don't update windows.

That made me remember having to update the BIOS firmware and doing it at 3AM and on a night without wind when there was almost no chance of power going out.

emondi | 8 years ago | on: Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard

You don't need batteries, you just learn to save your files often. I live in the third world too and can say that even with crappy power supplies computers resist quite well blackouts and brownouts.

emondi | 8 years ago | on: Tesla has created a customized insurance package

Maybe an incorrectly maintained car is less safe.

emondi | 8 years ago | on: My grandfather at Dunkirk

According to the movie they didn't need to because it was easier to just drop bombs from the air.

emondi | 8 years ago | on: Kite Responds to the Minimap and Autocomplete Issues

So I guess this is the kind of thing that RMS wanted to prevent when he talked against unofficial packages and repos in Emacs.

emondi | 8 years ago | on: Emacs and Magit

For a copyleft license to do its job you have to enforce it, otherwise it would be the same as a permissive license.

emondi | 8 years ago | on: You were born when? The French Revolutionary Calendar

Ok, but as I know France for good wine and Belgium for beer. I thought the weather was part of what made those special.