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dolmen
2y ago
Buy a LEGO set and build your robot at home: http://www.mindcuber.com/
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dolmen
2y ago
Yes, an interesting engineering challenge.
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dolmen
2y ago
Also: competeting with other humans is also a form of socialization. And most humans like that.
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2y ago
> It sees all four sides at once [...] In human cubing competitions, humans have a few seconds to look at the cube before the timer starts. https://www.youtube.com/embed/LL8pN96MHZs
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dolmen
2y ago
Modifying the cube to grip the faces is cheating. (builder of a LEGO Mindstorms cube solver speaking)
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dolmen
2y ago
So, tell us more about window blinds!
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2y ago
I had never heard about it either. Here is the project official repository: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
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2y ago
You're probably thinking to the hormone beef issue where EU has stricter standards than the USA. On the other hand, EU allows cheese made from raw milk while most of the US states disallow it. On both issues and as a cheese lover I
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2y ago
Totally on topic.
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2y ago
The bug is that the time displayed should be the local time of the area, an in particular the correct date for the DST change. So the jump in shadows due to DST change in March should not be on the same day in Paris than in New-York.
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2y ago
It fun to do that (lock the time, slide by day) and see what happens on DST change.
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2y ago
You especially want to maximise the sun to light your solar panels.
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2y ago
Crossing the road as a pedestrian neither.
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2y ago
It would have more potential for sellers of solar panels... if it had the shape of roofs right (which it doesn't as I look to my house).
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2y ago
It definitely has no data about roof shapes.
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2y ago
Reminder: the Go team consider optimizations in code generation only as far the the compiler is kept fast. That's why the Go compiler doesn't have as many optimizations phases as C/C++/Rust compilers. As a developer I li
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2y ago
As this vulnerability exploits weird charset, is is possible to just whitelist the encodings system-wide ? Ideally all charset libraries should reject charsets out of that list. There are so many implementations of charset conversions (each
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2y ago
AI will just be another tool that artists will use. However the issue is that it will be much harder to make a career in the digital world from an artistic gift and personal style: one's style will not be unique for long as AI will qui
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2y ago
This behavior is clearly shown on the dad joke demo: https://vimeo.com/945587876
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2y ago
Yes, Altavista was the major step over Yahoo! directory.
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2y ago
About "there's space for an agency like the IMF but for software security" See Tim Bray's proposal about "OSQI": https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/
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2y ago
Being a programmer and being an archivist are two different mindset and two different jobs.
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2y ago
I found mine too, archived in 2001, but my browser can't run Java applets anymore. https://web.archive.org/web/20010407081008/http://www.multim... In fact I noticed 10 years after the publishing whe
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3y ago
Automating also requires resources to keep the DB up to date. Just look at the state of https://openhub.net/ .
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3y ago
https://openhub.net/ already exists (but it looks quite dead).
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3y ago
This is a wrong assumption. Opening the code doesn't necessarily mean that external contributions are expected. Reports of issues might be welcome, code contributions less. I've seen too many popular projects polluted by low quali
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3y ago
The only feature of IMDB I use is cast info: explore movies where an actor played, then from a movie jump to another actor. Is it something you are building to track contributors across projects? I already see how I would be even more solic
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3y ago
LLMs don't learn facts. They learn statistics on texts and are able to regurgitate them somewhat.
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3y ago
Your SSH public keys used on GitHub are very publicly exposed. This information could be used by SSH servers you are connecting to. You might think you are connecting anonymously, while in fact your SSH client is sending your public key whi
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3y ago
Using an SSH key used with GitHub for other purposes than GitHub is not a good practice (even if it's common). https://github.com/dolmen/github-keygen
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