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by Someone 26d ago
FTA: “Apple Watch Series 12 now offers the most accurate step tracking of any smartwatch.12 The S11 chip also enables the brand-new Steps complication, so users can track their steps in real time, right from their watch face” That must me
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by Someone 26d ago
> Many CPUs, like the AMD Zen CPUs, have more execution units that can do additions, than those that can do multiplications And the reasons for that it takes way more transistors to implement a fast rabbit^W multiplier than to implement
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by Someone 26d ago
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227516-octopuses-were-... : “In the late 1960s, Aradio Rodaniche was diving off the coast of Nicaragua when he made the discovery that has tantalised cephalopod biologists ever sin
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by Someone 26d ago
That already is happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car_liability : In 2015, Volvo issued a press release claiming that Volvo would accept full liability whenever its cars are in autonomous mode. […]
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by Someone 26d ago
If it were that simple, these pages wouldn’t exist: https://www.anker.com/eu-en/verify https://cairovolt.com/en/blog/how-to-identify-original-anker
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by Someone 27d ago
> This is precisely why vibe coding is so successful for building tiny isolated scripts, and so disastrous for anything else. It's just really dang hard to build something large and simple. Brooks, in “the Mythical Man-Month”: “O
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by Someone 28d ago
> because even if you do insertion only you have to do a linear probe to find duplicates. Yes, but that is almost free for the first insert and need not be much work for the second and third. Also, that naive implementation will use less
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by Someone 28d ago
Given that the government already is investigating this, they must know about it. Then, I would expect/hope that means they already had talks with Tesla about this. If so, why start an investigation? They should either allow that car (
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by Someone 29d ago
Because Python dicts guarantee iteration order is the same as insertion order ( https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/stdtypes.html#typesmappi... ) Python dicts aren’t just proper hash tables. Because of that it would
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by Someone 29d ago
> But society in general does not really support professional athletes in any directed “conservatory” sense, beyond the weird obsession with college sports in the USA. At least some countries have programs where (candidate) Olympians get
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by Someone 29d ago
> And in some jurisdictions (notably the US) anybody can sue anyone for anything. That should be the case in all jurisdictions. The justice system exists so that, if I feel treated unfairly, I can go to the state to settle the question w
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by Someone 29d ago
If you copy-paste a folder using the keyboard, a dialog pops up asking you whether to merge the contents. Totally inconsistent with drag-and—drop, but useful to know.
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by Someone 29d ago
> apparently things like exclaves were intentionally omitted for simplicity’s sake. That may not be just for simplicity’s sake. If you include “things like enclaves”, the graph may not be planar. For example, Belgium, France, Germany and
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by Someone 29d ago
> didn't Macron also say he would deploy French troops in Ukraine? AFAIK, he said he didn’t rule out doing that while the war was ongoing ( https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/27/europe/france-macron-t
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by Someone 29d ago
FTA: messages only travel at 100mph I thought that to be very fast for a pigeon. And indeed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_racing#Breeding says: “It is this selective breeding that has given rise to the racing
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by Someone 1mo ago
> and they don't seem to suffer from display scaling since the larger Edge 1050 runs for even longer Why would they suffer from display scaling? At the same device thickness, larger devices have the same volume per cm² of display. A
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by Someone 1mo ago
You periodically pay a fee that gives you the right to use a licensed markdown file, in the same way you can rent movies or fonts. When you stop paying but keep using the skill, that’s called pirating.
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by Someone 1mo ago
> The abstraction does not require a lot of understanding/bodges to get performant code by amateurs I agree the change is simple, and didn’t question that; I questioned the “implicitly” in the claim > Julia is the first language
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by Someone 1mo ago
> Julia is the first language I've seen in years that implicitly abstracts parallelism cleanly. What do you mean by “implicitly”? A single dot is short but not implicit. I also do not see https://docs.julialang.org/e
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by Someone 1mo ago
> but not if we are just suddenly seeing it now FTA: “Fischer and her collaborators combed through the medical records of patients who had received emergency dialysis between 2012 and 2015 at any Harris Health hospital. Out of the 346 c
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by Someone 1mo ago
> You'd expect that with big brains being so costly, evolution has only equipped us with brains big enough to store a lifetime of memories It hasn’t, and rightfully so. I don’t think there’s any evolutionary advantage in remembering
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by Someone 1mo ago
Could be that it wasn’t bad but has gotten bad because of aging of the speaker, capacitors, resistors, etc.
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by Someone 1mo ago
> Banks, Biglaw, and the Pentagon all do it in the cloud. In _a_ cloud: their own virtual private cloud. They also have enough power to negotiate contracts with strong privacy provisions.
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by Someone 1mo ago
For those wondering like me: Blake3 generates hashes of at least 224 bits, not, as a literal reading of that comment indicates, 40 bits (which would be bad for file deduplication, giving you a 50% hash collision after around a million files
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by Someone 1mo ago
Function arguments are unfilled holes. So are interface declarations. Both are (fairly) programming language agnostic, but in the context of an editor, would become specific. The editor would have to know _how_ to represent them in the code
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by Someone 1mo ago
Vinyl wraps - can be cut to arbitrary sizes - can be stretched a bit to make them fit non-flat, non-cylindrical surfaces I doubt either of these can be done with this without breaking the solar cells and/or the sheets. Specialized shap
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by Someone 1mo ago
> For context, NULL/missing was a type. N/A was a type (i.e. a question irrelevant to someone). I can't remember the 3rd, and of course not the additional (4th or 5th) type he was proposing “Don’t know”: this has a value,
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by Someone 1mo ago
If you squeeze your eyes a bit, C compilers for Windows used to have them, with far pointers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_pointer ) Similarly, CPU architectures that use descriptors can (have to?) have languages w
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by Someone 1mo ago
I agree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501582 says: “I use it in a lot of places where I know the max capacity ahead of time -- ensureCapacity() followed by a lot of AssumeCapacity()-styled commands. It's co
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by Someone 1mo ago
FTA: “The motivation for focusing on binary relations is that they generalize functions. Functions are powerful because they compose, making them the building blocks of programs. A function maps every input to a unique output, where as a r

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