rcxdude

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511.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
It would not be hard to write laws to restrict one use but not the other. They may be the same tech but the use-cases are quite different.
512.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
I think people don't often have a good intuition about what different correlation coefficients actually look like or imply.
513.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
The AUR has consistently had warnings around it of 'verify the PKGBUILD', far more so than any other package repository that allows anyone to sign up. Probably the only notable difference is the ease of taking over an orphaned pac
514.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
Thalidomide being one of the more notable ones (though apparently neither chirality is truly safe)
515.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
Your phrasing did not come across as such. And the fact of the matter is that windows is also not designed for regular users if they regularly need to take it to a repair shop due to windows screwing itself up. Power users may not tolerate
516.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
with a failing update I don't think they'd even bother to do that. They'll just live with an old version and the occasional reboot when windows decides to try again.
517.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
40GB free is not 'full' by anyone's definition, and also you would expect a useful error message from the updater if that is indeed not enough to successfully update. This sort of thing is even worse if you're not a powe
518.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
It would be sensible to ban the exploitative behaviour in that case, no? IMO the bad parts of social media are equally bad for adults and children.
519.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
I've generally taken the position that if you're considering doing micro optimizations in your python code you should just switch to another language instead. The gains from switching language are going to be so much higher than t
520.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
Yeah, which hasn't been demonstrated in practice at all.
521.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
Some degree of stability in seeds is desirable, partly because of the compatitive elements (multiple players playing the same seed should have roughly the same game), but also when updating the game is means that if they tweak one area the
522.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
It's a big thing for competition. In a procedural game there's a lot of variation between seeds so the only 'fair' way is to start with the same seed. (Generally, when you just press 'start game', you'll g
523.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
It can also be a good idea to split the RNG into a tree for different areas (i.e. seed multiple RNGs from the main one), so that adjusting the generation for one aspect doesn't shift around everything else in a seed (especially in some
524.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
It's also a mistake to only focus on the original intent of putting something in. It's quite common that other things comes to depend on that thing even after the original reason is gone (or even that the thing works but not for t
525.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
I think this is a deliberately somewhat fantastical hypothetical scenario (though not far off the sales pitch from humanoid robot companies).
526.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
All the money in the world won't spin up a fab in a year, much like all the women in the world couldn't take a child from conception to birth in a month. Some things do just have a latency to them.
527.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
All those things you mention still have way more gaps in them than the rust compiler. They're just not really substitutes (fuzzing and sanitizing do still have their place in rust, though).
528.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
There is some evidence that hormone balance in the womb (including from the mother) can affect gender and sexuality. It's not impossible that it would also have an effect a little later as well, while the brain is still very plastic. I
529.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
A lot of it is about developing good judgement, IMO.
530.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
Yeah, it's not a matter of stopping charging, that is a necessary but not sufficient condition to stop the battery from exploding. It's generally keeping the battery fully charged and hot inside a device that's always plugg
531.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
That's part of it, but the design of PDF really doesn't help
532.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
AUVs are a thing, but it's a very expensive area to be in, and there's a lot of challenges, especially the extremely high degree of autonomy you need in a much less predictable environment. Maybe recent advances in AI could move t
533.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
I think this argument depends on what exactly is constraining supply: if prices are at a level where there is still a profit to be made building new housing, it will be built anyhow. If developers and landlords truly are capturing an outsiz
534.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
That does depend on the underlying market. Often you can make money (especially as a small participant) only if you can predict when the other participants in the market will snap back to reality. This can be pretty difficult when the mar
535.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
I wonder how many of those are just heart attacks triggered by the exertion. A member of my family died that way (though they were not that old, and were relatively fit)
536.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
Pedal-assist feels to me like a complete red herring to the actual issues. It's often an arbitrary line but it doesn't make much difference to safety at all. (nor, IMO, do power limits, because it either limits cargo bikes or make
537.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
There's a surprising amount of optimization possible in them. You can improve the latency of them substantially at the cost of a lot more transistors.
538.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
The style is also very LLM-y, though not a complete slam dunk.
539.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
But it can cause problems when there's multiple crates trying to do it. If the call is explicit, the application developer can sequence the calls appropriately (or at least deterministically), as opposed to having the order determined
540.
by rcxdude 4mo ago
If the animations are effectively 'cancellable', i.e. they don't block input or delay the change in state, this can be reasonable. You can put in a sequence of actions into a UI at a much faster pace than 100ms, if you have t

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