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by Someone 8mo ago
FTA: “Minimize Taps Most information about that data should be accessible in a minimal number of taps of the stylus — one or two. Desktop user interfaces are typically designed to display commands as if they were used equally. In reality,
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by Someone 8mo ago
And there’s software to help you with that. For example, using faces, time stamps and GPS info iOS creates collections for you. Yes, it’s crude, and you have to do the face tagging, but I think it’s a huge improvement over not having that.
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by Someone 8mo ago
Another reason for doing cache algorithms in hardware is that cache access (especially for level 1 caches) has to be low latency to be useful.
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by Someone 8mo ago
Nowadays, both are “scan your card at entry and exit”, aren’t they? Elderly will have to do that, too, because a) I expect they still want to track usage, and b) allowing some passengers to hop on a bus without checking in makes it too easy
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by Someone 8mo ago
> This is clearly not the sort of thing you should expose to anyone, it is an optimization technique. If you’re optimizing a workflow that uses CSV files and the data in those files is under your control, speeding up parallel reading of
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by Someone 8mo ago
> because they're such hell for skateboarding, so it never occurred to me they'd be an ADA thing as I assume they're equally hard to navigate in a wheelchair Why do you think so? Even the front wheels of wheelchairs are m
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by Someone 8mo ago
FTA: “Now let's come back to our jumping thought experiment: the issue here is that, if you jump to a random byte of a CSV file, you cannot know whether you landed in a quoted cell or not. So, if you read ahead and find a line break,
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by Someone 8mo ago
He was not alone in that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventive_war#Case_for_preven... . One crucial difference is that they recommended that as the lesser of two evils, arguing it would be better to make the fir
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Basically as it gets colder water exchanges energy with the environment and gets colder. > But once it reaches freezing temperature, it can no longer get colder and all the energy is used for the formation of crystals Water at freez
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by Someone 8mo ago
FTA: “So far to the new OAC codebase there has been some tuning adjustments, renaming various symbols to using an "oaci_" prefix and other preparations for establishing the new Open Audio Codec project,” So, basically all we kno
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by Someone 8mo ago
> it's why the "how many Rs in strawberry" question doesn't trip them up anymore, because they can write a few lines of Python to answer it, run that, and return the answer. That still requires the LLM to ‘decide’ tha
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by Someone 8mo ago
> it uses a world model that evolved over millions of years to model the environment. That's why we can get excellent 3D images from a 2D screen That doesn’t require millions of years of evolution. We can ‘evolve’ it way faster on c
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by Someone 8mo ago
“We have no cure. I don’t want to know.” isn’t the same as “We have no cure. We as a society don’t want to know.” People can be fine with being tested so that epidemiologists can work on growing our knowledge and, at the same time, not wan
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Since lidar has distance information and cameras do not, it was always a ridiculous idea by a certain company to use cameras only Human eyes do not have distance information, either, but derive it well enough from spatial (by ‘comparin
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by Someone 8mo ago
> You still need to hire someone to do the mass surveillance and policing Someone, yes, but not millions, maybe not even thousands anymore. The Stasi needed 1 in 40 of the working population as informers ( https://www.amnesty.o
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by Someone 8mo ago
> That doesn't mean there's a problem with the code, only with the documentation. I disagree. If the obvious way to use an API is the incorrect way, there is a problem with the code. If you must call A each time before calling
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by Someone 8mo ago
Could also make the other part ‘smaller’ and use nail, hoof or dewclaw ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewclaw )
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by Someone 8mo ago
Would somewhat work except for the power usage. I doubt it would scale linearly, but for home use 170 tokens/s at 2.5W would be cool; 17 tokens/s at 0,25W would be awesome. On the other hand, this may be a step towards positronic
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by Someone 8mo ago
FTA: “When you add Bilinear to the type, the warning changes from "catches: BSpline" to "catches: BSpline, Bilinear." You notice.” Do you really notice that? To do that, you have to diff the warnings from a build with
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by Someone 8mo ago
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sandbox-exec&aprop... : “The sandbox-exec command is DEPRECATED. Developers who wish to sandbox an app should instead adopt the App Sandbox feature described in the App San
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Is this comment AI-generated? Who cares? What matters is whether it is good. I’d rather read a good comment that’s computer generated than a bad one written by a human.
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by Someone 8mo ago
> The EU directive doesn't even compel them to have those kinds of removable batteries in the EU, because being removable with commercially available tools is considered compliant This is a follow-up directive that goes further. ht
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by Someone 8mo ago
> My 9 year old ThinkPad T470 is doing well with his 3rd or 4rd battery (and a new SSD and more RAM). But would it be doing well with only a new battery? Chances are a regulation that only regulates batteries won’t do much for tech that
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by Someone 8mo ago
Depends somewhat on the read speed, too. Extreme example: if that is one bit per year, it doesn’t matter that you can write stuff on it.
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by Someone 8mo ago
Wing area (roughly) scales by n² and mass by n³, so size matters for this kind of thing. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Being_the_Right_Size (PDF at https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221&#
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by Someone 8mo ago
> There is not one person on the planet, who wouldn't prefer a doctor who is deeply considerate of the complexities and feedback-loops of the human body, over a doctor who is simply not smart enough to do so and, thus, can't. H
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by Someone 8mo ago
> I think a better approach would be to piggyback off of ublock origin's lists That won’t work. uBlock origin is licensed GPLv3 ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock ), this code is MIT licensed ( https:/&#x2F
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by Someone 8mo ago
https://support.apple.com/en-om/guide/mac-help/mchla3c4f1da/... : “Vehicle Motion Cues Vehicle Motion Cues may help reduce vehicle motion sickness while using a Mac and riding as a passenger in a car or
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by Someone 8mo ago
It breaks the idea that statements get executed in the order they appear in the source code, but it ‘only’ moves and sometimes deduplicates (in functions with multiple exit points) statements, it doesn’t hide them. Of course, that idea alre
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by Someone 8mo ago
For the cases where a destructor isn’t readily available, you can write a defer class that runs a lambda passed to its constructor in its destructor, can’t you? Would be a bit clunky, but that can (¿somewhat?) be hidden in a macro, if des

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