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by lloeki 1y ago
> The system manages flight information like crew scheduling, weight-and-balance calculations , and aircraft movement logs You wouldn't want to fly an airplane whose weight and balance has been miscalculated (or maybe properly calc
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by lloeki 1y ago
Later down: > In fact, HeH+ is the strongest known acid, with a proton affinity of 177.8 kJ/mol, or a pKa of −63 Long time I didn't do chemistry but that pKa made me jump off of my chair. For comparison hydrochloric acid is ~10
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by lloeki 1y ago
nitpick: 9.7 m/s^2 ;)
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by lloeki 1y ago
> "Why did you send us this probe?" "hey zarqzon! someone found the camera you accidentally dropped into that asteroid field while trying to take a selfie with that cool gas giant! damn you were so wasted that time" &
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by lloeki 1y ago
> if it was framed more as fiction At some point, however fact-based, every speculation is a form of fiction, so the line is blurry ... > The title and the abstract suggest they take this possibility seriously, which is ridiculous. ..
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by lloeki 1y ago
> If she was obscured by an A-pillar she was likely riding too far to the side of the road. [...] You're much, much safer on the center wheel track. I won't spend time detailing the whole situation but you could not be further
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by lloeki 1y ago
> It's one thing to say you accept the risks of a risky behavior, and yet another to declare nothing could have been done. By that metric you end up doing exactly nothing (UK data): - riding a bike for 20 mi / 32 km: 1 micromor
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by lloeki 1y ago
I wish they were actively taught how to stay on task instead of being shamed into it. I mean they're being handed over / bring their own computer / have their phone at hand, and anyway they probably have all of that at home,
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by lloeki 1y ago
I don't think anyone's disputing that being careful increases your odds of avoiding accidents. Instead what I wanted to call out is that even if infinitely careful and drive defensively without fail you can still get into an accid
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by lloeki 1y ago
> I'm not sure how true that is, even when the cause is distracted/aggressive drivers Very. It's possible to make no mistake and still lose. My wife got hit-and-run when bicycling to work and she's exceeding careful a
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by lloeki 1y ago
I remember there was this short period of time around (lousy approximate timeframe) Snow Leopard where a confluence of features and hardware was suddenly available and which would have made this just within reach of Apple completely chang
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by lloeki 1y ago
> its short termist thinking from people who don't understand what makes software complex to build Ironically you don't need AI to see this pattern. Maybe AI makes it a little bit more obvious who's thinking long term and
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by lloeki 1y ago
Back then macOS as a platform was quite polyglot with multiple scripting languages and bindings/bridges to ObjC. Being an OOTB dev box was a feature, notably with Web 2.0, and there was Rails right there as well as Apache too, and a th
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by lloeki 1y ago
LittleSnitch has such a map feature https://help.obdev.at/littlesnitch6/lsm-map Main difference would be that LS being actively handling connections the list is always accurate whereas this appears to poll current conn
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by lloeki 1y ago
I'm in France, my devices are set to en-GB, I've watched only English videos (plus the odd French one) yet youtube decides to auto translate audio in German and lately in Spanish. Go figure.
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by lloeki 1y ago
> Except I can't do that anymore, because there's no guarantee that youtube didn't randomly decide to translate the title of an english video into german Sp you clicked when you wouldn't have, somewhere an engagement
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by lloeki 1y ago
I'm not exactly surprised that "separately developed" AI that hinge on essentially the same core techniques and are fed largely identical corpus often answer with remarkably similar wording to the same question.
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by lloeki 1y ago
> macOS UI scaling doesn’t allow ratios like 125% meaning the UI elements aren’t quite at my preferred size Try BetterDisplay, and enable "Flexible Scaling" (a per-display setting). Bonus: enable "UI Scale Matching" a
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by lloeki 1y ago
Some are so not USB-C compliant and just "USB-A wires but with a USB-C plug" that they only charge in one orientation just like USB-A. We can't have nice things.
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by lloeki 1y ago
> AOP always felt like a hack. I used it with C++ Colour me surprised that a language which is the practical definition of bolted-on features has an implementation that feels like a bolted-on hack ;) > early on Also the "early&qu
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by lloeki 1y ago
> since browsers started to set it to "1" by default without asking IIRC IE10 did that, to much outcry because it upended the whole DNT being an explicit choice; no other browser (including Edge) set it as a default. There have
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by lloeki 1y ago
> AOP? (since aspect-oriented programming is history) AOP is very much alive, people that do AOP have just forgotten what the name is, and many have simply reinvented it poorly.
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by lloeki 1y ago
> it emphasizes Jobs not Woz (the true nerd hero), including a stylized ascii art. I rewatched it: https://youtu.be/XdBKuBhdZwg?si=nywGYWzsB5HmW2AB&t=184 Woz appears first, then Jobs shortly, then the Apple logo. Arg
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by lloeki 1y ago
I tried exactly that, several times, over and over. Except on "hello world" situations (which I guess is a solid part of the corpus LLMs are trained with) these tools were consistently slower. Last time was an area where several f
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by lloeki 1y ago
Not to mention that in addition to the opt-in warning that came with 3.4, if you've been using any reasonable linter such as Rubocop for the past 10ish years then you're already being yelled at for lack of `# frozen_string_literal
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by lloeki 1y ago
> I actually thought about patching the RSpec gem to remove the features I didn't like Hmm it all sounds like you'd end up bastardising Rspec into being Minitest::Spec? If you really like things like `expect().to` it's muc
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by lloeki 1y ago
> The vibrational force of standing up was enough to short out a failing power supply Or, was it? https://superuser.com/questions/1406140/monitor-screen-that-... (not disclaiming that it wasn't, but that &
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by lloeki 1y ago
> After all these years of UI evolution. It still mostly sucks to find the setting you need to change something that bothers you. In Windows 95 there sometimes was a `?` in the title bar, and you could click on things, and help would be
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by lloeki 1y ago
Just for kicks: English | French --------------+------------ habitable | habitable inhabitable | habitable uninhabitable | inhabitable
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by lloeki 1y ago
> World record of 100m sprint kept improving even since car was invented. A very good example! (...although probably not how you think it is ;) Indeed the world record is achieved by a very limited number of people under stringent condit

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