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by marshray 1y ago
Yes! I sometimes set up a script that runs several variations on 'cargo tree', as well as collects various stats on output binary sizes, lines of code, licenses, etc. The output is written to a .txt file that gets checked-in. This
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by marshray 1y ago
The most horrifying aspect of the hypothesis as depicted in the Dark Forest book is that it was simply the job of a low-level bureaucrat to identify "low-entropy entities which lack the hiding gene" within their region of the gala
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by marshray 1y ago
I believe there are elements of this in A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge too.
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by marshray 1y ago
RISC lost its meaning once SPARC added an integer multiply instruction.
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by marshray 1y ago
I doubt any CPU has more levels of address translation, caching, and other layers of memory access indirection than AMD/Intel 64 at this point.
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by marshray 1y ago
The scope should be capturing samples from the three channels synchronously. It appears to be set to trigger on the bottom trace (it appears still) and then retrospectively display the other two.
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by marshray 1y ago
If someday people say that my biggest blunder was something that interesting, I guess I won't complain too much.
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by marshray 1y ago
Sorry, my personal information bubble is not calibrated to maintain a half-way-objective estimate on that. Perhaps if we hang around here looking sad someone else will research the answer and tell us?
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by marshray 1y ago
It discusses HN-adjacent VCs, Delaware business law, and "Big Tech" and government regulation. But, yeah, the $8B in question hardly seems existential to FB.
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by marshray 1y ago
This was so great. I can imagine that people who grew up around graphical computer user interfaces (mouse, touch) would feel that they were sort of pre-ordained, just waiting for the chips to enable them. But it was broadly-literate, deeply
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by marshray 1y ago
It's always disappointing to me to come across some really interesting innovative new tool, like a programming language, and then find it was built on JVM. I get it. It's all about the size of the ecosystem and the garbage collect
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by marshray 1y ago
Note that in recent versions of Windows, typically the bulk of Windows now runs under a hypervisor (i.e., "in a VM") as well: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...
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by marshray 1y ago
This seems to be the "Philips Fixables" link: https://www.philips.cz/c-e/fixables "Our partner, Prusa Research, is based in the Czech Republic, so we are reaching out to its community to join us. We kno
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by marshray 1y ago
Yes, on graduate students at places like CERN, whose careers live or die based on the probabilistic detection of a single particle during their time "in the box".
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by marshray 2y ago
I will watch the Youtube guy you're talking about, but I did listen to a many episode podcast with the writer/director discussing the books of direct, personal interviews that were documented after the incident. Most of the major
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by marshray 2y ago
The term "generate power from Earth's rotation" is basically saying "convert kinetic energy from Earth's angular momentum". If you extract energy, by conservation of energy that energy has to come from somewher
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by marshray 2y ago
What is "static electricity" then?
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by marshray 2y ago
When I was small, my dad would bring home a terminal with a thermal printer and acoustic coupler modem. This would have been mid-1970's. I remember QED. I suppose it was my first editor.
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by marshray 2y ago
The only sense in which "electricity" could be said to be fluid is in its definition. There's no such physical quantity, it's just a vague term for a variety of phenomena.
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by marshray 2y ago
As I recall, Russia was making a habit of cutting across Turkey's airspace and they were officially warned before the shoot-down. I may be misremembering.
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by marshray 2y ago
Looks interesting. May I suggest for contextgeneric .dev that you put the Hello World example right up front? People evaluating or considering such a system will likely be busy.
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by marshray 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230815202046/https://www.nytim...
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by marshray 2y ago
I'm using an Intel card right now. With Wayland. It just works. Ubuntu 24.04 couldn't even boot to a tty with the Nvidia Quadro thing that came with this major-brand PC workstation, still under warranty.
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by marshray 2y ago
I only ever watch youtube or view web pages in incognito/guest mode or other browser profile that deletes all cookies when I close it (which I do at the end of every day).
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by marshray 2y ago
Jobs would have removed the power button entirely. And then when there's a fault requiring a hard reset to fix you have to insert a bent paperclip into a tiny unlabeled hole on the bottom, or spell out a message in morse code by unplug
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by marshray 2y ago
The data required to exfiltrate the telemetry and serve ads is vastly smaller than that used by the average iPhone.
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by marshray 2y ago
Well, I'm old enough to remember... https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/procter-gamble-satan-c...
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by marshray 2y ago
Bigotry goes both ways.
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by marshray 2y ago
I remember my wife describing the funny look she got from our "traditional" next door neighbor as she took the latest edition of the BSD journal out of the mailbox. Never went any further than that. But if you choose to use a lite
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by marshray 2y ago
Since the university News Center couldn't be bothered to link to the actual article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105908 "Here, we propose that ultrasonic vocalizations may affect what rodents sme

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