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by Someone 1mo ago
Photorealistic 3D models, ray traced, using a LLM reading your camera feed to determine where to put light sources in the modeled world.
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by Someone 1mo ago
> Most of that industry is still at "press 1 for sales, 2 for billing..." and needs something that will run locally on a 1U server. Needs? Customers want something that immediately answers their question/solves their probl
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by Someone 1mo ago
> but can't you just mark all "/" as potential divide by zero errors? If you’re accepting large false positives rates: yes. If you want users to take your warnings serious: no. (Nitpick: you certainly don’t want to fl
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by Someone 1mo ago
You also will have to handle people using your site to store other content. For example, how do you guarantee the notes are describing the book and not, say, posting ads, discussing drug deals, posting pornography, mentioning things that ar
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by Someone 1mo ago
I don’t think you can fix language flaws by fixing examples. Also, you didn’t fix the example, you replaced it by code that did something completely different.
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by Someone 1mo ago
I don’t see the AI act giving those permissions. In fact, I don’t think the AI act applies at all here. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:... : “This Regulation does not apply t
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by Someone 1mo ago
Code example FTA: to 'start clock'. Print "Press Ctrl+C to stop showing the time.\n". while true, A number called 'this hour' is current time's hour, A number called 'this minute'
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by Someone 1mo ago
Those ‘only’ measure glucose levels. As the article says, this is the first approved device that monitors both ketone and glucose levels.
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by Someone 1mo ago
>> no, you can also call ntdll (or even syscalls although those aren't stable), there's plenty of documentation on the internet > I mean officially. Yes, you can find some on the internet, but nothing on the official MSDN
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by Someone 1mo ago
> Destroying a vibrant ecosystem for a one-time catch is so selfish and shortsighted it’s amazing to me that anyone would seriously consider doing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing#Examples_and_evide...
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by Someone 1mo ago
Without cache, without virtual memory, without throttling when the more hardware is switched on or the CPU gets hot, without memory that’s unreliable under load ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer ), etc.
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by Someone 1mo ago
Unfair comparison. The Windows tool (FTA): “Runs a Windows message loop Has a title bar, minimize, maximize, and close buttons, which all work as expected Has a system menu with the same Paints the background and some text centered in the
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by Someone 1mo ago
FTA: - “at present, the prototype battery can only hold a very small amount of energy – a few billion electron volts – for a matter of nanoseconds” - “The key point is that quantum batteries are not about storing a great amount of energy, b
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by Someone 1mo ago
OpenFirmware, developed by Sun, used by Sun, Apple, IBM and ARM, according to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware )
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by Someone 1mo ago
> Of course you don't want to dock your capital ships at a place that is with-in striking distance of your enemy. So, where _do_ you dock them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iranian_strike_on_Diego_G... : “
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by Someone 1mo ago
> so 17 million 8080 equivalents At, ballpark, 1000 times the clock frequency. It’s a pity we do not how to connect such a large number of tiny cores in a way so that it can perform meaningful work. One hurdle is that, even ignoring the
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by Someone 2mo ago
> GPL doesn't set a standard time limit for providing the sources, but that doesn't mean they can delay it indefinitely The GPL doesn’t require them to provide the sources to the world; it requires them to provide it only to th
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by Someone 2mo ago
> He said this was a big thing Swift got wrong as it scaled too quickly being fully open source at the beginning “Too soon”, I could believe, but “at the beginning”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_l
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by Someone 2mo ago
> Flutter which has a very minimal use of their SDK. > Basically enough to render inputs to a gpu accelerated surface. I suspect it uses much more so that it can support - audio - file I/O - accessibility - …
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by Someone 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet#History mentions traction trebuchets, where people pulling ropes causes the rotation of the arm and counterweight trebuchets, where gravity acting on a heavy object causes that r
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by Someone 2mo ago
> The skull was found in 61 pieces Breaking a skull into 61 pieces by a single blunt weapon would be instantly mortal, I think, but that’s not what I read in the article. It says (emphasis added) “including a skull smashed in 61 PLACES”.
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by Someone 2mo ago
> We can rule out Warwolf Can we? That Wikipedia page is inconclusive, and thus article says: During Edward I’s 1304 siege of the castle, English forces deployed the recently invented trebuchet, a weapon first documented in the 12th cen
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by Someone 2mo ago
The Mac also ran with a different gamma correction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_correction#Computer_disp... : “In most computer display systems, images are encoded with a gamma of about 0.45 and decoded with th
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by Someone 2mo ago
> I suspect that the next big AI breakthrough will result at least in part from constraining LLM decisions with old AI approaches. > Going beyond that, I wonder if an agent could keep a running list of assumptions & known facts (w
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by Someone 2mo ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9loSoleX : *“VéloSoleX is a moped, or motorised bicycle, usually just referred to as 'Solex', […] originally created during World War II and mass-produced betw
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by Someone 2mo ago
> think a large part of the issue with RISC-V is that it predates (public knowledge of) ARMv8 by a year or two Does it? https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p... has a section on ARMv8 (s
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by Someone 2mo ago
> However, retail stores do not accept product submissions from any random person in the world with $99! Retail stores deal mainly with well-known brands. You may view it as a noble, democratic ideal to treat every app developer the same
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by Someone 2mo ago
> I'd say GC is always the fastest to free objects within the main code path. Literally zero instructions True, but reference counting or free need not be far behind. They can append the pointer being freed to a per-thread list (⇒
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by Someone 2mo ago
Similarly, the statement > Reference counting also has its own running cost, paid on every copy of a pointer you make and every time you drop one. isn’t 100% true. It’s not necessarily on every copy or drop. Compilers can (and do) elid
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by Someone 2mo ago
> What if, when the model reads a file, or greps for something, every line comes back tagged with a 2-3 character content hash So, that’s what columns 73 to 80 are meant for! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fix

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