nDRDY

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31.
by nDRDY 5mo ago
Why didn't they ask Claude to remove all of the `unsafe` at the same time??
32.
by nDRDY 5mo ago
No-one (sensible) claims that a CPU "runs" C.
33.
by nDRDY 5mo ago
No need!
34.
by nDRDY 5mo ago
Technically it runs AVR-RISC :-) Fun project though!
35.
by nDRDY 5mo ago
Oh god. How long before yet another UB-based question ends up in technical coding interviews?
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by nDRDY 5mo ago
Who would want to privately own a community helipad? Sounds like an insurance and liability nightmare. This is an impressive enough achievement, but let's not kid ourselves this is going to revolutionaise suburban or semi-rural transpo
37.
by nDRDY 5mo ago
I don't understand how that would be possible with the lack of anywhere to land in denser urban areas. This is a toy to hop over to the golf course.
38.
by nDRDY 5mo ago
Given the current state of battery technology, this is probably the only possible commercial use case. Even then, you have serious limitations like low passenger capacity, takeoff/landing still requires a helipad, recharge time, and th
39.
by nDRDY 5mo ago
I'd rather be in a helicopter than one of these in the case of total engine failure, and I don't really trust helicopters!
40.
by nDRDY 5mo ago
Sounds about right. A plane of comparable max take-off weight, a Piper Malibu, has a range of ~1500 miles (with reserve remaining).
41.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
LLMs are great at producing plausible BS. If your job involves creating plausible BS, then it could be done much faster by "AI". As a low-level programmer, I am much less concerned :-)
42.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
>Well datacenters ARE rated by their power usage Exactly - would be nice if that information was public knowledge!
43.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
I wonder if this is less about the environmental impact (which can be greenwashed as necessary), and more about the power consumption of individual data centres.
44.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
Hmm. I wonder what it would look like if you added the corresponding "minute" labels (eight, five, four, etc) at the appropriate places. It might make it at least a little feasible to read the time! For inspiration: https:/&
45.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
Maybe, but the labels and hour markers that contradict the meaning of the hand positions is just perverse :-)
46.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
I think the labels are pointlessly confusing.
47.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
>Because the models only got good enough to be trusted in the past few months They have got noticably worse over the past few months! It looks like we are going in the direction I've been predicting for a while - the cost of AI wi
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by nDRDY 6mo ago
Why hasn't it gone away already? ChatGPT at least has been around for over 3 years. Why is my AI-first colleage constantly having to get more expensive AI subscriptions approved? >most furniture is made in a factory now Terrible ana
49.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
Here's mine: code to spec until I get stuck -> search Google for the answer -> scan the Gemini result instead of going to StackOverflow.
50.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
This comment would be a lot more convincing if it weren't in response to one expressing the same sentiment :-)
51.
by nDRDY 6mo ago
>worse versions of nixpkgs and flakes You mean statically-compiled binaries and hash pinning? Those have been around a bit longer than Nix :-)
52.
by nDRDY 7mo ago
You have just the one kid, right? We were the same ;-)
53.
by nDRDY 7mo ago
Then what is the point? If what I'm doing can be done by Claude, as operated by someone who "doesn't need to get up to speed", then I really need to look at another career.
54.
by nDRDY 7mo ago
A significant source of electricty is generated from waste-to-power plants in the Nordics. Several of those countries import rubbish by the shipload to turn into power. For that matter, it's probably a net positive to put most plastic
55.
by nDRDY 7mo ago
They work, as long as you replace all of those leaky caps (and maybe the ceramic resonator)!
56.
by nDRDY 7mo ago
And people wonder why I laugh when they say "non-mechanical devices are more reliable." Sure mechanical devices need pieces to stay moving in the same way over and over again, but electronic devices need a huge number of very prec
57.
by nDRDY 7mo ago
Somewhat tangential question - for the "Just Stop Oil" folks - is it the extraction of oil that is the problem, or the burning of it? If the former, then we have an opportunity to investigate more renewable sources.
58.
by nDRDY 7mo ago
Putting out the fire, yet I get people telling me all the time I need to buy lots of shiny new things to save the planet! (and cut down trees).
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by nDRDY 7mo ago
With a correspondingly smaller decrease in CO2 output. We're in a Climate Catastrophe on the edge of Global Tipping Points, remember! Sarcasm aside, I think this is why people have generally stopped caring as much. What we are being as
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by nDRDY 7mo ago
It's a good job Americans are right if they were to start swinging their global weight around.

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