Aardwolf

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by Aardwolf 1y ago
I wonder why the title of the sequence isn't set to "Hofstadter's sequence" since that seems to be what it's called according to A030124 when it refers back to this one
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
> [0] don't reply to me about NaNs, please The question is why they added so many NaNs to the spec, instead of just one. Probably for a signal, but who actually uses that? For IEEE float16 the amount of lacking values due to an enti
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Another one is the Microsoft Sam (& co) speech synthesis, it can also produce funny results, like someone making copter sounds with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vNhLYW_e4
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
I like the throwback 1998 design while it's created in 2025. They got it down even to the colored grain on the photographs and text with jpeg artifacts on them - even though that is something that actually did improve in 2025 :)
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Rotation for speed/efficiency/compression reasons (indeed with PNG's horizontal line filters it can have a compression reason too) should have been a flag part of the compressed image data format and for use by the encoder&#x
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Exif can also cause confusion for how to render the image: should its rotation be applied or not? Old decoders and new decoders now could render an image with exif rotation differently since it's an optional chunk that can be ignored,
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
> All natural uranium today contains 0.720% of U-235. That's related to the material of our solar system all coming from the same supernova explosion or similar, right? Does this apply to our entire milky way or just the solar syste
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
> relatively feature stagnant Is that a bad thing? It's a useful dedicated tool. Paperclips have been feature stagnant since the 19th century, and they're fine
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
The article talks in the past tense, but doesn't mention what it got replaced with. Searching for it reveals pink plastic chicken glasses for sale today, so they still seem to exist. Or maybe those are blinders instead
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Give it also an hdmi screen and usb keyboard, what more do you need to type code and see the result
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Nostalgia for those good old times of quarantining in 2020
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Wouldn't it have to be a black hole anyway given how much matter was concentrated in a small point?
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
> combination of the manufacturer, make and serial number What if a new aircraft were made 50/50 from the parts of two older aircraft
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
So in 50 years our current articles worrying about AI and artists will look as dated and silly?
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
If something breaks the laws of physics it simply means the laws of physics were incomplete, so we update them and now it no longer breaks them
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
I see, I thought 3D graphics in browsers already existed and worked in Linux for a very long time so this must be a new one then... what's the difference between WebGPU, and WebGL that allowed demos like this one since long ago? https
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
It says "Browser doesn't support WebGPU" in both Chrome and Firefox in Linux What's the situation of WebGPU, is it supposed to work in Linux or not? I'm sure that I've seen other GPU-like things (water simulati
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
> damaged mitochondria Does that mean in all the cells or only some? Does this damage remain as cells die and get replaced by new ones? Is this damage encoded in the DNA or caused later by COVID? What I mainly mean is, is this damage get
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
When I was at university I'd sometimes print PDFs as 4 pages per side to save paper, and some LaTeX-generated PDFs had some horrible font that became unreadably pixelated (while on screen it looked fine iirc). Not all PDFs were like th
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Missed opportunity to add a "viewing this dashboard (0.00000125%)" stat since it already has the live viewers counter :)
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Why "finally"? To me, KDE's job should be to organize and render windows, application launcher icons, and the like If I want a virtual machine, I'll use a virtual machine for that All this "KDE suite" stuff and
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
> Miele kitchen equipment That's... pretty standard in Europe
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
> It was sad to turn my back to, but it got me a 5x salary bump. It feels like there's missing a step here, how did we get from leetcode to 5x salary bump? > But what about my skillset? Despite significantly regressing How can sk
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Don't worry, AI might need so much energy in the end that it'll need fusion energy
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Take that, Intel and your "let's remove AVX-512 from every consumer CPU because we want to put slow cores on every single one of them and also not consider multi-pumping it"
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
It's weird that when clippy was new I found it to be everything that's wrong with UI design, and today I'm nostalgic for it
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
I sometimes use Skype in a web browser on Linux. Will this migration to Teams work in that as well? The instructions in the article say "Download Teams on your device" so that makes it sound like no...
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
Ok I see, it's a 2D shape in 3D space, you actually need the 3th dimension to contain this shape... At least I find that there's s distinction between a 2D shape you can draw on a 2D screen (like a filled rectangle or a disk), and
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
What does a 2D manifold with a Kervaire invariant of 1 look like? I only found a technical article that didn't show any images at all, and 3D looking images in image search Visually seeing a 2D one might help understand what it is thou
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by Aardwolf 1y ago
I actually like that some Wikipedia articles are smaller in my mother language than in English, it gets more straight to the point, so indeed replacing these with auto translations from English would be a loss

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