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by gizmo686 1y ago
When analyzing the value of a young, pre revenue company, one of the things you want to look it is how established comparable companies are valued. For AI coding assistants, the field is too young to do that directly. However, they are comp
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> If a value is stored into an object having no declared type through an lvalue having a type that is not a character type, then the type of the lvalue becomes the effective type of the object for that access and for subsequent accesses
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by gizmo686 1y ago
Neither Wifi nor Bluetooth are a 1:1 replacement for wireless USB, in that neither allow you to use a standard USB device without a wired path between the device and host. In theory, Bluetooth ought to be the replacement for most use cases,
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The specific issue identified by the parent would not be helped by batteries. Like solar panels, batteries output DC voltage, and have no inertia on the AC side. The solution in either case is the same. Put enough smarts in the inverter for
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by gizmo686 2y ago
Skipping brackets is incredibly useful for readability. Basically every language that relies on brackets has settled on a style convention that makes the redundant with indentation. Admittedly, the big exception to this is function applicat
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Are the negotiated prices secret? I've never had a major hospital visit. But every time insurance has covered something for me, I could look on my account claims and see both the official price, and the negotiated price. I also had an
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How do LLMs promise to "understand". Broadly speaking, AI/ML can be divided into two groups: mimicary, which is given a corpus of assumed good data and attempts to generalize it, and reinforcement learning where the AI is giv
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Forget OS support, is that something that modern CPUs can support efficiently? As far as I can tell, enforcing a security boundary across libraries would require changing the page table twice for every library call, which seems like a big p
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Broken security boundaries are actively harmful. If you offer something that looks like a security boundary, then people will design their systems on the assumption that it does what it looks like it does. Doubly so if it is actually docume
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I wonder if there is a discrepency between the numbers for "travel" and "flights". The US and Canada share a large land border. I would imagine that people who cross at a land border would be more stable in their pattern
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> For instance in English you'll need to know if a subject is a third person singular or not to adjust the verb. There is a suprising amount of subtlety here. What you need to known is if the subject is syntactically singular or n
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Does this actually matter? Insurance costs are are ultimately set based on the total insurance payouts and number of buyers. The only macro effect I see of this is that Medicaid has been slightly subsidizing non-Medicaid insured people. The
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For traditional lightbulbs, a PWM signal actually makes the light noticeably dimmer, and has a very simmilar effect to simply reducing the current. This is because the mechanism for them is heating up the filement, which happens on a much s
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by gizmo686 2y ago
Loops in C introduce a new lexical scope, so the defer runs once for every loop iteration. Assuming you are using defer for destructor purposes, and use it where you declare your variable, this would generally be what you want, as it frees
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That will return 1. The defered code is executed after the return value is computed. This lets you do things like: char *str = foo(); defer { free(str); } return strlen(str);
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At this point, there probably is not any price for at least the next 4 years. Angering Musk like that would risk retaliation against both Tesla, and any other company that the people who organized such a firing happens to own.
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Casting pointers to ints is generally safe (at least as long as you use intptr_t instead of assuming that the size of pointers will never change). The issue comes when you try casting to pointers. Because of providence, aliasing rules, and
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by gizmo686 2y ago
We aren't really. We are guiding people to get college degrees. However, undergraduate education and professional research are both done by the same institution. Further, that institution likes to have those professional and apprentice
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I'm not sure whose still plugging iodized salt these days. Around here, we just call it salt and you need to go out of your way to find the non-iodised stuff. I also haven't seen anything suggesting that the iodine fortification i
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by gizmo686 2y ago
I don't think the Wayland protocol is actually involved in this. Wayland describes how clients communicate with the compositor. Neither the cursor, nor the mouse are a client, so no where in the path between moving the mouse and the cu
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by gizmo686 2y ago
YouTube music is basically just YouTube with a slightly different UI. I'd call it more of a marketing ploy than an actual bundle.
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Casting integers to pointers in C is implementation defined, not UB. In practice compilers define these casts as the natural thing for the architecture you are compiling to. Since mainstream CPUs don't do anything fancy with pointer ta
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In practice C let's you control memory layout just fine. You might need to use __attribute__((packed)), which is technically non standard. I've written hardware device drivers in pure C where you need need to peek and poke at spec
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by gizmo686 2y ago
The 13th amendment allows for slavery as a punishment for crimes. It does not require that everyone in prison be a slave.
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In C function prototypes with no arguments are strange. void g(); Means that g is a function which takes a not-specified number of arguments (but not a variable number of arguments). Almost always what you want to do is void g(vo
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Stack Overflow could have removed his content. Instead they chose to keep his content and just remove the attribution.
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Yikes. What is it with high school robotics and buggy camera APIs? Back when I competed, we were using Java with the FRC provided vision library. When we tried adding the camera, we discovered that our Java code started to segfault after
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Eyewitness testimony has been proven to be unreliable; even in cases where there is no evidence the witness attempted to be deceptive. So yes, if literally the only evidence that they were the person to assume you is your memory, then the s
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That's not the only way if you are the one designing the hardware. Even if you can't make a radio that can listen on multiple bands, you can add a second radio.
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By analyzing a video or picture (or whatever other sensor data you give it). It is a pretty straightforward classification problem, and imagine classification has been a major portion of ML research for decades.

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