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by jval43 2y ago
EVs (and hybrids) solve that problem so elegantly. They have so much torque at a standstill that hill assist is a given and going up or down a hill slowly forwards or reverse is not an issue. Absolute gamechanger. Not sure what you mean by
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by jval43 2y ago
On a manual it's the opposite. Put it in 1st gear, let it settle into place, only then parking brake. 1st will hold the car by itself if the parking brake slips.
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by jval43 2y ago
It's not much of an article. This one was much better, with more specifics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41979906
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by jval43 2y ago
You're right, it's been a while since I dabbled in SIMD.
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by jval43 2y ago
Another issue with lots of older processors is that they would slow down clock speed when using SIMD instructions so much that there was effectively no performance gain. You had to be very careful which instructions you could actually use.
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by jval43 2y ago
It's crazy how optimized the Aranet 4 Home is. It runs on AA batteries for a whole year, no need to plug it in. That's unique in the space, and a case where e-ink makes a real difference. And very convenient in practice.
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by jval43 2y ago
I'm done with ReMarkable, the company. I have the original reMarkable and was enthusiastic at first, but it's been downhill since. It's clear the company is now run mostly by marketing and business people. At some point they
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by jval43 2y ago
Actual publication linked is very readable: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/se/d3se0...
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by jval43 2y ago
Funnily enough a simple fgrep is super fast on SSDs and actually reliable. Even across TBs of data. With Spotlight you can never be sure. And to be fair, the Windows equivalent sucks just as much.
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by jval43 2y ago
Notes has been super buggy for a while. The failure modes are so weird I don't even understand how it's possible for a text editor. E.g. text and selections rendered floating between or on top of lines of text. I wonder how they m
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by jval43 2y ago
Canon doesn't do it better. I tried the R5 mode a few times when it came out and it's complete garbage. More like something an intern did as a proof of concept than an actual well implemented feature. The stitching could be done a
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by jval43 2y ago
Any recommendations for the genre? Most games are just way too slow nowadays.
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by jval43 2y ago
I honestly love the part about how the author did the key layout. No hiding behind statistics or any sort of structured process, just doing what feels right, avoiding what feels wrong and iterating.
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by jval43 2y ago
For younger people they leave the bodies own lenses in, so there's no restrictions on focusing. Downside is that there is an additional risk of glaucoma if the bodies lenses interact with the ICLs.
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by jval43 2y ago
> halos at night I have ICLs and suffered from those too, along with other internal reflections at night. It will get better with age as your pupils get smaller, but it takes years. As for ICLs don't be fooled by the marketing too
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by jval43 2y ago
Now that you mention it I suspect this may be a big reason some people have had different experiences. I also started with long straight skis and they are a lot less forgiving than the carving skis that followed. Nowadays I see a lot more f
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by jval43 2y ago
The article is fine, it's the discussion that is maddening here. Sometimes HN is just too much. This would have been great n-gate bait. Too bad that site isn't updated anymore.
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by jval43 2y ago
It doesn't just affect performance, blunt edges make skiing down icy patches impossible. The effect is so pronounced that if you do enough skiing in a day you'll notice a difference even at the end of that day. The effect of a new
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by jval43 2y ago
Looks like nothing happened after: > They asked for a meeting with Shipt executives, but they never got a direct response from the company. Its statements to the media were maddeningly vague, saying only that the new payment algorithm c
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by jval43 2y ago
It's never a single database in the real world. As soon as you integrate something or have an API to something the keys are out there. Unless you add a translation layer, but then you could just as well use surrogate keys directly.
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by jval43 2y ago
Try birding at 500mm or more. Pixel soup (pun intended) vs crisp details from the R5 with 100-500, even at f7.1 or higher. No comparison. Even at 105mm f4 the difference is night and day. Portrait mode is good enough for casual use, but the
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by jval43 2y ago
A 2000 nits bright iPhone is perfectly usable outside in bright sunlight. The brightest iPad (iPad Pro) is currently 1000 nits. Not quite there yet, but I'm sure the next generations will only improve.
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by jval43 2y ago
Petrichor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
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by jval43 3y ago
You don't need 99% coverage. You just need enough coverage to be able to refactor the thing without breaking it.
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by jval43 3y ago
"Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical" (2003): https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf That's on the local network. I remember a paper doing this over the internet, but couldn't
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by jval43 3y ago
rent the cure. FTFY.
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by jval43 3y ago
I was in the market for a car, and initially really wanted a Tesla or VW / ID, but with no buttons, no dials, and on the Tesla additionally no parking sensors, wonky rain sensors combined with missing stalks and no straight-on speedome
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by jval43 3y ago
That's funny. I wrote SQL daily for 10 years, read the ISO standards when working on SQL transpilers, persistence frameworks for multiple databases, etc. Even wrote a new storage engine for MySQL once. But I just had to look up what th
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by jval43 3y ago
OT: there's actually a ≔ symbol, so you could write MLE ≔ DS if you wanted to.
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by jval43 3y ago
I might be wrong but I remember that I couldn't extract some really old Stuffit archives using the current versions, but an old copy of 'stuffit520.611linux-i386' I tracked down could. Does anyone know if that makes sense?

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