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by duskwuff 6mo ago
Even if the datacenter does hire some local labor for construction, that's still all temporary jobs. It's not an ongoing source of employment for locals.
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
Or ansible/chef/etc -> Juju. There's a lot of NIH to pick from at Canonical.
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
An alleged implementation of PhotoDNA was posted to GitHub a few weeks ago: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/open-alleged-photodna/
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
Possibly of interest: https://mace.home.blog/ Frustratingly, though, they haven't released any source code yet.
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
I bet there's some way to make the GPU do the color conversion. It's not like it's doing much otherwise...
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
YUV is a color model, akin to RGB or HSL; it's independent of video formats like NTSC or PAL.
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
... with some extra holes in it, no less.
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
> although it is not clear to me how much alive is the project It's essentially dead. There are very few practical applications for it - modern embedded RTOSes are better suited to low-memory MMU-less parts, and SoCs with a MMU and
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
It wasn't actually that far off. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Shuttle_toilet...
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
Yes, using the table-valued JSON functions like JSON_EACH and JSON_TREE (which works recursively). Details: https://sqlite.org/json1.html#table_valued_functions_for_par...
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by duskwuff 6mo ago
One handy bit of SQLite's JSON features which isn't called out in this article is the short syntax, e.g. SELECT payload->>'$.user.id' AS user_id FROM events ... This works a little more consistently than J
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
Proof by assertion.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
> Frankenstein desktops built from heavily used 10+ year old Xeons running on suspicious motherboards made by obscure Chinese manufacturers you've never heard of. I've heard reports that these are actually surprisingly good. I
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
I've already seen at least one person who was pretty sure that the preprint paper they co-authored with AI (read: AI wrote for them) was going to cure cancer and make them billions of dollars. There was only one problem. The paper jump
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
Objective C is neat inasmuch as it managed to add a simple but practical object system to C without all the added baggage of C++. It wasn't without its downsides - in particular, the overhead of a method call was significantly higher t
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
GitHub was only modifying the description of the PR itself, not the commit messages for the commits included in the PR.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
The description is misleading. What made the OS create a new keychain was resetting their login password, not the failed password attempts. (The login keychain is encrypted using the user's password, so it's reasonable to create a
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
While it's not in quite the same product category, a name change might be in order; this is uncomfortably close to CHERI (cf. https://cheri-alliance.org/ ).
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
A tape with eight tracks, yes. But not the audio cartridge format commonly known as "8-track"; that wouldn't have been suitable to the task. Here's a photo: https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/voya
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
Trademarks can be copyrightable, if the mark is sufficiently complex and original. A simple wordmark like the FedEx logo is under the threshold of originality, but a complex logo like the Starbucks mermaid is absolutely copyrightable.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
> I imagine the microchips in the dogs would make a great tracking device. They don't. The range of a typical chip reader is a few inches - reading one requires handling the dog (and can be tricky if the chip's migrated from it
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
What you're describing is a lab power supply. (The "instantly disarm on short circuit" is overcurrent protection, which is a standard feature.) The name brands like Keysight or Rigol are kind of expensive, but there are a lot
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
"DOS support" is tricky inasmuch as a lot software from that era - especially larger and more complex packages - interacted with hardware directly. In a sense, they weren't really DOS applications so much as they were bare-me
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
There are others! They're just all horrible and generally revolve around weaponized misinformation - personalized scams, for instance.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
It certainly runs 16-bit Windows games better than Windows 11, which can't run them at all. Not that there are a ton of those, but it's still pretty neat that they work.
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
One bit of magic you may be interested in is pivot_root, which allows another filesystem to take the place of the root filesystem (e.g. / and /mnt become /old and /). It's usually used during startup, to allow the &
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
So much nonsense. If I had a nickel for every AI-poisoned "researcher" I'd seen with a preprint full of nonsense buzzwords like "quantum fractal holographic resonance matrix"... well, I wouldn't be rich, but
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
> The people more at risk of being left behind are the ones that don't learn when not to trust their output. Or the ones who fall out of practice writing software themselves because they've been relying on AI to do all the work
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
The Art of Electronics , by Horowitz and Hill, is aimed at a university or professional audience, but could also be an incredible learning resource for a younger student (or older hobbyist!) interested in learning more about the field. Spe
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by duskwuff 7mo ago
A lot of modern SUVs have "360° backup camera" features which work similarly - the car uses footage from cameras mounted around the vehicle to synthesize a top-down view. It's great for backing out of tight parking spaces, an

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