pauljurczak

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by pauljurczak 4y ago
Eternity when driving and paying attention. Blink of an eye when letting the car drive itself as advertised.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> I don't know if ARM based Picos or RISCV ESP32s have that same constraint. No, they don't. You can get the boards starting at about $2 a piece, which is about the same as STM32 clone boards.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> I just run everything in a container and never need a virtual environment. Am I missing out on anything? I don't think it is practical for compute heavy scientific visualization. Setting up GUI with docker was a nightmare for me.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> python is the only ecosystem where you need to deal with any of this Coming from decades spent in C/C++ ecosystem, this is definitely not true. I would say Python users have it rather easy. A lot of Python packaging problems stems
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
50 years ago, I was taught 36.6C is normal. The thermometers we used, back then, had a mark at 36.6C.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
Same here. Usually around 96.6F oral.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
I wouldn't call his behavior psychopathic. Narcissistic, perhaps.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
You can defy gravity only so long...
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear#bindings
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
It does matter! I'm assuming that any sane person, especially a highly trained professional, is not fully relying on automation and has at least some idea of its limitations. In the case of MCAS, corporate fraud distorted the level of
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> Boeing 737 Max, those crashes wouldn't have happened if there were no autopilot systems. Bad example. MCAS was an obvious case of a criminal corporate behavior, not a tradeoff between overall safety vs. technical perfection.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
It is not only a social, but a legal issue, too. If a human kills someone in an easily avoidable accident, breaking the traffic laws, he may go to jail and/or lose his driving privileges for a while. If an artificial neural network doe
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
I would like to know the average element ratio in the mined nodules. Is it really what they were hoping for?
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> international body Where some nations are more equal than the others...
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
I'm not really optimistic about this option, just a bit of wishful thinking about peace upon the world and such. OTOH, even with MAD we still have wars and probably much more than 100K people on average get killed in wars every year. E
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> I fully expect a working fusion plant of some kind by 2030 Right. The first law of fusion physics: working fusion power generation in 10 years. It has been proven true for the last 7 decades. Rock solid.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> USA probably won't have an effective arsenal within a century. If other countries joined, it would be a great outcome.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> thousands of content-moderation contractors Tech workers, really?
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
Or an American Stinger missile shoots down an American Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-ta...
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
Speaking of CO2. Capturing CO2 seems to be much less technically difficult than drilling 10 miles down. Various technologies already exist, and pilot plants are running. Perhaps focusing on the practical would be more productive than an ill
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> requires an extreme amount of maintenance through its life cycle Precisely. Calling a plumber to plug a leak or remove a clog 10 miles underground is astronomically expensive.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
I proposed C+++ name many years ago, and I don't think I was the first one to do so...
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
Master it and your life will become much more enjoyable.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
Legal and logical. What else would anyone expect?
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
Yes, Covid-19 mRNA vaccines deployment is full of corruption, politics and ineptitude. Having said that, you are in the elevated risk group, so if more than a couple of months passed from your last booster, I would get the fourth one. You n
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
> any $10 lock would be roughly as effective No, $10 lock would not be as effective as $330 lock in displaying someone's vanity and Apple cult membership.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
A random reason, not necessarily the most important one, is that a company buying its own stock is the ultimate insider trading. Market fairness has left through the nearest open window...
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
Better than nothing, but it should be illegal, as it was until 1982 when neoliberals started deregulating finance. Big corporations spend tens of billions to manipulate the stock market, but when the going gets tough, they run to mommy cryi
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
One of my credit cards had a 7% cash back promotion last quarter, if used through PayPal. I saved a couple of bucks.
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by pauljurczak 4y ago
Of course not. This is 2022, not 1973.

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