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by avian 4y ago
At the risk of ruining a joke, the sum of all numbers representable by a signed n-bit integer using 2's complement is -2^(n-1). -2^(n-1) is the only negative number that does not have a positive counterpart in this representation.
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by avian 4y ago
If it did, Scotty would be working on an adtech backend, Bones would be researching ways to make games more addictive and humanity would never have left Earth.
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by avian 4y ago
Is linearity a problem in these sorts of devices? I'm not sure where it would come into play. I'm assuming this does IF processing in software and it doesn't have a classical detector where linearity would be a problem. Yes,
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by avian 4y ago
Accuracy will largely depend on calibration standards used. A good set of those that goes up to 6 GHz will cost many times the cost of this device.
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by avian 4y ago
I would hate to have a machine in my bedroom that is capable of raising the CO2 level. I don't think anyone could convince me that it would not decide to suffocate me at midnight next 29th February or something, regardless of its safet
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by avian 4y ago
Every mobile operator has stories like this. Back in the GSM times the common theme in Europe was people using illegaly imported devices made for the US market. The unlicensed 900 MHz band in the US fell right into the GSM band in Europe. A
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by avian 4y ago
A long time ago I was given an opportunity to spend some time working at a lab in a foreign university. I was invited to explore the possibility of doing a PhD there and got an appointment with a professor that might have become my PhD supe
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by avian 4y ago
> some people decide it's not worth two seconds of clicking fire hydrants My reaction when I get the fire hydrants/traffic lights/whatever thing is to not bother and close the site. It's not because I can't spare
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by avian 4y ago
Attribution is an important part of most licenses, so not only would you need to track the license, but also the authors.
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by avian 4y ago
> I do wonder how this would work in an office setting Everyone gets a throat mic and the cubicle farm is full of unintelligible whispering instead of clacking of keyboards? Can't wait for the future. /s
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by avian 4y ago
I just went clicking through recommendations shown on that page. There's a ton of similar fake books like that on Amazon with titles refering in some way to deleting books from Kindle. What's the point? People confusing the store
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by avian 4y ago
Is it possible it's only a specific combination of hardware and software that's having this issue? We don't have amber alerts in my country (or at least I never got one). However Mi wireless earbuds + Nokia X10 for some reaso
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by avian 4y ago
> not everyone is good at art, but they know exactly what they want, This is pretty much like saying "not everyone is good at programming, but they know exactly what they want". Then consider all the debate about agile processe
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by avian 4y ago
> regarding ICU motorbikes, you are fine with normal car license up to 125ccm This sounds like class A1 vehicle (up to 125 cm3 for ICE, up to 11 kW engine power, up to 0.1 kW/kg engine power per mass of vehicle) With my class B lice
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by avian 4y ago
I agree with the humidity argument, although even if you 10x the energy loss opening the fridge is still relatively small contribution to total energy use unless you open your fridge tens of times per day. It's nowhere close to what th
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by avian 4y ago
> I imagine seeing all that cold air being sucked out by the opening door and falling on the ground. Air has negligible thermal mass compared to everything else solid or liquid in the fridge. As long as you don't leave the door open
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by avian 4y ago
There were well known examples of copilot reproducing exact code snippets well before this lawsuit (e.g. the Quake's fast inverse square root function). Microsoft dealt with them by simply adding the offending function names to a block
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by avian 4y ago
> discord webhook Hah. Is this true? I find it funny since IRC has/had this reputation for being a means of communication with malware and it's often blocked on this grounds. Nice to know that malware is going on with the times
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by avian 4y ago
Using compression like this for storage is kind of going back to ancient times when songs and stories were passed down through people listening, learning and re-telling them. Each reproduction was a bit different because the person telling
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by avian 4y ago
I was at a conference with around 1000 attendees in Germany this summer. The organizers put out a lot of recommendations for visitors regarding Covid (wear masks, be vaccinated, test yourself before and after the event, etc.), but none coul
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by avian 4y ago
You're not the only one that feels that way. I wish I could add something constructive beyond this.
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by avian 4y ago
The supply situation is kind of in a hicup mode right now in my experience. A few months ago it seemed that it's all fine. Parts were in stock and everyone was optimistic that we're through the troubles of 2020 and 2021. Now there
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by avian 4y ago
> With the way machine learning networks work, they don't really learn one-off high-entropy strings like API keys. This can't be true. Copilot used to reproduce code to the inverse square root function from Quake source literal
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by avian 4y ago
Whenever there's a discussion about copyright and AI-generated images, there will be people claiming that AI can't possibly reproduce images it has been trained on. Stable Diffusion and similar software supposedly only learns high
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by avian 4y ago
I use Firefox exclusively, on my computer and on my phone. I am also incresingly frustrated by the direction Mozilla has been going with it and have very little illusions left what their motivations are.
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by avian 4y ago
Firefox will follow Chrome with this. Over time they always tend to copy Chrome instead of going their own way, as much as their users complain. They similarly already moved away from XUL extensions in the past. I'm sure they will writ
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by avian 4y ago
The fact that they are shipping new PCB revisions of their boards with alternative components (like different PMICs) supports the claim that (at least) part of the shortage was due to supply problems. https://forums.raspberrypi.c
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by avian 4y ago
I hope this means that all the SEO bullshit will move to videos and the textual web will become usable again.
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by avian 4y ago
In my country, the EasyPark app seems to have taken a lot of the market. Almost every parking space I see now has it as an option, including spaces owned by the city. Thankfully, they currently still support paying with cash, but machines o
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by avian 4y ago
If we're arguing semantics, I feel like these early cards are more fitting to the "3D accelerator" name than the modern ones. They were specialized for accelerating 3D graphics (which, in the end, means pushing triangles into

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