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by teraflop 1y ago
> The checksums in WAL are likely not meant to check for random page corruption in the middle; maybe they’re just to check if the last write of a frame was fsynced properly or not? This is the correct explanation. The purpose is to detec
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by teraflop 1y ago
According to the TNG Technical Manual (which is not entirely canon, but whatever) it's all handwaved by a context-sensitive AI that figures out who you're trying to talk to from context clues. https://scifi.stackexchang
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by teraflop 1y ago
> "The retrograde orbital plane... of 3I/ATLAS around the Sun lies within 5 degrees of that of Earth... The likelihood for that coincidence out of all random orientations is 0.2%." Not sure where he comes up with 0.2%. Thi
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by teraflop 1y ago
I'm no Hubble expert, but a bit of research turned up the "HST Primer" [1] which is apparently up-to-date for the current observing cycle, and which says: > HST is capable of tracking moving targets with the same precision
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by teraflop 1y ago
If you recognize that sign languages such as ASL are distinct languages, as linguists do, then it naturally makes sense that native speakers of those languages would want a way to write them down in a static symbolic way, for all the same
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by teraflop 1y ago
And as soon as all of the major players are using the same algorithmic system to set their prices, they are effectively a cartel and any prospect of real competition disappears. It's exactly the same situation we're seeing with Re
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by teraflop 1y ago
But if you drop the assumption that each site only writes rows prefixed with its site ID, then you're right back to the original situation where writes can be silently overwritten. Do you consider that acceptable, or don't you?
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by teraflop 1y ago
The Java bytecode instruction set actually has a quite complicated specification: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/ Which means implementations also have to be correspondingly comp
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by teraflop 1y ago
Neat. I wonder if this was an inspiration for Guy Steele's famous "Growing a Language" talk, or if he came up with the same idea independently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE
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by teraflop 1y ago
I know it used to be, but is it really still common for embedded systems to use weird architectures that G++/Clang don't support?
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by teraflop 1y ago
The Supreme Court has pointedly not ruled or said that the president has the authority to redefine birthright citizenship. What they have actually done is to put very stringent requirements on how the president's authority can be c
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by teraflop 1y ago
What they mean is "the 'no-code' logic for your bot is stored in a proprietary format that's only understood by our software, and we don't want to release our software publicly, nor do we want to document the format
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by teraflop 1y ago
A seekable Zstd file contains a seek table, which contains the compressed and uncompressed size of all frames. That's enough information to figure out which frame contains your desired offset, and how far into that frame's decompr
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by teraflop 1y ago
The Zstd spec allows a stream to consist of multiple frames, but that alone isn't enough for efficient seeking. You would still need to read every frame header to determine which compressed frame corresponds to a particular byte offset
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by teraflop 1y ago
By definition, an edge connects two nodes. So clearly, "inject current into a node" is just shorthand for "inject current along a (real or hypothetical) edge leading to a node". This is very common terminology in electro
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by teraflop 1y ago
> Every audio file generated by Chatterbox includes Resemble AI's Perth (Perceptual Threshold) Watermarker - imperceptible neural watermarks that survive MP3 compression, audio editing, and common manipulations while maintaining nea
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by teraflop 1y ago
> Hardware is always composed of other hardware In general I agree, but there is absolutely no composition at all happening here. (Unless you count buying a dev board that's designed to run on a battery, and plugging a battery into
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by teraflop 1y ago
Don't get me wrong, this seems like a fun thing to play with. But it feels very weird to see so much marketing and branding poured into something that's literally just a plastic enclosure and software for an off-the-shelf dev boar
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by teraflop 1y ago
The spec just says that when a block "completes" its execution, however that happens (normal completion, an exception, a break/continue statement, etc.) the disposal must run. This is the same for "using" as it is f
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by teraflop 1y ago
XKCD aptly summarized this 17 years ago: https://xkcd.com/385/
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by teraflop 1y ago
No, it's a federal court case. The original claim that Epic won against Apple was based on California state law, but it was decided in a federal US District Court (N.D. Cal) because there were also claims under federal law (the Sherman
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by teraflop 1y ago
The only listing they currently have is for the dev board, and it's not stocked yet.
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by teraflop 1y ago
That's a dev board.
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by teraflop 1y ago
It's no more circular than spending money on education to get a high-paying job, or spending money on changing your A/C filters so that your air conditioner doesn't prematurely fail. > but I'd think if it were economi
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by teraflop 1y ago
Yup. And an interesting detail is that we know the product G·M_e (where G is the gravitational constant, and M_e is the mass of the earth) to much higher precision than we know either of its factors. And the same goes for the sun and most
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by teraflop 1y ago
The point is not to sanitize known strings like "OutOfMemoryException". The point is to sanitize or (preferably) escape any untrusted data that gets logged, so that it won't be confused for something else.
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by teraflop 1y ago
Yup. And interestingly enough, that detail wasn't in the original novel by Carl Sagan. It was added for the movie, based on (AFAIK) a 1993 paper by David Blair and Marjan Zadnik: https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf&
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by teraflop 1y ago
If you continue reading, that question is answered. The GitHub repositories don't belong to the NLRB (or to DOGE), they were generic tools that were used to exfiltrate data from the NLRB.
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by teraflop 2y ago
This is absolutely not "always" true. There are tons of 18650 cells that have no electronics whatsoever, and there are tons of dedicated charging ICs that connect directly to cells/batteries.
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by teraflop 2y ago
Maybe, just maybe, the platforms that we use to engage socially with other human beings don't also have to be organized around engaging commercially with brands.

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