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by rcxdude 3mo ago
>Typically a receiver should be able to get time within seconds from cold start if there's enough sky visibility, and once it does it is as accurate as it gets regardless of position fix status. It'll be good to far better than
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
I agree that git's UI is not particularly easy to learn, and it could be better in that regard (which is frustrating because its underlying model is about as simple as you can come up with, and I essentially can always think of what I
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Because they've already learned a model of how devices with screens work, albeit an imperfect one. Children are pretty good at learning. Software and systems should be easy to learn, but it's not a case of no learning.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
And you were born with an understanding of how a keyboard and mouse worked or how windows seperated different GUI contexts and what all those symbols around them meant? I'm not saying you have to understand the nuts and bolts because a
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
For devices like this it's not super obvious how well the tradeoff works: the cost of development can multiply, even if the sale price to the insurance companies can go up correspondingly. There's a growing trend of companies deve
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Linked lists are cool but they are terrible for cache performance, so their apparently elegant performance characteristics are often illusory. And hybrid data structures which get you the best of both worlds are quite complicated to impleme
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
>The way the proposers portray it, this problem is a dealbreaker. Is the problem as portrayed? Do LLM vendors attempt to copyright the output? They're right that this has not been fully tested in court (though neither have some othe
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
"Combinations of the training data" is also hiding a pretty common and serious misconception about modern generative AI: this seems to come from a mental model that LLMs and image generators are merely producing a collage of sorts
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Absolutely everything in computing needs to be 'understood' to be used.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
The prototypes are generally cheap though: you're not standing up a full production line for them before you find out that they're duds.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Slack has value, though. Your full disk is likely to be very fragmented, making file access slow. A CPU running a full throttle cannot deal with spikes in demand. full RAM means less cache space available. And these issues get asymptoticall
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
What? All the data suggests that sodium ion batteries are safer than lithium ion batteries: it is harder to set them into thermal runaway and they are less violent when they do so.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
It's a relatively low volume, customised product, likely with high development costs (even if it doesn't fall under medical device regulations, making something battery- powered that you stick in your mouth is gonna need a good sa
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Python is easier to write for interview questions. It generally doesn't scale well (in terms of size of team and codebase). TBH C# is probably a good default for a lot of projects, from a safety and performance standpoint (rust's
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
When half that security is aimed against the user it's pretty easy to cheer for cracks in it.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
to be fair, most programmers are at least a little bit polyglot, and if you know python and C and you're trying to solve an interview problem, python is gonna be the easier option 99% of the time, even if you're not that great at
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
I don't think they're adding these things for fame, I gotta say. And yeah, unicode characters can be pretty large. Again, this is isn't even the tip of the iceberg of unicode complexity or weirdness.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
There's far more niche things in unicode, and I don't really see that much point getting angry over them.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
The old ones get pulled out of circulation and usually stop being accepted at most places, or at least get more scrutiny.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
rooftop solar installation costs are a bit higher, it's not as good a return though it does scale a bit better.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Solar is cheap in terms of environmental impact and embodied energy as well. The balcony and plug-in part just makes the install cheap, which is by far the largest cost of residential solar.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
What else can you put your money into that will give you 25% a year?
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
4 years is a pretty good payback time, it's a pretty obvious investment if you can afford it, and it's pretty affordable (with the added bonus that if you're renting, you can take it with you). Solar panels tend to last a pre
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
It's probably not something the app or web page should have any visibility or control over. It's more something the browsers and OS should allow a straightforward selection of where you want your passkeys stored (ideally something
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Fraudulent, I wouldn't say so. Anti-consumer or anti-competitive? Sounds like.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
It's a far more salient and sore subject in the US than it is almost anywhere else, though (for a bunch of historical reasons that still reverberate into US society today).
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
Is it? In the UK we have a huge density of CCTV cameras and often you can barely get the police to write a crime report, let alone look at the CCTV. It doesn't really seem like the bottleneck.
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
>Rather than fixing their own project they force work upon so many others. Nix has put in a ton of work to make their project work, and the assumptions in the rest of the ecosystem have been fighting every step of the way. And I would ar
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
To your tastes maybe. Will it get through the editor's desk at a scientific journal as easily?
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by rcxdude 3mo ago
I'm criticizing the design of the site (and to some extent the rules that were set up) more so than the moderators trying to operate within it. I'm aware of how thankless a job moderating can be, and how a Q&A site can quickly

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