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by rm445 5y ago
I can't be alone in just pretending Reddit doesn't exist on mobile. It's weird, I like Reddit a lot, on desktop I post and comment, but on mobile it is so shabby that I just ignore it instead of seeing if it can be made beara
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by rm445 5y ago
Also, for anyone who just wants to fly and shoot without the grittiness and over-realism of No Man's Sky, check out Starlink: Battle for Atlas. I love that there's this spectrum of space games in the last few years. Starlink is a
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by rm445 5y ago
I don't know if there's any way to use Palm Pilot ('Graffiti') style alphabets on modern devices. I guess every year handwriting recognition gets better, fewer and fewer people are outliers, and it doesn't matter, b
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by rm445 5y ago
You can buy car rental excess insurance from another insurer, much more reasonably priced than the rental companies' extra insurance. My perception is that the rental companies are incredibly vigilant about minuscule scratches - my con
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by rm445 5y ago
It seems fairly clear from a licensing point of view that a bootloader is a separate program from what it boots (which can be pretty much anything). It does seem like something which could concern the community though. What if (in future) t
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by rm445 5y ago
Yow. Amazon prisons, maybe?
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That's a great point - what's true for Amazon workers is just as true for waiters etc. But Amazon is big enough in absolute terms that they could maybe reach some better equilibrium if one exists, plus they're under a lot of
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by rm445 5y ago
Preach. I did warehouse work years back in my teens, trundling around with a pallet truck picking orders was moderately enjoyable but it was inherently obvious that if the management had 'raised the temperature' by micromanaging u
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by rm445 5y ago
The interesting wrinkle is that they seem to need to source unusually energetic and resilient people, and instead they're hiring at some lower bar and having enormous turnover. It's an unusual twist on clearing the market - arguab
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by rm445 5y ago
Ken Thompson wrote a regex engine which compiled (at runtime) regexes into data structures containing executable machine code, and invoked them (from C source) by jumping into the data i.e. treating its location as a function pointer. That&
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by rm445 5y ago
It's weird though, you'd think that would be exactly the kind of risk that would be insurable. Privately or as a whole society. Some of us will keel over on the spot or otherwise incur near-zero end-of-life costs; others will need
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by rm445 5y ago
Well that's two different things. Intrinsic versus extrinsic complexity. The user experience may get simpler again, but the technology inside is likely to get more complex. Electrification might mean simpler mechanisms and fewer moving
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by rm445 5y ago
One of life's little wondrous coincidences - a global hunt for one Satoshi, years before the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery. I guess it's just a given name, like Richard or whatever. I wish there had been a creative solution to the puzz
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by rm445 5y ago
Does this sort of incident cause secondary disruption, any kind of ripple effects? I felt that large chunks of the Web were flaky for most of the day, not the relatively short space of time mentioned here.
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by rm445 5y ago
Musk was known to joke that the (pressurised) Cargo Dragon spacecraft had everything needed for a stowaway to visit the ISS. Thank goodness he didn't try it - probably a stunt too far even for him.
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by rm445 5y ago
I don't think another player can actually be that helpful in Mario Kart, but it does have extremely strong steering assistance, which can be enabled/disabled in the pause menu. Not trying to be rude by comparing you to a small chi
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by rm445 5y ago
It's conceivable that microcontrollers with memory management units could become more commonplace. Your memory-trashing program could be restarted while the device keeps on doing other things, rather than the traditional bare-metal app
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by rm445 5y ago
Is 'you can either consent or leave' GDPR-compliant?
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by rm445 5y ago
These large-scale war games aren't just an opinion or a white paper though. Maybe better to ask something like how often an unconventional win in a war game could actually be replicated by an adversary in real life. I seem to recall a
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by rm445 5y ago
For the naming institution, the prospect that the eponymous person would be found to have done something dreadful is probably a bigger worry. (Nothing remotely against Dr Perlmutter whom I know nothing about. It just seems we live in a scan
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by rm445 5y ago
Is it appropriate to ask an on-topic but naive question? It seems as a layman that safer and more legible AI would come from putting neural networks inside of a more 'old-fashioned AI' framework - layers of control loops, decision
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by rm445 5y ago
The nice thing about buildings which last a long time is, the good ones can be kept around. It's the good side of survivorship bias.
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by rm445 5y ago
Just to shout out that Raspberry Pi Press produce some excellent print magazines, albeit very beginner-focused. Whether they'd be a profitable standalone business I don't know, but as a whole the Raspberry Pi operation seems to be
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by rm445 5y ago
The occasional heavy-duty trip is a reasonable use case for a range extender (as in, an IC engine gen-set) either towed or on the truck bed.
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by rm445 5y ago
It's mildly upsetting to me that the usual file extension for C++ isn't .c++, or for that matter .C++ Why shouldn't it be?
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Very funny. But leak memory until you have to restart the process seems to be a very common strategy in practice. The programs explode even if the computer doesn't.
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(Why (aren't (Working (SMS Interventions Designed to Boost College Success) (at Scale))))
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The demand side is a factor too. Some companies seem to place a premium on being able to flex numbers of contract staff rather than adding and removing numbers of permanent employees. Maybe for morale?
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There are lots of other types of pretty rock available. I think also if you decide to bow to those constraints, grit your teeth and buy a diamond, you can get ones certified to as less likely to have murder and slavery involved in their ext
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by rm445 5y ago
Not seen that name in a while. Matt Ginsberg is a man of many accomplishments, but I had heard of him due to his contributions to computer contract bridge - his 90s-era world computer bridge champion program Gib (Ginsberg's Intelligent

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