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by addaon 5d ago
One challenge is that if everyone uses AI to build their own websites, the security vulnerabilities will be different per site, which is very inconvenient if you want to compromise a huge number of sites simultaneously. It's possible t
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by addaon 5d ago
> when the whole benefit of computers as a tool is that the UI is infinitely flexible I think this statement is insane. The benefit of computers is that they allow complex behaviors to be defined and implemented. The benefit of software
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by addaon 5d ago
I’ve been doing something similar, tracking the price of technology purchase in terms of AAPL shares for 20+ years. It’s amazing how much cheaper computers have gotten!
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by addaon 6d ago
> It's why only software like text editors and web browsers gets to be really good. Huge user base. Lots of developers involved. There's lots of great software out there that you interact with every day that was written by a sm
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by addaon 6d ago
Take this with all the salt that random third-party guesses about a still-in-investigation event should be taken with -- think fully salt-cured ham -- but it looks like the landing was with a quartering tail wind, and the upwind (left) gear
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by addaon 18d ago
> Do those laptops not have on the order of ~64 GB/s bandwidth? The Macs? No, they go up to 614 GB/s, nearly an order of magnitude more.
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by addaon 19d ago
> They're trying NOT to say it had a 1440 watt power supply. It isn't, though. That rating is for circuit sizing. Power supplies are rated by their output power. If you assume an 89% efficiency for the power supply, and assume
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by addaon 22d ago
This is a difference between selecting Highest or Automatic for performance under the battery menu item.
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by addaon 22d ago
A lot of those "up to"s are expressing user options, though -- "up to" 512 GB RAM means that there are configurations that include that, but also cheaper configurations that don't. That's a pretty different bea
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by addaon 23d ago
> Who pays for them? Americans. The same population as most of the beneficiaries.
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by addaon 24d ago
It depends how easy it is (now, or in the near future) to turn information into weapons, and how realistic control of materials is. There's a reason we control access to plutonium, but information about metastable hafnium.
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by addaon 27d ago
> What we have done and what comes next "You've seen what we've done. The August 21st outage comes next. See you then!"
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by addaon 27d ago
X86 asm as she is intended to be wrote. `repe cmpsb` for symbol table string comparison, etc.
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by addaon 1mo ago
Wow that site blows right past awful to baffling. "The AI job-search Operating System" -- I'm on the first phrase and already so confused. "job-search" suggests we're not in title case -- and I don't know
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by addaon 1mo ago
"These are the exact commanded sRGB values shipped in every export." Tell me what that sentence means and why each of those words is there. Challenge: In the context of the first sentence of a section, with no preceding target for
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by addaon 1mo ago
Which is what separates us from the animals.
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by addaon 1mo ago
It's a 30-pax (32-seat), Part 25.
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by addaon 1mo ago
Except the constitution is clear that issuing letters of marque is reserved for congress, not the executive branch.
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by addaon 1mo ago
Why are zero plural.
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by addaon 1mo ago
Unlike the Fortran statement which is pronounced `jo toe`.
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by addaon 1mo ago
> almost all of Javascript's good parts come from Smalltalk Is this underselling the role of Self in JS’s prototype-based object system, or saying that a prototype-based object system is not one of the good parts?
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by addaon 1mo ago
Sure, but that's just lending you a computer at that point, unless they expect you to cover the depreciation cost or something when returning it.
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by addaon 1mo ago
Seven might disagree.
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by addaon 1mo ago
> They would also give you a PC in agreement for continued employment for N years. Do you mean that in exchange for accepting a PC, he had to agree to a multiple-year enforced contract? Is the right to leave a company even a right that o
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by addaon 1mo ago
This is excellent!
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A Car Powered by 1600 HP Hydrogen Engines Just Beat a Land Speed Record(theautopian.com)
5 points by addaon 1mo ago|9 comments
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by addaon 1mo ago
I am available to not build wind turbines at a substantial discount.
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by addaon 1mo ago
Very few of the MSP430s actually use FRAM, last I checked -- it's limited in both size and speed. (My understanding is that the FRAM speed is substantially better than Flash speed, but they treat it like SRAM for XIP, with I think two
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by addaon 1mo ago
No, someone else has it. It's a zero-sum game.
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by addaon 1mo ago
Shouldn't a Fathom have a six foot bed, by definition?

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