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I had my own programming question for a while, which all models from all vendors been robustly failing so far. It is a known problem with surprisingly few published implementations as it had never been a part of leetcode, Euler or typical h
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1y ago
For the buildings, facade decoration has very specific added cost per unit. For network-distributed software there is no such excuse.
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This is remarkable because from my outsider glimpse German culture puts an emphasis on formality and credentials. If someone has a signature like "Dr. Ing. Prof. Anselm Schultz" am sure not opening my email with "Hi Anselm&qu
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1y ago
I had some success doing two front-end projects. One in 2023 using Mixtral 7b local model and one just this month with Codex. I am an experienced programmer (35 years coding, 28 professionally). I hate Web design and I never cared to learn
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1y ago
I was going to point out that Bitcoin does not use encryption Yeah Musk as not very technical person would hardly know the difference.
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1y ago
The perp can be a thousand miles away tho.
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1y ago
GPS can't be relied on in that heavily denied area. And indeed the screenshots show drones in failsafe mode.
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1y ago
https://x.com/lemonodor/status/1929269307189469624 You can also see the careful departure of drones from containers in the videos, without extra panning or yaw. Not quite how a human operator would fly them.
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1y ago
The drones reportedly flew from their containers to the staging area autonomously, where they were taken over by the pilots for the attack approach.
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I wonder how much of that effect can be attributed to getting some rest.
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They are better and cheaper before zillions of man hours were invested into polishing the warts.
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WoR is entirely irrelevant given how they dismissed the coming invasion in February 2022.
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1y ago
There is enormous space of unexplored manufacturing processes and product designs, simply because they lay outside of conventional design canon and standardized engineering practices.
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1y ago
Apple solves this by doing all PD negotiation in hardware.
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1y ago
It was finalized in 2018, and by 2020 there were commercial offerings from major vendors. I know this as we developed a 802.3bt product in 2018.
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Leibnitz once famously said, "Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting". Perhaps solving crosswords is the pleasure mind experiences from doing group theory.
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The savings are managed by bank or insurance companies' subsidiaries who are entirely unrelated to the employer. In other words it has nothing to do with mid century corporate pensions.
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1y ago
It doesn't help that most "tech visionaries" or people considered tech bros these days more often come from accounting or legal background than anything technical. They are widely perceived as authorities but come without the
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Come on, it's a spectrum. In any given class you'd have a handful of savants who would do that in their sleep, a bunch of those struggling to make a nested loop work, and everything in between.
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1y ago
> The speed of cryptographic function such as ciphers and hashes are quoted in cycles per byte. That's called throughput, and denomination for it absolutely doesn't matter. You can measure it in megabytes as well as in Marketin
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> Oh tell me, if your CPU processes 1 byte in 1 cycle, and it runs at 800 MHz, how many bytes does it process in 1 second? An interesting metric, used by noone in the Universe except you for the sake of this discussion. But let's en
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Decibels are not anywhere near as ridiculous as Marketing Kilobytes introduced in the 1990s. Pot, meet kettle.
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1y ago
No, you are in fact accelerating when you are standing on the planet.
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It's not really better with the startup scene everyone here knows and loves. The hard -r apps that just won't go away (from Flickr to Grindr), endless Libyan domains that slowly gave way to -ify and other fads.
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I mean yes you can compile CL into Turing machine tape too just that it's not terribly practical.
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Multi-value results are great for prospective Common Lisp runtimes.
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Adaptive Hashing
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Maybe it's true for the actual reactor control system I dunno. Our industrial phones ended up at a nuclear plant once (that we know of) and we only learned about it because the engineer called us for firmware reset procedure. The produ
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I remember visiting LKAB in Kiruna, Sweden. Enormous iron ore mining operation and not abandoned at all. I believe it accounts for 10% of all concrete consumption in Sweden. The town in all its Scandinavian mid-century glory at the time was
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Microsoft had essentially left it for dead shortly after the acquisition. There were multiple assassination attempts from Lyncs-become-Skype-for-Business-become-Teams department and I can only assume noone to fend for the foster child. Skyp
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