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511.
by lstodd 1y ago
less far sight, dichromatic color vision, over-optimized for low light. a cursory glance did not find studies on cat peripheral vision, but would assume it's worse than human if only because they rely more on audio
512.
by lstodd 1y ago
rack and pinion will just strip the teeth and/or disengage. one needs just more pad area and more clamp force
513.
by lstodd 1y ago
yeah, try matching a human eye on dynamic range and then on angular speed and then on refocus. okay forget that. try matching a cat's eye on those metrics. and it is much simpler that human one.
514.
by lstodd 1y ago
problem is, expensive cameras that Tesla doesn't use don't work either.
515.
by lstodd 1y ago
If those persist in opaqueness, say "confess, or I fetch Ghidra". If even this does not help, rm -rf is your friend.
516.
by lstodd 1y ago
> Green threads, where all asynchrony is implicit: which are no different from app POV from kernel threads, or any threads for that matter. the whole async stuff came up because context switch per event is way more expensive than just sh
517.
by lstodd 1y ago
We never ran stackless/greenlet under windows. And pycoev was setcontext(3)-based, so no windows either. But I can imagine what that code did there...
518.
by lstodd 1y ago
It was memmove() on each task switch. So you could forget about d-cache. And that killed performance on anything but benchmarks.
519.
by lstodd 1y ago
And Tornado. Please don't remind me of those horrors.
520.
by lstodd 1y ago
idk stackless dates back to 2005 at least, most likely earlier. greenlet which is sort of minimal stackless .. before 2008 pycoev which is on one hand greenlets without memmove()s, on the other hand sort of io-scheduled m:n threading I wrot
521.
by lstodd 1y ago
That had happened already.
522.
by lstodd 1y ago
Where I lived all this summer the only transport infrastructure that was available for the last 80 years since the reservoir dam was completed was an old diesel tractor and an equally old motorboat with an evil 2T outboard, or a 3 km walk t
523.
by lstodd 1y ago
on a tangential note I once tried to get pathfinding working on a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb feeling as regular 3-ish level octtree Dwarf Fortress of 2014-ish vintage was insufficiently weird. this did not end well, but was hilarious. j
524.
by lstodd 1y ago
It's the only one where when you think "omg kill that with fire", you then can actually do that yourself.
525.
by lstodd 1y ago
I beg to disagree. The 5210 was the best, it was indestructible, cheap, kept its charge and still was functional even if you rode over it in your bulldozer. The 8110 was the second imo, but only for the style. And the 3310-ish were the runn
526.
by lstodd 1y ago
heh, in mid-2000s all I had were a batch of misbehaving SATA controllers under freebsd, and an (actually quite well-written core of a) linux driver was all I had to work with. Without that, we would have probably just switched hw, because t
527.
by lstodd 1y ago
eh.. there were series of clips named something like 'Industrial JP' showing the multiaxis (like 6 to 12 axis) spring coil forming machines working This stuff just can not be reimplemented that simple and be expected to work. The
528.
by lstodd 1y ago
More like "it is impossible to infer anything useful from what we know how they work". But the end result is the same.
529.
by lstodd 1y ago
Absolutely.
530.
by lstodd 1y ago
so very true.
531.
by lstodd 1y ago
Origin is the electrical grid overload which caused incandescent lights to literally "brown out", as has been mentioned here. Later is was coopted to mean any problems with power supply not including outright drop to zero-zero&#x2
532.
by lstodd 1y ago
Oppression helps disseminate knowledge. For example in Russia it's common knowledge nowadays to the extent that babushkas discuss relative merits of various VPN services while gathering shrooms in the woods.
533.
by lstodd 1y ago
your comment reminds me of a rant by a severely clueless person who insisted that we must conserve water despite living on an island in a middle of a second largest european reservoir. which is utterly pointless.
534.
by lstodd 1y ago
well, yes, I like the smell of 2T exhaust in the morning. still, even my yamaha majesty 250 of 1992 (4HC-edit) only ate 3.5L/100km despite hauling thrice the mass of that same ovetto.
535.
by lstodd 1y ago
But the scientific method does work. So we observe the experiment kindly undertaken by Mr Musk. And then when some results happen we decide. Remember, development of the R-7 into the most reliable expendable booster took about 40 years and
536.
by lstodd 1y ago
actually if you can get a late-1990-ish 90-100cc 2T japanese scooter like Honda Lead 90 or Suzuki Address 100, or even later Yamaha Neos / MBK Ovetto 100cc of 2005-ish vintage this whole discussion about ranges and fuel consumptions b
537.
by lstodd 1y ago
exactly. state-of-charge / depth-of-discharge vs lifetime accumulated "discharge stress" so to say also matters a lot. batteries aren't simple, even lifepo4 ones.
538.
by lstodd 1y ago
At a cost of indiscriminately imprisoning and killing people (remember Korolyov and von Braun)? Surely. he-he. If Musk does achieve a second foothold for the humanity, then any and all objections to his methods become irrelevant. So far he
539.
by lstodd 1y ago
Anti-oil groups are oil funded so that the oil can show they are "responsible" to their boards. edit: apart from that, no one is willing to pay for a realistic substitute for the fuel oil (marine) or diesel, so the question is act
540.
by lstodd 1y ago
> I don't think its out of the realm of possibility to make a best-selling phone that stays uncrackable for the general population for its entire lifecycle. It is surely possible if only because the general population is not interes

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