echoangle

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by echoangle 7d ago
> And still you're reaction is "it's slop". The text on the page sounds really AI written so I can see why people think it’s slop.
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by echoangle 7d ago
I think they would be allowed to do it because it’s for safety (they could probably also open letters filled with powder to prevent anthrax etc.), but I don’t think they have the manpower and motivation to do it, especially because the risk
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by echoangle 7d ago
So they will scan the package, notice the phone, unpack and start it to check the battery percentage and if the shipping mode is enabled?
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by echoangle 8d ago
Wiki on wifi: > It is disputed whether the name Wi-Fi is short-form for 'Wireless Fidelity',[34] although the Wi-Fi Alliance did use the advertising slogan "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity" for a short time after t
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by echoangle 8d ago
You could say this about every QoL feature though. That’s not a reason to not do it though, it adds up and at some point other apps that do bother to make their apps as good as possible will become more popular than yours.
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by echoangle 8d ago
Not necessarily, you could also want to make an infinite loop and wait for an interrupt without eanting to power down.
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by echoangle 8d ago
Or you could just detect while loops with constant condition (like the C standard) and not touch any programs that don't exhibit UB while allowing infinite loops for other use cases at zero runtime cost and negligible compile cost.
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by echoangle 8d ago
> The CPU doesn't really see functions, it just sees instructions. Functions are a convention on top of the machine code. Not really true, most instructions set have instructions specifically to implement functions as found in norma
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by echoangle 8d ago
What if my CPU doesn't have that? I don't think Atmel Microcontrollers do for example.
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by echoangle 8d ago
Why not just allow infinite loops instead of having me write assembly for it though?
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by echoangle 8d ago
That's the problem with UB, once you hit it (or even have it in your code), you can't really trust anything about the execution anymore. That the function is called isn't something the compiler does on purpose, it's just
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by echoangle 8d ago
And how would you generate assembly to keep a microcontroller idle then?
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by echoangle 8d ago
I'm also confused that an uncalled function is even compiled and linked, wouldn't it make sense to remove it entirely if the compiler can detect that it's never called?
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by echoangle 8d ago
The article mentions a use case for that: > What I found is that this is common in embedded and kernel code as a halt-on-error pattern. When a fatal error occurs and there’s no operating system to exit to, you simply stop:
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by echoangle 8d ago
> Except in your own examples it can easily be shown that it is not handled differently. I was talking about humans vs. cars as an analogy to you comparing GPUs and cars. Nobody is taxing humans the way cars are taxed, so why should the
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by echoangle 8d ago
Do you not think that stealing requires the original owner to lose access? If I sneak into your home, take apart the coffee machine, measure everything, put it back together and go home and build a copy to have my own, did I steal your coff
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by echoangle 8d ago
> The same applies to "horse-power". Yet we have no issue making the comparison anyways and HP has become an industry standard. Yeah, which is why it's only used to compare cars etc. among each other. Nobody would calculat
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by echoangle 8d ago
> unless you maintain that the USSR wasn't truly communist. Didn’t they themselves say they were a socialist society on the path to communism? Does anyone think the USSR was communist?
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by echoangle 8d ago
The multiplication comparison makes no sense because humans don’t learn by multiplying numbers to change weights. It’s like comparing the lubrication oil consumption of a car to the cooking oil consumption of a human to compare the carrying
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by echoangle 8d ago
Is grooming the right word here? The guy is 42, grooming to me has a pedophilic connotation.
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by echoangle 8d ago
Is it weird that I like the version where the icon is centered on the multiple lines?
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by echoangle 8d ago
I don't think every GPS receiver necessarily has to have this problem, even with the old signal. It's not crazy to keep a week count in persistent memory and use that as a lower bound on startup so you only get a wrong time if the
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by echoangle 8d ago
I think by thermal gradient they mean a change in temperature over time, not space.
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by echoangle 8d ago
I disagree, I think motor in this case only means “creating movement”. The motor is the thing creating movement depending on the ambient temperature. Also you seem to have a miscommunication with the person replying to you where they are ta
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by echoangle 8d ago
> also the drone operator sounds trigger-happy That’s a manned AH-64 Apache attack helicopter with a pilot and gunner.
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by echoangle 8d ago
That’s not a contradiction, since missiles are one of the weapon types carried by aircraft. Unless you mean it was literally hit by aircraft in a sense that aircraft were flown into the building.
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by echoangle 8d ago
Yeah, they have exercise equipment there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Resistive_Exercise_De... Apparently they exercise around 2h every day
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by echoangle 9d ago
Wouldn't the thermostatic radiator valves contain a wax motor? According to the definition in the article, using ambient heat as the energy source counts. Or are you saying it's only a wax motor if there's electric heating?
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by echoangle 9d ago
> First of all, because not everyone starts with inherited wealth. So how are you going to build the supermarket? > Also because ideally running a supermarket should give you more money even in a deflationary world. If it needs to giv
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by echoangle 10d ago
Isn’t the problem that multiple datacenters in one zone were blown up?

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