Slartie

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by Slartie 4y ago
I work in POS systems, and thus know various kinds of receipt printers rather intimately. It is surprising how much variation the command sets have when it comes to printing barcodes, and especially for more complex ones like QR codes. Olde
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by Slartie 4y ago
AFAIK, semantic versioning does not prohibit you from voluntarily increasing a version number at a more "important" place than the one you need to increase considering the changes you did. It just requires that you increase it if
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by Slartie 4y ago
You should also mention that one classic checkout line with an average-skilled worker is, in practice, easily as fast with regard to the "items processed per minute" metric as 4-8 self-checkouts where average-talented customers pe
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by Slartie 4y ago
> Looking at how well current GPTs are able to write calls to external APIs Are you talking about the behavior of ChatGPT constantly inventing API parameters that would be kind of useful to solve the task at hand, but which unfortunately
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by Slartie 4y ago
Yeah, I also constantly catch myself mindlessly humming some of the original midi songs while doing household chores etc.
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by Slartie 4y ago
"No one ever got fired for buying AWS"
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by Slartie 4y ago
Tesla is a public company with shareholders which expect the best possible return on invest. Obviously "to catalyze the world's shift from fossil fuels to EV's to as quickly as possible" cannot be the intent, but only a
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by Slartie 4y ago
Haha, yes, it indeed invents arguments that aren't part of specific APIs and would offer to do something that you'd like to do in a very easy way, but since they actually aren't part of the API, well, you're out of luck.
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by Slartie 4y ago
Also, the guy uses the "Reichsflagge" as his user picture, which is a pretty sure indicator of him either being one, or at least sympathizing with, right-wing nutjobs. These people are very quickly jumping to conclusions that fit
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by Slartie 4y ago
It was manufactured in 2004 by a US company, "International Concept Management": https://icm-corp.com/ (side note: what a weird name for an aquarium manufacturing and design company)
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by Slartie 4y ago
CPUs offer feature flags that can be queried to learn about the availability of a particular extension. If a compiler wants to generate code that uses an extension if available, but falls back to an explicit (but slower) implementation if t
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by Slartie 4y ago
> due to their own governments stupid energy sanctions game As if the US would have just kept buying 40% of its imported gas from Russia, were the roles reversed.
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by Slartie 4y ago
As huge parts of the kernel are effectively device driver code which interacts with hardware on a low level, classic unit testing techniques like mocking can't be applied - or they could be, by writing a mock for the device in question
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by Slartie 4y ago
I am totally amazed by how well this works!!! I've had the wick routed along the outer side of the fridge for a few days now and it managed to remove every last bit of water (when I placed it there were puddles of water all around the
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by Slartie 4y ago
Also, a 75% reduction (which I assume was meant by their 300 percent) is not that impressive when it comes to text compression. I'd guess that should be easily reachable with zstd by just creating a pre-shared dictionary generated from
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by Slartie 4y ago
90% of content is some scene that draws out 20-25 seconds of boringness in a suggested ascent to some expected climax or resolution at the end, screaming "watch it, wait, it's coming!" at you the whole time, with that resolut
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by Slartie 4y ago
Nice idea, thanks! I've just ordered a few meters of wick and will try exactly this. The puddle actually isn't a puddle; it's more that the condensed water drips down the four sides of the interior walls and collects at the b
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by Slartie 4y ago
> We tried many things, including making a drain hole inside, but nothing helped. We "solved" it with putting 1 kg of adsorbent (silica gel) on the bottom. It lasts about two months between regenerations, so it is quite usable
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by Slartie 4y ago
Which is the typical wattage of an average fridge compressor. This means the OP's parents' fridge is probably running 100% of the time and doesn't manage to transport the heat outside anymore faster than it is re-entering. Ba
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by Slartie 4y ago
Actually not. A lot of people have a freezer, but one set to "fridge mode" (temperature greater 0 degrees celsius)? I have a chest fridge that I use like this, but I searched a while to find one which has a thermostat supporting t
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by Slartie 4y ago
> But it typically lasts 10 before it needs repairs (neighbors replaced the compressor). Typically it's way more than 10 for fridges and freezers. I just recently replaced a chest freezer that was 24 years old. It was still working,
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by Slartie 4y ago
That's pretty high though. I've measured my brand new chest fridge (which I operate as a cooler, thus only set to 5 degrees celsius) recently and it consumes 0.2kWh/d. My old vertical fridge/freezer combo which is over 1
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by Slartie 4y ago
People in wheelchairs, children and shorter people are also unable to reach the upper areas of vertical fridges. So what should we do - ban vertical fridges? Ban vertical fridges higher than the size of a small child?
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by Slartie 4y ago
> my car will twitch when pedestrians turn as if they're going to enter the road (where human drivers mostly don't notice, and if they do they ignore it) As long as those pedestrians DO NOT actually enter the road after those t
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by Slartie 4y ago
They are also demonstrating that they're likely to use specialized services for specific tasks - Twitter is a very specialized tool. This is the exact opposite from someone who draws any profit from an "everything app". If no
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by Slartie 4y ago
Haha, yeah, I have fond memories of these displays. Got my hands onto one by accident as a kid, but didn't have any software to drive it, so I wrote me some software to drive those on the parallel port for display of CPU and RAM usage,
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by Slartie 4y ago
Okay, I'd like to buy some expertise in building anti-gravity devices.
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by Slartie 4y ago
> Thats another problem we can throw money at until it is resolved. The Russians also assumed that "throwing money" at problems, like maintaining a huge army, would somehow resolve them without having to actually do the nasty j
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by Slartie 4y ago
If by "internationally" you mean Western countries: Xi Jinping doing dumb things to save his "face" is very detrimental to his reputation there. No one outside of China thinks his stubborn refusal to abandon the failed Z
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by Slartie 4y ago
Especially since the carbon emissions of Ethereum were a product of Ethereum's existence in the first place, hence an entirely self-made problem, produced by the very people developing and pushing the platform. It's a lot like som

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