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by bigiain 1y ago
Surely alcohol is by far the biggest example.
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by bigiain 1y ago
> Three to the exponent of five. I think that's still ambiguous. The base of the exponent is implied, and there are decent arguments or fields in which the assumed base of 10 isn't universal. In your "Three times e's
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by bigiain 1y ago
> > That said, I don’t know how to pronounce “3e5” > "Three to the exponent of five." Or "Three Exponent Five." Or "Three Exp Five." Somehow, you need to distinguish between 3^5 (=243), 3 x e^5 (=~445.
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by bigiain 1y ago
I wonder if anyone's made a version of Disintegration Loops as an LLM artwork? Recursively retrained their own LLM on it's own output until it descends into gibberish in amusing or artistic ways? https://en.wikipedia.o
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by bigiain 1y ago
The US streaming giants seem to be doing a pretty good job of ensuring they themselves do not survive. Perhaps all British TV needs to do is wait out the enshittification that's already in play.
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by bigiain 1y ago
> but you never know when you need those extra handful of bytes of memory I guess... I guess on all those crappiest of 32 bit devices with 2.6 based kernels (which are practically unupgradeable due to vendor patches[1]) which will never
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by bigiain 1y ago
I suspect most IOT device manufacturers expect/design their device to be landfill before worrying about leap year math. (In my least optimistic moments, I suspect some of them may intentionally implement known broken algorithms that ma
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by bigiain 1y ago
I mean, it was pretty obvious from Xenolab Safety Directive 12.4B that this was not a purely pragmatic and generalised to fit everyone kind of project.
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by bigiain 1y ago
OP proceeds to spend 6 months worth of evenings and weekends learning basic electronics, Arduino, and Home Assistant installation and admin - to get to the stage where they can do this in 10 minutes.
610.
by bigiain 1y ago
Did Arthur C Clark "beat the scientists" when he wrote about geosynchronous radio communication satellites in 1945? This was 12 years before humanity had launched _anything_ into orbit, and 20 years before we launched a communicat
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by bigiain 1y ago
Some of that group of armchair programmers remember when npm drama and leftpad.js broke a noticeable portion of the internet. Sure, don't overthink it. But underthinking it is seriously problematic too.
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by bigiain 1y ago
And, reductio ad absurdum, you perhaps also need to count those 27 million LOC in Linux too. (Or however many LOC there are in Windows or macOS or whatever other OS is a fundamental "dependency" for your program.)
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by bigiain 1y ago
For a while, I was running an Arduino/PiZero gadget I built that sat under my a NAD 1100 preamp which had a pair of stepper motors and used orings and 3d printed pulleys to turn the volume and input selection knobs. This worked nicely,
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by bigiain 1y ago
Same. Back in the mid 80s I spent way more than was sensible and bought myself seperate NAD pre/power amps, Boston Acoustic Speakers, and a Rega turntable for my birthday. I not only still have and use all that gear, but have since bou
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by bigiain 1y ago
I've been a motorcyclist for over 30 years. I pretty much live by this: “If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it
616.
by bigiain 1y ago
But you already didn't have the security of Apple's payment processing when you were buying Kindle books. (Admittedly, I'm now waiting for the stories of users being surprised when they paid their FartTorchPRO app subscriptio
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by bigiain 1y ago
Effective altruism: hire this guy to manipulate software company's stock prices with highly publicized "vulnerabilities" in their products...
618.
by bigiain 1y ago
"they likely lack the ethical background." FTFY
619.
by bigiain 1y ago
<conspiracy theory> Google's internal version of that tool _does_ implement that command line switch...
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by bigiain 1y ago
I'm now imagining old-Linus responding to an AI slop bug report on lkml...
621.
by bigiain 1y ago
I, for one,welcome the new Canadiana/Polite-Core musical genre.
622.
by bigiain 1y ago
Yeah, but we'll end up with Palantir owning Chrome, not Yahoo...
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by bigiain 2y ago
In case the author ever sees this... If you have that battery level available off the Kindle, you can use it to turn a wifi "smart plug" on and off, to automatically top the charge up only when required. (Or, more old-school, use
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Tauri is not as platform-agnostic as Electron I suspect the real reason electron got used here is that ChatGPT/Copilot/whatever has almost no Tauri example code in the training set, so for some developers it effectively doesn
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by bigiain 2y ago
And probably complaints about "wokeness" from the Galactic Twitter owner because it used a woman as the size reference... :sigh: I hope I never live to see Galactic Twitter.
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by bigiain 2y ago
So, using the OP's own comparison, I should be able to pay a one off "saffron purchase", and then be able to use as much saffron as I want from the supermarket for every meal I ever make in the future? ;-)
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by bigiain 2y ago
So "Typefaces are incredibly important", just not important enough to pay for (or create yourself)???
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Now we should do a study of how many people, armed with this belief, still managed to keep their habit after 21 days. Or perhaps better still, how many people didn't give up during the first or second week, since they now expect i
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by bigiain 2y ago
I'm not certain, but I suspect this'll work out better for Monoprice than it does for individuals. I _think_ Monoprice will pay the couple of hundred dollars "per package" fees for the pallet or container full of cables
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by bigiain 2y ago
Nah, my point was that people who ignored the incumbent "wisdom" in the late 90's, actually took over the web. As much as some "technical" people deride PHP and the sort of self taught developers that were using it

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