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511.
by a-dub 3y ago
i suspect that these sorts of applications are driving the design of low latency, high bandwidth, line of sight 5g mmwave sidewalk cell towers. that and their potential ability to do radio sensing to provide high resolution realtime maps of
512.
by a-dub 3y ago
i always assumed they had an ops center with live drivers ready to step in. seems the only sensible way to get started.
513.
by a-dub 3y ago
if you don't use the ndk, isn't it, in fact, zero work? how prevalent is ndk use? games and multimedia apps maybe?
514.
by a-dub 3y ago
finding and summarizing nonstandard clauses in t&c for consumers seems like it could be a useful and good application of llm technology.
515.
by a-dub 3y ago
what's the difference between a P-core and an E-core? special machinery for caching, branch prediction and speculative execution? i still have the antiquated view that performance and efficiency are essentially the same metric and the
516.
by a-dub 3y ago
looks like there's some limited cross application embedding support in google docs, so i'd argue you're right except for one glaring exception.... jupyter notebooks and donald knuth's literate programming dream. duh duh
517.
by a-dub 3y ago
links?! lol have you ever actually seen the modern web front end tech planet up close? i mean, i agree i'm with ya. links are all you really need, but you know...
518.
by a-dub 3y ago
i remember when these compound documents with embedded objects were all the rage in the 90s. in microsoft land it was all ole and activex (which seems like it ultimately only saw real use as a browser plugin standard). seems the most intere
519.
by a-dub 3y ago
oh jeez, i almost forgot the most important option: create a new british detectives television series around the event where they drive around in small cars across the english countryside while discussing the case and making prodigious use
520.
by a-dub 3y ago
people have been doing shitty things for a very long time. people have been talking about how "things are worse nowadays" also for a very long time. not much to do now other than try to science it back into existence, replace it w
521.
by a-dub 3y ago
> The 286 was enough for a PDP-11 style UNIX, i remember MWC coherent well! it was where i was first learned unix. :) (except for maybe some vague memories of some unix like os for the atari st that i didn't really understand at the
522.
by a-dub 3y ago
wasn't the page mode mmu the most important new feature? iirc this allowed for fully protected virtual memory, even for legacy applications.
523.
by a-dub 3y ago
if i were to guess it probably has more to do with left hand side driving semantics which as i understand comes from a prevalence of right-handedness and a norm of posturing the right hand for weapon use. so, maybe they just adopted the rul
524.
by a-dub 3y ago
> It’s about a humanoid robot and an authoritarian government. you really think so? it's true that the government in the film was authoritarian, but the plight of the workers seemed far more salient than the structure of power that
525.
by a-dub 3y ago
if they're musically inclined, cycling 74 or puredata? openframeworks, libcinder, processing and similar? various robotics kits: drones, cars, "bring your own control" type things?
526.
by a-dub 3y ago
setting up a private minecraft server (or similar) on digitalocean or a rpi? making goofy python scripts? pygame? style transfer for voice on google colab? various adafruit projects with microcontrollers or rpis? langchain and similar?
527.
by a-dub 3y ago
it used to be worse. if you pushed changes that removed lines that had review comments on them, the review comments would simply disappear. but yes, i liked perforce too.
528.
by a-dub 3y ago
getting it to work is cool, but i think that trying to characterize and compare the long tails associated with llms vs. traditional modeling and optimization would be more interesting.
529.
by a-dub 3y ago
> There's no automatic file merge in general (hence .pacnew and such) so you gotta do it by hand (and not everything is available with the foo.d/ hack). The registry already operates at the value granularity so it bypasses this
530.
by a-dub 3y ago
i used to be upset that they took away x remoting because it was a cool party trick but then they gave me the ability to have monitors with different dpis and that's how i learned to stop worrying and love the wayland.
531.
by a-dub 3y ago
it's funny, i was thinking about this last year. "is there a technology solution that would arm shoppers with better knowledge so that the market may reward participants based on their good behavior with respect to inflation?&quot
532.
by a-dub 3y ago
the internet has been gentrified lol
533.
by a-dub 3y ago
> And the backend was a DARPA project. the similarity/CF stuff? what was the DARPA project? other than that it seemed a rather ordinary consumer webapp?
534.
by a-dub 3y ago
lol. midimaze.
535.
by a-dub 3y ago
do any of the async libraries for rust have good visualization tools for inspecting the implicit state machine that is constructed via this type of concurrency primitive?
536.
by a-dub 3y ago
that sounds right. and yes, very good stuff! i remember thinking at the time "hah. this is built with real computer science!". and well, at the time, it was the only thing that worked for large mail spools. i also think it was th
537.
by a-dub 3y ago
this was part of cyrus imap from cmu, which iirc was the first big imap server to support server side indexes. (i think they were bdbs, iirc) believe it or not, but many hugely popular applications from 20+ years ago didn't even implem
538.
by a-dub 3y ago
LOL
539.
by a-dub 3y ago
tsocks: route all network traffic through a socks gateway with elegant per-process controls. (i guess a proxychains ancestor?)
540.
by a-dub 3y ago
require minimum supported lifetimes of 5 years or full open sourcing of software (device and server) in the event that support ceases prior to the required lifetime. gradually expand that lifetime out to ten.

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