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by GuB-42 1y ago
Isn't it essentially the same thing, but less formal 0.1111... is just a notation for (x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4 + ...) with x = 1/10 1/9 = 0.1111... is a direct application of the x/(1-x) formula The sum of 0.0111... + 0.0011
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by GuB-42 1y ago
You also can't hear your own voice like other people do, because what you hear when you are speaking mostly come from the vibrations in your bones rather than from sound waves going through the air. And unlike with mirrors, something w
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by GuB-42 1y ago
This is the reason I have given up on thinking of smartphones as general purpose computers. I used to root my phone on day one, play with custom ROMs, etc... But then, it became more and more annoying with apps blocking root access, feature
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Not really. Google has maybe the best security researchers in the world, most end users have no idea, Hacker News is not representative of the general population. I am not saying it justifies locking down devices, but that's the kind o
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Musk was definitely good at running Tesla for what matters for a company: making money. I suspect that just as with SpaceX, he shows off more than he does actual work. He is well known for taking credit for other people work, but you can&#x
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I'd go with bad UI/UX. A lot of progress has been made by acknowledging that people are idiots and that the system has to work around that. Toyota, which went from one of the worst to one the most reliable automaker is known for f
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Yes, that's a tradeoff, bondage and discipline languages like Ada and Rust are popular in some fields for a reason. What I like the most is a middle ground: have a language that it permissive when it comes to generating code, but be st
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The problem I have with what I call "bondage and discipline" languages is that while it has value making sure the code is correct, it is not pleasant (for me) to work with. Sometimes I just want to try out stuff, I know there is a
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by GuB-42 1y ago
They are now trying to understand why transformers are so good. That's the thing with deep learning in general, people don't really understand what they are doing. It is a game of throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Vim is far from simple no matter how you put it. It is tens of MB, plenty of features and a steep learning curve. I think a better fit would be nano. Smaller and easier to use than vim. Now, even nano is not that small, if you want small an
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Maybe it should be "really learn about object-oriented programming (at a low level)". Methods are functions, with an implicit argument usually called "self". Unless they are static, in which case, they are just regular f
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by GuB-42 1y ago
My comment was in reaction to the article, which suggests that the browser shall act as a "privacy guardian", which I believe is already the case. It is also kind of ironic that the article suggests a technical solution to a legal
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It already exists. It is called an ad blocker, or content blocker, whatever you want to call it. And we don't need a law for that, it is already working. We may need a law to protect that freedom, and for most part, it is on that side
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by GuB-42 1y ago
How are they supposed to contact their suppliers without email? Even for phone calls, they are probably using some kind of VoIP. For sensitive communication, they most likely encrypt and sign their messages on the airgapped side before movi
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is not a nuclear fission facility, it is "a plant that produces the vast majority of critical non-nuclear components for US nuclear weapons". The also targeted the IT side, not the operational side, which, according to the arti
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Falcon 9 is a massive success. Raptor is currently the best engine for a first stage (unless there is something I am not aware of), and at least a very good one for an upper stage. The Starship itself is almost operational, being able to de
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The images are also shifted to match the mouse pointer exactly, easier to notice near the edges.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It doesn't. Shift+Del, Ctrl+Ins,... can be done just using the right hand, while Ctrl+X/C/V uses the left hand. And sometime you may want to use two hands, which can be done in both cases by using the other Ctrl and Shift key
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Also unsecure. I remember driving around looking for Wi-Fi to steal internet from, I routinely found network shares full of sensitive documents. And I only looked for open WiFi and wasn't even trying to hack anything. If I actually wan
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> A box the size of a paperback, and costing no more than dinner for two, magically distributes broadband Internet to an area the size of a football field. A card no larger than a matchbook receives it. An interesting historical document
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by GuB-42 1y ago
And even then, beware of scams, even in France. "Real small bakeries" is not a guarantee. Simple "croissants" don't have to use butter, and they often don't. "Croissants au beurre" have butter in it,
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is like with all laws. There isn't an agent following your every step telling you what to do and what not to do. You are supposed to know the law and abide by it, and they will occasionally have people make sure of it, be it by poli
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It still is, but at least in her case, she is doing "AI" now. It is still NLP, but it is easier to get funding if you call it AI. That's a weird situation, LLMs are language models , the very core of NLP, and yet the field t
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by GuB-42 1y ago
You seem to imply it is a negative, I don't think it is. 1. They certainly came from the free software movement, but they don't call it "free software", they call it "open source". It is a detail but the name a
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by GuB-42 1y ago
This made me think about a conversation I had recently with a friend who is a researcher in Natural Language Processing. Obviously what we now call LLMs have taken her field by storm, which now mostly consists of trying to understand how th
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> And regarding reporting, how many times can you write the same thing "american's are fat"? Or are you supposed to cover every heart attack on a news story? The article addresses your point with: "A newspaper that co
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Indeed, the "Chuck Geschke spinning in his grave" animation wouldn't have been possible without Flash support!
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Some of them date back from way before Rust and Zig. I am thinking about Qt and Boost. Boost in particular is like a testing ground for future C++ standards, with many of the "batteries" you want included. And it is already C++. O
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Here is a rather convincing answer about why not require user approval for internet access in Android applications. From the Android developers themselves. https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ci4tdq&#
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Smart thermostats and water heaters can to that to some extent. Heat or cool the room a little more and run the water heater when electricity is cheap, so that they don't have to run when it is expensive. Of course, electricity price m

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