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dymk
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dymk
3y ago
Your house is attached to the grid via transformers, and gets all its power via an inductive coupling. Trying reason that it's inductive, and therefore a form of power transfer that is not stealing does not follow.
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3y ago
Heat, and not very much
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3y ago
Maybe not if you do it slowly. One hack that room-scale VR systems do to make you feel like you're in a larger space is subtly curve the direction you're walking, so you end up walking in a large arc but you "see" you&#x
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3y ago
The demo of him sitting on a chair and being moved around shows IMO impressive acceleration. It's probably dependent on how much surface area is contacting the floor, but it certainly looks responsive enough for real usecases.
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3y ago
Tokyo would like a word
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3y ago
Character design is copyrightable however, and a few of the pals are straight up copied with the ears tweaked.
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3y ago
It's generally good practice to read a library's documentation to understand how to use it - there's not really a short cut to that, regardless of the language. As for the syntax, you know that `event` is a method, passed the
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3y ago
Not to be confused with LoRa ("long range"), a radio communication protocol. At first I thought this could be about using LLMs to find optimal protocol parameters, but alas.
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3y ago
Data which can be tied back to someone's purchase history is by definition not anonymized
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3y ago
Yes, but that's not a conditional branch, and that's the distinction I've always seen made for flow control versus indirection
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3y ago
Where can I learn more about Jai's release timeline?
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3y ago
> Examples of hidden allocations: > Go’s defer allocates memory to a function-local stack. Not really hidden if there's keyword indicating it's happening, no? I guess you could argue that "defer" isn't called
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3y ago
I've only seen flow control used in the context of conditional branching, so if the function contains no branches, I don't see why it would. Hidden overhead or indirection, sure, but not necessarily flow control, for the same reas
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3y ago
Nope, it’s not like A/B testing a button color on an ad; it’s medical history
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3y ago
politics is how you convince people above you to do things
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3y ago
I don't think you've worked in the medical industry, or you'd know just how big of a deal HIPAA is.
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3y ago
HIPAA violation
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3y ago
Incorrect
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3y ago
That’s a big hipaa violation.
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3y ago
No, it can’t
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3y ago
Surveys
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3y ago
thanks sneak, very insightful
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3y ago
This is idiomatic Ruby syntax, and anyone familiar with the language knows what that code does
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3y ago
Bad actors are going to ruin this cool little device for everyone else. For every story I hear about a cool usecase for it, there's another about it being used to annoy or harm others.
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3y ago
No, for it to only be an accent, humans kind of have to understand each other - mutual intelligibility and all that. We’re pretty good at interpreting imperfect input.
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3y ago
I promise you children do not yearn for mines even when they're starving. At most, they'll begrudgingly enter the mines, and some might not come back.
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3y ago
Yet people are nice to each other anyways, even when not legally obligated
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3y ago
> Previously these tradeoffs were not so harsh What makes you so sure of this?
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3y ago
You sacrifice price, of course. "Fast, quality, cheap: pick two" has been an invariant in basically every industry since the beginning of... industry. And usually it's "pick one".
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3y ago
The commercial real estate market is a lot bigger than $5B.
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