Intralexical

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by Intralexical 7mo ago
Magical thinking is rarely constructive as an argument, but as a fig leaf, it might keep opposition talking for long enough to force through a fait accompli.
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
> I take your meaning with the wax and such, but I think my solution would just be to go bigger and store less data. And I mean bigger like, 20 characters per print bed, or something. But then, at that scale, maybe a QR code would hold u
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
Titanium gets hype, but is it actually the best option considering chemical and fatigue properties? I find it implausible that tensile strength-to-weight would be the weakest part even for good old fashioned stainless steel.
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
The advantage is much more durability. Hardier materials, and the print can lose an entire paper sheet's worth of mass/thickness, and still be readable.
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
> But... is anyone doing that with a 3D printer? Or a CNC machine, for that matter? Do you count plaques on public landmarks? > I think some of the other answered showed that people are, it's just pretty niche. Not something a ho
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
I've experimented with this using one of the commercial print-on-demand services. Not filament, a binder-jet sintering marine stainless steel type of process, IIRC. Slightly modified Noto Sans Extracondensed font with... Let me check t
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
What do people think of ReviewBoard?
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
Framed another way: The market rejects the product at the price it would cost to provide, so companies have turned to addictive designs, skeevy tracking, and information asymmetry/user ignorance to recoup their investment.
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
> users need to act for themselves and optimize their own privacy. > You need coordination if you want to see the balance changed. Which is, actually, what the BBC author of TFA is doing , by writing an article as a user, to inform o
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
It may not be news to you personally, but that doesn't mean it's not newsworthy for the general public.
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
The modern adtech stack is uniquely sinister, especially compared to its antecedents in society. TikTok is not only one of a select few big tech companies that dominate it, but (according to the article), it's becoming increasingly i
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
> Of course you can call individual releases "done" but then you also have to accept that the same realities apply to it that it's utility will decay over time same as e.g. household appliances do, where you also wouldn&#x
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
It's a bit ironic that digital goods, which are arguably the only products which once compiled can be stored, used, and copied perfectly bit-for-bit, are also the only industry that seems to have this problem with being unwilling to ca
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
> platform churn alone will usually demand updates, even if your code is otherwise airtight. Forces generally beyond your access will demand that your code is able to conform to platform standards. Platform churn updates are a failure to
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by Intralexical 8mo ago
The OpenBox WM is a respected piece of software, commonly used on minimal Linux desktops, that has been "done" since at least 2015.
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by Intralexical 9mo ago
> So congratulations to the Trump team: your stupidity and your hate for intellectualism is directly fueling new technologies to the country you consider 'your enemy'. Do we have any evidence that they actually consider China (
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by Intralexical 9mo ago
> They should sit down with corporate leaders at Spotify, Ericsson, ASML, etc. and talk though what reforms are necessary for Europe to start minting unicorns as rapidly as the Americans can. The EU should ask established incumbents how
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by Intralexical 9mo ago
Because nobody who opens a public library does so intending, nor consenting, for random companies to jam the entrance trying to cart off thousands of books solely to use for their own enrichment. https://xkcd.com/1499/
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by Intralexical 9mo ago
Externalities, coordination failure... It's simultaneously worth vastly more to the community as a whole than the cost of producing it, and yet, to any single individual, the marginal benefit of having it is not enough to justify payin
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by Intralexical 9mo ago
IMO Dilbert was always at its best when it focused more on absurdity, and less on rage, cynicism, or ego. I still occasionally think about Dogbert's airliners that can't handle direct sunlight, the RNG troll that kept repeating &q
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by Intralexical 9mo ago
My youth experiences left me with zero desire to ever work anywhere near a tech company. But when I was still in grade school, I once flipped through a Scott Adams book that my father had borrowed from the local library. There's one li
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by Intralexical 9mo ago
Subtracting gravity losses, the largest effect of your 45 degree thrust vector would be sideways acceleration. Which is generally what you want, to get up to speed as quickly as possible, instead of wasting energy ascending vertically. We j
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by Intralexical 10mo ago
> As I'm sure the author is aware, Restic will do hash-based chunking so that similar files can be efficiently be backed up. > Even if the order of the mbox's messages are ~random, Restic's delta updates will forego lar
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by Intralexical 10mo ago
`zpaq add archive.zpaq new.mbox -fragment 0 -method 3` is great for this. It splits the input into fragments averaging 1024 bytes in size [0], which catches up to ~90% of redundancy. The remaining ~10% is packed and compressed into 64MB (ma
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by Intralexical 10mo ago
QNX is the backbone of the auto industry, and powers over 200 million cars on the road. For the target demographic, I don't imagine they need to "build trust" any more than IBM or Microsoft need to build trust. That said, lik
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by Intralexical 11mo ago
"Google's magic calculator" was probably just a wrapper to GNU Units [0], which produces: $ units You have: (1073741823/(600/inch))**2 / A4paper You want: Definition: 3.312752e+10 Equiva
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by Intralexical 11mo ago
For MSVC, have you explored using clang-cl as a drop-in replacement? https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html https://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-04/PDFs/Talks/clang-cl.pdf XWin
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by Intralexical 11mo ago
There's no reason why stealth technology should have to advance faster than detection technology. In fact, in many applications with strong incentives to advance both stealth and detection capabilities, the modern world has trended tow
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by Intralexical 11mo ago
Compare human cone cell spectral sensitivity to the camera modules inside the glasses. [0][1] Usually digital cameras have some major differences from human eyes, particularly near UV and IR. Find dyes with spectral albedo that integrates t
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