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by addaon 3mo ago
> The next day, he added giant 48-ounce monsters to the store and I've been drinking out of that mug every day since. This was my trick for cutting back to two cups of coffee a day.
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by addaon 3mo ago
(This is your annual reminder that atomic gardening is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening )
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by addaon 3mo ago
"slightly accurate" is the correct description, though -- dead reckoning on a cell-phone-class IMU accumulates drift too quickly to keep objects anchored in space for more than seconds at a time. You need something (visual odometr
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by addaon 3mo ago
> they produced the next version of unextensible shit so now int128 can't be added It's hard to think of something more "added" (or, for that matter, more "extensible") than `_BitInt(128)`.
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by addaon 3mo ago
This just doesn't match my experience writing idiomatic C code for embedded real-time systems with ChatGPT-5.5 and -5.6. Are Opus and Fable really that different? I general I find that a fully correct implementation for some function m
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by addaon 3mo ago
Ellipsis, at least, has been trivial to type (alt-semicolon) since long before global text substitution existed…
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by addaon 3mo ago
> I don't know how to code an endash here. Just type it like normal – alt-hyphen on Macs, and I'm sure equivalent on other systems.
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by addaon 3mo ago
> sqlite is in the public domain and not copyrightable, for example. And therefore is not licensable under the GPL; because no license is needed at all. Ardour's goal isn't to be "compatible with" the GPL (in the sens
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by addaon 3mo ago
> I wonder why they couldn't just be more like a car seat, with some thigh support. I'm not sure I've ever been in a car seat less comfortable than the _best_ economy airline seat. Car seats are a lot heavier than airplane
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by addaon 3mo ago
This very much depends on the simulation. CFD historically used 64-bit, with extended precision used internal to an extremely small number of poorly conditioned operations, or with very stiff equations; today it's not at all unusual to
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by addaon 3mo ago
That seems like the distance to go from having 100k people in front of you to having 100k people behind you. The distance you'd have to go to run into them properly would depend critically on the width of the vehicle you're in.
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by addaon 3mo ago
Some discussion already at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025890
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by addaon 3mo ago
Well, they didn't call it NameCompetent, did they?
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by addaon 3mo ago
CFD performance is dominated by memory bandwidth, not clock speed.
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by addaon 3mo ago
There are a lot of workflows where cache is likely to be consumed exactly once (e.g. anything chat-like where a single thread is extended; if a prefix cache hit is found, and a set of new longer prefixes is inserted in the cache, it is unli
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by addaon 3mo ago
Wonder what the price will be like on the 64-core high-frequency version... if it's comparable to existing Epyc pricing, this might be the obvious answer for a CFD rig in 2027. Finally something with memory bandwidth way greater than a
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by addaon 3mo ago
I assume they'd also mandate headphone ports, since without a wired headphone to use as an antenna I don't know how you'd do cheap FM in a cell phone. Which, if the motivation is to provide emergency notification, I also assu
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by addaon 3mo ago
I assume this is what's up with the NordVPN ads flooding YouTube and stuff. No idea who the buyer is, but if I was in the market for a VPN I'd presumedly do a web search, skip NordVPN as having poisoned the well of good will, and
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by addaon 3mo ago
> putting AI queries into ever search response There's no way these are using a significant amount of compute. I'm not 100% convinced they're actually LLM-generated rather than an old-school Markov model. Both the relevanc
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by addaon 3mo ago
> The toughest part was getting the Go-written runtime to be able to run arbitrary code in multiple languages. Why not just supply a Wasm VM? Are there interesting languages that don't compile to Wasm?
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by addaon 3mo ago
Civ 7 still isn't good, but Test of Time made it somewhat better. It took a long time for Civ 6 to get good after release, but I'd argue they got there. Still frustrating, though.
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by addaon 3mo ago
Booting on what? Are BIOS calls (if allowed) considered a library? The overhead of managing a framebuffer etc without an OS (which would be a required component not included on the disk) feels like it would dominate.
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by addaon 3mo ago
My recollection is that Civilization (1) came on 5 (? 7?) floppy disks for Mac, but only the first disk was needed for the full game in black and white; the additional disks were needed for color and some add-on assets like improving your p
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by addaon 3mo ago
That's a real risk, yes. There's definitely a difference between cases where the code is the artifact being built, and cases where the code is being built to generate an artifact that is independently valuable and assessable. I&#x
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by addaon 3mo ago
> It's hard to say if this code is structurally better or worse than before, but it's certainly voluminous and as far as leadership could ever tell, with their flawed metrics, that is all that matters. Hah. I've been worki
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by addaon 3mo ago
> That said, I really wish there was a "I know what I'm doing" checkbox to avoid a lot of that BS... The "I know what I'm doing" approach is the absence of the checkbox. Each of these decisions matters, an
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by addaon 3mo ago
> more evaporation over oceans, which makes the air denser More humid air is less dense than less humid air at the same temperature and otherwise same composition. H2O has a molar mass of 18, vs ~29 for dry air.
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by addaon 3mo ago
> there is no "software" that a lot of people want, yet nobody managed to create yet because they failed too due to it was being hard to implement (excluding AGI/ASI which is not really software) What!? I can think of abou
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by addaon 4mo ago
At transonic speeds, wave drag dominates both induced and parasitic drag. The hump reducing drag is about shape (area rule).
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by addaon 4mo ago
> how will Tidal consistently determine AI generated music? Is this their responsibility? Just restrict payment to the registered copyright holder or their delegate, require registration of copyright for music to be payment-eligible, and

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