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by userbinator 11d ago
And what are the alternatives? JSON schema? ASN.1? It's even more mature, and the de-facto DER/BER encoding is far more efficient to generate and parse than anything XML-based.
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by userbinator 11d ago
I don't think anything tops this one from 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139 "Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data" There's plenty blaming AI here, but IMHO
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by userbinator 12d ago
The only way to a sure loss is to not fight. Keep on fighting.
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by userbinator 12d ago
They probably still do, if they have the device, because you definitely want to make sure before creating the not-cheap-even-in-China tooling. As others have mentioned, these are more useful for when they don't, i.e. before the actual
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by userbinator 12d ago
I've always remembered FF FF as "??? DI", because that's what DEBUG's disassembler would render it as.
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by userbinator 12d ago
Though, for whatever reason, the instruction internally decoded as if it took two parameters, a register destination and a register-or-memory source. Because the rest of the 0F Fx line also has a ModRM. Ditto for 0F Bx. So if your 0F FF
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by userbinator 12d ago
He has been shown to be wrong in several cases, with the evidence presented from others, so I would say he's knowledgeable but not 100%.
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by userbinator 12d ago
You did the footwear equivalent of putting racing slicks on a daily driver.
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by userbinator 12d ago
I think "load-bearing" and "surface" is what gives it away. It continues to perplex me how something trained on human-written English ends up producing such output. It's much worse than the classic em-dashes and &qu
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by userbinator 12d ago
Google Translate usually writes better than this (closer to ESL-grade English, IMHO).
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by userbinator 13d ago
For those who don't believe me, look up the standards yourself.
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by userbinator 13d ago
Room temperature varies by country and region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_temperature 18C is not uncommon in the UK. They seem to like it colder. Italy is down south so 25C may already be getting cold for them.
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by userbinator 13d ago
Everyone I know offline keeps their house at a constant temperature year-round, yet apparently it's controversial enough to be a downvoted opinion here? WTF?
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by userbinator 13d ago
Yes, it's MUCH worse outdoors, but indoor temperature (and humidity) swings are not good either. I guess most people here just haven't paid enough attention to it as it's a very long-term effect, but definitely noticeable.
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by userbinator 13d ago
Power is cheaper than things failing earlier than they could have due to thermal cycling.
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by userbinator 13d ago
You shouldn't need to change the temperature regardless of those things. My house remains at 68-72F basically all the time. Thermal cycling accelerates aging of materials.
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by userbinator 13d ago
Unchecked OCR can lead to amusing results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359
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by userbinator 13d ago
Rather Claudish(?)-sounding README (and even the examples!) aside, this definitely has that early 20th/late 19th-century aesthetic. I think 99% of it is due to the choice of font.
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by userbinator 13d ago
My idea of HVAC is that it should be "set and forget", so "smart" is the polar opposite of what I want. The round Honeywell on the wall has been doing its job for the past few decades, and will likely last many more with
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by userbinator 13d ago
2G also needs a tiny amount of spectrum in contrast to the newer standards, as it was designed almost exclusively for voice calls, where a few Kbps is sufficient for good quality speech. (And 64kbps, which is only 8KB/s, is considere
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by userbinator 14d ago
I suspect this article is LLM-generated, but for something which is supposed to write like a human should, this writing style is sure irritating to read.
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by userbinator 14d ago
I was suspicious when they started obfuscating URLs in their own browser, then on their SERPs, and now this... For many years, I had my filtering proxy rewrite the URLs in the way mentioned in the article. Almost exactly a year ago, Google
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by userbinator 15d ago
but in houses with water tanks This is another big surprise to Americans, which went from no running water to high-pressure mains.
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by userbinator 15d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process is a more focused article about it.
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by userbinator 15d ago
WebGPU/WebGL is another thing that only trusted sites should be allowed to use, just like JS in general.
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by userbinator 16d ago
A quick search online for "oscilloscope clock schematics" finds plenty of content on how to build one. Were you referring to this AVR oscilloscope clock? http://www.dutchtronix.com/ScopeClockH3-1-Enhanced.htm
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by userbinator 16d ago
Nothing to do with AI, but just the general storm of trying to force the Internet into a proprietary, tightly-controlled walled garden with strong identity verification.
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by userbinator 17d ago
Because the location of the pole is constantly shifting, the TRM of ancient pottery points in a slightly different direction than that of pottery made today. Did anyone else have a strong "WTF?" reaction upon reading that senten
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by userbinator 17d ago
When I read the title I thought it would be about depleted uranium, which other aircraft have used as weight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Trim_weights_...
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Electrostatic Cathode Ray Tube Project 1 (2014)(labguysworld.com)
22 points by userbinator 18d ago|4 comments

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