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by ajb 11mo ago
The problem here is whether just applying some well studied technique to a new area like AI is really inventive enough to be patentable. There were loads of patents which basically added "in a computer" to some existing techniq
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by ajb 11mo ago
Yeah You can also "own it". I had a damaged area in the bathroom, I knew I'd never get paint to match exactly, but couldn't be bothered to repaint entirely. So I made a few random triangles with masking tape, one coverin
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by ajb 11mo ago
Ok, if my comment came across as saying to scorn forth, then it was badly written. Chuck Moore is a genius. How many other people created a language, wrote their own semiconductor simulator and ECAD system, and used it to design their own C
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by ajb 11mo ago
When looking at these kind of subcultures, I think the best policy is "learn from them, but remember that they don't learn from you". They may have a unique better take on some aspects, but they will try to convince you to sc
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by ajb 11mo ago
They are the person who announced the bot would be rolled out. If the person who announced the rollout isn't either the leader of the project or someone who can push for changes to it, then that's already totally against the commu
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by ajb 11mo ago
Now there are billions of lines of python in production. But it wasn't so long ago that it seemed like the entire industry was going to completely standardise on C++, and if you wanted a picture of your future, it would be grinding awa
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by ajb 11mo ago
Yeah Rpython escapes this as most people don't write it directly. Micropython is another example. No-one expects micropython to support numpy. They're just happy to get away from C. But where you can use the full python, you would
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by ajb 11mo ago
It's weird, but the pain of moving to a whole new language seems less than the pain of using one of these language subsets. I guess it might be because of "loss aversion": we dislike losing something we have more the value we
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by ajb 11mo ago
My parents used to have an old cooker which rather than having a spark button, had individual pilot lights for all of the hob burners and the grill. My mother was forever worried about whether one of the damn things had gone out (which they
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by ajb 1y ago
That's the picture you'd get if there was an unemployment problem, but what we actually have is an aging population and a productivity problem: it's really telling that most people's idea of changing their working life
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by ajb 1y ago
That assumes our knowledge of Detroit is more informed that yours of the UK ;-) Generally there is a lot of propaganda around at the moment, so take that with a pinch of salt. The UK is not as well off as the US generally, but this does n
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by ajb 1y ago
Buying industrial works in many circumstances: - consumer kitchen mops break in 1-2 years. Get the commercial one for 2x and it lasts - my bike is locked to an 25mm thick toughened steel industrial eye-bolt (set into concrete) which cost &l
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by ajb 1y ago
Using .coop is actually a costly signal that you are, in fact and in law, a cooperative; and intend to stay one; since non-cooperatives are not allowed to occupy those domains. Dot Org, while it's used by a lot of well known organisati
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by ajb 1y ago
Given all the problems people are mentioning, it seems like this proposal is on the wrong side. There should be an easy way for a module to declare itself to be lazy loaded. The module author, not the user, is the one who knows whether lazy
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by ajb 1y ago
But resistance in series is additive - the resistance of the combination is dominated by the resistance of the worse cable: 0Ω + 1Ω = 1Ω Not sure what problem you're thinking of.
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by ajb 1y ago
I wonder if we should take seriously the idea that the brain can process information faster in emergencies, rather than this just being our perception. After all, we know our neurons work orders of magnitudes more slowly than transistors, s
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by ajb 1y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424087
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by ajb 1y ago
I hadn't completely checked it either FWIW so worth asking the question. It does sound slightly different as they use chords.
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by ajb 1y ago
Apparently change ringing, or something similar, is practiced in Verona. But otherwise it seems unique to the UK, or UK influenced cultures.
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by ajb 1y ago
A good test is to see if a piece of paper will stick or fall off (mine will actually keep a plastic tray stuck to it). Often the problem is the exhaust path, not the extractor itself. Mine has a short straight path with a low resistance te
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by ajb 1y ago
If you are charged with murder, but you killed because someone was attacking you, it is a legal defence that you were defending yourself. There is no such defence against a charge of genocide. The lawyers who wrote the international treaty,
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by ajb 1y ago
Looks interesting, but I don't see any mention of a reputation system - what's their plan for warning people about packages that should not be installed, such as hacked, covert adware/spyware, etc?
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by ajb 1y ago
From an Anglo-Saxon perspective that's what it looks like, but I think you are missing a cultural difference. In France, the state does not have the legitimacy that it does in the UK and US. In the UK parliament, not the people, is so
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by ajb 1y ago
I've never seen a plug that has an exposed wire for that reason - all the plugs have a heavy clamp internally that attaches to the outer sheath, preventing the movement that would cause this. I would suspect that any plugs where wear h
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by ajb 1y ago
Yes. That's what Arm supply, a SoC vendor may add a unified second level.
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by ajb 1y ago
The commission is not elected, it is appointed by the member states (I think it should be elected, but I'm in the UK so wouldn't have a vote anyway)
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by ajb 1y ago
There's nothing wrong with the wire protocol, but T.38 was designed to work with faxes that don't know it exists. Given that VoIP doesn't provide the same highly-constant latency as the PSTN, T.38 gateways pull some dodgy stu
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by ajb 1y ago
Depends where you are. In the UK, decommissioning of the PSTN has started and will be completed in the last few places by the end of next year. There will still be a "phone service" for those that want an equivalent service to the
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by ajb 1y ago
Well, they may not have speculative execution,but some of them do have branch prediction these days; which probably leaks a certain amount of information. Eg, the cortex M7 (no mmu,mpu optional, has branch prediction)
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by ajb 1y ago
They don't work the same way they used to though. Since old school PSTN hardware is being replaced with VoIP, there is a hacky protocol called T.38 which does just enough to convince each side that it's talking to a real fax, and

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