timewizard

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by timewizard 1y ago
In short: "Liars prosper in the short term."
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by timewizard 1y ago
> it is most likely a must-have feature Why? I can imagine other chemical compounds with different colors that perform the same function just with a greatly reduced efficiency. If there isn't any evolutionary competition then there
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by timewizard 1y ago
Bacteria can be colorful. It can also fluoresce. My blood is red because it has iron in it not because there's an evolutionary link to my eyesight.
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by timewizard 1y ago
Anecdotally I find swearing makes it worse. Now I just saw "ow!" or "that hurt!" Which honestly feels like it synchronizes my brain past the insult and I can move on much faster past it.
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by timewizard 1y ago
My favorite templating library has always been amrita[0]. I really don't like template languages that try to mix code and elements into a single block of text. It mixes together two concerns and creates exceptionally fragile blobs th
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by timewizard 1y ago
> you’ve got some really exciting research and learning ahead of you I've done the research. Which is why I made the point I did. You're being dismissive and rude instead of putting forth any sort of argument. It's the
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by timewizard 1y ago
Is progress measured in nobel prizes? My understanding is those are put to a vote by institutional committee. Putting that aside. The shared prize in 2024 was given for work done in the 1970s and 1980s. Was this meant to be a confirmatio
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by timewizard 1y ago
You're being awfully generous to describe basic hype as "technological progress."
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by timewizard 1y ago
> has made jaw-dropping progress They took 1970s dead tech and deployed it on machines 1 million times more powerful. I'm not sure I'd qualify this as progress. I'd also need an explanation as to what systemic improvemen
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by timewizard 1y ago
I understand they can do traffic analytics but with privacy extensions and the proliferation of IoT devices I don't think that level of analysis is going to be very fine. Probably just enough to bin houses into different size groups.
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by timewizard 1y ago
For most people their Comcast modem _is_ their router.
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by timewizard 1y ago
It doesn't require IPv6. The modem is just as aware of all the private IPv4 addresses on your network as well as all the public IPv6 ones. Unless you put your own gateway (layer 3 switch, wifi ap, linux router) in front of it.
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by timewizard 1y ago
You can turn the customer AP off; however, the Comcast Customer Shared WiFi is always on. This is true even for Comcast Business accounts. You're expected to be a hotspot for their other customers. Which is one of the main reasons
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by timewizard 1y ago
> The crypto world is buzzing. When isn't it? > they’ll say this is just the beginning of a financial revolution. Any decade now. > between two of the biggest names in finance. Oh, well, now I definitely don't care.
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by timewizard 1y ago
You're telling me Ukraine can't get dedicated radar? A non weapons package that any Western nation would sell to them without reservation? Again, probably easier to destroy 5g cell tower infrastructure than dedicated military in
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by timewizard 1y ago
I don't have the time to fully analyze this but my concern would be here: exponent *= 2 ** (8 - E) In the E=8 case then this is just `* 1`. In the E=31 case this is now `* 2*-23`. Python is going to do all of this for you in
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by timewizard 1y ago
If you're honestly worried about being bombed then you need to buy radar. With your logic all I have to do is take the additional step of disabling your cellular infrastructure before I steam up to your port. This is not a tactical sol
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by timewizard 1y ago
Yep. Then add in all the regulatory systems. DEF, EGR, Catalytic Converter, Turbo, 10 speed transmissions. They're all fragile and fall out of warranty coverage easily. RAM is apparently going to use plastic control arms in it&#x2
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by timewizard 1y ago
Read that lease contract carefully. It's meant for a very narrow segment of drivers.
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by timewizard 1y ago
No? It's significantly smarter and easier to use AIS.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> This makes a valuable asset that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive affordable to a much larger portion of the population. They just have to deal with less efficiency and higher maintenance costs. You have not discovered a fre
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by timewizard 1y ago
> is still a huge factor for why we don't have 10 GHz processors yet You're on air cooled silicon. You were never going past 4GHz in this configuration. This was an understood limit well before we hit it.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> It seems that float32 is basically just PCM float has higher accuracy around 1.0 than around 2*24. This makes it quite a bit different from PCM which is fully linear. Which is probably why floating point PCM keeps it's samples p
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by timewizard 1y ago
Everytime I see a Zip Drive in an old movie I get a serious pang of nostalgia. I wanted one of these so bad, yet, by the time I could afford it, they were no longer practical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
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by timewizard 1y ago
Apple should be sued for this. This is their responsibility. They built it, left it unsupervised, and allowed the obvious to happen. This is not the fault of ONE low level worker and there is no reason to punish them and then walk away
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by timewizard 1y ago
> That Apple can be trusted in ways that other “big tech” companies cannot. This is pure nonsense. From someone with the experience to know better. It's amazing to me that people could say this out loud. > The perception of pri
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by timewizard 1y ago
That claim does not seem justified. > 2016 failure of DMSP 19 without replacement[edit] On 11 February 2016, a power failure left both the command-and-control subsystem and its backup without the ability to reach the satellite's pro
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by timewizard 1y ago
> MSLs such as Ada, C#, Delphi/Object Pascal, Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Swift offer built-in protections against memory safety issues They offer default protections that can be easily overridden in most of those languages.
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by timewizard 1y ago
They hired outside counsel to represent them in this matter.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> The event comes as a surprise given that the satellite only was in operation for seven years, while other satellites like it are rated for between 15 to 20 years of work. "We are coordinating with the satellite manufacturer, Boein

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