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151.
by tlb 1y ago
Bales of straw are a cheap, large, soft object you could always find nearby in the pre-motor car days. I can't think of a better object to require.
152.
by tlb 1y ago
Yes, if every government was reliably incorruptible, they could also work together to build a global human verification network. I predict that Worldcoin will get it done first, and will be more dependable than most countries. But it could
153.
by tlb 1y ago
There are two levels of this. If I get some other European language, I can generally figure out which is their word for English and it's not a big deal to switch. But if it gives me a script I don't know, like Bengali or something
154.
by tlb 1y ago
Yes, but the quietness outweighs all other considerations.
155.
by tlb 1y ago
The 128- and 256-core ARM server chips (like from Ampere) are pushing server performance in interesting ways. They're economically viable now for trivially parallelizable things like web servers, but possibly game-changing if your prob
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by tlb 1y ago
That's about the right level of ceremony to request an uninitialized variable.
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by tlb 1y ago
It has a 10 second 0-50 mph section, which for the kinds of cars we're talking about (those that people might buy aftermarket performance ECUs for) isn't close to full throttle.
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by tlb 1y ago
Emissions are tested on a standardized driving cycle that doesn't include full-throttle acceleration, so emissions at full throttle aren't counted. Which is reasonable: high-performance cars spend only a tiny fraction of their tim
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by tlb 1y ago
The best way to lock out tuners would be for the stock ECU to provide as much power as possible. Although with turbocharged engines, you can turn the power up to the point where longevity goes way down. Still, you could give people a power
160.
by tlb 1y ago
It's also not very hard for scammers to get a SIM card for your number, unless you're using a carrier that specializes in not allowing SIM swapping attacks.
161.
by tlb 1y ago
I wonder what the companies requiring 2FA think about uncompleted 2FA bounces. Deterred fraudster? Short attention span? SMS sucks?
162.
by tlb 1y ago
Being initialized to zero is at least repeatable, so if you forget to initialize something you'll notice it immediately in testing. The worst part about uninitialized variables is that they frequently are zero and things seem to work u
163.
by tlb 1y ago
LLM coding assistants are a partial solution. Recently I typed vec4 rgb2hsv(vec4 rbg) and a few tab-completes later it had filled in the body of the code with a correct color conversion routine. So that saved me searching for and pul
164.
by tlb 1y ago
Worse than the small amount is the length of time it took. If you accept the accusations at face value, China has been spying on a large fraction of EU citizens for 4 years and can keep doing it for another 6 months (after which they probab
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by tlb 1y ago
> the serialised version of the data is usually bigger than its in-memory representation I don’t think this is common. Perhaps for arrays of floats serialized as JSON or something. But I can’t think of a case where binary serialization i
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by tlb 1y ago
How do you deal with instructions that iterate through variable amounts of memory, like concatenating strings? Are such instructions interruptible? Perhaps they don't need to be interruptible if there's no virtual memory. How does
167.
by tlb 1y ago
Robot walking. But really, a programming language and tools to make it easy to solve hard nonlinear control problems like walking. There are videos & source code for 2-legged walking robots (in simulation) at https://throbol.
168.
by tlb 1y ago
They are about as ethical as non-monopoly businesses. Which is to say that some are bad and most are OK. I guess some people think all business is unethical, but for those people monopolies don't change the sign.
169.
by tlb 1y ago
By itself, becoming a monopoly can be legal & ethical. But once you have a monopoly, you're not allowed to do certain things like buying competitors for the purpose of crushing them.
170.
by tlb 1y ago
It wasn't the intended purpose. It turned out that way because the Detroit lobbyists were smarter and more motivated than the government policy people, and they bamboozled them.
171.
by tlb 1y ago
It's more that /etc/hosts and /etc/passwd are good for testing because they always exist with predictable contents on almost every system. If you inject "cat /etc/passwd" to various URLs you can
172.
by tlb 1y ago
You don't need an external trust store. Just have IT add and verify the relevant contacts, being careful not to include any journalists with similar names.
173.
by tlb 1y ago
DOD's IT department should be in charge of making sure everyone in the employee directory has their credentials properly installed on everyone's phone. You don't need to fork it, just administer it properly.
174.
by tlb 1y ago
> Fix for range-based for loops Oh man, having different compilers in c++20 mode handle things differently is going to cause more grief, not less. Reminder: Prior to c++23 the following is broken: vector<int> const &identit
175.
by tlb 1y ago
Signal (or something like it) probably should supported by the DOD for high-level communication among defense & administration people. Under the traditional rules, certain topics can only be discussed in SCIFs, which are a huge pain in
176.
by tlb 1y ago
There are plenty of articles online (and surely in OpenAI's training set) on this topic, like https://earthsky.org/space/planet-nine-orbit-map/ . Answer quality is a fair test of regurgitation and whether it&
177.
by tlb 1y ago
It's far too soon to call any AI-specific ideas tarpits. Nothing newly made possible by LLMs or generative image models has been tried long enough to give up on. There are no startup bones to dig up yet.
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by tlb 1y ago
"Are you not impressed?" Empires should spend part of their budget on impressing. The English lad who spent whole days schlepping a few bushels of turnips to the market would be thinking, "I should join the Empire and transpo
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by tlb 1y ago
* 714 ps
180.
by tlb 1y ago
You didn't have to plan to get walkable urbanism before cars. It just happened because everyone needed a pub, store, school, etc. within walking distance.

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