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by crote 2mo ago
Not everything is worth trying. If we want to stop the melting of the Antarctic ice sheets, and someone says "Hey, perhaps the penguins are the problem. We should murder all the penguins!", should we go all-in on that? If it inevi
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by crote 2mo ago
Not by definition. Some of that money will have gone to the "upstream policy solutions" part, which is arguably the most important part. No point burning a ton of money cleaning up trash when people are adding new trash faster tha
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by crote 2mo ago
Sure, it was an excellent PR campaign, but did it actually achieve something as well or could the same money have gotten a better outcome if it had been applied more effectively?
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by crote 2mo ago
For a lot of applications plastic is also simply a really good material. It is cheap, easy to form, strong, can be made either rigid or flexible, and has a low CO2 footprint. When it comes to inherently single-use applications it is incre
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by crote 2mo ago
That's already how it works, is it not?
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by crote 2mo ago
Alternatively: have the <time> element actually do something by hooking it up to the new Moment API and having it display the specified timestamp in the user's locale. That would at least provide an easy way to have the input f
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by crote 2mo ago
> Why do none of these hijacks embed runtime attacks? It seems like worming the build machines is the goal, rather than compromising downstream users. Developer machines are quite juicy targets. They tend to have all sorts of credentials
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by crote 2mo ago
> I'm not sure why these types of news are still coming out when we all have AI at work. Because OpenAI is burning $15 billion/year, and outrageous stories like those get parroted in the media. It's free marketing for a
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by crote 2mo ago
They have been for years. Almost all smartphones have roughly the same set of features, with fashion-like differentiators. You pay more for a premium one and it lasts a bit longer before the never-ending app bloat inevitably renders it obso
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by crote 2mo ago
It's a medical file, those rarely contain idle chit-chat. Everything should be reviewed for correctness.
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by crote 2mo ago
Moon-Earth is 384,400 km, and Moon-L2 is 61,347 km. The moon has a radius of 1,737 km. From the L2 point, a beam shearing the moon's surface will pass earth at a distance of 12,642 km from its center - or 6,272 km above the surface. Th
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by crote 2mo ago
The main reason Github is in the news these days is due to its unreliability. If availability is your main concern, Github would be a very odd choice for your One Blessed Source. Besides, it isn't "self-hosted basement Git serve
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by crote 2mo ago
> In the general case, if you enter into a contract and pay for a service, then don't receive that service, you're entitled to sue the service provider for your losses. This generally only applies to direct losses, though. If
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by crote 2mo ago
Because the customer purchased a flight on a specific date , which was not delivered. If you book a hotel room for 1-7 August to visit a conference, would you be okay if they said "oopsie, it'll be available for you 10-17 August,
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by crote 2mo ago
Thank you for engaging here! Being critical of someone else's work safely from behind a keyboard is trivial, but seeing your baby being torn to shreds is never fun. The fact that you are taking it in stride and are this open to const
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by crote 2mo ago
Line scan cameras are (were?) also very common in industrial applications. It is the best way to take images of objects on a rapidly-moving conveyor belt as you don't have to be worried about blurring due to long shutter times, and you
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by crote 2mo ago
KarTrak! It was one of the first large-scale commercial applications of barcodes, and at one point 95% of railroad cars were equipped with it. Could've been a success, but it was a few decades too soo, and a handful of small but crucia
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by crote 2mo ago
Just FYI, the screenshot was a separate post by dsego, not mine. > It's not the "default" view, it's just a screenshot I grabbed from my own development build. Prooobably best to avoid that in release notes. It is o
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by crote 2mo ago
What a clever question! You are absolutely right to be curious about that. Autorotation is a critical part of daily life, after all. If you would like me to expand on this, please drink another Google Gemini - Powered By Red Bull: It Gives
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by crote 2mo ago
You should look up the history of what actually happened with the Luddites. They weren't opposed to the machines (many were even machine operators!), they were opposed to the manufacturers circumventing labour rights . Turns out peo
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by crote 2mo ago
No, the communication has been pretty clear. A lot of people just don't like the Torment Nexus.
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by crote 2mo ago
> Don't know anyone who's life was made worse by it, and I strongly doubt you do either. Have you tried using a search engine lately, or visiting a social media platform, or buying a computer/smartphone?
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by crote 2mo ago
Don't forget the completely unaccountable megacorps who are increasingly invading our day-to-day lives, and the politicians whose main priority seems to be competing for their bribes. The depressing part isn't that we are facing h
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by crote 2mo ago
Is it "growth", or is it actually just "load"? Github definitely didn't 100x its paying customers, and Github Copilot doesn't seem to have any serious users. Should we really be calling it growth when revenue
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by crote 2mo ago
What is the long-term sustainability story here? You're deliberately avoiding a network effect lock-in by being federated, you make competition trivial by giving away not only the protocol but also making your code available, and you
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by crote 2mo ago
Looking at the toolbar: - The icon theming is inconsistent. There's a group of black-and-white icons, a group of blue icons, and a group of colored icons. They are jumbled together and don't seem to indicate any kind of function.
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by crote 2mo ago
> A quick search for "arm chip" on AliExpress shows lots of results Most of those are going to either be fake, or a clone with all kinds of weird compatibility issues. You might even get recycled chips, scavenged from e-waste
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by crote 2mo ago
When everyone is trying to make bricks fly, having the most aerodynamic brick probably isn't a bad thing.
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by crote 2mo ago
> They're probably produced in far greater numbers than most off-the-shelf STM32 or CH32V chips. I highly doubt it. The RP2xxx lacks the built-in functionality for use in, say, a car, and it isn't cheap and fully-integrated eno
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by crote 2mo ago
The "much more capable" is debatable. The RP2000 series is quite disappointing IO-wise: no timers, barely any ADC, no touch sensors, no CAN, bare minimum of USART/I2C/SPI, no I2S, no I3C, no ethernet, no USB PD... And ye

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