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by avidiax 8mo ago
How does this keep track with DST? Looking at the code [1], it looks like if the actual time is 1 hour ahead of the displayed time, then we get 10 pulses per second to leap forward. Otherwise, the clock stops running for an hour to fall bac
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by avidiax 9mo ago
Because real estate innovation is not something that the customers care about, and the real estate team's outputs effect everyone else's outputs. How does the rest of Microsoft perform if there's not enough office space or DC
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by avidiax 9mo ago
The author seems to mistake having to update Node.js for a security patch to be a curse rather than a blessing. The alternative is that your bespoke solution has undiscovered security vulnerabilities, probably no security community, and no
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by avidiax 9mo ago
This speech is anything but clear from an engineering or analytical perspective. "Outsized success" is always in relation to the value of the allocated resources. "Conventional success" is making slightly more than liqui
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by avidiax 9mo ago
Just in case anyone thinks this doesn't apply to them: self-driving cars and taxis are robots (just not "industrial"). They also operate in an adversarial environment, where other drivers, pedestrians, etc. need to be safegua
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by avidiax 9mo ago
So make it allowed that the insurance is tied to the gun. You buy a lifetime policy for that serial number, provide payment, and you're done. Payment can be provided anonymously at a window in cash, if that's your thing. If you wa
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by avidiax 9mo ago
The scammer will show up to a bar in Bucharest. They are probably not even legally allowed in the U.S. None of this scam requires the scammer to be in the U.S. Even the New York driver's license, even if it is real, could be muled. Mor
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by avidiax 9mo ago
What is it about mobile phone chipsets that makes the unsuitable for a TV stick or STB? Is it that there is special TV-specific hardware like tuners, HW accelerated audio and video decoders, and PQ/AQ accelerators? Apple has adapter th
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I used a different app on a Pixel 8 Pro and it worked well. It uses the same principle. https://play.google.com/store/search?q=junghans&c=apps
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by avidiax 9mo ago
If you like this sort of thing, there's a game where you can solve these kinds of proofs: https://www.euclidea.xyz/en/game/packs/Alpha
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by avidiax 9mo ago
The LLM developers already know this trick, so I expect that if you attach documents, they are processed after your prompt. There is a further trick that is probably already integrated: simply giving the same input twice greatly improves mo
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I don't have copy-paste prompts. If I need it to argue from another perspective, I just ask for that perspective in a new session, ideally arguing both sides in temporary sessions so that the context of any other session doesn't a
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by avidiax 9mo ago
LLMs are necessarily linear. If you paste the contract first, the attention mechanism of the model can still process the contract, but only generically. It pays attention to the key points of the contract. If you ask the question first, the
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by avidiax 9mo ago
It's very important to not have leading questions. Don't ask it to confirm something; ask it to outline the possibilities and the pros and cons or argument for or against each possibility. If you are not an expert in an area, lay
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by avidiax 9mo ago
> has the authority to issue lawful orders This decision says that he can issue unlawful orders, and there's nothing the court can do about it. He's immune. You don't need immunity for lawful acts. The very best you could
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I haven't, and it wouldn't be the voltages. You would have to do a rundown test and see what the effective capacity is (watt-hours).
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by avidiax 9mo ago
Ordering violence orchestrated by the military is a core constitutional power. It's called being "commander-in-chief" of the armed forces. The ruling makes it very clear that core constitutional powers have conclusive and pre
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by avidiax 9mo ago
That ruling[1] is even worse than rubber stamping. It's saying that no stamp is needed at all. > It seems hard to call that an example of rubber stamping for an administration that did not exist yet. The Trump administration absolu
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by avidiax 9mo ago
From the article, Table 3: 100% SoC @ 25°C leaves only 80% of the original capacity after a year. It's easy to look at that table and think that it's remaining charge after a year; it's not. It's lost capacity. This is k
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I may be a bit odd, but I store lithium ion battery containing electronics in the vegetable drawer in the fridge. You lose 20% of capacity in a year if you have 100% state of charge but only 6% loss of capacity at refrigerator temperatures.
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by avidiax 9mo ago
Maybe I just expect too much battery life, but I find that I get quite low or even run out when I limit charging to 80%. My feeling is that the coulomb counting on the Pixel 8 Pro is just not very accurate, so the phone thinks it's at
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I wouldn't describe myself as libertarian. To make a libertarian strawman, such a strawman might claim that all safety features in cars ought to be provided by the free market. Of course, the predictable outcome is that most people won
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I'd prefer something with a slightly more libertarian bent: The hardware is required in new cars. It's illegal to make it report false values or for someone other than the driver to record. When you press the start button, an LED
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I haven't seen our roadmap accelerate because of AI. I'm sure, given time, having the P2s like documentation and prototyping in place will yield dividends. But I still can't imagine even doubling our rate of progress. I am in
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I would say that AI has not saved me any time as a developer. What is has done is allowed me to increase scope by doing tasks like documentation and prototyping/experimentation that I would not have found time for otherwise. Saying tha
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by avidiax 9mo ago
Voting for Democrats is the alternative. If the Republicans get voted out and become powerless, they (or the successor party) will have to be better to regain power. Anything else is some accelerationist nonsense.
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by avidiax 9mo ago
Amazing that insurers are allowed to renew your coverage in a way that is fundamentally different to the previous policy. They are in a much better position to predict when a home is underinsured, but they are allowed to only tell you if yo
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by avidiax 9mo ago
There are many affairs of state that won't be skillfully managed by someone learning on the job every 4-8 years. You wouldn't replace the entire CIA with political appointees every 4-8 years would you? The CDC will need people tha
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by avidiax 9mo ago
> Electric water pumps are a great idea They are a great idea if they are reliable, or cheap and easy to replace. The BMW unit was neither. The timing chain thing also came with plastic parts. Mount the timing chain at the back if it&#x2
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I haven't bought German ever, but everything I hear seems pretty negative. Some of the recent models have plastic timing chain guides and have turned the engine around so that the timing chains are in the back. The only innocent explan

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