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_nalply
5y ago
My curiosity got piqued at the mention of CFP8 (configurable floating point 8), but googling this didn't yield usable information. What exactly is CFP8? How many bits does one instance of CFP8 use? What mathematical operations are supp
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What do you think what they will do to handle the high risk?
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Perhaps you could view Googlespeak as a side-effect of the legal protection.
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5y ago
> The Web has been a mistake. In hindsight, what would have been better?
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A hard-of-hearing friend of mine got tired listening to videos. He told me that he sneakily ran speech-to-text software and read the text in a separate window. In a different vein, when I was younger I didn't understand why people pref
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5y ago
Sometimes it can make sense even for humans to stop driving and wait for better conditions. Rarely even humans are forced to give up driving (for example being stuck in snow). Viewed in this light the statement that humans don't have t
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5y ago
Deaf people neither. (I am Deaf.)
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5y ago
aka the Cooperative Principle or Grice's Maxims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
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5y ago
Additionally air conditioners should transfer heat to tap water, not outside air. Water as a medium to discard heat is more efficient. There are downsides to this: wasted tap water and hot sewers. Probably certain municipalities should disa
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5y ago
For my hobby projects I add a one-line comment at the bottom refering to the license and its file. // Please keep this line & LICENSE: <license> <year> <name> <email>
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5y ago
Thought-provoking, but maybe yes. Put about half a dozen spoons of spit into the smoothie, then stir and leave for ten minutes.
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> If the item is simply lost, removal of the speaker is not desired, so that should go in (b). Stimmt! You are right. When someone lost the thing there's no conflict of interest. > Apple should make it nonremovable. If Apple was
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5y ago
If I had to use Airtags I would ask my eight-year old son. Random people usually hesitate to notify because first they think this is not my problem and second if they decide to do something but I don't understand immediately they give
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There are two conflicting interests: a. The owner wants to find stolen or lost things b. Nobody wants to be tagged (privacy, being stalked, &c) If people being stalked are allowed to discover Airtags, thiefs also can discover them. A co
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5y ago
However the thiefs still can identify airtags with an iPhone. From the article mentioned in parent: «At the worst, if they have iPhone 11, 12, or newer iPhones, it will be easier for them to easily locate the AirTag using precision finding
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5y ago
And your punishment for this sin is well earned! /s
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> anyone doing this deserves to be ripped off This is theft. Plain and simple theft. I dream of a world where everybody can leave the keys in the ignition and the doors open because nobody steals. Thieves are caught and are given a stern
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5y ago
Audits are a way to earn money. Don't forget to charge by time and effort then charge for time spent for being audited. Additionally as always with complex regulations and specifications there are ways to comply maliciously. This means
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Additionally governments could buy limestone and not use it. Carbon sequestration. The money could come from a CO2-tax. I really hope this is scalable worldwide.
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You know some people got a blank check and went on a rampage. And if asked they invent justifications and requirements and generally fire smoke grenades to confuse the public.
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GP probably meant that people pay more and more for apps. They buy more apps or more expensive apps or more people buy apps. In other words, even with rate staying the same Apple has ever increasing revenue from the App Store.
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Many companies function on thick layers of bullshit [1]. I liked your metaphor: when the tide goes out we see the shit below the water. Managers don't like when they lose face. [1]: please read David Graeber, may he rest in peace.
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This will only work if the cars ahead of you accelerate stronger than you. Standing cars don't need as much distance as driving cars. Self-driving cars might not need the distance if they are networked because if the first car brakes a
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You could put a pinch of salt into your bottle with hand sanitizer and wait for about a day till the salt is dissolved. Then when disinfecting your hands, pour a little bit into any opening you see near the screen. (Never tried that out and
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Probably of the general majority. This is an almost natural consequence. The largest sub-groups start out with having most of the same people of the whole society. Then the minorities get turned off and leave to smaller sub-groups where the
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My wife had Kundalini Yoga over Zoom and I liked the results.
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If you can, move to Scandinavia or UK, I think. An alpine valley would also be nice like Davos in Switzerland, however with climate change alpine regions experience disruptions like mud flows which can be deadly.
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Throwing Rust under the bus...? I don't think that anyone really could do that. I am chuckling as I am writing this.
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It's the malicious compliance of the laws hat has destroyed our web browsing experience.
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But then someone surely has the genius idea to offer this as a cloud solution for free. Then we have ads such that suddenly I have a sister called Coca Cola. Or it is maliciously implemented freemium, for example someone spent hours enterin
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