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by duskwuff 1y ago
Out of curiosity, are you familiar with Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection [1]? It includes a nonogram puzzle, under the name "Pattern" - I believe it guarantees that the puzzles are solveable without backtracking. It
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I agree, but for a different reason (and one which isn't recent, either). Essay questions on job applications are most effective at selecting for candidates who are adept at telling stories about themselves. It doesn't necessarily
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> The vector database previously used must have been very inefficient. Especially if it was taking ~800 ms to do a search. At that speed, you'd probably be better off storing the documents as plain text, without the whole inefficien
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Video compression handles redundancy between similar documents effectively. Definitely not. None of the "redundancy" between, or within, texts (e.g. repeated phrases) is apparent in a sequence of images of QR codes.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Now I wonder if there are any 5x5 nonograms which can be proven to require multiple levels of backtracking, i.e. where you have to make at least two guesses before reaching a contradiction, no matter where you put those guesses.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I don't know exactly how okayestjoel's solver works, but here's an example of a nonogram which I imagine it would consider "difficult": 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 . . . . . 2 . . . . . 11 . . . . .
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That's the number of unique combinations of clues for all 2^25 puzzles. There are 13 possible clues for each row/column (0 1 2 3 4 5 11 12 13 21 22 31 111), but not all 13^10 possible combinations can appear together - for instanc
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I walked through the store on their last day and was amazed at just how much unalloyed junk they had on the shelves - boxes of unidentified circuit boards with bent connectors and components broken off, shelves of empty binders, etc. Lots o
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Yep - unfortunately, that never appears to have been available for purchase outside the Indiegogo campaign.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Yep, and I love it. That's a much smaller (and lower pin count) FPGA than this ECP5, though.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Those are names of cases, not laws.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> It needs terrible elevator music (mellow jazz) Did you click the unmute button? :)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It's not automatic, but one way I've seen people reverse-engineer PCBs (and ICs!) is to import scans of the subject in Kicad, then start tracing out the connections on screen.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
The situation just got murkier: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1927839555828220165 ("@durov @grok No deal has been signed")
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by duskwuff 1y ago
re. Sparkle - same. Sparkle is practically the platonic ideal of a self-update framework; there's good reason why it's been the uncontested standard on the platform for nearly twenty years (!!).
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by duskwuff 1y ago
BLOBs support random access - the handles aren't stateful. https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/blob_read.html You're right that their size is limited, though, and it's actually worse than you even thought (1 GB
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by duskwuff 1y ago
One gotcha to be aware of is that SQLite blobs can't exceed 1* GB. Don't use SQLite archives for large monolithic data. *: A few bytes less, actually; the 1 GB limit is on the total size of a row, including its ID and any other co
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by duskwuff 1y ago
SOCAMM is also Nvidia-specific, not a wider standard. (At least, not yet.)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
A lot of these books are self-published.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Also CPU TDP is missing from the specs? About 10W maximum. It's a fairly low-power CPU intended for use in networking equipment. https://community.nxp.com/pwmxy87654/attachments/pwmxy87654/...
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Pi 1 had its share of hardware issues too, though - the LAN9512 1.8V regulator issue comes to mind, for instance, as well as USB port brownouts.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Agreed. I'm inclined to say the system is working correctly - most of the articles I see on the site are basically advertorials for luxury watches. This isn't news, and most Google News users are unlikely to be interested in it.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Will people who condition themselves too well to tolerate VR entertainment also break their vestibular system, such as making themselves less likely to be able to recover from a sudden imbalance, or not automatically protect against a
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Precisely. This administration's concern for the Uyghurs is skin-deep; it's essentially just a justification to punish any unauthorized connections to China. The actual details of the conflict (for instance, that the Uyghurs are e
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by duskwuff 1y ago
And it might also help to have a larger job database. Right now it looks like there are only nine companies with jobs listed.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That was the one I was aware of. Was there another incident separate from that?
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by duskwuff 1y ago
What was the other time? The incident linked at the bottom of that article ("into trouble last year") wasn't an "unauthorized change", as far as I'm aware; it was a general lack of guardrails on image generatio
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by duskwuff 1y ago
A big one of those reasons was Docker. Docker was still fairly niche when WSL was released in 2016, but demand for it grew rapidly, and I don't think there was any realistic way they could have made it work on the NT kernel.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
You say "Jenkins server" as if there's a CI setup involved. I wouldn't be surprised if, in many cases, these companies just have whoever touched the code last run a build on their computer and ship that. (Which probably
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Rumor has it that ST has one on the way (STM32V8).

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