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811.
by topspin 3y ago
> Because library/dependency management sucked at the time It still sucks. Thus Docker et al.
812.
by topspin 3y ago
Yeah. Who needs a usable RF spectrum when iphone has interwebs?
813.
by topspin 3y ago
Ferrite chokes are large and heavy. They're also not free. So the product costs more, weighs more and gets bigger.
814.
by topspin 3y ago
Soldering has benefits, but RAM is likely the most important thing that will need upgrading in extended service of a system.
815.
by topspin 3y ago
"Code is law." -Lawrence Lessig The UK apparently made that explicit. Doubtless others have as well: if we could forego the flag waving and whataboutery, That Would Be Great (tm).
816.
by topspin 3y ago
> It looks like Mozilla has completely lost its way. Not at all. $30 million in bonus bumps. The way is looking good!
817.
by topspin 3y ago
I remember watching those "why" commercials and thinking "wtf?". What are they selling? Can't help but think the dysfunction of Enron was ultimately reflected in the nature of their ad campaigns. Today, I see YouT
818.
by topspin 3y ago
They will certainly attempt to employ IP barriers to the necessary data until they can figure out how to monetize and direct profits into the correct pockets. "Safety" will be the imperative on which they hang their cloaks, in ad
819.
by topspin 3y ago
Does your dichotomy matter? When the system that curates the supposedly existing sources is impenetrable they're as good as fiction. If it does matter then what might you propose? Hint: to be viable it must involve some professional
820.
by topspin 3y ago
It's going to be interesting to see this play out with the AMA et al. The raging cynic in me thinks this is going to get very serious, very quickly. There are a lot of lifestyles at risk. On the other hand it will soon be possible t
821.
by topspin 3y ago
Is the ARM dent bigger than the AMD dent at this point, or visa versa? The TSMC dent is certainly no laughing matter. Intel is accruing dents... On the plus side they have a real GPU offering just when having a GPU offering is a great idea
822.
by topspin 3y ago
> Imagine one at sea. One need not imagine such things. It took a week for the Freemantle Highway car carrier to stop burning, something 90% of HN denizens are blissfully unaware of due to narrative blindness, and only about 15% of its
823.
by topspin 3y ago
Commercial fishing vessels are already festooned with electric motors, batteries and electronics. Somehow all that functions in saltwater.
824.
by topspin 3y ago
> How would that work when you may not even know where the person wants service? No cost until the service location is known. It's a two way street, right? It's entirely reasonable that if you were to obligate the ISP to deli
825.
by topspin 3y ago
Imagine how many "bullshit jobs" would no longer be necessary.
826.
by topspin 3y ago
I ordered a NUCLEO-G474RE directly from ST yesterday. I could only add one to the cart, whereas I wanted two. When I recently bought two NUCLEO-F334R8 I didn't encounter this. So apparently there is limited stock, and someone else th
827.
by topspin 3y ago
> It's difficult to communicate and explain Yes, it is. And it's not getting easier is it? Nordstrom was there for the tourists. But SF tourism hasn't recovered as well as conventional group-think imagined. When a tier 1
828.
by topspin 3y ago
> overall crime is actually down How do you know? Law enforcement figures, filtered and spun by your preferred media?
829.
by topspin 3y ago
> Not sure what role this serves for the USAF. Long range anti-ship missile deployment over the Pacific. A design like this can cover large areas and deploy autonomous weapons from long range. Weapon development of the US military is al
830.
by topspin 3y ago
> it's easy (for someone with knowledge) I don't think this is generally true. This sort of work has a lifecycle. By the time the performance problems emerge, often years later, the people involved that understood what is goi
831.
by topspin 3y ago
Great how almost all of them are "UL Listed". Having looked due to this headline I notice Toshiba is absent from this and previous dehumidifier recall episodes.
832.
by topspin 3y ago
> Will I regret this in six months? Only if you plan to collect kudos with it on HN. Otherwise you'll be fine.
833.
by topspin 3y ago
> it makes it easy for bad programmers to write bad performing queries That is true of every ORM in existence. The easiest thing to do is naively follow the object graph in code, because that's what the ORM gives you. If the ORM w
834.
by topspin 3y ago
I went the opposite direction of that line several years ago. It's been high 70's and low 80's all summer. Two low 90 days so far. Last winter was mild as well. So yeah, that could happen. Lots of water here as well.
835.
by topspin 3y ago
Good question. I think perhaps not. This work is based on the data Gaia delivered in its most recent data release; the third so far. Only that release has provided both tangential and radial velocity of stars, which are crucial figures t
836.
by topspin 3y ago
Ok. I was mislead by this, which appears as the first element of a carousel every time you load the Zenodo landing page: "Transform to OPen Science (TOPS) is a $40 million, 5-year mission, led by NASA's Science Mission Directorat
837.
by topspin 3y ago
> I'm a little confused what Russia has to gain from this. Nothing at all. It's a pointless exercise with which some cyber security apparatchik in Putin's regime hopes to earn kudos from his credulous betters. In fact it
838.
by topspin 3y ago
> But MOND has so many problems The fact that the results happen to fit some MOND model(s), while interesting, doesn't really mean much: these results could be 100% correct and all of MOND a pipe dream at the same time. The crucial
839.
by topspin 3y ago
Both the data and the code (Python) is here: https://zenodo.org/record/8065875 That link came from the paper. Zenodo.org is a open science site curated by NASA. The analysis is interesting. He is using Gaia space obs
840.
by topspin 3y ago
What happened was a few tens of kilowatts of power were burned up by a enormous phalanx of GPU/TPU hardware writing limericks, poetry and assorted nonsense. I haven't actually hit the ChatGPT 4 questions/hour limit yet but I

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