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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
It's also a consequence of the sheer number of building blocks which are involved in modern science. In the methods section, it's very common to say "We employ method barfoo [1] as implemented in library libbar [2], with the
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
Or even gel plate printing, where you get to build multiple layers, one of them being a laser printed photo that is used as a resist.
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
> Remember when the Turing test was a thing? No one seems to remember it was considered serious in 2020 To be clear, it's only ever been a pop science belief that the Turing test was proposed as a literal benchmark. E.g. Chomsky in
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
You can get them with a manual transmission, or a dual-clutch automatic, or CVT. AFAIK, the manuals are all decent, although the 6 speed manual on the 4WD models has quite low ratios (no transfer case) so it doesn't have great fuel eco
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
If you're in Europe, you can consider Dacia. A lot of their stuff is old Renault parts that they've bought a license to use/manufacture. Get a pre-2023 model with the 1.6 non-turbo non-hybrid petrol engine - it's actuall
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
For something as simple as this, you could probably just move the splats around with (x_hat*sin(y*t) + y_hat*sin(x*t))*exp((z_l-z_h)/2*z_h) where (x_hat,y_hat) are your basis vectors in the plane, z_l is the local z coordinate (
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
Link has a trailing semicolon and doesn't work - but awesome to have nvim + strudel!
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
> OpenAI's AI service helps discover drug candidates This has never been the difficult/expensive part of drug development.
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
ActiveSync will forever be reserved for the technology I used to sync email and calendar on my HP Jornada 430 running Windows CE - just like James Bond did!
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
"Missing out because my parents are lame" is a minor social stigma that kids will (should!) experience in many situations anyways. The benefits significantly outweigh the drawbacks.
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
Not the protocol, the group chat UX. iMessage gives kids easy access to a place where they can create groups, name them, invite and kick out other kids at will, and send messages + audio/video. It's minimally different from Snap o
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
FWIW, RCS group chat on Android being horribly broken is actually a feature if you have kids. I've spoken to many parents of girls in the 7 - 13 age group (and have two myself), and the amount of drama and bullying due to iMessage grou
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
Sorry, I forgot to emphasize the irony with this: https://xkcd.com/3167/
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
The only solution is to fit a 300W LED bar and consistently flash those guys until they are bothered enough to go into the menu of their computer-on-wheels and turn off this "feature".
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
I'm pretty sure that if a fire starts in my central vacuum unit, and my insurance company does an investigation that finds a DIY swap of power electronics components in that unit, I would at the very least be in a lengthy legal battle
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
As long as the small PCB is $40 it's fine. I had a central vacuum fail like that a couple of years ago, and the small PCB would have cost $350. The PCB had already been replaced twice during the warranty period. Googled the major compo
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
In Norway people are extremely weather-focused, and the national weather service delivers quite advanced graphics for people to understand what is going on. The standard graph that most people look at to get an idea about today and tomorrow
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
The POs are fun to play with, but from experience I would much rather recommend getting a used mk1 Novation Circuit. For $150 - $200 you have a four track drum machine plus two tracks of a great synth engine, with a built in mixer and simpl
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
Many hardware manufacturers do the same with claiming MIL-STD-810 compliance. Which can mean almost anything without further details specified. E.g. you can choose to test against MIL-STD-810 500.6 procedure I, to see that the device is com
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
Some of the reason why the MIT license etc. is more popular surely has to do with the license text itself. I can understand the MIT license, and my corp lawyer can easily understand all the consequences of using something under MIT license.
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
Au contraire, the Rust (or other "modern" lang) dependencies come in addition to the OS dependencies. The C (or other "old" lang) programs typically have very few dependencies apart from the OS, with absolutely glacial
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
I think Python is a bit special in this case, as many people tend to use it more like duct tape for connecting different libraries (which often contain compiled and optimized code) rather than a language for doing stuff bottom-up.
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
It's also what scientists have done to visualize solutions of PDEs since the 1960s. Author should download Paraview and give it a twirl, to get this perspective. First create a mesh (Sources -> Plane for 2D, or Sources -> Box if
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
In Norway there is a state-owned monopoly on selling wine and liquor (anything above 4.75% ABV). They have 350+ physical shops, a large online shop and around $2bn annual revenue. This makes them one of the largest purchasers of wine and sp
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
IIUC your talk "just" suggests using sandbox-exec on Mac, which (as you point out) is sadly labeled as deprecated. Is that really the best solution the world has to offer in 2025? LLMs aside, there is a whole host of supply chain
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
Adding to the anecdata, the magsafe charger for my M1 MBP has been used a grand total of two times in five years.
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
I'm considering NFS with RDMA for a handful of CFD workstations + one file server with 25Gbe network. Anyone know if this will perform well? Will be using XFS with some NVME disks as the base FS on the file server.
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
> A market correction of that magnitude would mean a lot of pain for a lot of normal people A 1% increase in US unemployment results in thousands of excess deaths per year. It is hard to be exact about the numbers, but the trend is clear
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
If that explains most/all of it, why don't we see more tech companies moving into areas of the US with low housing prices? I guess some of it is the "captive" effect for an individual - if you leave the expensive propert
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by semi-extrinsic 1y ago
I've done the same many times with the 30+ kg of gear and kid, even once going up to resupply a friend on a multi-week trip. It's good fun for your quads. Helps to put some of the heavier gear in a pair of those large waterproof r

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