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by jansan 2y ago
Age. Roughly 170.000 die every day, and it will become more (because most of earth's population is still quite young).
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by jansan 2y ago
Klick into that textbox at the right in the lower part of the page. Then type (WSAD, Z for enter, just as written there)
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Not true for Javascript. The maximum array length is 2^32-1, but the maximum safe integer value for numbers is 2^53 – 1.
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by jansan 2y ago
My wife said that in Eastern Europe in the 80s and early 90s it was common to go to a "record shop" and give a certain list of songs that the owner of the shop, who was just someone with access to some records, a record player and
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by jansan 2y ago
Not sure, but that is a sitting rabbit.
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Maybe they improved their search algorithm, so people can find what they are looking for. It truly sucked before, and I am still using Google to search for answers on Stackoverflow.
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In Germany it will not be released before March this year. This is a bit confusing, but maybe they are actually rerendering it before the release on this relatively big market.
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If you consider that there were several similar cases with up to $6 trillion in bonds (listed at the end of the Wikipedia article), it makes you wonder how many of such cases were undetected and what is really behind this.
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Chiasso ($134.5B) financial smuggling case(en.wikipedia.org)
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> sabotaging fossil fuel infrastrusture protects it. Oh, is it that simple, really? Or does it come with a lot of unintended consequences, fueling conflict and paving the way for a more suppressive government?
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I know that I am old-fashioned, but I find it slightly disturbing that there is this outstanding talk showing vulnerabilities of the German power grid, and on the other side they seem to encourage exactly this kind of attacks on the power i
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by jansan 2y ago
Great photos, thanks. The one with the "negative space" must be what my roommate talked about when he could not see the ground from his room window during the day. Btw, back in the 90s they still had some market alleys in Akihabar
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by jansan 2y ago
A bit unrelated, but since people with Hong Kong knowledge may be reading: How are the Chungking Mansions doing? The atmosphere there was sometimes compared to Kowloon Walled City, and I remember when my roommate stayed there in the 90s he
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by jansan 2y ago
My addition to the wishlist: If changing the language, not only change three labels, but the language of the instructions, too.
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Of all the payment options Klarna always struck me as one of the less trustworthy ones. IIRC they are one of those services who basically want access to my bank account, from where they could read my account balance. I think this is somethi
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by jansan 2y ago
In any case AI is much faster than asking a question on Stackoverflow and waiting for a reply. I agree that finding answers to existing questions on Stackoverflow takes about the same time as asking AI.
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by jansan 2y ago
I wonder how much a search on Stackoverflow would have improved the algorithm. To me, AI for coding is like Stackoverflow with a much faster feedback loop, but without the community comments that often give very useful context.
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by jansan 2y ago
The article says that you should not use AI if high accuracy is required. I would rephrase this to "Do not use AI if you need correct answers". Asking Gemini for the derivative of a rather simple function was quite eye-opening. It
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by jansan 2y ago
That behavior sounds like AI to me.
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They are not f*cked. They have a free tutor that they can ask any time, who will always do his best to help. My son is currently studying engineering, and whenever he is stuck at anything (construction, math, programming, mechanics) he fire
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by jansan 2y ago
IIRC all those mentioned products have been around before the AI craze started. Can you explain how bringing up these products is not a straw man by itself?
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by jansan 2y ago
We have always been there since compilers were invented. AI is just another (rather big) iteration. Previous steps included API documentation tools, syntax highlighting, checking and formatting tools, refactoring tools, linters, and of cour
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by jansan 2y ago
Thanks for the insight. But since I own a real 1541, there should be a way to copy disk images to a floppy using Kung Fu Flash, right?
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by jansan 2y ago
I am fine if isFinite(1/0) returns false.
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Maybe this is a good place to ask a question regarding the hardware that is required to transfer code from and to your C64. I have a C64 and a 1541 sitting in my basement in a box and I sometimes take it out to check if it still works (it d
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by jansan 2y ago
I first cam across the term "Chebyshev polynomials" when working on length parametrization of Bézier curves. Although I still do not know what they really are, I fell in love with the term, because it sounds super smart and is eas
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by jansan 2y ago
In a crisis you sometimes have to go the non-easy way. They built terminals for fracking gas in record time, so I am sure they could have found a way to keep those nuclear power plants running for a few more years.
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The decision to fade out nuclear power was made under the assumption of having an alternative reliable energy source (namely Russian gas). If your main assumption suddenly blows up (literally), do you really claim that stubbornly sticking t
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The name "Britishvolt" alone should be sufficient to raise all red flags.
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Volkswagen has their own plans with its subsidary PowerCo, and since EV adoption is slower than expected, they may (partly) drop Northvolt in favor of PowerCo. Interestingly they canceled their plan for a second battery plant in Germany due

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