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by fl7305 2y ago
Isn't it the scientific consensus that humans also show signs of domestication?
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by fl7305 2y ago
Classic I2C problem. After your CPU resets, at least clock out a bunch of cycles onto I2C to get interrupted I2C transactions to finish.
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by fl7305 2y ago
I played the ABC-80 version of Lunar Lander way back then. Checking today, it seems to use a simpler Euler integration instead, and a curious value for G (?)
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by fl7305 2y ago
> As Norway has become progressively richer these jokes in Sweden about Norwgians have more or less disappeared however. Yeah, the prevailing notion in Sweden is now that Norway is so much better off that we swedes should declare war on
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by fl7305 2y ago
Thanks, I've used VS/C# a lot. What are the limitations using VSCode? For instance, how well does it support debugging multiple threads, or designing XAML WPF/Avalonia UI code?
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by fl7305 2y ago
If you look for comments by "jcranmer" elsewhere on this page you'll find examples of why it's not as simple as you make it sound. Do you have any experience at all with different charsets under the hood by the way?
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by fl7305 2y ago
I'm an engineer. I'm sometimes hired by they to create tools like that.
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by fl7305 2y ago
You can't pick and use a library like this without understanding the underlying concepts. That goes for both encryption and the charset conversion issue. It's not always just plug and play. There are examples of where people used
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by fl7305 2y ago
Which library do you pick? Which ones are good? Bad? What are the common pitfalls that the library must deal with? How do you know how to evaluate them if all you know is "not UTF-8? Abort with error" ?
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by fl7305 2y ago
Yeah, that could be an interesting use of LLMs. It could at least tell you which languages might be present in the input text. In the 1980s, we had a version of 7-bit ASCII in Sweden where the three extra Swedish vowels "åäö" were
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by fl7305 2y ago
Is that supposed to be proof that it never depends on the circumstances? Write all software like NASA needs to do for spacecraft? Let me know when anyone has developed a web browser to those standards.
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by fl7305 2y ago
I agree 100% on the technical issues. But the point of the article is not the same thing as how well it achieved its goals.
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by fl7305 2y ago
>>> the best software accepts many formats and "deals with it," >> We collectively discovered that we were underestimating the long term costs, by a lot, so its lustre has faded. >> If you'd like to see w
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by fl7305 2y ago
> you should be explicitly asking the user what the input format is. Me: "I'll make the program stop and ask the user." Customer: "No. We have 10 million files. Start by using heuristics for batch processing."
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by fl7305 2y ago
> I'm not going to waste time proactively safeguarding against a what-if The article doesn't say that you should. It clearly states that for many cases, the input format is known or explicitly stated in the input headers. The a
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by fl7305 2y ago
> should be asking the user to select explicit input and output formats It depends on the requirements. If you're hired by a company to convert millions of old textfiles, they might want you to do it as well as possible using heuris
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by fl7305 2y ago
Even for those people, there is still a ton of old text files in Windows-1252 etc floating around. You can choose to never work on projects where you have to deal with files like that. But there may come a day where you have to choose betwe
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by fl7305 2y ago
> It’s much easier to tell the people with old cassette tapes to rip them I assume you mean "rip them", as in transcode to a different format? In that case, you need a tool that takes the old input format(s) and convert them to
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by fl7305 2y ago
> they turn it into utf-8 using a standalone program first I took the article to be for people who would be writing that "standalone program"? I have certainly been in a position where I was the person who had to deal with inpu
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by fl7305 2y ago
That works until you can't pay your bills unless you take a new contract where you have to deal with a large amount of historical text files from various sources. Then it's no longer "someone else's problem".
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by fl7305 2y ago
> would you guess the unit instead of specifying what you expect? It depends on the circumstances. It might be the least bad thing to do. Or not. But that wasn't my point. I replied to this: > I can assume the length of a meter o
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by fl7305 2y ago
Sure, it is by far the industry standard. It works much better for handling discrete integers. Once you get into bitfield instructions it is nice to have bit 0 be the "left most bit".
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by fl7305 2y ago
It depends on whether your bit numbering is like x86 (your description), or PowerPC (left most bit is 0).
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by fl7305 2y ago
That comparison doesn't hold. If you're dealing with lengths, you can get input data in meters, centimeters, millimeters, inches, feet, etc. If the input data is human heights, would you automatically assume meters even if the inp
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by fl7305 2y ago
> The person who introduced it gave the two definitions and then basically said "it's the only word I know that means its opposite" That guy is a literal pain in my behind.
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by fl7305 2y ago
It's unnecessarily hostile and misguided responses like this that will push a lot of people towards interacting instead with always friendly AI-buddies. But just like junk food and no exercise softens the body, interacting mostly with
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by fl7305 2y ago
> The more people care for each other, the better society becomes. Sure, not arguing that. > the fact that the advice came from a person and that we know another person is out there caring is important. What if the AI pretends to be a
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by fl7305 2y ago
> truly good advice can only be rooted in the care and experience of another human being. And it's not just the care that the other person has for you, but the understanding that the advice has come from a place of experience of hum
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by fl7305 2y ago
Thanks! How much more cumbersome does the lock make it to use Tailscale?
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by fl7305 2y ago
How secure is Tailscale in general, and their new SSH offering? I assume the crypto is unbreakable for outside parties that just sniff the traffic along the way. But what if Tailscale gets hacked? Are my keys available there for someone els

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