ftrobro

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by ftrobro 3y ago
I'm still using this beautiful 12 year old Samsung series 9 laptop. Unlike my 9 year old Macbook it still receives official security updates (Win 10) and can run any new application (Xcode refuses to install on the Macbook, too old).
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by ftrobro 3y ago
I suppose one reason is that images can be stored in many different ways in memory. For OpenCV images in C++ the Visual Studio extension Image Watch is quite nice, I think it's been around for more than 15 years: https://mar
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by ftrobro 3y ago
The headline is wrong. The study was not about the oldest fortresses in the world but about the oldest fortresses created by hunter-gatherers. Walls were built around Jericho 10000 years ago, which means those walls are 2000 years older tha
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Your birth is effectively random, but the inheritance might be very much intentional. Parents might choose to build something for generations to come rather than spending everything they earn on themselves. > Inheritance tax is progressi
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Sweden also has zero tax for inheritance and gifts. What is "fair" is subjective. Inheritance is only by chance if you consider family ties to have zero value. Building something over generations, for example a company or a farm,
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by ftrobro 3y ago
An income tax marginal rate of 42 % doesn't seem super high in international comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates Belgium tops that list at 79.5 % but even in the USA it can rea
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by ftrobro 3y ago
That is probably a major reason for the higher yields in Germany, but the person I replied to claimed that yields aren't really higher in Europe than in the US. According to data from the UN, in 2020 North America used 2.77 kg pesticie
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by ftrobro 3y ago
What do you mean by "corrected for the land area"? According to this study, in the period 2016-2020 wheat yields per acre were more than twice as high in Germany than in North Dakota or Kansas. https://ag.purdue.edu&#x2
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Hjson is very similar to JSON5 but allows quotes to be dropped and can use newlines instead of commas. There are implementations for a lot of different languages, I myself contributed the C++ implementation. I wanted something smaller than
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Roundtrips without destroying comments or formatting is supported in the JavaScript, Go and C++ implementations of Hjson, but not in the other implementations (I think).
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Yes, I agree. And regardless of experience, people at some point get too old to drive, but don't always want to accept that fact. Having cars that can do 100 % of the driving would be great.
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by ftrobro 3y ago
If you consider those situations dangerous you aren't driving slow enough.
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by ftrobro 3y ago
> The dataset available will never be large enough to allow ML autonomous cars to solve every situation a human driver can. Not every human driver can solve every situation that the best human driver can solve. Also, the most dangerous s
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Visual Studio != VS Code. I've always found Visual Studio to be great at C++ so I'm interested in knowing which of the two you meant?
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by ftrobro 3y ago
I assume T&C only matters for licensed services (software), not for fully owned property?
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Norway says Ivanti zero-day was used to hack govt IT systems(bleepingcomputer.com)
15 points by ftrobro 3y ago|4 comments
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Private monopoly in Sweden too. But at least they're not hiding the fact that 22.5 % of the money they collect go to their own administration costs rather than to artists... https://issuu.com/ymrkommunikation/docs&
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Several countries have that tax. Here in Sweden we pay about $10 for every new computer, mobile phone, SSD etc just because we might store music on them. Quite absurd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
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by ftrobro 3y ago
> the phone still more than meets my needs Does it still get upgrades to newer Android versions? Personally the reason I need to get a new phone is usually that the OS no longer receives upgrades (which means that apps drop support for i
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by ftrobro 3y ago
a solid-state battery with a range of 1,200km (745 miles) that could charge in 10 minutes or less For that range I assume the battery holds 150 Wh/km * 1200 km = 180 kWh. Charging it in 10 minutes would require about 1.1 MW. That&#x2
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by ftrobro 3y ago
> we know conclusively that their goal is impossible No we only know that their approach was wrong. Here is a preprint of a paper describing detection of 12 different types of cancer from a single drop of blood: https://www.re
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by ftrobro 3y ago
The story of Cincinnatus might have been embellished, but still: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus
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by ftrobro 3y ago
In January 2017 they (Motherboard) published a long and detailed article (translated from Das Magazin) about how Cambridge Analytica had used Facebook data to help get Trump elected, somthing I thought was important for everyone to know abo
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Even though I liked 2049 I agree with you, there wasn't much meaning to it. In contrast, in the first movie I was fascinated by the idea of literally travelling to meet your maker if you are not content with the limits of your existenc
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by ftrobro 3y ago
Tag v1.4.1 has been created, fixes bugs: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.4.1
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by ftrobro 3y ago
You're missing the point. An increase in the number of mammalian herbivores just means an increased point of equilibrium for methane. But there will still be an equilibrium. In contrast, using fossile sources of carbon (oil etc) will i
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by ftrobro 3y ago
> I don't think your conclusion that this loop doesn't accelerate the greenhouse effect is correct It's not like mammalian herbivores are a recent invention. If a constant amount of mammalian herbivores in the world would
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by ftrobro 4y ago
USA is the only western country in the top five for historical CO2 emissions since 1850 (unless you consider Brazil a western country): https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-are-his...
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by ftrobro 4y ago
Usage: " PROGNAME " [options] [URL] But you can put options wherever you want, they are identified by the leading '-' char.
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by ftrobro 4y ago
> The death of dynamic typing and default-nullability would probably save the industry society billions of dollars in the long run. I'm not sure a ban on software coded using PHP, plain Javascript, legacy Python, C/C++ or assem

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