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by floxy 3mo ago
Decompiling binary blobs is a strong suit for LLM AI, right? Maybe progress on this will be faster than I expect? Does the FSF spend money on non-free AI services? That is, do they have ethical issues with that? Or do they only use AGPL
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by floxy 3mo ago
https://www.shutterstock.com/search/millstone
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by floxy 3mo ago
Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser-Pushed Lightsails https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...
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by floxy 3mo ago
If you only care about the two surfaces matching each other, you don't even have to worry about your indicator. Just grind them against each other, or use some lapping compound to speed up the process. If you want to get the surfaces
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by floxy 3mo ago
>We have centimeter (10 mm) then decimeter (100mm) Does anyone actually use those? I think I would throw up a little in my mouth if I saw either of those on a mechanical drawing.
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by floxy 3mo ago
They plow the mountain passes in the winter time in at least Montana and Idaho. I'd be very surprised if they don't in Colorado or Utah.
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by floxy 3mo ago
Couldn't you make most of these arguments about the early days of most medical interventions? You don't need an x-ray to determine that patient A has a broken arm; it hurts when you twist it in this manner. Anyway, this seems li
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by floxy 3mo ago
>but still not quite enough to go one way on my most frequent "long drive" ...without a charging stop.
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by floxy 3mo ago
The current Chevrolet Silverado EV has a 200 kWh battery option. Even with towing reducing the range to say 200 miles, you could do a lot of pickupy things with that.
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by floxy 3mo ago
Or you own more than vehicle. Plenty of families own multiple vehicles, and they don't all need to have tons of range.
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by floxy 3mo ago
>charge it every single day. That's pretty much standard operating procedure for any EV. That's one of the perks of owning an EV. Plug it in when you get home from work, and have a full "tank" every morning. Plus y
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by floxy 3mo ago
That's pretty much the plot for one of the latter Terminator movies, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_3:_Rise_of_the_Mach...
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by floxy 3mo ago
Aren't there plenty of countries which aren't exactly super-stable anyway? Might not take much to have select countries pushed over the edge. Especially if you have territorial disputes with neighboring countries looking to take
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by floxy 3mo ago
Hopefully they'll be coming soonish. Seems like we are getting back on track with the popularization of drones. https://alef.aero/
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by floxy 3mo ago
Raise your hand if you still have a UV eraser at the bottom of a cabinet somewhere.
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by floxy 3mo ago
Think of GrapheneOS as being a set of patches on top of the Android Open Source Project that Google releases: https://source.android.com/ They've ported the patches to work on top of the latest release.
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by floxy 3mo ago
From the eighth sentence: "The U.K. plans to follow the same model for a social media ban as Australia, which last year became the first country to bar under-16s from holding social media accounts." ...what counts as "using&q
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by floxy 3mo ago
For the "Our World In Data", it looks like the charts all end at 1972-1974?
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by floxy 3mo ago
Anyone have the stats on the distribution of children per woman? And does it vary by country? For instance, in a country with a TFR of 1.0 (say South Korea), is that generally each woman has one child? Or is it the case that about half t
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by floxy 3mo ago
Well my Hercules graphics card was only monochrome, but it was relatively high resolution.
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by floxy 3mo ago
Banned from creating accounts? Or banned from viewing altogether? >Esther Ghey, whose 16-year-old daughter Brianna was killed in 2023 by two teenagers who had accessed harmful content online, said the ban would "potentially save so
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by floxy 3mo ago
What is the liability situation if you have an issue and cause damages to someone else's stuff in space? Are there treaties covering this? Is space pretty much considered international waters?
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by floxy 4mo ago
Let's check: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/www-cse-public/ugrad/curr...
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by floxy 4mo ago
Off-topic, but does the Hurd help with the situation with ZFS compared to Linux? My understanding is that the ZFS code is licensed under the CDDL, which is incompatible with the GPL, so it can't be used in the Linux kernel. But if Hu
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by floxy 4mo ago
For resource constrained systems, don't overlook busybox vi. https://k.japko.eu/busybox-vi-tutorial.html
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by floxy 4mo ago
The original poster wasn't very tactful. But let's see if we can turn some lemons into lemonade. I do think there are a plethora of popular / best-selling "business" genre books that do have the vibe that the OP w
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by floxy 4mo ago
I mean even assuming that this was strictly a 2-layer board, you can still route traces underneath parts like ICs, connectors, etc.. I could believe it was a simple board (for a phonograph and all), but I'd be interested in seeing how
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by floxy 4mo ago
Seems like this would be a good place to link to that.
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by floxy 4mo ago
Anyone have a good source to read up on the current state of the art for daytime celestial navigation? Maybe there isn't too much in the public domain, because things like GPS work so well. But I'd guess that since you can'
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by floxy 4mo ago
GNU/Hurd needs a microkernel

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