VBprogrammer

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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
A nearly 4:1 ratio makes a 25kg drone very interesting from a personal mobility perspective. Something you could fly a few miles with and then easily roll around an office. Sadly scaling in aerodynamics is notoriously non-linear.
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
Anyone else assume this was about computer viruses and exploits...
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
I know.
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
I had the same reaction but then I showed it to my partner. She completely didn't get it, in her words "how can it be thinking of a good answer when it's that quick?" I tried to explain but I fear were probably going to
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
This won't work in the UK/Europe. B-RNAV has been a requirement since 11 April 2011 at all ATS controlled routes and levels (previously only above FL95). The only reasonable equipment is a IFR capable panel mounted GPS. Of course
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
Of course - though many of them have been decommissioned or are in the process. Though recent developments have probably reduced the enthusiasm for removing them so quickly. However, that doesn't change the fact that the intersection t
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
Yeah, I agree that GPS is too easy to jam and should ideally not be used exclusively but if you are flying anything from a newish C172 to a Cessna Citation (or any other non-long haul business jet) it is the reality. Annoyingly all of these
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
> GPS is not essential to air navigation. It’s nice to have, and there are some approaches that legally require it to be operational in order to fly them (IFR procedures) but aviation has other systems in place to guide aircraft under co
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
I've recently been using AI a lot for performance optimisation during a particularly busy period at work. I would say it was almost completely useless at the high-level direction - it would point out suspicious parts of SQL queries for
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
In the UK I could get from Central London to Central Glasgow in 4.5 hours on the train. The same trip on a flight, it takes an hour to get the airport (assuming it's not one of the budget airlines pretending Essex or Bedfordshire is Lo
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
After getting sucked into "I bought this to repair it" YouTube I started looking for things on eBay. I was amazed to find that things like PlayStations with declared faults which made them completely unusable were selling at 70-80
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
This has become a running joke with a couple of the people in my office who have recently visited China (from the UK). The next 2 years will be interesting for democracy as a whole.
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
It depends on the size of the project (mostly in terms of number of active developers) and how close you are to the running code in production. On a large project it's probably the first tool I reach for when we find something we have
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
Find is a great example. It's such a useful and powerful tool but it's arguments get me on a regular basis.
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
The logical choice would be to kill the the (relatively) rich people who eat and waste far more food per capita.
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
One of the upsides of AI is that now all we need to do is prompt our way to native versions of these apps...
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
I can't honestly think of a case where this would be remotely useful. This goes somehow beyond vibe coding to vibe interaction, where the only feedback comes via the AI. I'd love to see a concrete example of this working practice.
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
I think for many people, maybe even most people, the story and the people behind the music is every bit as important as the music itself. I don't see how an AI can capture this.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I think the only point that matters is that having Anthropic owning a project which is written in a programming language where the community (or at least the leaders of it) have come out as openly hostile to AI generated code is a clear con
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
There is at least some concern within their camp that they could lose the election to a guy with a bin on his head. That for me is a win.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I think there would be no point in making the claim if the probability estimates were truly in good faith.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I suspect the easier option is to use AI to review your own code. The arms race between developers and attackers might even make some of the AI valuations come true.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
It really feels like we've crossed some kind of event horizon with AI exploding in so many seemingly unrelated directions.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
I guess life would be boring if we were all the same. I found the 1.0 litre turbo in the Sandero to be perfectly adequate in power. I hated almost everything else about the car though. And again, I don't usually have this problem, more
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
Isn't the fix to constrain the abilities of a user agent to only the permissions of the user inputing the prompt? I guess that's not a lot of fun because you have to implement some kind of query API which respects user permissions
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
Chances are most manufacturers are going to use a cheap USB camera. Can a raspberry pi emulate webcam? Just place the same video of you diligently staring out of the window on repeat.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
It seems like you are being downvoted but I've had the exact issue you mention where there is heavy over-banding on the road surface. Or where you try to move out to overtake a cyclist and it decides to correct you back into lane.
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
Ever driven a Dacia? I had one for a rental in Portugal. Honestly the least comfortable and most irritating vehicle I've ever driven. I'm not just being fussy, we've had plenty of Hyundais, Citroens and the like without a pro
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
The snap method of tying a bowline is my favourite. In nice rope it looks really fancy and can be done mostly from muscle memory (except remembering to pass the free end through from the backside to avoid a shameful cowboy bowline). I found
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by VBprogrammer 3mo ago
Knots in general are a harmless and occasionally useful pasttime for many people. In fact I have a length of rope under my desk I will occasionally pick up and practice a few useful knots in just to keep them in my muscle memory. It's

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