HALtheWise

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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Google stopped using information from emails as part of ad selection years ago, the ads shown in Gmail are based entirely on the other ad personalization data they have from other Google properties. They obviously still parse email contents
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Dropping a phone will result in an immediate change from normal 1g gravity to freefall. Throwing it will involve a brief spike of high-g acceleration in between.
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
To the extent that the following claims are true, V2H makes a lot of sense: - The battery in your vehicle is way bigger than you actually need for expected and surprise daily uses. You have at least a few hours warning before trips >150m
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
How much does prettier formatting help here for practical cases? In particular, if the autoformatter allowed that second example with the indentation on the last line, I'd treat that as an autoformatter bug.
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
> spending their untold riches to make the government better is not in vogue. Never has been. Isn't this just lobbying/political contributions? That definitely happens, but I think I'm generally more in favor of keeping
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
> And since philanthropic approaches to such actions demonstrably do not work... It baffles me that you chose to share this comment on, of all things, a post about the eradication of Polio, which was primarily funded by the Bill and Meli
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Candela has been granted a waiver for the 12 knot speed limit in Stockholm, presumably because they make way less wake. Places like the San Francisco Bay are also clear examples of not-the-ocean but no-speed-limits. https://cande
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
I don't think the primary target for these boats is the ocean, they're mostly designed to operate on lakes, bays, rivers, etc
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
In this case, you would presumably make the devices start in the legacy 5V USB pinout, then only switch to sending power over the data pins when the source, cable, and sink all confirm they're specced for it. That should mean there&#x2
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
My understanding is that none of those crates support both instantiating C++ templates from Rust and instantiating Rust generic functions from C++, let alone stuff like implementing a Rust trait with a C++ object from C++ code. These things
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
The entirety of iPhone OS 1.0 fits in the same storage requirements as the built-in wallpapers of the latest releases, so presumably about that much space? Presumably it could be downloaded when you actually have an app that needs it. http
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
One of their demos was showing how they could recover a username/password combination for a third-party site (Instagram), which was specifically possible because a password manager was in use that auto-filled those fields, putting them
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Thanks for digging in and providing sources. The Vice article seems to have been updated to include that Cruise is contesting the narrative where they withheld the full video. It seems like this story is still playing out. > In a stateme
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
My favorite framework here is that a successful startup/business needs three things: a problem that people desire a solution for, a technology that solves that problem, and a business model that connects those two things into a profita
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Does anyone know of attempts to add CPU instructions that allow JITs and compilers to mitigate Spectre by using speculation-safe instructions for safety critical checks? I could imagine a "load if less than" or similar instruction
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Refueling has been banned for a number of years due to safety concerns. As a result, the teams have significantly improved engine efficiency to reduce the amount of fuel they need to carry at the beginning of the race.
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
It's always surprised me that there's not more interest in log-scale/floating-point ADCs built directly into camera sensors. Both humans and algorithms care a lot more about a couple-bit difference in dark areas than light, a
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
The article is suspiciously lacking in actual concrete examples. I'm not an expert here, but I can't actually think of a single historical example of a hack that was targeted at "normal people" and also relied on unpatch
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Minor side note, but you might be interested to know that https://ride.lyft.com/ exists. I was surprised and happy when I learned that.
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
*1000x
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
I stand corrected!
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Given that they made custom silicon for the IO module, I'm disappointed that they didn't include a couple PIO cores in there. It would've been great to be able to use the GPIO pins to drive serial LEDs, as extra uart peripher
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Yes, although 1. You'd definitely want to deduplicate positions of identical pieces for even more savings 2. That only handles the case where no pieces have been captured, and the full arithmetic coding would probably need separate &qu
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
For what it's worth, this definitely isn't the theoretical limit for compressing a chess board position, which I would probably resort to calculating mathematically. In particular, (simplifying to boards with no pieces captured)
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
https://oyie.io/about.html The .html is missing from the links. I agree that it's an embarrassing bug.
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
If we're going with the "start from scratch if it ever proves inadequate" philosophy, then the person who notices the misbehavior looks at the original code, sees that it's written in some obscure language, is undecipher
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
Has anyone ever made a battery-powered kettle with significantly higher power than can be pulled from a wall outlet? Modern lithium batteries can deliver many kilowatts of power, and given that the total energy needed to boil the water is
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
This... seems false? In particular, the point of an "edition" system is that code written for the new edition can seamlessly import code written for the old edition, and so a hypothetical pointerless "new edition" would
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
It's notable that git does support "watching", but it requires some setup on Linux to install and integrate with Watchman. On Windows and Mac, core.fsmonitor has been built in since version 2.37. https://www.infoq.
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by HALtheWise 3y ago
The airline basically does put a tracking device on the bag, in the form of a tag with a barcode and (in some cases) RFID. Having the barcode built into the bag itself wouldn't change anything, there's still things that can go wro

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