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by 3eb7988a1663 1mo ago
PEP 238 lays out the story if anyone is curious. Well into the Python 3 transition, I still had a habit of multiplying the denominator by 1.0 to ensure it was a float. https://peps.python.org/pep-0238/
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by 3eb7988a1663 1mo ago
Anthropic didn't suffer any irreparable harm This is a fast paced business environment where one company being explicitly disallowed by the government could create long-lasting damage. How many institutions might have gone with
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by 3eb7988a1663 1mo ago
I am not a font person, but is the "book" weight a standard thing? I have never seen this before.
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by 3eb7988a1663 1mo ago
Sure enough, Wikipedia says the population in 1940 was only 65k (which is still too many, but whatever). I would still assume that AC installation was very uneven and a luxury at the time.
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by 3eb7988a1663 1mo ago
This is something that I fail to understand - why are there so many people there? Is there unobtainium in the hills that can only be mined from the region? Prior to modern air conditioning, why would people setup there when there are seem
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by 3eb7988a1663 1mo ago
This is so stupid, I love it. Captures everything about the modern Tech Priest praying to the machine spirit.
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by 3eb7988a1663 1mo ago
Don't go overboard, but you have quite a bit of margin for error. I am finding one claim that the upper maximum daily dose for Vitamin D is 4000 IU. A Costco daily multivitamin is 400 IU (most adults are recommended at 600 IU). If you
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by 3eb7988a1663 1mo ago
I don't take it as too-much-syntax in the brain[0], but all of the problems bad syntax causes. We could still be writing code in assembly, but we have found that different languages make things easier or safer to construct. I can trivi
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by 3eb7988a1663 1mo ago
Can someone explain to me why SQL error messages are so bad? I routinely have some monster query where the message is effectively, "Illegal syntax somewhere, dufus".
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
Possibly not a solution for your use case, but I use earlyoom[0]. When memory crosses a threshold value, it will kill the worst offender. Has some knobs to tweak: what threshold level you want, which programs to keep safe, which to prioriti
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
...“designed to ensure that replacement tires sold in the state are at least as energy efficient, on average, as tires sold in the state as original equipment.” My nose for unintended consequences says manufacturers could start sel
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
That ad claims it removes microplastics. I was led to believe there are few easy ways to accomplish such a thing. Is this a, "Well technically, we started at 100ug/mL and ended at 99.8ug/mL => reduction!" or is this a
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
The grievance was that not enough journalists were getting thrown into jails without proper procedures or medical care?
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
The most recent Steam Hardware Survey[0] lists the most popular VRAM at 16GB in 25.9% of users. Second most popular build is 8GB in 25.3%. >=24GB is ~7%, which is quite a bit higher than I expected. [0] https://store.steampowe
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
Do you have a write-up of this? I enjoy seeing these Playstation/ASIC/GPU mining installations which are usually some combination of incredibly clever engineering and duct tape.
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
I swear I read of pharma companies experimenting with this. The idea that because the molecules are so foreign, the body lacks enzymes to breakdown the product, so the drug gets a much longer half-life than would be typical.
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
While I am not sure a web framework can ever be "done", there is certainly a lot less churn required for something so mature[0]. That it also syncs up with Python releases is just an extra cherry on top. [0] Which isn't to sa
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
Pick something slightly esoteric (eg Haskell) and the quality of public code is very high, because you only have enthusiasts writing it. Choose something taught in schools (Python) and you are going to find 10,000 traveling salesmen homewor
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
You are going to have to give more support for those assertions. I write Python every day, and never would I call it a good candidate for the clankers. Pretty much any dynamic language would be ruled out, as there is too much implicit logic
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
It takes 1000 calories of feed to make 100 calories of animal protein. While the type of animal feed is not what humans probably want to eat, the calories already exist today. Without livestock, there would be a huge surplus of available fo
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
That's basically my weather app. Though, I made it fancy at 7 lines of bash which takes location arguments and pipes into jq for display.
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
A suggestion I liked was to time-shift water heaters as a thermal battery. Water heaters are a significant sink (~20%) of household energy. They are already installed and well insulated, you just want to over-heat them during cheap noon sol
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
That might have to do with existing deal structures to maintain a non-renewable base load. Something like, if cloud cover/wind suddenly changes, we want to ensure there is already X% of natural gas running so there is a less sudden sur
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
Does anyone even do repairs anymore? Swap a motherboard and that's it.
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
Sure enough. Oxford only gives a bewildered definition. Although, their ambiguous examples could fit an amused/confused definition. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
Teams still does not make it easy to share your screen when you have a non-standard size. Have to either make the receiver deal with the size mismatch, or share a single window at a time. I have to maintain a 1080p monitor on the side just
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
> no headphone jack I am fully old man screaming at the clouds here, but what does this cost for Dell to include? I insist on a wired headset - telecommunications already barely works, I don't want to add wireless+battery pr
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
I only think of bemused as "confused". Maybe incredulous at a stretch?
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
During peak Covid, Vampire Survivors blew up as the hot game. It is a pedestrian dual stick shooter. There are hundreds of examples which do the same thing, possibly better. Getting a hit game requires decent fundamentals and a heap of luck
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by 3eb7988a1663 2mo ago
Quake came out in 1996, Diablo in 1997, Starcraft in 1998. Sure the adrenaline juicing is more sophisticated now, but there were already multiplayer games which could hook one for life.

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