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by taneq 2mo ago
Normally you’d get 2-3 quotes, meaning suppliers would on average get a sale for every few RFQs they respond to. Now guys like this twiddle one knob and generate 20x as much RFQ spam, costing suppliers 20x as much. It’s tantamount to a DoS
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by taneq 2mo ago
How does that work with data on a server outside of the jurisdiction, that’s freely available to download and re-upload? The ‘local legal presence’ thing might work, but then what if they only distribute it on (say) a thumb drive, sent outs
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by taneq 2mo ago
I don’t think four months without a major breakthrough is cause to abandon all hope just yet. ;) The wild pace of LLM development is highly atypical, and we’re still in the ‘initial rush’ phase of development. For contrast, the Newcomen ste
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by taneq 2mo ago
Interesting additional info, IMO this doesn’t deserve the downvotes.
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by taneq 2mo ago
No, it’s literally a paragraph from TFA. https://ethw.org/Milestones:Parametron,_1954#Invention_of_th...
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by taneq 2mo ago
From the title I was expecting something about jump point search but this is even more interesting. Bravo!
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by taneq 2mo ago
Depends on the market, innit?
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by taneq 2mo ago
> The law required gas station attendants to do it, as a scheme to keep them employed. I wonder what they’ll do next with EVs becoming more popular? Outlaw home charging?
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by taneq 2mo ago
Upgrade that 'maybe' to 'definitely'. The disc loading on a helicopter is typically much lower than on a quad (excepting crazy designs like the giant human-powered quad) which makes it significantly more efficient for th
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by taneq 2mo ago
Agreed, and also chain and fasteners specifically require the ability to mass produce very small, very strong, very consistent parts. This necessarily needs production lines with consistent tooling and quality assurance.
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by taneq 2mo ago
You say that, but wait till I start trying to prompt it. :P
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by taneq 2mo ago
I was expecting the site it’s talking about to have faked an instant response. Ironically, sometimes it goes the other way and UIs have to fake a small delay otherwise the user won’t believe it’s actually done anything (although arguably th
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by taneq 2mo ago
Also “the clock at the top is exact” but the clock (on my phone, at least) is at the bottom. Still cool though!
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by taneq 2mo ago
Ryobi, but I have plenty of Makita gear too. :)
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by taneq 2mo ago
Counter counter anecdote, I was just tidying up the yard with my 18V whipper snipper and contemplating the fact that I bought it in 2012 and it hasn’t skipped a beat.
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by taneq 2mo ago
I think that’s “most mass produced item manufacturers”. It’s just cheaper to ship a new one than waste time trying to troubleshoot.
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by taneq 3mo ago
Son of a
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by taneq 3mo ago
Two things: 1) By the time I’ve determined, and expressed to my satisfaction, exactly what I want, I’ve already done the hard work of coding that thing. The rest is fairly mechanical by comparison. 2) It’s a universal truth (which I know so
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by taneq 3mo ago
It’s okay to recognise when you’ve had enough. If your workday involves programming, ours pretty normal (for me at least) to not want to do more programming at home. You gotta let yourself miss it a bit if you want to want it.
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by taneq 3mo ago
It’s been almost long enough to teach yourself programming three times!
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by taneq 3mo ago
Having spent a large chunk of my teens playing X-Wing on a 486-DX33 you are clearly my enemy. :P I didn’t have to data mine a compatible .exe from the game files but I did have to use a special boot disk with a modified himem.sys on it so t
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by taneq 3mo ago
Sounds a little like the ‘depersonalisation syndrome’ sometimes described by some heavy VR users, where their own bodies start to feel unreal.
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by taneq 3mo ago
“Open models are a threat to the DoD’s ability to leverage Fable for cybersecurity.”
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by taneq 3mo ago
Same (iOS), looks pretty though I guess? Edit: The ‘Controls’ button takes you to a help screen which only mentions keys (eg. WASD) so I guess it’s keyboard only.
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by taneq 3mo ago
As in, there is no programming language complex enough to describe any program, that is not inherently complex enough to describe bugs? Sounds legit, how would one prove it? :)
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by taneq 3mo ago
‘Never’ is a big word in the computing world. 10 years from now a model this size will probably run on a high-end phone. Of course, by then we’ll want to run something commensurately larger.
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by taneq 3mo ago
I think it’s perfectly reasonable to have a word for this fear, but I agree that ‘phobia’ isn’t appropriate because (unless you’re worried about running into one on the way to the shops) it’s quite rational. ;)
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by taneq 3mo ago
The event horizon might have a circumference as small as 12*Pi km but as I understand it, the radius is infinite. ;)
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by taneq 3mo ago
I’ve long considered medical jargon to be Latin Buffyspeak[1] because it’s usually just describing the body part, often simplistically, but in Latin so it sounds fancy. [1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma
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by taneq 3mo ago
It’d be nice but in my experience I’ve seldom seen that much thought put into it, even with actual literal control systems. Unless you’re doing something interesting in robotics or aerospace, most stuff gets solved with logic sequences and

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