wiml

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by wiml 4mo ago
> a vehicle with no communication, sensor, or surveillance systems Do we know that? The website seems silent on the topic, unless I've missed something.
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by wiml 4mo ago
I'm not sure "Chesterton's Fence" is an applicable fable/analogy when the fence has a big sign on it explaining exactly why it's there, and if you stop to look at it for a minute someone will come along and exp
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by wiml 4mo ago
"Good natured but highly irreverent" is pretty much The Register 's house style.
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by wiml 4mo ago
Hire Mark Watney to grow some potatoes?
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by wiml 4mo ago
There's a certain amount of censorship of classified information published by (ex-)military, and that kind of thing, but it can be and is challenged in court. Purely obscene material is also not protected by the 1st, but since the 1970
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by wiml 4mo ago
Is Mein Kampf banned? It's currently in print and available from your friendly bookseller, in multiple editions spanning a couple translations and the original German. Of the two public library systems that cover my area, one has it
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by wiml 4mo ago
Looking at the front page right now, only about 8 out of 30 are about AI.
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by wiml 4mo ago
Tokenmax while you tokemax.
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by wiml 4mo ago
Disney eventually walked it back due to bad PR, but this did happen: https://wdwnt.com/2024/08/disney-dismissal-wrongful-death-la...
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by wiml 4mo ago
LEO is crowded enough (mostly with Starlink) that satellites have to actively maneuver to avoid collisions [1]. There's research [2] arguing that we're probably already in runaway territory in some orbits — that is, debris from
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by wiml 4mo ago
As I understand it, Z-Wave is substantially more closed/proprietary. Both Thread and Zigbee are protocols that run on top of 802.15.4, which Espressif already has in other products.
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by wiml 5mo ago
The miterlimit just controls when to change between a miter join and a bevel join.
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by wiml 5mo ago
In the 1800s? Pretty often, I'd guess.
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by wiml 5mo ago
You'd think people would be doing that already. Has anyone posted details? Can you skirt the GDPR by making it hard to discover who you need to ask?
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by wiml 5mo ago
There are a bunch of methods for transforming a hash into something that's easier to compare. You've probably already seen the RandomArt thing that openssh uses for comparing host keys on first use. Some apps produce a sequence of
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by wiml 5mo ago
I'm pretty curious what Slate's telematics/privacy story will be like. No way to tell until they start shipping, I guess. It's pretty cheap to add a cell modem, so I don't think it's safe to assume that a &quot
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by wiml 5mo ago
LoRA is a spread spectrum chirp modulation already.
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by wiml 6mo ago
What that means is that Waymo is intentionally choosing illegal behavior, at a corporate level. Uber/Lyft are merely turning a blind eye to the illegal behavior of their employees... er, "contractors".
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by wiml 6mo ago
I think they're just doing forward error correction (FEC). Not sure what that has to do with proof-of-work?
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by wiml 6mo ago
You may enjoy the 1952 novel The Space Merchants by Pohl & Kornbluth.
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by wiml 6mo ago
Recommendation #1 is almost always "eat a healthy, varied diet high in vegetables, fiber, etc". Pretty f'in straightforward if you ask me.
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by wiml 6mo ago
Water is used for cooling. You take in liquid water, release water vapor, and the phase transition takes away a lot of heat. Otherwise you need to pump that heat into dry air, which is much more difficult (energy-expensive). It's the s
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by wiml 6mo ago
Sure, but insurance is just outsourcing that calculation to a third party. AWS is big enough that I would think they largely self-insure, though I don't know if they do.
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by wiml 7mo ago
The tension between an energy-efficient building and a well-ventilated one is real, but energy-recovery ventilation (ERV or HRV) is a thing and apparently works pretty well. Some kinds use counter-flow heat exchangers, some use an oscillati
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by wiml 7mo ago
Yes, that's how fraud works a lot of the time. It removes you from the market but not until after it's removed your money. And there's an endless supply of new people ready to make the same mistake after you've learned y
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by wiml 7mo ago
Then you bring the fox back, take the hen across the river, ...
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by wiml 7mo ago
It really is past time for another expansion set for Illuminati .
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by wiml 7mo ago
Is there support for this idea? I've seen it in plenty of novels, but I'd want some stats on how it affects a known, relatively modern, deployed gait recognition system.
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by wiml 7mo ago
This approach was used in the 1950s/60s with ultraviolet light (rather than IR) to create a traveling matte. I'm not sure why visible-light techniques won out. Easier to make sure that the illumination is set up correctly, maybe?
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by wiml 7mo ago
I think the article misunderstands completely. "Craft" coders are chasing results too — we're just chasing results that last and that can be built upon. I've been in this game for a while, and a major goal of every singl

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