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by somat 9mo ago
Isn't this true of any greenfield project? with or without generative models. The first few days are amazingly productive. and then features and fixes get slower and slower. And you get to see how good an engineer you really are, as yo
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by somat 9mo ago
I think the blender secret sauce is their artistic projects. Put a bunch of artists in the same room as the developers and have them produce a work. It ferments this amazing combination of aggressive QA testing(the artists) and top tier tec
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by somat 9mo ago
They do, but indirectly, the b in bcrypt stands for blowfish.
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by somat 9mo ago
It is probably obvious, so obvious that no one starts with it? but it took me an absurdly long time to put together that an airplane lifts by moving air down. Admittedly there is an amazing amount of fluid-dynamic subtly on top of this simp
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by somat 9mo ago
A question for the mech engineers: why the back and forth wobble? My first thought when I saw that mechanism was "that sounds harder than it should be. Wouldn't a spinning 6 sided mirror work better?"
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by somat 9mo ago
the handle on roll type luggage. not the actual handle but that is where you would hide a long piece of thick wall tube. not that a long piece of would be nessacery. a short one would do, the point being the metal detectors do not stop you
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by somat 9mo ago
There is a theory that for a puzzle game to interesting it has to be NP-hard. Something about how otherwise your brain is too good a latching onto the "trick" and the game is boring.
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by somat 9mo ago
For what it's worth, if you want a self hosted replacement for Zoom Galene has worked great for me, The server requirements are remarkably low, especially if you are like me and just need a personal video chat to a few people. I run it
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by somat 9mo ago
You invert the problem. People want to build store and forward systems because that is their mental model of the problem. store and forward system are fine, and there are many advantages to them, but direct request systems scale much better
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by somat 9mo ago
Perhaps, I don't really program much c/c++. but in my experience most of the subsequent errors are due to the first error. So even where there might be several places I could fix the code my standard operating practice is to find
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by somat 9mo ago
Yes, but they can only be analyzed, patched and distributed "After" the attack is known. A zero day attack is where there have been zero days since the attack mechanism is discovered(by the victim, not the attacker obviously), the
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by somat 9mo ago
I would guess directional boring. They can start a bore and sort of drive it around corners. 20 years ago when they were putting fiber in all over the place here, they would bore around a whole cul-de-sac in one go. In several cases breakin
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by somat 9mo ago
By definition no support protects you from a zero day attack, A one day attack? sure if the supporting org is on their toes. Most of the time it will be weeks to months. if it is patched at all.
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by somat 9mo ago
> OTOH namespaces, XSD, XSLT were great I don't know, the few times I have had to XML, I went "This is not so bad, I don't know what all the fuss is about" until I hit namespaces. I don't know if I was just using
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by somat 9mo ago
Makes me remember the 192.1 addresses that were all over at one place I worked. "Um you know that is a valid internet address right?" "Yeah, but the guy who originally set the systems up was confused about the private address
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by somat 9mo ago
On the subject of tiff, why is it not used more? I mean, it is more or less really a container format right. Why are we not using it all over the place but with modern compression methods?
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by somat 9mo ago
as opposed to the narrow waist? (see also: ip protocol) which is an amazing superpower.
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by somat 9mo ago
Pipes don't transfer text, they transfer a unformatted byte stream. The commands however do expect a particular format. There is going to be serialization/parsing regardless of the format the command expects. Even if it is an inte
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by somat 9mo ago
They did not have the original unix vision. and it is a lot easier to to design an interface as a programming interface than shoehorn it into a filesystem interface. I think having a filesystem interface is pretty great, and plan9 showed it
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by somat 9mo ago
Especially in a bouncing moving vehicle. I find touchscreens(phones) and the trackpads nearly unusable in such an environment. It is why was a bit horrified when I was watching the first spacex manned launch and saw their main interface was
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by somat 9mo ago
I am wondering what the exact fail mode here is. Because my naive conclusion after looking at the part in question is exactly the same "would not result in a safety of flight condition." if the bearing cracked at the point in ques
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by somat 9mo ago
> once we have reduced errors to below the noise floor they are inaudible by definition. Makes me think of GPS where the signal is below the noise floor. Which still blows my mind, real RF black magic.
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by somat 9mo ago
well there is the default style for openbsd's fvwm. clear borders, grab handles, contrasting fg/bg colors. But I won't go so far as to say it is decent. https://debugpointnews.com/wp-content/uploads/
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by somat 9mo ago
True, I was trying to play starcitizen and after a bit all that was in my head was that this would be a much better game if they had simplified the graphics and instead invested that time spent into systems. Hell I think this any time I pla
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by somat 9mo ago
Morale
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by somat 9mo ago
Military-grade just means it has a spec, now, I will admit having a spec is nice, very nice. but in general it says little about the actual quality of the item. And if the spec can't be found or there is no spec. Probably best to stay
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by somat 10mo ago
That is the point, markdown has nice looking plain text, It is a terrible formatting language, it has no semantic ability. The whole point of markdown is that it is nice looking plaintext that can be typeset. I would even go so far to say
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by somat 10mo ago
My mother took us(four kids) on the train from CA to FL (and back) a couple times. It is a fond memory now, but looking back on it, A 3-day (most of it in Texas) 2000 mile journey with four children in coach.... The woman was a saint.
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by somat 10mo ago
So what's the mechanism here? I did not find any sort of api like isPhoneRooted() But also, I did not look very hard. I am probably missing something obvious(some sort of tpm key attestation) but it feels like it would be impossible ta
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by somat 10mo ago
Pirating, I mean actual pirating, is absolutely stealing, But that weak ass crime, that we like to call pirating in order to appear cool, No, that is not theft at all.

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