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by fwlr 4y ago
Another player in the WebGPU field you may want to add is https://usegpu.live/
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by fwlr 4y ago
An engineer put a throttle in place when they shouldn’t have and not only did Cloudflare take responsibility for that employee’s actions, they made a public blog post about it. They didn’t even bury the lede (I’m sure that was an interestin
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by fwlr 4y ago
Two good reasons. 1. There are some issues with heavy vehicles. They put more wear on the roads, they pose a greater risk to other drivers because of their higher potential energy in crashes, and they consume more energy (e.g. power plants
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by fwlr 4y ago
Holy hell I had no idea git had that feature, that’s amazing. You’ve significantly improved my workflow
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by fwlr 4y ago
This is what jumped out at me too. I agree with most of his statements but not with “Crypto is not a medium of exchange”. Yes, all the investment and speculation and “financial instrument” stuff is a mug’s game, but it does mean when I want
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by fwlr 4y ago
The tongs seem effective at retrieving balls from the gutter, but they don’t look like they would do a good job removing leaf litter and small detritus, which is the main thing you want to clean out of your gutters. There are similar tools
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by fwlr 4y ago
The exhortation to do atomic commits is a good one but slightly impractical; for whatever reason, I just don’t often think “I should commit this change” during flow state. I did find a semi-practical way of partially implementing atomic com
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by fwlr 4y ago
“There is always uncertainty in science, but real science gradually establishes some stable facts; it eventually strongly supports some theories and conclusively dismisses others. … Nutrition has made no progress. It has discovered no stabl
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by fwlr 4y ago
In a literal sense, no, it does not use reference boards. I was being glib, perhaps too glib. A less objectionable rephrasing might be “the AI is composing a bunch of visual features together into a coherent image; it’s cool that this tool
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by fwlr 4y ago
Uploading works by real human artists gives you a batch of results that resemble a reference board (mood board, inspiration board, etc) the artist could have been looking at while creating their original work of art. Obviously it’s not the
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by fwlr 4y ago
This spooked me the other day. Made a comment about a phenomenon I knew of and the name I knew it by. Got curious whether other people knew it by that name too, googled the name, and the top result was my own comment made just a few minutes
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by fwlr 4y ago
No examples jump to mind, but the final goal of UI/UX is to be a good tool handle. That’s your job as a UX dev: your company is making tools, and you have to design the handles that go on those tools. A good screwdriver handle has a ho
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s tempting to theorise why this might be, but it’s most likely just a simple statistical feature inherent to correlations themselves. I’ve heard it called “the tails come apart” - in a scatter plot of two correlated variables, the highes
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s not obvious that policing should require more training than plumbing. Significant plumbing is required in almost all property, yet plumbing mistakes can cause massive, often irreparable property damage. Plumbing is involved in almost a
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by fwlr 4y ago
Apple’s huge cash reserves are by far the least interesting advantage it can bring to bear in this area. There are two and a half more interesting advantages: their superstar translation layer developer team[1], their superstar silicon team
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by fwlr 4y ago
Something I was surprised to learn about printers the other day: almost all home or office printers will not do what’s called “full bleed” printing, where the image or document is printed right to the edges of the paper. This feature is arb
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by fwlr 4y ago
A hash map for physical storage, that’s fascinating!
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by fwlr 4y ago
In the travel and accommodation industry it’s very common to have these things called “virtual credit cards”. Essentially, you pay booking.com for the room and booking.com has their banking provider generate a new credit card number and put
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by fwlr 4y ago
Working in my father’s machine tool shop taught me a similar thing about “dark” factories, lights-out shifts, and so on. For a few hundred dollars you can put a hopper after a machine and now it can process an entire bar of raw stock over 1