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by addaon 9mo ago
Ah, that explains the white bar at the top.
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by addaon 9mo ago
If you haven't tried Hidden Rose apples, give them a try. Besides being gorgeous, they have a tart:sweet ratio that's similar to Granny Smith, but with a texture that's further away from a baking apple and a thinner skin. Abs
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by addaon 9mo ago
Suppose two models with similar parameters trained the same way on 1800-1875 and 1800-2025 data. Running both models, we get probability distributions across tokens, let's call the distributions 1875' and 2025'. We also get a
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by addaon 9mo ago
I suggest looking at a rotating lidar with an infrared scope... it's super, super informative and a lot of fun. Worth just camping out in SF or Mountain View and looking at all the different patterns on the wall as different lidar-equi
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by addaon 9mo ago
> For coding, the number of pulses per second is what matters, not power. I haven't seen a system that does anti-interference across multiple pulses, as opposed to by shaping individual pulses. (I've seen systems that introduce
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by addaon 9mo ago
> No, LIDAR is relatively trivial to render immune to interference from other LIDARs. For rotating pulsed lidar, this really isn't the case. It's possible, but certainly not trivial. The challenge is that eye safety is determin
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by addaon 9mo ago
Finally writing up the documentation (architecture and safety concept) for the fly-by-wire system for the homebuilt airplane I'm 15+ years into designing. Got to OML lock about a year ago, and the aerodynamics are checking out, so real
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by addaon 9mo ago
No, that would be “tactical.”
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by addaon 9mo ago
> This seems backwards to me. Colleges should be prioritizing strong students for admission and nothing else. Our country needs the best engineers and doctors. Colleges are a scarce, valuable resource and should be reserved for the best
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by addaon 9mo ago
Sorry, I see how my post might have been somewhat unclear. No, my stance is that 2006 is closer to 20 years ago than 5 years ago.
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by addaon 9mo ago
> 32-bit apps? The Core 2 Duo, used in the last 32 bit Mac, was released in 2006. > PowerPC stuff? The last G5 PowerPCs were, similarly, discontinued in 2006. > every 5 years. 20?
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by addaon 9mo ago
You only need the piece type for pawns (that can be upgraded), and a bit on the king to track if castling is possible; otherwise a single bit for on-board/captured is sufficient, since the types of the other pieces are implicit in the
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by addaon 9mo ago
> You become accustomed to blindly hitting "Yes" every time you've accidentally typed something into the text box, and then that time when you actually put a lot of effort into something... Boom. Its gone. Wouldn't yo
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by addaon 10mo ago
Most people drive the same car most days. Either many or most people (I don’t have stats) drive a different car some days. There’s entire companies — Hertz, Avis, etc — with business models based around this observation.
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by addaon 10mo ago
Never really used Alpha, was talking about Mathematica. I don’t the the web is compatible with good UX, but that doesn’t mean good UX isn’t possible — it just means that the companies that are successful at UX build native applications, or
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by addaon 10mo ago
Omni Group. Wolfram. Parts of Apple. Rhino3D. Parts of Breville. Prusa (on device, not on desktop). Speed Queen (dial-based). Just from applications I currently have open and devices I can see from where I'm sitting.
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by addaon 10mo ago
(a) I started this before grasshopper was mature enough to use. (b) I haven't looked too much into grasshopper because of that, but my impression was that the version control story was basically non-existent. As pure text, Python is ea
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by addaon 10mo ago
Well, it's certainly not parametric CAD -- it's a drawing program that happens to be in 3D, with limited (and, I'm very glad to see, growing) ability to use history for some more structured creation. But the biggest limitatio
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by addaon 10mo ago
For my airplane design, I've used Rhino3D (which is 3d modeling, not CAD), and used their Python-based plug-in API to create a very custom, limited scope parametric CAD on it... using a mix of geometric and aerodynamic parameters, and
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by addaon 10mo ago
Anyone writing with a standard that requires 100% decision-point coverage will either not write that code (because NDEBUG is insane and assert should have useful semantics), or will have to both write and test that code.
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by addaon 10mo ago
> In a language like rust, failed assertions panic. And panics generally aren't "caught". This thread was discussing debug_assert, where the assertions are compiled out in release code.
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by addaon 10mo ago
> Usually the only sensible thing to do is crash. Correct. But how are you testing that you successfully crash in this case, instead of corrupting on-disk data stores or propagating bad data? That needs a test.
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by addaon 10mo ago
But how do you test the recovery path if the invariant is violated in production code? You literally can’t write a test for that code path…
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by addaon 10mo ago
> debug_assert!() (only run in debug builds) debug_assert!() (and it's equivalent in other languages, like C's assert with NDEBUG) is cursed. It states that you believe something to be true, but will take no automatic action if
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by addaon 10mo ago
You can (and probably should) undef NDEBUG even for release builds.
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by addaon 10mo ago
`assert(false)` is pronounced "this can never happen." It's reasonable to add a comment with /why/ this can never happen, but if that's all the comment would have said, a message adds no value.
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by addaon 10mo ago
But if you spell that `assert(false)` instead of as a comment, the intent is equally clear, but the behavior when you're wrong is well-defined.
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by addaon 10mo ago
Yep. Those of us who write embedded code for a living call this “writing code.”
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by addaon 10mo ago
> Question: are SoCs with on die memory be effected by this? SoCs with on-die memory (which is, these days, exclusively SRAM, since I don't think IBM's eDRAM process for mixing DRAM with logic is still in production) will not b
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by addaon 10mo ago
I’m not sure I agree. Not sure I disagree, either. If I’m another pilot in the air when this occurs, it feels like the most important things for me to know are (1) stay the hell away from the runway, and the announced approach, for a while;

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