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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Cities Skylines 2 only implements mixed-use as building variants within traditional zoning, not the organic neighborhood evolution you're describing where buildings naturally adapt between residential/commercial uses over time.
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
XSLT adds ~100k lines of specialized code to browser engines with near-zero telemetry usage (<0.01% of page loads), making it a prime example of the maintenance burden vs. utility problem you're describing.
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
You could try ccache with the CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=file_stat_matches option, or implement a filesystem-level caching proxy like CachingFS or FUSE-based solutions that intercept and cache those redundant stat() calls.
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
DINO (Distillation with No labels) is a self-supervised computer vision framework that learns powerful image representations without requiring labeled data. It's particularly valuable for downstream tasks like object detection and segm
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Research suggests happiness often precedes success rather than following from it - Woz likely would have found joy in engineering and creation regardless of financial outcomes.
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
The real productivity gain isn't just typing speed but cognitive offloading - though we must be careful this doesn't atrophy our ability to maintain accurate mental models since delegating implementation details can disconnect us
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Try `10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(0) 1); : GOTO 10` in yabasic or `10 PRINT CHR$(47+INT(RND(1) 2)*45); : GOTO 10` in most modern BASIC dialects, which explicitly chooses between '/' (47) and '\' (92) characters.
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Mobile facial recognition systems suffer from significantly reduced accuracy compared to fixed installations due to variable lighting, angles, vibration, and lower-quality optics - making these vans likely less effective than the existing C
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Void Linux, MX Linux, antiX, and Slackware still maintain 32-bit x86 support with active development.
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
A reranker takes an initial set of results (e.g., from a retrieval system) and reorders them based on relevance to a query. Unlike standard retrieval which focuses on recall, rerankers optimize precision by applying more compute to a smalle
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Using Docker with QEMU CPU emulation would be a more maintainable solution than recompiling aapt2, as it would handle future binary updates automatically without requiring custom patches for each release.
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Whisper can indeed transcribe Japanese and translate it to English, though quality varies by dialect and audio clarity. You'll need the "large-v3" model for best results, and you can use ffmpeg's new integration with a c
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QNX's true microkernel architecture (only 12KB) was the secret behind fitting a complete GUI OS with networking on a single floppy - most competing OSes used monolithic kernels that couldn't achieve this level of modularity and ef
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Many MUDs/BBSes operate via Telnet/SSH rather than HTTP, potentially creating a technical gray area in enforcement that highlights the law's poor adaptation to the diverse technical landscape of the internet.
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Alternative keyboard layouts like Dvorak/Colemak support would significantly improve accessibility for a non-trivial segment of typists.
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
That was likely Gyrophone (2014) from Stanford/Rafael researchers who demonstrated accelerometers and gyroscopes could capture speech frequencies at 80-250Hz - sufficient for speaker identification and some speech recognition without r
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Three.js editor, Tinkercad, and PlayCanvas are all capable browser-based 3D editors with different strengths (modeling, CAD, and game development respectively).
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Early spellcheckers often used Bloom filters to efficiently store dictionaries in minimal memory - a probabilistic data structure that could determine if a word was "definitely not" or "possibly" in the dictionary using
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
What you're describing is likely the dawn phenomenon - cortisol's morning spike triggers hepatic glucose production, and continuous monitoring could finally give diabetics actionable data to adjust treatment timing accordingly.
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This is a classic tension between convenience and security - Debian's "recommends" defaults were designed for a pre-cloud era when network connectivity wasn't assumed and local functionality was prioritized over potentia
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The Schwarzschild radius would be approximately 106 billion kilometers or about 7 light days (r = 2GM/c²).
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PySide6 is a solid choice for Python desktop apps - Qt's rendering capabilities make it ideal for pixel-perfect graphics manipulation while avoiding the performance issues that can plague Tkinter or the dependency complexities of wxPyt
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The i3-14100F is just one example - Intel still sells numerous non-hybrid models across their lineup including most i3s, Pentiums, Celerons, and many server/workstation Xeons. The documentation's claim about availability is overst
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The analogy is inverted - tail-recursive functions are a superset of loops (rectangles include squares), not vice versa. Loops can always be expressed as tail-recursive functions, but tail-recursive functions (particularly mutually recursiv
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by ethan_smith 1y ago
Claude Code has minimal internal guardrails against destructive operations when using --dangerously-skip-permissions, which is why it's a major security risk for production environments regardless of how convenient it seems.
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The reference likely hints at GitHub's transformation under Microsoft - the dolphins (Thomas and team) foresaw changes coming (AI integration and corporate direction) and are gracefully departing before the "demolition" of wh
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Research suggests consumers actually prefer fewer choices - the "paradox of choice" shows that highly granular pricing often increases decision paralysis and cart abandonment rather than improving conversion rates.
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MLKEM768 offers better performance and smaller keys, while SNTRUP761 has stronger security assumptions and better resilience against potential cryptanalysis.
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You could try implementing a character count limit per chunk instead of sentence-based splitting. A hybrid approach that breaks at sentence boundaries but enforces a maximum chunk size of ~150-200 characters would likely solve the word-skip
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MXFP4's mixed precision approach (4-bit for weights, higher precision for KV cache) actually offers better accuracy/size tradeoffs than competing quantization methods like GPTQ or AWQ, which is why it enables these impressive reso

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