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by connicpu 3y ago
Absolutely agree, I didn't get a single smart home device until I was certain I could have full local control and that it would work until the day the hardware failed. I started out making my own custom IoT controllers with ESP8266 chi
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by connicpu 3y ago
If you combine acetaminophen with aspirin and caffeine you get Excedrin, so it's telling you something that exists, but that's not what Tylenol is. It's like it knows there's other fillers in the pill, but it just halluc
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by connicpu 3y ago
Well patents are supposed to be more "you have to pay me if you want to use it before the term expires". Maybe a requirement to offer patent licenses for a reasonable price could help there, but it's tricky. I think at a mini
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by connicpu 3y ago
If someone invents something truly novel I think they deserve the first right to make money off it. The extra bonus of having them file a patent is that when it expires it becomes free public knowledge for everyone. The problem for software
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by connicpu 3y ago
Back in the olden days when the majority of human labor was agricultural, having more children meant more hands to work the farm, so having more children actually improved your resource situation. Humans on some level have a biological driv
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by connicpu 3y ago
Obviously the for-profit prisons would absolutely hate this kind of reform and will spend millions lobbying against it if it ever garnered serious consideration. All the more reason to push for it.
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by connicpu 3y ago
Having a percentage of their pay going to reparations for any identified victims of their crimes seems like it would be a fair system, and much better than what currently goes on where these companies are pocketing all of the profits from t
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by connicpu 3y ago
If prisoners at least got paid minimum wage then maybe when they left prison they'd have a pool of funds to get their life put back together rather than resorting to crime in order to survive, repeating a cycle that gets them put back
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by connicpu 3y ago
The difference is interaction. I haven't ever been in a car with a windshield HUD, but I assume it doesn't require specific driver interaction to use. Using your smartphone while driving is also very illegal and can get you an exp
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by connicpu 3y ago
Sounds more practical for satellite-to-satellite communication than for consumer devices then if it's being sent with lasers
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by connicpu 3y ago
Lead roof shingles?
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by connicpu 3y ago
On the GPU especially, having the data aligned to 16 bytes is huge just due to the nature of what a GPU is optimized for and the way memory access is designed. The speedup on x86_64 isn't as huge, but the aligned load instructions for
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by connicpu 3y ago
For parts of the game's logic where pure performance is paramount you can even drop down and write a gdextension in C++ or Rust (or a couple other languages that people maintain bindings for, or write new bindings for another language
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Power regulators that can efficiently produce the 1-1.5v output with the most minimal noise generally have lower maximums on their input voltage as well. In designing some of my own IoT devices I've looked into a fair number of power r
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by connicpu 3y ago
If I paid someone to replace my light switches for me I don't think that would be pretending I don't understand how to do it, I'm just recognizing that it's a LOT of work and I have better things I'd rather do with
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by connicpu 3y ago
The problem with PFAS isn't the amount found in the general environment, it's the amount found in the immediate area around factories that produce them or apply them to products.
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by connicpu 3y ago
To be fair for point 1, if you have LLVM IR you can just run the full LLVM optimizer suite over it. But overall LLVM IR is a poor target because it constantly changes with every LLVM release.
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by connicpu 3y ago
Yeah that's the impression I got from the FAQ as well. You must be a current subscriber to have access to the latest commits from the repository, and you must also be a current subscriber at the time you release, and at the time you pu
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by connicpu 3y ago
From reading the FAQ it seems the terms are basically that you have to keep paying the license fee in order to release content updates for your games on platforms where you used any of their code to make the build. And since this is for the
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by connicpu 3y ago
"1-2 glasses of wine a few days a week associated with better health outcomes" was true, but it leaves out "1-2 glasses of wine a few days a week associated with wealth". There's some correlations there, but neither
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by connicpu 3y ago
Depends a lot on the exact model of ESP32 you get. Even for non-devboards, a lot of the newer modules have a built in USB serial peripheral. If it's got a USB port, you're already ready to go. The ESP32-C3 QtPy modules from adafru
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by connicpu 3y ago
An apartment building probably saves on cost by using one transformer for the whole building, meanwhile detached houses usually each have their own transformer to step down from the local distribution lines. I'd imagine the signals hav
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by connicpu 3y ago
Definitely not, at least in systems where both the engine and motor-generator mechanically connect. You only reduce complexity when it's basically just an EV where the ICE can recharge the battery, such as the Chevy Volt or Mazda'
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by connicpu 3y ago
Transistors have some nuance to them, but a transistor can in theory be scaled all the way down to being made out of only a handful of atoms if it was made perfectly with no impurities, and it would still function nearly identically to the
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by connicpu 3y ago
Of course a single brain cell performs a more complex operation than a single transistor
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`std::os::unix does` adds some additional methods in that vein like exec(), but no fork(). `std::os::linux` only adds the ability to get `pidfd`s for child processes you create. There's simply no safe way for the stdlib to provide safe
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by connicpu 3y ago
I don't think Rust's stdlib provides any kind of safe way to call just fork(), it only has methods for creating child processes because that's the only interface that works on every supported Tier 1 platform. Calling fork is
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by connicpu 3y ago
If we're going to use circuit terminology I think the physics of a flywheel are more like some kind of AC Inductor. DC Inductors resist changes in the flow of current, keeping current flowing even when circuit conditions change. It als
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by connicpu 3y ago
I imagine any serious project won't be written in JavaScript, and WASM code with symbols stripped out is about as opaque as x86 or ARM assembly, especially when you start getting into the code sizes you expect for a full game engine or
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by connicpu 3y ago
I got a cheap hot air station from amazon for only $40, works quite well! Maybe another $10 for solder wire and $10 for flux and you're good to go

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