gwbas1c

22 ms·

391.
NASA's Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast) [video](youtube.com)
6 points by gwbas1c 7mo ago|1 comments
392.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
It was an open file handle on Unix OSX to a dylib.
393.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
> How did you conclude that your UI was oh so special that it deserved horking up the Finder experience for your users? Because that was the customer expectation, and our competitors did it too. (Including Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive.
394.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
I don't think you can 100% detect AI content, because at some point someone will just prompt the AI to not sound like AI. I think the better question to ask is: What are your goals? Is it to prevent AI SPAM, or to discourage people cop
395.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Years ago I shipped a MacOS product. If you deleted it, you would get an error emptying the recycle bin (or force-deleting the application bundle if you did an rm -R to it.) Why? Well, at the time Windows Explorer had an API for extensions,
396.
Network Weather: Quickly diagnose internet connection issues(networkweather.com)
2 points by gwbas1c 7mo ago|0 comments
397.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Because humans are destined to colonize space, and this is just an early step in a journey that will take hundreds or thousands of years. More importantly, challenges like space exploration help drive knowledge and our economy; and are crit
398.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
I honestly thought this was going to be an April Fools gag.
399.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
If you're still reading this: I'd want to see experience on your team with database internals. 25 years experience making a CMS makes you good at web apps, but not the kind of things that make a good database. It's a signific
400.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
> Reactive Apps with Effortless Performance. > Sycamore is a next generation Rust UI library powered by fine-grained reactivity. It's not clear on the landing page that this is for in-browser UI, as opposed to desktop UI and&
401.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
In general, the reason why US companies often are abrupt / surprise is because they fear retaliation. I once was given about 6 weeks notice in the US, with a promise that if I completed a project I would be given severance. Given the s
402.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
No, it's very clearly a typo and doesn't depend on perspective. English isn't that ambiguous.
403.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
From https://github.com/Relatude/Relatude.DB > Relatude.DB is an open-source, C#-native database engine designed to provide a unified storage solution with everything you need to build the backend for your web appli
404.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
For me, for day-to-day usage, I sit at a desk and use an external keyboard. The ergonomics of working directly on a laptop aren't very good for extended periods of time. Case in point: I don't put a lot of stress on my laptop keyb
405.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
> Instead, $100 in 1914 is worth $3.05 today. Doesn't that mean $3.05 in 1914 us worth $100 today?
406.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
I would have appreciated some pictures.
407.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
That's why Rust has Rc<> for single-threaded structs, and Arc<> for thread-safe structs.
408.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
A lot of frameworks that use variants of "mark and sweep" garbage collection instead of automatic reference counting are built with the assumption that RAM is cheap and CPU cycles aren't, so they are highly optimized CPU-wise
409.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Basically, the short answer is that most memory managers allocate more memory than a process needs, and then reuse it. IE, in a JVM (Java) or dotnet (C#) process, the garbage collector allocates some memory from the operating system and kee
410.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Probably, it's a friend of a friend situation, so I don't know the name of the condition.
411.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
I know of one person who was born physically a woman, but has XY chromosomes. It is only due to modern medicine that we know that there is anything "unusual" with her gender. Otherwise, she is physically a woman with no observable
412.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Anyone notice that 400V and 800V are also used in EV battery architecture? I wonder if there's any sharing of technology?
413.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Assuming you live in a "large" western home, it's impractical. Remember, Edison's first power grid operated at 110/220v DC to the home. If there was lower voltage (IE, 12 volts) going from the street to your walls,
414.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Most of those faux pas come across as neurotic, like complaining about people who park too close to the lines, or complaining about someone farting in church. Seems like someone could make a sketch comedy skit where someone does these faux
415.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
I think they are implying that they believe models trained on their copyrighted information should be open-source.
416.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
> Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all. Which makes me think there&#x2
417.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
The bits I watched were so captivating I had to take them off, otherwise I wouldn't be getting anything done this afternoon. Honestly, someone could adapt it to a script and run it in a live theater. Now I know what I'm watching t
418.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
Can you dynamically load code via eval? (I know, I know, it's ugly and has its own set of problems)
419.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
I think there was a fallacy that suddenly the whole of the general public would rush to stop eating meat and would accept a meat-like substitute; and that vegetarians craved something that tasted like meat. This of course was completely fal
420.
by gwbas1c 7mo ago
"Forgiveness is easier than permission" only makes sense when you know what you're doing and understand the consequences. (IE, paying taxes a little late in the US is okay because the fine is roughly the same as the interest

More ›