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by meinersbur 1y ago
The retractable antenna could only be used for Morse code. Only Harry Manning was well-versed in Morse, so after he quit, neither Earhard nor Fred Noonan effectively couldn't use it anyway [1]. That retractable antenna was for low freq
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When Compiler Engineers Act as Judges, What Can Possibly Go Wrong?(seylaw.blogspot.com)
27 points by meinersbur 1y ago|41 comments
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Both claims are incorrect. LaTeX would rather produce a bad document if it cannot produce a good one. Example: overfull hbox. A designer is still required who creates the documentclass, it is just that LaTeX comes with some predefined ones
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Because only a hacked "core mainframe" (definition please) of a bank can excuse the lack of resources at 4chan? Only accepting overly specific evidence is a neat trick to never lose an argument.
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Flang (LLVM Fortran Compiler) uses parser combinators. https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/flang/lib/Par...
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Does someone know how companies handle these short-term changes of tariffs? Like, when your shipment from oversees eventually arrives, a 50% tariff is due that makes your entire accounting unprofitable, e.g. a contract with another party to
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by meinersbur 1y ago
It also matters what jobs they change to. There is a documentary out there showing someone who could quit their regular job and become an artist thanks to an UBI pilot (Canada IIRC). It is presented as a positive example in that they did no
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by meinersbur 2y ago
It's even worse: Has never seen Gattaca
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AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games(technologyreview.com)
1 points by meinersbur 2y ago|2 comments
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by meinersbur 2y ago
Why prefer this over SysInternal's Process Explorer (other than it is Open Source) or Process Informer (on which TaskExplorer seems to be based on) directly?
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by meinersbur 2y ago
I am urprised how much money suddenly is available where other future-critical projects are starved of funding while needing just a fraction of that amount, specifically nuclear fusion.
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by meinersbur 2y ago
The problem here (and problably the reason why they were removed from paid streaming services) are residuals [1]: Even if nobody watches them, studios still may have to pay actors, directors, writers, etc. a share. I assume the movies put o
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by meinersbur 2y ago
Avoid `git reset --hard` and `git clean -xfd`. To get a clean working-tree, use `git stash --all`. Allows restoring files if necessary. Saved my sorry bottom multiple times.
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How Games Are Hacking Color Theory [video](youtube.com)
3 points by meinersbur 2y ago|0 comments
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by meinersbur 2y ago
The Atlantic article is mostly based on subjective choices/values while since should be objective, but generally science should be about arguments, so everyone can come to a conclusion themselves. Give me the arguments/pros/c
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by meinersbur 2y ago
Primary source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513 , or https://phl.upr.edu/wow/summary (press release-style)
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by meinersbur 2y ago
By you own standard, this is a low-value post as well.
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by meinersbur 2y ago
I think the point is that if Google is not allowed to make such payments, neither is Microsoft (unless they want to risk the same lawsuit against them). Apple will stay with Google since a change would probably be unpopular with users. End
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by meinersbur 2y ago
Compare to: Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Mate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF5VVrsnpzo
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by meinersbur 2y ago
https://archive.is/y524K
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Why Bitcoin Mining is Good for the Environment – And why it isn't(backreaction.blogspot.com)
5 points by meinersbur 2y ago|4 comments
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by meinersbur 2y ago
For Windows, PowerToys includes an OCR tool: https://aka.ms/PowerToysOverview_TextExtractor Source available here: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/tree/main/src/modules... (l
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by meinersbur 2y ago
And at the same time make the web inaccessible for those who need screen readers. And what for? Compared to the effort needed to train an AI, an OCR of rendered text is trivial.
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by meinersbur 2y ago
IMHO it would still be a useful feature, just one that is not strictly needed. You are not able to to pass around such structs, but neither is that possible with the suggested `defer` statement. The only advantage of `defer` is that the des
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by meinersbur 2y ago
Or with the $999 monitor stand
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by meinersbur 2y ago
Response from Theo de Raadt ( https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171572099614639&w=2 ): The proposal talks about a few applications which are better with nagle off by default. Most of those applications have already
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by meinersbur 2y ago
Those are the apps are quickly written and do not care if they unnecessarily congest the network. The ones that do get properly maintained can set TCP_NODELAY. Seems like a reasonable default to me.
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by meinersbur 2y ago
https://archive.is/k7ImW
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by meinersbur 2y ago
Is the voice understandable Japanese?
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by meinersbur 2y ago
I dare you to board a plane whose software was written that way.

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