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by w0mbat 3y ago
Forget auto pilot, I have full self-driving, but only because I bought a secondhand Tesla in a private sale and it was already enabled. Although FSD is technically impressive, it is not a must-have feature. I have played with it a few times
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Electric cars are not intrinsically more expensive. Because EVs are simpler mechanically they will be cheaper to make than ICE cars once the battery packs get cheap enough. It is an ever-descending cost as the technology improves and the vo
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by w0mbat 3y ago
As it ages, Stack Overflow is developing a problem where the accepted answers to questions are obsolete and no longer work. APIs get added and removed, new languages change syntax, etc. This is particularly the case in mobile. Stack Overfl
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by w0mbat 3y ago
I remember reading a story like this from the early days of Acorn. The first production sample of the BBC Micro came in, and would crash unexpectedly. Trial and error found that connecting a jumper wire between 2 particular points on the bo
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Really, this headline format works for anything, like "The office is a prison for work", "The office is a whorehouse for work", etc.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
The original article is wrong to use the term "samples". That only applies when making a digital representation of an analog signal by "sampling" the amplitude thousands of times a second. These are recordings. The Mello
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by w0mbat 3y ago
The trouble with a free API is that someone can write a $1 client that hides all the ads (the number one requested feature), and now your website has no income. An ad-supported website has to get paid. On the web there is at least some stuf
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by w0mbat 3y ago
I get that it's faster, but binary search is already so quick that it is almost free when you look at the big picture, even with large datasets. If standard library implementors want to switch to this method behind the scenes then that
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by w0mbat 3y ago
This kind of thinking is so out-of-date. Cars are rapidly going electric, silent, and intelligent. The first two improvements will remove the problems with pollution and noise. The idea that the production of an electric car produces a vast
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by w0mbat 3y ago
Infinity is not a number, it's the absence of a limit.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
The newspaper owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos says rival billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is an idiot. What a shocker.
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by w0mbat 3y ago
The way to answer all these questions is that infinity is not a number, it's the absence of a limit.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
I want to say, INT_MAX, but I know what you mean. It has been useful that the value varies by implementation (and even by compiler flag, on occasion).
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Early 2021 article.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Mods - the above post appears to be in the wrong thread, having nothing to do with DNS.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
An automatic software update is not a recall.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
"Everybody else is just copying us. We are miles ahead of our competitors who are cheating by shipping actual products instead of our ground-breaking vaporware. Our revolutionary AI never gives the wrong answer because it never ships.&
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by w0mbat 4y ago
The “Space Karen” slur is lame. Elon is the manager in this situation, and if you’re complaining to the manager, you’re the Karen.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Paywalled.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Having worked on two major web browsers, I can tell you that they spend a surprisingly large proportion of their time measuring text. Drawing text is only half as much of the cycles spent. We got a significant speed boost at one point by re
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Personally, I'd say "Avoid exceptions" and leave it at that.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Right, witness “retarded”, which just means “delayed”. It was applied as a nice polite term for people whose development was slower than average, with the implication that they’d get there in the end.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Thanks! I was lying when I said the original article was interesting. Once I saw that stunning surname I could think of nothing else, didn’t retain a word of the article at all.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
It's a stalker account, of course it was banned. I would hope Twitter would ban a similar account stalking Taylor Swift for example.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
This should be tagged 2017.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Tritium is also used in gun sights.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Their total power draw from the grid was 300 megajoules and they got back about 3 megajoules, so don't start celebrating yet. Source: New York Times.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Why wouldn’t you just shift them both right and add them?
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by w0mbat 4y ago
You are lucky. It happens on many Apple teams, Facebook at various times, every game company, the movie CGI industry, etc. These days I am careful not to get suckered into a work situation like that, I’m too old for that crap.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Sadly, every big company mistreats people like this frequently. There is nothing unique about SpaceX or other Musk companies in this story. I have seen this happen all over the place. It’s awful that companies get away with it, but they d

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