fidotron

36 ms·

781.
Amiga OutRun(reassembler68k.itch.io)
1 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
782.
Belkin Wemo Discontinuation of Service(consumerrights.wiki)
1 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
783.
by fidotron 1y ago
This will prove to be a strange business. Civil engineering is already a field where the very largest projects are done by humans planning and building the roads and bridges for the robots to move in (such as things rented from Mammoet [1]
784.
by fidotron 1y ago
If you follow things like three.js you'll be painfully aware that in truth there doesn't seem to be much use for this at all. "3D on the web" is something that sounds fun until it's possible at which point it become
785.
by fidotron 1y ago
> A quick look at the product licensing page reveals that KDB-X gives you up to 16GB of RAM, 4 secondary threads per process, and 8 IPC connections.
786.
by fidotron 1y ago
> There's a corollary here–most research gets done by nerd-sniping a researcher into a particular problem. If something is considered boring or 'solved', it probably won't get worked on. This is a very interesting nug
787.
by fidotron 1y ago
I recently encountered a shared SQLite db being used for inter process pub sub for real time data . . . in a safety critical system. Wrong on so many levels it's frightening.
788.
by fidotron 1y ago
Bootlegging of everything is a huge business. Back in the 90s Singapore was such a big market for this that it acted as the major driver for motivating globally synchronized releases. i.e. for Reader's Digest magazine* in the US in 199
789.
by fidotron 1y ago
If this happened all multiplayer titles would turn F2P. People do not appreciate quite what a narrow path has to be walked by games from an IP standpoint. Code libraries, licensed property, per platform (and platform category) restrictions,
790.
Meta Leak Suggests Smart Glasses with Display Is Nearing Launch(roadtovr.com)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
791.
by fidotron 1y ago
There are definite philosophical questions over the merits of adding noise, but the problem with their example here is their denoising process appears to excessively blur everything, so both it and the synthesized grain image look noticeabl
792.
Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 available now at $4(raspberrypi.com)
4 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
793.
by fidotron 1y ago
> Um, why was someone's perfectly reasonable take downvoted to oblivion? Too much of a newcomer? Too many Welch devotees here? At the risk of a serious tangent, the bots here have become so out of control that there is also a major
794.
Olimex RP2350pc board features RP2350B MCU, HDMI/DVI video output, 4x USB ports(cnx-software.com)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
795.
by fidotron 1y ago
> driven by goal-seeking behavior This is a bad thing now?
796.
by fidotron 1y ago
Ironically that applies more to your reply than the comment you replied to.
797.
The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set(folklore.org)
52 points by fidotron 1y ago|19 comments
798.
by fidotron 1y ago
This stuff is why I am so cynical about modern software development management. Bill Atkinson wrote QuickDraw, a masterpiece of low level programming, but also had a very solid grasp about what it was for right down to the UX it was to enab
799.
by fidotron 1y ago
The serious move would be centralizing their budgets they have for developing these functions in a new independent company, and until that happens it's likely to get stuck in analysis paralysis. If in doubt take a look at what they&#x2
800.
by fidotron 1y ago
The UK used to have DERA, preceded by the DRA which itself was a merger of other agencies. DERA was part privatized into Qinetiq. Not quite a DARPA or CSIRO equivalent because very much more defence focused, but doing the work more with emp
801.
by fidotron 1y ago
> And sometimes we would attempt to socialize with whatever person happened to be nearby, even a complete stranger. I think this is the core reason for so much video arcade machine related nostalgia. Those that experienced this the first
802.
by fidotron 1y ago
Prior to the AI boom Wix had developed a niche in very small businesses with events and sales, where it has a lot of the tedious stuff around that in a state where you can no code it into place very fast. The problems begin when you try to
803.
by fidotron 1y ago
Yes. But the British have a special hate on for all things Elon Musk, going back to at least the early Tesla Roadster days.
804.
by fidotron 1y ago
> I think the implication here is that the Wix platform sets the bar so low, that even a vibing LLM can surpass it. I'm not implying anything! Wix is clearly actively designed to be that way.
805.
by fidotron 1y ago
Anyone remotely familiar with Wix should not be surprised by this, or be happy that they are familiar with Wix. The maintainability of the output of your average vibe coder is going to enormously exceed that of your average Wix site. LLMs a
806.
by fidotron 1y ago
They had enough fun getting app developers to support the back button properly, let alone the context menu! In truth Android has suffered from the fact everyone starts on iOS first and then ports to Android, screen by screen in many cases,
807.
by fidotron 1y ago
The Google Cloud post mortem and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274563
808.
Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over 'low' usage(theverge.com)
8 points by fidotron 1y ago|1 comments
809.
by fidotron 1y ago
This is the core point. A canary deployment that was not preceded by deploying data that activates the region of the binary in question will prove nothing useful at all, while promoting a false sense of security.
810.
by fidotron 1y ago
> Sorry, I meant that was unit testing. So do we. If you change the schema it doesn't matter if it's unit testing, you either have a validation stage for all data coming in beforehand to check these assumptions (the way many py

More ›