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by Scaevolus 1y ago
You can scale this down to be reasonable for homes, yes, but they're specifically trying to make it usable for large industrial processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Combining the two, you can make a thermometer using three candles, a cricket, and a webcam.
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Every new image codec faces this challenge. PNG + Zstandard would look similar. The ones that succeeded have managed it by piggybacking off a video codec, like https://caniuse.com/avif .
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
You can compress even better than standard perfect hashing because not all values are unique, so collisions might be allow you to store multiple name -> suffix combos in the same bucket. Of course, that would mean you lose the ability to
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
the permutations are older than that https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/24/tv/
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
ant biomass is estimated to be 20% of human biomass, so it's remarkably close https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201550119
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Microsoft clearly learned from their Xbox and Xbox 360 mistakes, leading to unhacked (?) Xbox One and Xbox Series X consoles: https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Page 5: "It emits an event, then immediately returns a response — meaning it always reports success (201), regardless of whether the downstream email handler succeeds or fails." This is not the right way to accomplish this. If you
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
You only get that when you register extensions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtime-...
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
I use Prometheus + Prometheus Alertmanager + Any Free Tier paging system (currently OpsGenie, might move to AlertOps). Having a feature-rich TSDB backing alerting minimizes time adding alerts, and the UX of being able to write a potential a
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Having the entire backup as a single file is interesting, but does it matter? Restic has a similar featureset (deduplicated encrypted backups), but almost certainly has better incremental performance for complex use cases like storing X dai
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Denoising generally removes signal too. Removing noise and reconstituting similar noise to maintain the apparent qualities of an input can help compression, but you are also cutting out true details (typically fine detail). The effect GP
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
SQLite can be built with the R*tree module, which supports efficiently looking up all bounding boxes that contain a point: https://www.sqlite.org/rtree.html PostGIS similarly provides an R*Tree index mode, as well as a heap
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Google's "AI Overview" is massively reducing click-through rates too. At least there's a search intent unlike ChatGPT? > It used to be that for every 2 pages G scraped, you would expect 1 visitor. 6 months ago that de
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
It's for zb, a Bazel-inspired build system that uses Lua instead of Starlark (stripped down python).
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Naturally, the (AI-generated?) hero image doesn't properly render the major and minor grooves. :-)
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Who do you think should fund studies for new medical treatments?
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Rsyncable goes further: instead of having fixed size blocks, it makes the block split points deterministically content-dependent. This means that you can edit/insert/delete bytes in the middle of the uncompressed input, and the co
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Most of the perceptual latency on YouTube derives from the massive front-end application, not inherent latency in the backend offering adaptive quality codecs for each video.
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Decker absolutely enables malleable software: https://beyondloom.com/decker/ You can tell when a platform is succeeding at this by looking at its adoption among non-programmers.
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Em dashes and bullet points!
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
This is an extremely bad method of storing text data. Video codecs are not particularly efficient at compressing QR codes, given the high contrast between the blocks defeating the traditional DCT psychovisual assumptions of smooth gradients
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
How well synchronized are the updates of the two displays?
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
They should be able to simulate it! Here's another answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33776796
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
The slideshow appears to be glitched on that first example. The input image has a snowflake covering most of her face.
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Anesthetics are very weird. One of the leading theories is that they basically get wedged in lipid bilayers and interfere with neural signaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_general_anaestheti...
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
Typically services like these are side projects of just a few Google employees, and when the last one leaves they are shut down.
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
There's extremely limited user customization. You can't tweak filters per site or easily add new filters by selecting elements on the page. It's unclear if these are technical limitations of MV3.
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by Scaevolus 1y ago
No. Read the license. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html "4. Combined Works. You may convey a Combined Work under terms of your choice that, taken together, effectively do not restrict modification of t
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The human oversight is mostly to tell off people breaking rules in the cars, not to fix the driving, and is quite easy to automate as they scale.

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