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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Looking at this makes me nostalgic in a way the author probably hasn't intended. Rust is notorious for its slow compile times, while Turbo Pascal was known to be blazingly fast. And the debugger, one of the most important part of the e
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
These laptops are also kind of expensive for the specs, they can afford to increase the prices. Entry-level and gaming hardware is probably suffering the most as they compete in getting the best specs for cheapest. Niche and premium product
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I wouldn't call any port "prudent". In general, taking mature software and doing any major rewrite is one of the riskiest thing you can do. It is a large scale attempt to fix what isn't broken. Sometimes it is worth it,
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
> I strongly recommend those magnetic USB connectors Note that these connectors are in violation of USB standard and potentially harmful as they expose the pins in an unintended way. For instance, notice that all the connection on the US
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Is there any other details on what it means. There is a difference between: - Having a manufacturer promise that the battery will last with little oversight on how testing is done and no specific warranty. - A lifetime warranty where any ba
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It is also a rugged phone. So if you want to make a fair comparison with an iPhone, you have to put the iPhone in a case, resulting in a similar weight and thickness.
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Oh yes, I think the title is a bit misleading. It is an argument against MOND, a theory that says that gravity has to be modified to account for some observations. But for these particular observations, general relatively and Newton's
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Dark matter is invisible, but it isn't magic. It is not significantly different from neutrinos. No one seriously denies the existence of neutrinos nowadays, even though they are invisible (i.e. they don't interact electromagnetica
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At these scales (entire galaxies, very weak forces), it doesn't make a significant difference. There are ways of adapting MOND to match general relativity, should it turn to be correct at explaining what it is supposed to explain (like
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If you follow Sabine Hossenfelder's channel, she has a MONDOmeter. With MOND (modified Newtonian gravity) on one side and dark matter on the other side. As new papers come out the needle goes back and forth, and I guess that she will m
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The other thing with climbing gyms, especially bouldering is that you only spend maybe 20% of the time climbing. With 80% time off, that's a lot of opportunities for socializing. You don't get that with the high intensity training
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
The problem I have with functional programming is debugging. Or more precisely, I would say it is a strength of imperative programming, especially the procedural kind. In functional/declarative style, you generally describe how things
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DO_NOT_TRACK support doesn't mean tracking is not an explicit opt-in. Example: the software crashes, and there is a crash handler that asks you if you want to send a crash dump. With DO_NOT_TRACK, the crash handler is disabled entirely
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
The question is not about saving milliwatts-hours on your electricity bill, it is about where these milliwatts are going. One is heat, heat is not great, it puts more stress on components, mechanical and electrical, reducing longevity. Anot
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Altman played no small part in the current price of RAM. He told everyone he would buy 40% of all the RAM, causing shortages and a huge increase in price, just to take it back a few months later. So yeah, he is a bad guy now. People don&#x2
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It turns out that teenager you had something. Not for the ternary version of the binary search algorithm, because what you had is just a skewed binary search, not an actual ternary search. Because comparisons are binary by nature, any searc
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
There is something about using quality tools that goes beyond practical. For example, I like coding on a nice keyboard, and I think I am not the only one here. But realistically, the cheap keyboards that litter offices everywhere work just
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For me, there are two reasons: One is simple marketing. "We have a product that gives you superpowers, but we have to be careful, imagine if everyone had superpowers, it would be chaos". Most people reaction would be "I don&#
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It is "one time" in the sense that it will never stop working, unlike a subscription model. You are however limited to 3 years of updates, so if you want to keep up to date, it is $80 for 3 years. Which if fine for me, it is the o
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There are situations where vehicles have a lot of parts moving with respect to each other, especially rockets.
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I doubt that anything in the military is that advanced or complex, including nuclear subs. A big part of it is the secrecy itself. Things get difficult when you can't communicate. Your pool of candidates for the job is limited: you m
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It is more like: I love MTG, how to learn a language through this hobby? As far as games go, tabletop RPGs are probably better than MTG because they are all about talking. But nothing beats doing what you enjoy doing, and if what you enjoy
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I guess they failed at the "during the gold rush" part. Selling picks and shovels after the gold rush is a terrible idea.
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One thing from the article that isn't clear. Do people who see little people actually believe they are real, even when they know about the potential effect of these mushrooms? This is a fundamental difference between psychedelics such
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It feels like the article is seeing the 1999 internet like the internet of the early 1990s. 1999 was during the dotcom bubble, Internet Explorer 4/5 was the leading browser, Yahoo! the leading search engine, pop-up ads everywhere, it w
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Guns primary purpose is to kill. The primary purpose of genAI (image generation goes beyond the scope of LLMs) is not to mislead, they are used successfully by millions of people for purposes that are in no way nefarious. It includes valuab
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
I don't know about how the Italians say it, but in French, we would say "la La Marzocco" and it is normal. The first "la" means "the" and the second "La" is part of the name. The second "La&
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Politically, it has to be a calculated move. Some people oppose it, others support it. I think most people here are pro-cannabis and liberal, and I think most will see legalization as a "win", but politically, is it really? Will y
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I can't think of anything better than a hex dump for representing raw binary data. I don't mean that there are no others, equally good representations, but hex dumps win because of familiarity. Of course, if you know about the for
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For age it is common and explicit. Senior discounts for instance, and a bit less explicitly, student discounts. It feels better when it is framed as a discount, but it is equivalent to overcharging those who don't get the discount. For

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