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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I was watching a video the other day which happened to mention that sodium lasers are used to create artificial stars, used for calibration of adaptive optics in ground based telescopes. This works because one particular layer of the upper
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I've been playing with Llama 3.2-3B this weekend and, while I haven't spent enough time with it to figure out the limitations, it's definitely good enough to be useful. That's running at "as fast as I can read"
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Personally it's the ownership of the company I work for and the desire to retain most international travel privileges.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
The majority of the population is running a $300 laptop from Amazon. They certainly aren't popping used car money every 2-3 years like the real enthusiasts are.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I mean it's obvious to anyone who isn't an idiot that we shouldn't. However, populist parties banging the drum on this are looking likely to be at least the second biggest party in the next general election (and that comes wi
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Completely agree. I'm not too bothered Digital ID cards, I was mildly annoyed by the idea of actual ID cards (manly the cost) but as a free digital app, I don't have many objections. I've seen it from colleagues in Denmark. I
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I think "explained" is a reasonable term for this. If I remember correctly there where books of the form "The Linux Source Code Explained". Certainly I can't get on board with reverse engineered.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I don't love Tesla (though I would like an electric car). I don't think it's unlikely that someone driving could have hit that or caused an even worse accident trying to avoid it. However, I'm sure a human driver in the
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I can't speak for the rest of Europe but, as a Brit, I find this kind of overbearing and inauthentic type of service somewhere between cringe and outright annoying. Especially when it's accompanied by a lack of competency, for exa
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
At best I'd say it's ok to use it sparingly, in places where it really does make an improvement in readability. I've seen people use it just to align the right hand side of a list of assignments, even when there is no tabular
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
By length constraint I meant that one of the fields grows longer than originally planned rather than bypassing the linter.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Those kind of tables improve readability right until someone hits a length constraint and had to either touch every line in order to fix the alignment, causing weird conflicts in VCS, or ignore the alignment and it's slow decay into a
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
As a reasonably impartial observer, I think the truth here is somewhere in the middle. Like almost any large American factory, there are going to be some handful of people who are illegal immigrants through some means or other (if I underst
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
The crackdown is certainly being done for the wrong reasons but it does seem strange to me just how much of the US is built around the idea of a second class of citizens who don't have documentation. It seems like a significant portion
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
If LLMs are ever perfect we'll be able to say things like "build me a Fusion 360 alternative written in Rust. Skip all of the collaboration stuff though, I just want to store files locally." This seems unlikely to me. However
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I think the Tesla looking like a normal car is because their design language hasn't changed in forever. I've found myself taking a second look at a bunch of ICE cars recently as they've all started trying to copy elements fro
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Certainly from an entrepreneurial stand point it's beneficial. On the other side, it's current descent in to an authoritarian police state is kinda hard to ignore.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Isn't this an argument for why you should allow open book tests rather than why you shouldn't? It certainly removes some pressure to remember some obscure detail or formula.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
The on the ground part of flying has certainly gotten worse (honourable mention to Brexit). Which for flights of modest length is actually the longest part of the process. People keep coming up with creative ways of making it more painful.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Yeah, to be honest I agree. I've worked with senior people who couldn't give a crap, "it works" is the only barrier to shipping it. I've also worked with juniors who are technically much better than most of the seni
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Now do Junior Devs...
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
> I'm from the UK and travel in the US a lot and US service is much better. I've never had to chase up the check or had to go and search for staff to serve me after sitting there for ten minutes. These are common occurrences in
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
A container root exploit isn't a critical security vulnerability either, describing it as moderate seems fair, but it's a reasonable step towards one.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Presumably someone with mal-intent would sit on the root vulnerability waiting for a container breakout bug to come around.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Funny enough, with LLMs this trade off may well have flipped. For simple tasks like given a string like X, format it like Y, they work amazingly well.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Yeah, there are both free NHS versions of the app and the podcasts. Fwiw I preferred the podcast form as I found the app unreliable (it's hard to keep an app running in the background using GPS and suddenly playing the next blurb). Tho
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
My employer regularly sends out phishing honey pot emails. Which is great but they then will send out legitimate emails which are genuinely difficult to separate from actual phishing (using novel new email addresses and domain names in link
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
In the UK there is a program called couch to 5km. It's possible for anyone to follow and get to running for 30 minutes. It mostly emphasises running at a sustainable pace - even if that is just above walking.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Not sure if I've slipped a 0 here but 500w taken over the year, at say a 10% capacity factor, is still over 3500 miles of range per year. A fair bit short of the average mileage (in the UK somewhere around 10k) but still more significa
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
You make it sound like some 4D chess ploy to "own the libs". Everything I've seen is that it's just a natural consequence of electing an 80 year old half senile grandpa to arguably the most important role in the world.

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