jcarrano

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by jcarrano 2y ago
Yet corn hybrid production, which requires strict controls on pollination, is made to work. Is there a difference with hemp pollen or is the problem on the regulatory side?
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I'm proud to have contributed my grain of sand in the form of two tiny patches for this release.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I get your point because I'm also quite like that, but the reality is that I've spent all of 2024 in dead-end interviews and got no results other than wasting time. In hindsight, "had I had the crystal ball", it would ha
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I don't get it? What's the purpose of changing the default rule in shadow-utils. Not only is it completely unnecessary and introduces risks for shell injections, it also risks introducing incompatibilities between Debian and any o
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Tangentially related, I've been doing video art, both analog and digital, and there is a quality in analog video that cannot be replicated by digital processing (at least not yet). In addition, every camera and device has it's own
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by jcarrano 2y ago
People are now corrupting mpeg video intentionally. They call it "datamoshing". And of course there is glitch art, and the "vhs look" filter being (over) used everywhere.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I read that, at least early on, many CDs were mastered with inadequate dithering, resulting in audible quantization noise.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Though they were indeed pioneers, a simple Wikipedia search rebukes the claim of "world's first cybercafe": > In March 1988, the 'Electronic Café' was opened near Hongik University in Seoul. > In July 1991, th
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Yes, but I meant it in the most abstract, conceptual sense. There is no easy way to replace short-circuit operators in an eager-evaluation language but it can still be done. E.g. "(a() || b())" could be replaced by "or(a, b)&
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by jcarrano 2y ago
They are all just functions. There is really no distinction between an operator and a function in programming languages. And by using currying you could even do with just unary operators.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
You could sell a commercial license to a "swear free" version, haha.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying, I was puzzled.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I don't understand. ScanOSS has a bot that scans ScanOSS's own repo, so what's the issue? What I see is that the bot was badly programmed and it did not ignore quoted text, so the first automated report triggered another bot
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I'm using GnuCash and not being able to easily do bulk changes or easily script it is quite annoying, for example after a slight mistake in a CSV import.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
When I first started with Python, long ago, I looked into these kind of solutions, which didn't work so well, and wondered why the concept was not better developed. Later, with experience, I realized it is not am great idea, and more h
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by jcarrano 2y ago
It would be great to have examples with I/O and timers/sleeps, since this is what people will likely use the library for. Also, communication between tasks. I tried getting into C++ coroutines in the past and I was put off because
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by jcarrano 2y ago
If that happened to me I'd take it as a sign from the heavens and I'd keep pushing forwards.
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by jcarrano 2y ago
Every time I used IPv6 I found it solved more problems than it created. E.g. with v6 you can make sure a VPN addresses will not collide with the user's actual address. No more nats or port forwadings, etc. The main problem is that v4 h
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by jcarrano 2y ago
I picked up a carbon-steel pan at IKEA because that was all that was left. I knew it takes some work to season. I did not know there's a whole community of carbon-steel nerds committed to getting the most perfect seasoning to fry an eg
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by jcarrano 3y ago
We started out with the Motorola HC11, I'm guessing because someone used it a lot on the past and no one wants to redo all the course material. We used a simulator called "Wookie". Despite being somewhat obscure, it has the a
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by jcarrano 3y ago
What's the advantage of IFUNCS, over putting a function in the library that selects the implementation, either via function pointers or a switch/if? In particular given that they seem to be quite fragile and exploitable too. I don
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by jcarrano 3y ago
There are insurance companies that insure insurers. At each lever there are solvency requirements.
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Maybe it would be better if the agent would help people submit better reports instead of trying to fix it. E.g. it could ask them to add missing information, test different combinations of inputs, etc. I could also learn which maintainer to
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Those monetary tricks only work for a short time, in this case until workers realize that not getting a rise roughly matching inflation is effectively the same as a getting paid less (i.e. Rational Expectations).
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Lua can certainly work, though it takes up a bit more ram than absolutely necessary due to it allocating language data structures (tables mainly) during startup. If you have enough ram it is fine. I ported Lua to the RIOT OS and it was not
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Leonard Read had the same feeling when he wrote "I, Pencil". Here [1] you have it narrated by Milton Friedman. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Crime does not scale. It's the same few people stealing the majority of bikes. I'd go as far as to claim almost no thief steal only one bike. Catching thieves and jailing them scales. For each one caught you avoid potentially hund
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by jcarrano 3y ago
In primary school they banned marbles because they would cause conflict. They also banned other things (cards? I forget) for the same reason. How on earth will children learn to deal with and solve conflicts if conflict is banned??
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by jcarrano 3y ago
My Citizen ana-digi-temp from 1985 works perfectly fine and shows Feb 29.... though it thinks it is 1996!
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by jcarrano 3y ago
Strictly speaking it should say "1-trit LLM", or, as they later mention 1.58 bit.

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