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by rerdavies 7mo ago
That would allow you to see the local network IP (not actually sure you even get that, tbh). To get more detailed information about IP configuration, you need Location permission. Been there, done that. Most Android network information call
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
This is incorrect. On Android, you must do BOTH to actually get location APIs to work.
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
There is no compelling evidence that san-serif fonts are less readable than serif fonts under any circumstance, despite the oft-repeated lore that typographers consider serif fonts to be more readable than sans-serif fonts.
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
Perhaps you should compare government documents and forms from different governments. UK government forms are extraordinarily beautiful, and welcoming, and are easy to fill out. US government forms, on the other hand, seem almost calculated
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
Perhaps, a well-designed random password generate should not use 1, l, or I. Or 0, or O. (I know mine don't).
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
Good design speaks to credibility, with some justification. If somebody doesn't care about whether their webpages look good, it suggests that they also didn't care about whether their content was accurate.
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
Sometimes.
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
Fibre-optic endoscopes have been around since the mid 1970s. So technology that is much older than the muon scanning techniques that the ScanPyramids project used to discover the North Face Corridor. The real problem, I think, was that Hawa
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
The other alternate view is that it's run by an incompetent narcissist (Zahi Hawass, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Department that controls who can do what in the pyramids). Hawass was not particularly supportive of the original Sca
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
Different Nature paper from last year. The article is regurgitating stuff that happened in 2023, with a 2026 byline date. Your paper, on the other hand, seems to be comparing three different scanning methods (radar, ultrasound, and resisti
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
The prompt would be <select code>, "Use a std::unordered_map<>" to make this code run faster." Review the code. Done.
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
Interestingly, here in Canada, kids are no longer taught long division. When I was in highschool, we were taught to use slide rules, but not very seriously. And I would imagine, nobody gets taught how to use trigonometry tables anymore (at
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
But you can describe more abstract things with natural language than you can with code.
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
You can just tell it that it's doing it wrong (and why). Of course, you have to know that it did it wrong.
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
I ran this down, because I have a particular interest in vectorizable function approximations. Particular those that exploit bit-banging to handle range normalization. (Anyone have a good reference for that?) Regrettably, this is NOT from H
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by rerdavies 7mo ago
Doesn't seem to be terribly up to date though. It seems to use almost exclusively taylor series, and seems to be completely uninterested in error analysis of any kind. Unless I'm missing something.
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
Depends whether you sit on the MIT half of open source, or the GPL side of open source, I suppose.
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
I think all submissions to HN should be submitted via snail-mail, and must be handwritten. That would solve the problem. /heavy sarcasm That being said, my mother used to insist on hand-written cover letters from job applicants. Her ra
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
How about you put the address line first, and I press the TAB key to autofill.
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
On the other hand, as a matter of public policy, nobody should be able to claim copyright protection for the process of detecting whether a string is correctly formed unicode using code that in no material way resembles the original. This i
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
Because copyrights do not protect ideas. Thankfully. We are free to express ideas, as long as we do so in our own words. How that principle is applied in actual law, and how that principle is a applied to software is ridiculously complicate
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
Claude Sonnet 4.6. With some brief experimentation with Gemini 3 Pro and GPT 5.3 Codex (both of which seem excellent so far). Perversely, I'm more comfortable at the moment with Claude Sonnet 4.6, just because I have a ballpark sense o
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
Convolution reverbs use convolution, and can do so because reverb effects are (to a reasonable approximation) linear. To model amplifiers and effects, you would have to do non-linear deconvolution and re-convolution, which is pretty compu
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
mmap is not part of ISO C. mmap is part of POSIX 2008, but MSVC/Windows does not support it.
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
Neural Amp Models are small neural nets that have been trained to emulate the sound of classic guitar amps and effects pedals. The neural networks are trained on amp inputs and amp outputs (or effect inputs and effect outputs). Neural Amp M
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
lolz. I am so glad you told me why it was made. Otherwise it would be completely unforgivable.
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
Except it doesn't capture the majority of uses of AI, in my experience. In my current practice, the the vast majority of AI use is autocompletions, or small inline prompts. ("Fix this error."; "Open an ALSA midi connecti
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
Not to mention AIs predilection for copious and overly abundant comments.
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
Heck no. I don't even read the vast majority of the cack that my AI spits out for my own prompts. Why would I inflict that on anyone else?
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by rerdavies 8mo ago
Which leaves plenty of room for a non-negligible 15% discount.

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