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   by hughw 4y ago

   The author points out that China produces 55,000 bikes a day in factories using robotics with a certain energy and CO2 impact -- but should compare that impact to that of laborers producing the same amount of bicycles the old-fashioned way,
2. 242.▲
   by hughw 4y ago

   Obvious, provocative.... and unsteerable.
3. 243.▲
   by hughw 4y ago

   The Swedish team currently investigating the explosion might be able to confirm or refute parts of this account: can they find fragments of the sonar-activated detonator?
4. 244.▲
   by hughw 4y ago

   When I click the link gemini://cities.yesterweb.org/ in my Safari browser, it launches an installed app I have named Gemini.
5. 245.▲
   by hughw 4y ago

   > But what about privacy? Well, you achieve that simply by not putting private information on a public network. But what about shielding my behavior from snooping? Like my DNS queries, the web sites I visit. I would also like to be able
6. 246.▲
   by hughw 4y ago

   For $99 at Target we bought a mattress warmer with a timer just as the Bomb Cyclone dropped our temps to 10°F. Most effective $99 I've ever spent -- our Texas house cannot stay above 60°F in that weather. Someday the same product will
7. 247.▲
   by hughw 4y ago

   I don't want to program in any new language. I only want to describe the program to GPT and have it write it for me.
8. 248.▲
   by hughw 4y ago

   The Friedersdorf article makes the mistake that the parody is about policing, rather than Libertarianism.
9. 249.▲
   by hughw 4y ago

   You can do discrete Fourier transforms in Galois fields. That used to be more important when floating point was less ubiquitous. And if you’re designing custom hardware to do FFTs you can save a lot transistors if you’re willing to discreti
10. 250.▲
    by hughw 4y ago

    A search of these comments reveals possibly the first violation of Godwin's Law ever recorded.
11. 251.▲
    by hughw 4y ago

    Only two kinds of bike racers: cheaters and losers.
12. 252.▲
    by hughw 4y ago

    The difference between "number of atoms in the universe" and "number of possible states of a system" are vastly different. The latter is a combinatorial problem, and if you're trying to to track the possible combina
13. 253.▲
    by hughw 4y ago

    Will AWS please rent me just one of these? I can't use 8 at a time. I need the fine granularity they offer with p3 instances.
14. 254.▲
    by hughw 4y ago

    Maybe that's how we got WSL
15. 255.▲
    by hughw 4y ago

    So counterproductive to their own interest. Don't they recognize I won't buy another Di2 bike if they maintain this policy?
16. 256.▲
    by hughw 4y ago

    How does a Linux terminal replicate the remote capability of VS Code?
17. 257.▲
    by hughw 4y ago

    Yes, it is a crime.
18. 258.▲
    by hughw 5y ago

    Using ImmutableJS [1] for all the state variables avoids the identity issues he raises. [1] https://immutable-js.com
19. 259.▲
    by hughw 5y ago

    I feel sure it's overextended license by the author.
20. 260.▲
    by hughw 5y ago

    They're hoovering up all the data and fishing for lawbreakers, and finding them. Authorities needed to establish whether it was a legitimate target for infiltration, so they turned to traditional sleuthing methods. When a phone connec
21. 261.▲
    by hughw 5y ago

    I've built a ton of C++ in VS Code, and while not as exhaustive as VS, it's very good. You get used to living without Big Refactoring and it's fine.
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    by hughw 5y ago

    See also Inference from inadequate and inaccurate data [1] [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16591812/
23. 263.▲
    by hughw 5y ago

    Ow.
24. 264.▲
    by hughw 5y ago

    Use the flaw to deploy the patch, I say.
25. 265.▲
    by hughw 5y ago

    "Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret!" -- Dr. Strangelove
26. 266.▲
    by hughw 5y ago

    Uh-oh.
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    by hughw 5y ago

    Getting there is "easy". But if the wafer is speeding at c /4 past the exoplanet, it will not be able to take any measurements. 4.2 Braking to Enter Orbit on Arrival - A very difficult challenge is to slow the spacecraft to
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    by hughw 5y ago

    Not intentionally misleading, of course. But I too first misinterpreted "RAM is getting smaller" as RAM that has smaller storage, which is counter to experience. But that's the size dimension I confront in everyday life, not
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    by hughw 5y ago

    Thanks for making this point. If you access your memory sequentially, as Varnish does, great. But if you need to stride across a giant matrix in transposed order, you'll bring your spinning disk backed virtual memory to a halt, as it d
30. 270.▲
    by hughw 6y ago

    How come my Big Sur MBP can't play it? It can play the audio, but no video.