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addaon
1y ago
Two of them were real? That's a state-of-the-art model, compared to what I've seen…
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1y ago
Very asymmetrically, too. There's a (relatively) small impact on cooking grains and pasta and stuff, but even at 5000 ft where I live beans can easily take 2x as long to cook. It's a challenge.
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1y ago
Capital H is cursed... unconnected pixels, indistinguishable from 'ii' or "II". The concept's cool, but for this one point the wrong choice was made.
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1y ago
> As someone just starting out, the general feeling among my peers is that I must bend to the interviewer's whims, any resistance or pushback will get you rejected. But interviews are bidirectional. The company is deciding if they w
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1y ago
Also, can you give an example of a laptop (or non-Apple tablet) with a circularly polarized LCD? I've never been able to find one, but it's not a spec that's often published…
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1y ago
> The issue isn't that the act of driving is a laborious task Said like someone who doesn't have elderly parents, and doesn't plan to age…
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1y ago
Sure, but none of them run ForeFlight, so…
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1y ago
> there’s essentially (literally?) no difference between an iPad and MacBook hardware Form factor. Touch screen. GPS. Cellular. Circular polarization. These are all literal hardware differences between the iPad and MacBook, and every sin
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1y ago
> The area has nothing to do with peak performance... based on the node, it has to do with the amount of components you can cram into a given space. Of course it does. For single-threaded performance, the knobs I can turn are clockspeed
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There's another difference -- willingness to actually pay for silicon. The M1 Max is a 432 mm^2 laptop chip built on a 5 nm process. Contrast that to AMD's "high end" Ryzen 7 8845HS at 178 mm^2 on a 4 nm process. Even th
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> She says the scandal is a reminder that regulations are only as good as they are enforced. I feel like we're going to be reminded of this a lot more in the coming years...
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> How do I make a mechanical thing happen at a random time with a lava lamp? Use a heat lamp interrupted by the lava globules to activate a wax motor. If you get the angles right you can probably do this with the same light that runs the
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> but I thought some "drivers" were still in the passenger seat in Austin? Nope, they gave up on that and moved them to the driver's seat.
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> They have not given up on unsupervised autonomy. They are operating unsupervised autonomy in Austin TX as I type this! Setting aside calling a driver in the driver's seat "unsupervised"... that's exactly the point.
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> What makes Tesla better-equipped to deliver on autonomy than other companies? A willingness to ship at a much lower level of technical readiness and safety, and a reasonable chance of achieving enough regulatory capture to be allowed t
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1y ago
Am I missing something, or does this article spend hundreds of words pushing a "pro-excellence" plan without ever defining what they mean by excellence? It's hard to see how a dictionary definition ("the quality of being
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1y ago
> "making invalid states unrepresentable," a trick that is harder than it should be (though not impossible) in "less functional" languages The flip side of this is to "make representable states valid." If yo
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1y ago
I can see either side of it, but in my mind animation (in this context) means the generation and timed display of synthetic tween states to smooth the transition between the display of actual states. The mouse-down case is (in this context)
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> But, it’s good to know Mach-O was designed to support multi-arch binaries since the PowerPC-to-Intel transition (yay, mac history!) and now Intel-to-ARM transitions if we pretend that didn’t happen like three years ago. Fat binaries pr
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1y ago
Not in my case.
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> Most C/C++ code for old or new programs runs on a desktop or server OS where you have lots of perf breathing room. That’s my experience. And that’s frankly your experience too, if you use Linux, Windows, or Apple’s OSes What if I
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> Your argument amounts to a meaningless tautology - 'everything that exists is good and valuable'. It's unclear how this is related to what I said. > 'Heroin addition is good and valuable to society - if you disag
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1y ago
> I don't see how you can claim gambling, and pointless discussion about some arbitrary game you (they) don't even play are positive. By choosing different basis vectors? Not everyone's values match yours.
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1y ago
> You do have to see a physician and psychologist to get diagnosed and to get a therapy plan. Although be aware that this might be a career limiting (or career ending) move. From the FAA, "Taking ADHD medication or symptoms of ADHD
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In the microcontroller world, there's already asymmetric RAM like this, although it's all based on the same (SRAM) technology, and the distinction is around the topology. You have TCM directly coupled to the core, then you general
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2x the radiative + convective heat dissipation for a passive aluminum heat sink seems like as big a deal as its use in this particular application.
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1y ago
P54 (pentium) cores, not 486. Separate U and V pipes, etc.
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> Starups cannot choose between different ways of accessing willing customers over iOS What? They can offer an SPA, or a traditional web page. They can offer a hardware device. They can make an android app compelling enough to convert us
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1y ago
Is kJy as a brightness unit the abomination I think it is?
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> AI is improving employee productivity, but that's not leading to more business profit... how does that happen? One trivial way is that the increase of productivity is less than the added cost of the tools. Which suggests that (eit
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