adrianmonk

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by adrianmonk 4d ago
It helps that it's not very big. In the working demo, the image is 132x26, and the actual JPEG file size is about 2-4 kB (depending on the text). So even on a 56k modem, it might take less than 1 second to load each image. You could al
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by adrianmonk 6d ago
You could use a linked list. Practically speaking, I might just allocate an array of 100 pointers. That's only 400 bytes. Then as you encounter each filename, allocate just enough memory for the actual length of the string (plus null t
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by adrianmonk 6d ago
> it’s more efficient because it reduces the amount of calls into the file system OK, but isn't the kernel keeping the directory listing in the disk cache? Won't that prevent extra physical I/O if you do just read the di
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by adrianmonk 7d ago
https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/specs/ It took me a while to figure out I had to click "Explore" to get to the specs, so I'm saving you the trouble. As long as I'm griping about the web site..
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by adrianmonk 9d ago
The button label is "Explore Weather Lab", isn't it? (I'm not trying to be pedantic, but if someone is having trouble finding the button, the exact text is helpful.) Also, here's where the button takes you: https:&
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by adrianmonk 10d ago
This is a great rhetorical question. Can you believe that an LLM user is responsible for what the AI does but a self-driving car (SDC) user is not responsible for what the AI does? It doesn't seem very logically consistent. In both
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by adrianmonk 1mo ago
> The graphical operating system that could have been for the IBM XT Visi On[1] was a graphical operating system for the IBM PC that actually existed as a commercial product, though definitely not a very successful one. It was made by
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by adrianmonk 1mo ago
What's your better suggestion? Dallasonian? Dallaser? Dallasan? Also, do you have the same issue with the demonyms Manhattanite or Seattleite?
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by adrianmonk 1mo ago
It ends in 2028: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/uber-and-waymo-to-end-exclus...
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by adrianmonk 2mo ago
When you're the paying customer, it's possible (but not guaranteed) that they could see privacy as product differentiation. In other words, if company A and B both offer you a product for $N, but A protects your privacy better tha
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by adrianmonk 2mo ago
I think the safety officer meant that white paint prevents the rail from heating up. The heating of rails contributes to problems with derailment. If the heat isn't a contributor, that heat is one less thing you have to fight (as in ac
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by adrianmonk 2mo ago
[Replying to myself...] Oops, I got one wrong. Copyright("©"): compose + "c" + "o". The one I had is bigger: Ⓒ vs. ©.
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
It's pretty easy on Linux with the compose key. To get "≠", you just hit compose, then "/", then "=". That's actually the same number of keystrokes as "!=" (since "!" requires
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
So does BASIC. It might even be the first, although it's hard to be sure. BASIC[1] came out in 1964, and Pascal[2] came out in 1970. --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC [2] https://en.
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
And assuming the crypto algorithm has no fundamental flaws, it's applied correctly, and the software implementation has no bugs. All of which are things people have on occasion believed to be true and found out later they were wrong ab
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
If the competitive risk is real, then are choosing between supplier risk (AI model access) and competitive risk. When there isn't a zero-risk option, the question becomes which risk is smaller.
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
A bank card is a type of card. Credit cards and debit cards are both bank cards. Prepaid cards are another type. With any type of bank card, there's a bank that guarantees to a merchant that they will later receive a payment. With a de
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
I'm no expert on cameras, but this seems to explain it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-tube_television_camera This says the main reason for four-tube is image registration. Basically, the incoming light is opt
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
Seems like if Lore wants to reduce space usage, they could apply something like Git's delta compression (as used in packfiles) to the chunks. Suppose you make a 1 kB change in a 50 MB file. That causes a 64 kB chunk to be created and s
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
> Three decades later, with the release of macOS 26.5, Apple caught up: you can finally set your Mac to 'Always' boot whenever power is restored, regardless of how it was shut down. Back in the 1990s, a Mac sysadmin showed me
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
If we're in a simulation, we are AI. But someone could be studying what happens when AI makes its own AI.
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
It's a minor perk for sure. From their perspective, it probably costs essentially nothing, so why not. But I can see it being useful if they're expanding to a nearby city. Waymo is in Los Angeles already and will expand into San D
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by adrianmonk 3mo ago
Because quicksort is like a worst case scenario for branch prediction. Branch prediction works when the CPU can detect some kind of pattern in the program behavior, like if the branch usually goes one way and rarely goes the other way. If i
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by adrianmonk 4mo ago
OK, you bring up a very good point. If the eggs fail to hatch because they are never fertilized, then the mosquitoes are not acting as a vector because they do not transmit the disease. I didn't even consider that possibility. However,
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by adrianmonk 4mo ago
The symmetry is amusing. This is really fighting fire with fire. Mosquitoes are a vector that spreads disease-causing germs to a population. The proposed solution is to use different mosquitoes as different vector that spreads a different d
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by adrianmonk 4mo ago
Also, cleaning kitchens is a huge part of the job. Hotel rooms either have no kitchen or a very minimal one. You're not going to learn how to clean an oven or load a dishwasher in a hotel room. (And loading a dishwasher requires catego
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by adrianmonk 4mo ago
Maybe I'm weird, but I believe in the theory that (all else equal) it's good for business to minimize how much your users hate your product/service. In other words, users dislike the feeling of not knowing whether things are
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by adrianmonk 4mo ago
Also, some very old computers had 36-bit words. Word sizes on modern computers are virtually always powers of 2, but it hasn't always been that way. And octal is more convenient for output via 7-segment LEDs and for input via numeric k
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by adrianmonk 4mo ago
Have a rod that pivots in its center and has objects of equal mass at each end, like a balanced seesaw. But make one of the objects very low density (less than water) and other high density. Since the densities differ, water will cause the
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by adrianmonk 4mo ago
Waymos are fleet vehicles. Recalls go to the owners, just like with other fleet vehicles such as rental cars, taxis, limos, delivery services, utilities, and city/state/federal government. It doesn't really matter who is whos

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