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by bjourne 1y ago
Ofc but javelin launchers and missiles cost $250k a piece. You get a lot of drones for that price.
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by bjourne 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa
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by bjourne 1y ago
Correct, but the point is that it is difficult to get malloc to return null on Linux. Why litter your code with checks for de facto impossible scenarios?
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by bjourne 1y ago
So software released under the MIT license and maintainer now complains that corporate users are not helping improve it? I'd file this under Stallman told you so.
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Smokers are less likely to develop Parkinson's. Why? (2024)(news.harvard.edu)
3 points by bjourne 1y ago|3 comments
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by bjourne 1y ago
> For the longest time, I have been frustrated with Python because I couldn’t use it for one-off scripts. Bruh, one-off scripts is the whole point of Python. The cheat code is to add "break-system-packages = true" to ~/.co
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by bjourne 1y ago
They usually resort to legalisms for cases like this: "The guy wasn't an American citizen so first amendment doesn't apply. The border guard was ENTITLED to harass him. America #1!!"
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Gitmoji, An emoji guide for your commit messages(gitmoji.dev)
2 points by bjourne 1y ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 1y ago
I have emojis in my prompt to convey the status of the git branch I'm working on. It's much more space-efficient than using English strings.
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by bjourne 1y ago
I never understood why FPGA vendors think the tools should do this and not the designer. Most do a terrible job at it too. E.g., Quartus doing place and route in a single thread and then bailing out after X hours/days with a cryptic er
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by bjourne 1y ago
But less sweeping than the parent who generalized to "most universities". I think it was a long time since you went to university and times have changed.
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by bjourne 1y ago
That may be true in US universities, but in Europe students have to write technical reports in almost every course.
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by bjourne 1y ago
> What they were doing, inching towards nukes, was a horrible move. Why are you swallowing the propaganda you've been spoon-fed? "Gabbard: Iran is not currently developing nuclear weapons" https://jewishinsider.
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by bjourne 1y ago
> Was Iran's activities funding militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, which launched attacks against Israel and US forces "legal"? Is the US funding of Ukrainian militias "legal"?
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by bjourne 1y ago
Article 5 doesn't count since the US very clearly started the war. Even the NATO articles recognize that Iran has the right to defend itself.
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by bjourne 1y ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356 21 years old bug. XDG is such an obvious improvement, yet getting all projects on board is taking forever.
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by bjourne 1y ago
I read in a forum about psychedelics about a guy who had been carving up his whole arm while tripping on LSD. The response befuddled me and wasn't what I expected: "Classic newbie mistake", "Your own fault for tripping a
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by bjourne 1y ago
That is not enough. The generated Verilog code can be very opaque which makes it very difficult to analyze in cycle-accurate simulators. It also is (afaik) mostly impossible to automatically correlate an error in the Verilog code with a spe
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by bjourne 1y ago
Isn't the fact that you hide your age evidence that you suspect ageism? Fwiw, I do the same.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Comparing strings by bytecode equality is kinda dubious anyway.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Well... There are two perspectives. Llms are smarter than we thought or people are stupider than we thought.
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by bjourne 1y ago
I'm also terrible at long-term planning. What I've found helps a bit is a whiteboard on which I write down goals and break them down into smaller tasks.
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by bjourne 1y ago
The pro argument is that writing shell scripts for starting/restarting/enabling/disabling/stopping is total garbage. Not to mention having to manage lock files. systemd units are not perfect, but they are a billion times
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by bjourne 1y ago
This is the back-end plague which is everywhere in free software. The idea is that whatever "it" is, adding support for "it" is "just another back-end" . Take cairo for example, it has or had back-ends for gdk,
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by bjourne 1y ago
If one goes by the ACIP Membership Rooster this seem to be the case: https://www.cdc.gov/acip/membership/roster.html Likely, the compensation scientists receive for being a committee member is not great so the com
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by bjourne 1y ago
termtables - great for simple tables. humanize - for printing quantities nicely: naturalsize(12345678, binary = True) -> 11.8 MiB
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by bjourne 1y ago
Proving p=np
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by bjourne 1y ago
"Some people in Sweden first learned about the US censorship because official news from the Swedish government was removed from platforms." Citation very, very much needed.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Arguments against: 1. Most people don't use them correctly. 2. How long a pause should "feel" is lost nuance. Non-native English speakers and people without academic degrees can't feel the difference between semi-colons
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by bjourne 1y ago
So rather than electrons flowing through regular transistors you would have photons flowing through phototransistors? Wouldn't one problem be casting light rays that with widths in the nano or picometer range?

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