plasticeagle

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by plasticeagle 2y ago
I feel like there probably aren't. It would be impossible to hide this for very long and it's expensive to implement.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Making money from AI models "trained" on data that belongs to other people is so clearly wrong that this person has to write thousands of words of impenetrable nonsense just to distract attention away from this fundamental. What a
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
You may very well be entirely right. And I think you know exactly what I meant, because you immediately countered with some historical evidence around those first abstractions. So, thank you, and I will read much more about Sumerian mathema
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Initially, no. They are a mechanism for counting, or a way of recording measurements. Many young people, when trying to learn mathematics, do not take the necessary step beyond these ideas. They are not helped by educators insisting on pres
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Yes there are. Construction equipment manufacturers sometimes buy a worldwide low data rate cellular plan, and give every machine they ship the ability to phone home. I recall that there was also an e-reader with similar functionality.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Zero is important because it is the first abstraction. If your notion of numbers includes the idea of zero as a number , then you have broken through the first intellectual barrier of mathematics. Without this, it remains tempting to still
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Not plugging your TV into the network also works quite well.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
To be fair to Apple here, so does every other operating system. Linux system logs are filled with errors too. In general, keeping the logs of even a moderately complex application "clean" - so that the only errors logged are real
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Develop on a branch. Do whatever you like on that branch, no-one cares. Squash merge to main always. Problem solved.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
A legendary man. A friend of mine has a low-power FM radio station, that I wrote the software for, that endlessly downloads and replays Noam Chomsky's podcasts.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
That's one of the little hairs in your ear dying. You're literally hearing the sound of your hearing deteriorating.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Well... Yes you're not wrong. But this isn't really any different from downloading an installer and entering your password to permit the install to proceed. So I assume that you also never do that - and the downloaded installer is
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
It does, and very cleverly too. The '?' button explains what's going on - he just takes the fourier analysis of the shape of the string when it's released, and plays tones from that.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Arc on MacOS too.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
It's not, really. The claim would be that it's portable, but bash can be a little finicky in that respect. The documentation didn't mention what version of bash is required, but it'll be something. And plenty of systems
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
You're going to hate that you did that when you want to write a function that prints out any hash, surely? We once did a similar thing in C++, creating types for values in different units. Complete nightmare, everyone hated it. We went
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Well, maybe. It might also be academic endeavour that is worth doing for its own sake. Everybody works, everybody eats - and some people work doing things like this because all the useful jobs are taken. Weird, but it's done us proud s
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
I would think that everything old is older than we think. Because we're almost certainly not correct about how old anything is - and it certainly can't be any younger. So headlines like this always make me smile a bit. But still,
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
You'd think they'd just put him on a plane, they're much better at killing people using planes.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
It doesn't seem to work in macos terminal, but it's likely my term environment vars aren't set correctly. I just get a whole pile of random colour, some of which are flashing.
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
> One was Radu Dogaru, whose mother claimed that she burnt the paintings in her > stove in order to hide the evidence. The Irish Times reported Forensic > investigators tested the remains of the ashes and made a surprising discover
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
I think it's an inevitable outcome of a build system that makes it so easy to pull in packages - and so easy to create and publish them. This is why C++'s weakness - difficulty of consuming third party libraries - is actually a st
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
Scary, but not completely true; Thankfully, at the moment, they can only fly for about half an hour. And if you're going to have the thing carry weapons too, then it's going to be even heavier. One day though, it'll be true.
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
I never rebase, ever. I branch, merge main in regularly, make a PR, squash back to main and delete the branch. Linear history, single commits for a single piece of work. Easy, clear, no fuss.
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
In fifty year's time, we will still be having this conversation. Driverless private vehicles driven on public roads will remain a pipe dream. The solutions to mass driverless transit already exists - we have trains, buses, planes, ferr
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
Ironically, "entitlement towards free services like uBlock origin" is exactly the kind of sentiment that leads to the use of ad-blockers in the first place. So it can scarcely be surprising that the sorts of people blocking youtub
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
It's an inevitable consequence of a good hash function. Every string you try is going to give you a different hash, so you just need to try enough strings. But each time you add another digit to the prefix you're looking for, the
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
I would absolutely agree with this, were it not for the fact that your table appears to grow without bound - and is very very hard to clean up. I know this, because this is exactly what I did. Put the images and the logfiles from an automat
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
So... if you exit the simulation, did you kill a worm?
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by plasticeagle 3y ago
"To me, security is important. But it's no less important than everything else that is also important!" I think this should go down in history as one of the most meaningless statements ever made.

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