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by Someone 6mo ago
> the TUI designers will be more tightly clustered together because the TUI interface constrains what's reasonable. It constrains what’s possible, not what’s reasonable. For example, one could typically fit more text on a screen by
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by Someone 6mo ago
FTA: $ cf find large files older than 30 days > find . -size +100M -mtime +30 -type f find / -size +100M -type f find . -mtime +30 -type f -delete [arrows: navigate] [enter: select] [q: cancel] So, when
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by Someone 6mo ago
The 8086 had about 30k transistors, the 8087 about 65k. ⇒ I think it mostly was a matter of “that’s what it will have to cost at our typical margins”. Because you get lower yields for larger chips, that meant a larger than 65/30 multip
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Limitations - No eval: eval, instance_eval, class_eval - No metaprogramming: send, method_missing, define_method (dynamic) - No threads: Thread, Mutex (Fiber is supported) - No encoding: assumes UTF-8/ASCII - No general lambda calculus
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by Someone 6mo ago
FTA: the nine-inch Mexican axolotl There aren’t many baby salamanders that size, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_giant_salamander#Breed... says “external gills remain until a length of about 20 cm (8 in) a
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by Someone 6mo ago
https://press.plaion.com/pl/The-ZX-Spectrum-that-never-was-u...
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by Someone 6mo ago
The first example is “go ahead, try to find the single C0 in these bytes” and then argues one should highlight C0 bytes. If that’s true, how does the tool know I will be looking for C0 bytes and not for 03, D3, etc? The logical conclusion o
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by Someone 6mo ago
Another next logical question is whether we can engineer plants to get better at capturing solar energy. Turns out we (somewhat) can. See for example https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aai8878 : “Crop pla
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by Someone 6mo ago
> In sales, it is fairly easy to make the game benefit both the sales folks and the business because sales directly drives revenue. Game it however you want, everyone wins Not even that. Hit your top sales target for the year in November
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by Someone 6mo ago
> At the limit, GCs are an abstraction that is always going to make worse runtime choices than purpose-built code. You can say the same about any abstraction, such as having a generic memory allocator, using a standard library, actually
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by Someone 6mo ago
> No one is stopping Dell, Acer, Asus, Samsung etc of the world to put order of 50 million widgets and get best quality at cut throat price. That’s why I argue that’s something Apple does different. Dell, Acer, Asus, Samsung go to a manu
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by Someone 6mo ago
> To do a subtract, you have to propagate the carry bit from the least-significant bit to the most-significant bit. Yes, but that need not scale linearly with the number of bits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry-l
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by Someone 6mo ago
For that, a Forth is superior because it allows you to augment the set of commands.
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by Someone 6mo ago
> 3 years since the DMA came into effect, and nothing has changed. Not nothing. In the EU, there are settings now to set default apps for browser, email, navigation, contactless payments, calling and messaging, for example. And there are
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by Someone 6mo ago
I think a major difference is that Apple doesn’t see factories purely as stores where you buy the stuff they advertise they can make; it cooperates with manufacturers to get them to build things that they couldn’t make before. They are will
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by Someone 6mo ago
I agree, but there’s a tiny caveat that this is for one specific benchmark that, I think, doesn’t reflect most real-world code. I’m basing that on the 1.6% improvement they got on speeding up sqrt . That surprised me, because, to get such
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by Someone 6mo ago
> I was rather hostile towards WebUSB/Bluetooth for ideological reasons, until I came across some cool apps […] which I would have found overkill to install a "hard App" for. So, basically, you got seduced to loosen up you
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by Someone 6mo ago
https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/... : - rules on disassembly and repair, including obligations for producers to make critical spare parts available within 5-10 working days, and for 7 years a
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by Someone 6mo ago
In the early 1980’s, what did people use home computers such as Atari’s and Commodore 64’s for? Mostly playing games; nerds also used their computer with the goal seeming to be… using their computer. It wasn’t (only) that, though; they also
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M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan(earthquake.usgs.gov)
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by Someone 6mo ago
The supported way is to use the Kernel Debug Kit and use two Macs. See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/debu... . I guess you could also write a kernel extension that allows inspecting memor
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by Someone 6mo ago
> plus up and coming (actual production-ready) Plus up and coming (not quite production-ready IMO, but used in production anyways): ChatGPT and the like. Of course, it’s debatable whether they are programming languages, but why wouldn’t
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by Someone 6mo ago
J is APL-inspired, and APL is right-associative, so that would surprise me. https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/preliminaries.htm#_Toc1... agrees with that, saying “All J verbs (functions and operators) have the
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by Someone 6mo ago
And for the fact that you may not need a backpack that lasts 10 years, or that you may want one that fits with whatever you prefer, e.g. matching what is in fashion over the years, or matching you growing older.
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by Someone 6mo ago
Is there a “ the App”? The text I referenced talks of “a Reference Implementation”. That suggests, to me, that there will be multiple apps, leaving open ones for other platforms than smartphones. And yes, it remains to be seen whether, as
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by Someone 6mo ago
It’s not like recycling through other means is hard, is it? I expect most of that 30% recycled material is from other sources than traded in devices.
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by Someone 6mo ago
Akismet provides a service and a Python library for calling that service. The service has 3 possible returns: not spam, likely spam, and definitely spam. Their library maps those 3 to 2: false, true. So, if you use their library, there’s no
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by Someone 6mo ago
From skimming the texts, I don’t see a 100% hard requirement of using a smart phone. Yes, in https://ageverification.dev/av-doc-technical-specification/d... , section 2.3 User Journey says “To enable online age verific
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by Someone 6mo ago
> A $35 JanSport that dies in eighteen months: $23 per year. […] A $200 bag that lasts ten years: $20 per year. Already cheaper. If it is, it isn’t by much. The difference between $200 paid now versus 7 times $35 = $245 over a period of
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by Someone 6mo ago
I don’t see why that would be proof of being written by a LLM. It quite well can be (and I think it is) stylistic writing, hammering the message home by repetition of blows.

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