kortex

25 ms·

571.
by kortex 4y ago
Promising, thanks! I had a charcoal grill like this once and it worked quite well, but something stole it off my lawn literally between cooking burgers and cleaning up. Must have still been hot. Anyway, I tried replacing it with a similar m
572.
by kortex 4y ago
I imagine it's easier to purify the oil and burn the oil with high efficiency, than to burn solid garbage and filter the flue gas.
573.
by kortex 4y ago
An annual problem I have every summer is dealing with smoky campfires when camping. Your bog standard cicle-of-rocks or metal ring fire pit is crazy inefficient, and unless you run continuously in the offgassing phase (bright, tall orange f
574.
by kortex 4y ago
Another option is to generate a ULID and just take the timestamp part (6 bytes, I forget how many characters). Uses Crockford Base32 already so no need for the custom alphabet.
575.
by kortex 4y ago
> By deciding where to scope the variable with the destructor/drop function, you've already made a manual decision about memory management. That's not really what's meant by manual memory management. MMM almost always
576.
by kortex 4y ago
Adding to (2), I've worked with liquid-liquid heat exchangers (large heat/chiller units for chemical reactors) and they are super quiet and efficient, but boy howdy, are they messy and high maintenance. The glycol lines leak, the
577.
by kortex 4y ago
Related: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/making-floating-point-math-high... Which is meta's 8 bit data type originally called (8,1, alpha, beta, gamma). I think they realized that's a terrible name so I think th
578.
by kortex 4y ago
At FP2, you are probably better off with {-1, 0, 1, NaN} (sign+mantissa) rather than sign/exponent. You basically bit pack. FP3 gives you sign, 1x "exponent", 1x mantissa, so still kinda bit packing. I could see FP4 with sign
579.
by kortex 4y ago
Can anyone give a quick synopsis of why this RSGI is needed? Can't ASGI code be called from a Rust socket termination, a la Gunicorn?
580.
by kortex 4y ago
You would not do it by pixels, it's pure math. I'd have to sit down and work through the actual math, but between convolution and affine transformations, I'm pretty sure there should be a way to compute the intersection with
581.
by kortex 4y ago
Everyone always talks about the Drake equation and how life, let alone intelligent life, ought to be ubiquitous in the galaxy but like, there's no guarantee of any of that. We could be the only sentience for many light-years.
582.
by kortex 4y ago
Absolutely fucking don't. In high school, my, uh, friends tried out many of the experiments in it, in ways we "thought were safe". I later got a degree in chemistry and learned actual lab hygiene, and looking back, hooo boy,
583.
by kortex 4y ago
No, you are correct, it should be some "fairly straightforward"* 2D linear algebra to check for intersection (knight might need a special case). You just iterate all pieces and check for king collision box overlap with certain lin
584.
by kortex 4y ago
That's more or less it, as far as I understand. There's the hexagonal lattice of solid water ice, where hydrogen bonds form a 3D tetrahedral structure which is very stable. At the boundary, there are no molecules "above"
585.
by kortex 4y ago
Tabs are absolutely a valid criticism. I can't tell you how many times the editor I'm using put in 4 spaces instead of a proper tab. .PHONY is truly a bizarre construction. There's nothing like it in modern code systems. It&#
586.
by kortex 4y ago
The flip side of that is people who can keep everything in their head often write code which reflects exactly that, and that code is very hard for others to scrutinize. I try to lean into just such a silver lining. I like to write my code f
587.
by kortex 4y ago
> Why does every feature of every living thing have to have an evolutionary explanation? This phrasing implies the premise is true, which I don't agree with, so I am going to tackle 3 related questions: - Why does /any phenomen
588.
by kortex 4y ago
Huh, TIL that childbirth was likely challenging for other smaller-head hominids, not just big-brain Sapiens. Walking upright is still the strongest hypothesis for the difficult birth process. https://scitechdaily.com/scienti
589.
by kortex 4y ago
I really hope a solution can be found and python can get true lazy imports (without doing the manual thing). I work in the ML/AI space and manual lazy imports are basically mandatory unless you want several seconds to see usage text fr
590.
by kortex 4y ago
It's hugely different. The issue occurs when you have something which does not need to execute in every context. Let's day you have a CLI which does some machine learning with several models. You don't want to execute loading
591.
by kortex 4y ago
It's not necessarily the teacher's fault. They could be perfectly adequate (not extremely boring as a baseline), but you have students that may have ADHD, ODD, etc, and just the temptation knowing the hidden game is there is enoug
592.
by kortex 4y ago
Self-loading code is a huge part of the value-add of python libraries. Many of the popular libraries (e.g. Numpy and friends) trigger a bewildering chain of events to compile from source if not installing from pre-built wheels. And if you d
593.
by kortex 4y ago
I thought it was interesting. I've never heard of some of these techniques.
594.
by kortex 4y ago
Gemany^W Allemagne^W Tyskland^W Saksa^W Németország^W Deutschland would like a word.
595.
by kortex 4y ago
> avoids acknowledging that Spain was once a world power As opposed to... checks notes the Holy Roman Empire? > (2) intentionally introduces an unwanted misspelling of a common Spanish word that accentuates the Castilian lisp That&#
596.
by kortex 4y ago
"-shima" is just 島 'island'. See also Ōshima, Mishima, Fujishima, Furushima, Hiroshima, and even Iwo Jima (硫黄島, "Shima" is sometimes pronounced "Jima" in Japanese for some reason). Note that Fukushima
597.
by kortex 4y ago
Cost aside, it is possible to calcine limestone with green electricity, and capture the outbound CO2. As mentioned, this is still quite costly, but it's likely a hurdle we will need to cross regardless to get to green cement.
598.
by kortex 4y ago
> I presume it is possible for these industrial uses to cause significant pollution, but you mean that it is not difficult to prevent pollution from these processes because they happen in controlled locations? Fluoropolymers don't r
599.
by kortex 4y ago
> About a quarter of new pharmaceuticals are PFAS Huh, TIL. I was going to rebut this but I looked into it. I didn't realize simply the presence of a -CF3 group is enough to classify the whole molecule as a PFAS according to new def
600.
by kortex 4y ago
Would love to see a straw poll of what these lawmakers consider "tools not normally found in a residence". Oscilloscope? Not "normally" found in a residence (I would say <10% of households have one). Can be used to st

More ›