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by perlgeek 1y ago
> Never understood why this isn’t used more frequently. Can you throw a JSON-serializable data structure (lists, dict, strings, numbers) into SharedMemory? What about regular instance of random Python classes? If the answer is "no&q
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Stupid question, since I know next to nothing about exchanges and regulations... but couldn't you just process serially by security? E.G. if user A wants to buy Apple stock and user B wants to buy Facebook stock, does it matter which o
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by perlgeek 1y ago
And the package in Debian Stable (aka bookworm) is too old to be affected by the vulnerabilities in 5.0.0. I used to hate that Debian always was behind on software versions, but now I use different package sources for the few applications w
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Re charging times, there are several aspects here: * charging stations have different powers * charging time depends non-linearly on the remaining change * ... and it's also temperature dependent (though only a little, with my plug-in
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by perlgeek 1y ago
After using it for 3+ years, I'd really miss automatic cruise control. You can an intuition pretty quickly for what it does and what it doesn't, and in certain situations it really takes a lot of attention off your plate (stop-and
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Some features I've found useful: * giving me the current fuel and battery levels in the app * giving me an ETA on when charging is finished * locating my car * telling me if the car has been sitting there for a few minutes with ignitio
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by perlgeek 1y ago
> And what’s worse, malicious threat actors can manipulate time synchronization protocols in many cases to trigger this vulnerability at the time of their choosing. If you switch to 64 bit timestamps, and the network protocol supports da
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Let's take Android. Who has a revenue stream and needs Android? All the major phone vendors except Apple. They could join up and finance Android development, and presumably Android Auto too. Yes, there would be a disruption, a consorti
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I agree that repeated observation increases the confidence in a hypothesis. But, only if it's a hypothesis that can be validated in such a way. From OP > By internal architecture, what I mean is, when someone talks to me, what I not
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by perlgeek 1y ago
General strike, for example.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I wonder what the impact will be on ransomware attacks. It'll probably make it harder for people who aren't in "bullet-proof" countries (i.e. without good cooperation with to receive ransom payment, which sounds like a g
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I'd describe the robot's level as "good for outdoor table tennis". There are pretty much too distinct classes of players. Those that occasionally play for fun, typically at stone tables found in parks and open-air baths.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
As somewhat of a table tennis nerd, I really like this, but also cannot help to throw in some critical observations :-) I've skimmed through the match highlights video, and it struck me that there wasn't really any engagement with
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I would be very interested to know under what kind of condition such rules work, and where they don't.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
At my daughters' school, the rules are roughly: * no phones during classes or during breaks (with the exception of lunch break, I think) * phone can be allowed by teachers for a particular class and purpose * if a student uses a phone
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> So should f strings now go away? No > They are just a special case of t strings. Not really, because they produce a string right away instead of a template.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
If it's not a language feature, there's always a risk of fragmentation. Some people won't use it because it adds another dependency, that means fewer programmers will be familiar with it. Others will come up with their own, s
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by perlgeek 2y ago
That sounds like it could be in the range of a digital read-out (dro) as they are used for milling machines and lathes. my mechanics had video just the other day about replacing one, and the old one had 5 microns accuracy. Not sure how must
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Even if civilizations are relatively common (which, as others have pointed out, doesn't necessarily follow from life being common), the distances involved are really huge. We have some ideas for crossing huge distances, but none of the
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> every single range was positive, so regardless of what this represents, it should be impossible to get a negative result. They explain that the range you give as input is seen as only being 95% correct, so the calculator adds low-proba
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Easiest solution: convert to HTML, view in browser. If that's not an option for you: the good old `info` document reader supports links and jumping. Somehow I never quite got the grasp of it though (probably because I didn't spent
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I'm pretty sure he's rolling in cash now :-)
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> To put the writing and speaking speeds into perspective, we form thoughts at 1,000-3,000 words per minute. Natural language might be natural, but it’s a bottleneck. We might form fleeting thoughts much faster than we can express them,
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> If home runs happen all the time, they lose their excitement. So you're saying baseball gets more boring when people get better hitting the ball? Sounds like there's something fundamentally wrong with the sport.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
It's the responsible thing to start in the best possible conditions, and slowly, slowly work yourself to harder conditions, only moving to the next step when the safety data from the previous step is better than human drivers. Of cours
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by perlgeek 2y ago
If you follow Utilitarian ethics, just ask yourself: how much (negative) utility do you assign to... * a crash with a fatality * a crash with an injury * any crash at all * a driverless car going around a roundabout constantly for me, the a
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by perlgeek 2y ago
The article's headline says Germany is "supercharging its military", but for somebody who's been following the development of the German armed forces, it's more like "patching the most glaring, gaping holes&quo
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Less than 1% of all the hydrogen produced worldwide is from "green" sources [1]. If your dirt cheap alternative is really so dirt cheap, why doesn't anybody do it? [1]: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-
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by perlgeek 2y ago
There are really two aspects two 2FA: 1: you as a user might want to protect your account 2: A website provider wants to secure their own business If it's about 1, then the argument "I don't reuse passwords" hold some wa
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I don't think Google is buying Wiz because they hope that revenue from Wiz will make it worth their money. They surely expect some kind of strategic advantage from that, probably something to do with security of their own infrastructur

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