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by xeonmc 2y ago
Still better than computing where everything new thing is named after a generic household item that makes it completely impossible to disambiguate while searching.
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Chinese language publications may eventually serve the role of rapid communications, but for important results it will always be in English due to their ”trophy culture”.
603.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Missed opportunity to call it a Rotato instead.
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by xeonmc 2y ago
But are there more truffles in a forest than there are mines in a minefield?
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by xeonmc 2y ago
This design, in my opinion, deserves a Nobel Prize.
606.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Have you seen the recently posted video "For Profit (Creative) Software"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc
607.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Might this explain why Italians can’t talk if you tie their hands?
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by xeonmc 2y ago
On a side note, I feel like this could be recreated as a Minecraft mod, it already has procedural terrain, the waypoints can be placed procedurally as well, and the maps can be generated from height data automatically.
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by xeonmc 2y ago
How to play: 1. scattered throughout the level are flagpoles with two-letter names on the flag 2. you are given a list of numeric coordinates which are locations to a subset of the flagpoles, in the format (map section)(xx.xx)(yy.yy), as we
610.
by xeonmc 2y ago
The energy level involved for pair production is astronomically far away from the application discussed here, not to mention the intensity required due to the infinitesimally tiny cross section. This is more using matter as an intermediary
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by xeonmc 2y ago
The gyroscope in your phone is (microelectro)mechanical. Considering that the Rolex in question are using MEMS-based techniques, they might as well go all the way and make an entire movement out of MEMS designs.
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Most interesting point of the article is the fact that Rolex are now using MEMS techniques to make silicon mechanical parts for watches. IMO that’s kind of “cheating”, fab tech makes it way too easy compared to traditional metal machining c
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Market forces will drive the outcomes in different sectors. In aviation-minded companies, human-reviewed guardrails will always be in place, some may eventually decide to might as well have humans write the whole thing to begin with to keep
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Quite apropos that this article was cookie-walled with a "We value your privacy. Customize/Agree" modal screen
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by xeonmc 2y ago
One could also categorize them as slop vs churn programming.
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by xeonmc 2y ago
For win10+ here is also VirtualAlloc2 which permits reserving placeholders as well as a flag for allocating 64k pages.
617.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Don’t you mean cross-pollination?
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by xeonmc 2y ago
See also: Dick Van Dyke, which is another example of a perfectly normal usage without any possibilities of euphemistic interpretation.
619.
by xeonmc 2y ago
every greybeard was once a neckbeard.
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GitHub to impose limit on owned repositories per user, starting April 28th(github.blog)
7 points by xeonmc 2y ago|2 comments
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by xeonmc 2y ago
I like to put it as: Special Relativity is just the Pythagorean Theorem.
622.
by xeonmc 2y ago
Could also stand for Speed of Causality.
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(Technology Connections) The correcting feature of typewriters [video](youtube.com)
3 points by xeonmc 2y ago|0 comments
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Yes, hence I wrote (axial translation)+(screw rotation) instead of just (translation)+(rotation).
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by xeonmc 2y ago
essentially you decompose the transformation into (axial translation) + (screw rotation) + (oriented orthogonal stretch) and each of them are just straightforward interpolation: axial is linear, screw is angular, and stretch is exponential.
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by xeonmc 2y ago
or Ordinal and Cardinal, meaning ordering and counting respectively
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Fun fact: the words Ordinal and Cardinal respectively derives from Ordering and Counting. So Ordinal quantities represent the ordering of coordinates and can be negative, while Cardinal quantities describes the counting of magnitudes and mu
628.
by xeonmc 2y ago
With all this talk about reining Ive under control, I can’t help but be reminded of that CollegeHumour skit implying Ive is a HAL9000-esq robot holding Tim Cook hostage[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgBDdDdSqNE
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Do we know what mechanism causes efficiency loss at mismatched RPMs? What if multiple props are arranged in a series, akin to how turbo engines have stages with different compression ratios, but instead of a fixed shaft with varying blade g
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by xeonmc 2y ago
Ebeam is a pencil, photolithography is a printing press.

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