atoav

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by atoav 5mo ago
> One would expect that system would learn and change The problem I have with that is that the typical American I encounter online appears to not perceive themselves as part of that system. And if you read your own founding documents We
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by atoav 5mo ago
So the types of programs you usually bring time to exploratively use anyways.
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by atoav 5mo ago
I don't know who needs to hear this, but: shipped code ia a liability too. Shipped code can fail. Shipped code can corrupt or delete production data. Shipped code can break your customers trust. Shipped code can lead to literal court c
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by atoav 5mo ago
Good thing the publisher is responsible for the infringement, not their AI.
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by atoav 6mo ago
Why can software not be finished? I once wrote a Rs-232 translator softeare converting between two different flavors of a control signal. This thing is running for 15 years without update and a single bug now. Granted it also isn't use
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by atoav 6mo ago
Maybe it is just my limited production knowledge, but wouldn't it be possible to injection mold a bigger part and then mechanically shave off the last few fractions of a millimeter using any number of ways? Tooling costs too high. But
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by atoav 6mo ago
I think it makes sense to have a continuum of: 1. You're thirsty and need a sip of water? That should be free 2. You're an household and use water? That should cost progressively more the more you use if you use more than typicall
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by atoav 6mo ago
> Bear in mind open code was also new to me so I could be just seeing thinking where I usually don't Well there's your problem. Edit: I remember seeing similar things with ChatGPT or Codex, although I can't remember in whi
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by atoav 6mo ago
I would put them into a configuration file. You know, so people can configure which repositories are being searched. Generally I advice against hard doing stuff that changes often and may need to be adjusted for different users or organiz
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by atoav 6mo ago
Aside from this you may also consider that newer cars are sending out unencrypted but digitally signed data via ITS (in Europe) or DSRC/C-V2X (USA) that potentially anybody with an antenna can collect. That includes positional data, s
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by atoav 6mo ago
Ah yeah. Someone who has zero idea how temperature statistics work.
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by atoav 6mo ago
So the cherry blossom should correlate with the Groth of Kyoto's size? Hint: it does not.
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by atoav 6mo ago
I wonder whether this is what gets tech workers to finally see the reason for unions to exist?
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by atoav 6mo ago
Congratulations you found the key to fascism: Create vague laws that could apply to anyone, then you can pick the people who broke it. Of course you try to only pick your enemies. Only: the person in charge of that decision is the meanest
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by atoav 6mo ago
What are you even talking about? 1. Even with a single lane the upkeep for a bicycle path is lower than for a road lane. There being more or less lanes doesn't change the math. The only difference is that for single lane road a bicyc
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by atoav 6mo ago
The model failing is a question of how accurately you want it to model the world. Many laypersons have absolutely no conception of how accurate those "failing" models were. A good example is Newtonian physics. Strictly speaking
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by atoav 6mo ago
I am a feminist myself so why would that be reason to critique anybody over it? The "weird baggage" I bring to this is thst I run an electronics lab at the university level. Of course this means I have seen a lot. My criticism by
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by atoav 6mo ago
> The problem with "building infrastructure" is that plebs' money is not infinite, so public works to please the high lords of the pedal may not be possible. That was my point, thanks for making it: There is money for buil
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by atoav 6mo ago
Yes. And thus using a circuit that has the complexity of a circuit one would put onto a circuit board would be a good demonstration. E.g. showcasing vias and other circuit board technologies. Understandably the first step is to start simple
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by atoav 6mo ago
Cyclists, other than motorists (1) build that momentum up with their legmuscles and (2) speed is required for stability on two-wheeled vehicles, meaning stopping with a bicycle is more exhausting and annoying than, say with a car. I am not
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by atoav 6mo ago
Ah? Running random code on a machine that can potentially delete production data is a fucking stupid idea. Sorry to be that guy, but: LLMs agents are experimental by this point. If you run them, make sure they run in an environment where
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by atoav 6mo ago
As an electonics labs person I applaude all efforts to mske our practise more renewable. However this is a circuit that I would have wired without PCB at all, directly point to point, wire to pin. Better than a greenwashed alternative is to
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by atoav 6mo ago
I have used nested state machines for a while now and they are really good if you have realtime needs, e.g. controlling motors, animations, audio/video playbsck and so on. The statemachine itself also forces you to think about which tr
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by atoav 6mo ago
Also: web layouts are meant to look different on different screens. I had to program my own layouts from scratch for embedded devices and games before. And that occasionally made me wish for CSS. CSS is fine. Most people just never learne
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by atoav 6mo ago
Yes, but the answer to "how many people clicked that button" is irrelevant if it describes the outside world. This id like concluding something is wrong with umbrellas because none of the users in the desert opened them. If the qu
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by atoav 6mo ago
Yet when we talk about controlling trains, airplanes, freight ships, medical devices, nuclear power plants and space stuff we suddenly know how to do it? There is software engineering and it is known how to do things that absolutely must
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by atoav 6mo ago
I am not sure which profession they are in (software development?), but no. Not everybody is guessing. If they were you would have half of the buildings and bridges collapsing and the other half on fire by bad electrical wiring. You can leg
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by atoav 6mo ago
Well someone had to pay for rich peoples yacht money. And since these 1000x hard workers don't find the amount of money they would earn with a honest product acceptable they buy a good brand and sell it out, riding the lucrative downw
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by atoav 6mo ago
There are people without bank account. It isn't a big part of the population (estimated to be 0.02% or about 16.000 people in Germany), but I still feel on principle this is a basal governmental function that should remain governmental
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by atoav 6mo ago
I don't think this belongs on the card to be honest. Otherwide each legislative adjustment would require population-scale updates. This can go into the reader of anybody who e.g. sells beer to pick your example: 1. Reader knows bee

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