Aardwolf

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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Depends on the use case, while you care about it when writing software for use on modern systems, low level programming on something where you can have unrestricted access to, for example, all of its 1024 bytes of address space at once can
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
So the plural of virus, if it wouldn't have been viruses, would be viri, not virii? I think for octopus I'd have intuitively thought octopi, but for virus I'd have thought virii.
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Tangentially related question: one cause of cancer would be lack of physical activity ( https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer ). What's the mechanism of this? Cancer is caused by bad-luck
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Agree, "email contents" is exactly what I read the title as as well. 3.3B email addresses isn't as impressive if it isn't with other info like passwords or accounts > Oh, and in case you’re wondering, this represents
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Do such long-battery-life silicon-on-sapphire chips (or an alternative) still get produced anywhere today, or is this a lost technology and we have to make do with less battery life now?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
What's the source of the buggy firmware though, it looks like the TVM algorithm was rewritten, a rewrite is not really a bug
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> and it has the best LLM It takes many years to train it though
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> D&D is known for its totally humiliatingly complex character creation, which is usually totally unnecessary, especially when ‘learning’ new players. Had to do that as "homework" before my first D&D session long ago, a
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
While that's indeed literally off by one, typically in programming an off by one error is a fence post error: if you have 4 fence posts, there are 3 sections in-between the fence posts, and off by one errors are about mistaking those t
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I didn't want to watch videos while at work so had to do it with the text, and trying to figure out what it was was hard. First thing I encountered a few times was this sentence: "An independent nonprofit research lab, whose missi
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I've been using meld, also didn't see any ads in it yet. I didn't realize defaulting to websites for diffing was a thing. The closest thing I know to that is github pull requests, which also show no ads afaik. Nothing against
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> For you, turquoise is blue. I mean, turquoise is more like cyan, but it asked me to rate this color that's in-between green and blue as either blue or green so what can I do. It's like asking if orange is yellow or red.
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> For those unfamiliar, Whoop and Oura are high-end fitness trackers that require an expensive monthly subscription. Why is this subscription needed? If you wear the device, can you get the data yourself and analyze it?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
If I'd want a watch that can track metrics like heart and blood, and especially also sleep, has a battery life in the 1-week range (rather than 1-day range), does not require a phone (especially not for setup, but ok if it optionally c
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
How does this API deal with political timezone and DST changes? Will JavaScript versions come with an updated hardcoded database in the spec, or browser updates, or will it require internet connection to get it from some server? What if 2 c
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> 'God's prank on musicians' (where He cruelly rigged the structure of reality such that (3/2)^n!=2^m for any integers n, m but IT'S SO CLOSE CMON MAN) What exactly is this about? Other than (3/2)^12 being 1
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I also hate "1 year ago" when it was actually 23 months ago
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
A similarly interesting video in this pedagogical style is 'Around The Corner - How Differential Steering Works (1937)': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> drastically improved my soft skills I'd love to know how in a fast paced office environment you can improve those, none of the trainings or anything are about this (even the leadership like ones feel like just standardized templat
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
These two do seem connected, at least in my case, maybe the video is waiting for the audio codec. Of course your issue could be something entirely different than what I'm typically encountering! I have like 3 things trying to be audio
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Worked for me in Firefox on Linux!
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
For me I have that with VLC and MPV is the stable one (in Archlinux). In my experience, trying different sound output device or module settings sometimes fixes such issues (and usually pulseaudio is the laggy one)
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I'm mean ignoring single newlines that you enter, so it's wrapping less , not more
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Ignores newlines as well, so just as annoying as markdown to me. Why are almost all of those light formatters removing your line breaks? Everytime someone mentions some markdown variant (and there are many of them!) and I look up the synt
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
This is amazing and seems to just work , the only gotcha I see is that you'd need different versions of the font for different background colors
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Mine has clicky clicks, because I like it! Perhaps a speaker in the keyboard that emits a random click-sound to mask the real sound could be helpful here. But it might confuse the typist when it emits the spacebar sound after you typed a re
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
On the other hand (maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate here): nobody died (I hope at least! It's possible if some hospital equipment, 911 calls, ... failed...) from this incident despite being such huge scale that almost
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Yeah saw that 7y old video quite a while ago and fully recognized the effect, so not sure what "researchers discovered" today... > Using machine learning, they analyzed how people perceive thermal properties via auditory cues.
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
But would there be risk of burning in the atmosphere?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Too bad they can't just parachute down...

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