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by murderfs 8mo ago
They're IATA airport codes (except for San Francisco, which should be SFO).
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by murderfs 9mo ago
Sure, it could blow up its economy and have the U.S. just switch to the existing domestic alternative, which also appears to be superior (tirzepatide).
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by murderfs 9mo ago
> Generally, text compresses extremely well. Images and video do not. Is that actually true? I'm not sure it's fair to compare lossless compression ratios of text (abstract, noiseless) to images and video that innately have ran
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by murderfs 9mo ago
Yeah, but almost everyone wants money. You can see this by looking at what projects have the best documentation: they're all things like the man-pages project where the contributors aren't doing it as a job when they could be work
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by murderfs 9mo ago
I don't think I've ever seen documentation from tech writers that was worth reading: if a tech writer can read code and understand it, why are they making half or less of what they would as an engineer? The post complains about
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by murderfs 9mo ago
> Been doing it the same way for centuries so, care to elaborate on what's wrong with how they farm? You're talking about the same Japan that's had rice shortages for like two years now, right?
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by murderfs 10mo ago
Ratelimiting doesn't solve anything, you can just parallelize your queries across IP addresses.
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by murderfs 10mo ago
Well, they'd be more functional as insurance, at least! The way insurance is supposed to work is that your insurance premium is proportional to the risk. You can't go uninsured and then after discovering that your house is on fi
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by murderfs 11mo ago
How did she get into the supermarket in the first place?
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by murderfs 11mo ago
Drag scales by frontal area (and the coefficient of drag tends to actually be lower on longer objects), so as long as the SUV is longer than a sedan, it'll tend to have less aerodynamic drag proportionally (rolling resistance scales wi
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by murderfs 1y ago
The answer to almost every question in soldering is 'more flux'. Solder wick has flux in the center of the braid, but it's hard to get it into tight places like structural through-holes. Adding your own liquid/paste flux
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by murderfs 1y ago
Get a hot air gun: it'll make your life way easier. You can tin the pads with a soldering iron, put the connector on and squirt some flux on the leads, and then just blow hot air until it reflows into place.
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by murderfs 1y ago
Applying this criticism to DeepSeek is ridiculous when you compare it to everyone else, they published their entire methodology, including the source for their improvements (e.g. https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP )
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by murderfs 1y ago
> most "real" work in the humanities is locked behind not just academic paywalls but an impenetrable wall of inward-focused jargon. The problem isn't that there's value obfuscated by jargon, it's that almost all
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by murderfs 1y ago
The analogy would be taxing the car based on its value, not based on the value of the people and goods it carries. Which is what we do!
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by murderfs 1y ago
You're aware that you're citing the policies of the province that contains the second most expensive place in the world to own a home, right? Sydney is worse than the Bay Area when adjusted for incomes, and most other cities in Au
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by murderfs 1y ago
https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no lo
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by murderfs 1y ago
The funnier scenario is when the company beats their earning predictions, but the stock drops because analysts were predicting that they would beat their predictions by even more.
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by murderfs 1y ago
I had an old mazda3 (2014) with a little pop up plastic screen HUD, and it was focused at some distance significantly greater than the distance between my head and the screen.
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by murderfs 1y ago
That's for switching to the NF-A12x25 G2 fan (from the G1), which has a lower max RPM. The improved side panel appears to be a strict improvement.
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by murderfs 1y ago
The committee got burned, extremely badly, by C++03's export templates, where it got standardized without an implementation, and everyone realized it was basically unimplementable, and the only group that did, wrote a paper telling eve
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by murderfs 1y ago
Because random performance bugs are a giant pain to even detect, let alone root cause.
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by murderfs 1y ago
It truly is. You're forced to use Monkey-C, a homebrewed language that's probably the single worst language that anyone has to program in: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/monkey-c/
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by murderfs 1y ago
> I wonder what the impetus has been these days that wasn’t there in the past? Fentanyl and cheap battery powered tools
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by murderfs 1y ago
> * Carbon free energy is cheaper to produce these days, so the premis is wrong If it's cheaper to produce, then there's no point in doing anything special, because it'll just take over via market forces. The "problem
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by murderfs 1y ago
> I appreciate that as well, but SD cards still aren't the same as old game cartridges. On consoles up to the Nintendo 64, plugging in a cartridge expanded the physical memory of the system, and the CPU read data directly from the R
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by murderfs 1y ago
What? That is the exact opposite of bad thinking, looking at evidence to draw a hypothesis is also known as p-hacking. There's a reason that there's been a push towards preregistration of hypotheses for scientific studies.
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by murderfs 1y ago
From a survey of Canadians in 2022 [1]: "We find that SUV drivers view their vehicles as functionally superior to smaller cars in terms of safety, space for lifestyle, handling, and fun. Symbolically, SUVs are seen as a “status symbol”
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by murderfs 1y ago
People want vehicles the size of tanks. Auto companies are spending billions of dollars to get people to buy their respective tank-sized vehicles, not to turn people onto the segment in general.
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by murderfs 1y ago
It isn't too strict. Releasing a pthread_mutex has the semantics of being a release memory barrier, which means that any writes on that thread will be visible by other threads that issue a subsequent acquire memory barrier (e.g. by acq

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