angry_cactus

6 ms·

1.
by angry_cactus 4y ago
Everything else aside, iPhones are more protected on an OPSEC level.
2.
Lego to discontinue Mindstorms robot line after a 24-year run(arstechnica.com)
2 points by angry_cactus 4y ago|1 comments
3.
by angry_cactus 4y ago
Maybe "these species may not be around forever"
4.
In win for planetary defense, NASA mission successfully nudges asteroid orbit(science.org)
2 points by angry_cactus 4y ago|0 comments
5.
Valve's latest Steam Deck trailer briefly plugs a Nintendo Switch emulator(gamedeveloper.com)
187 points by angry_cactus 4y ago|202 comments
6.
Sound reveals giant blue whales dance with the wind to find food(mbari.org)
1 points by angry_cactus 4y ago|0 comments
7.
by angry_cactus 4y ago
The article said > But Bloomberg Intelligence estimates it would take about eight years to move just 10% of Apple’s production capacity out of China, where roughly 98% of the company’s iPhones have been made. 98% of the iPhones that have
8.
New request for comments on improving NPM security with Sigstore is now open(github.blog)
1 points by angry_cactus 4y ago|0 comments
9.
Microsoft Azure selected as cloud partner for Unity to power 3D experiences(windowscentral.com)
1 points by angry_cactus 4y ago|0 comments
10.
by angry_cactus 6y ago
I just comment out the old code while working on the new version. Surprised this isn't the obvious answer.
11.
by angry_cactus 6y ago
Opposite direction? Same direction as the poster above, just in different language.
12.
by angry_cactus 6y ago
Yeah that was a bit silly, even saying something as basic as PowerPoint or Excel would have been better.
13.
by angry_cactus 6y ago
Not sure of the exact motivation, but Swift uses exclamation mark to unwrap optionals.
14.
by angry_cactus 6y ago
This is amazing! What is the license for the exported samples?
15.
by angry_cactus 6y ago
Bitwarden gets recommended so much on Hacker News that it feels kind of like astroturfing. That being said, I use Bitwarden and it's great.
16.
by angry_cactus 7y ago
Google Trends confirms, even MongoDB is only a fraction of SQL.
17.
by angry_cactus 7y ago
And because of the "separate sites" approach to mobile web development. Good for some media-focused applications, but usually the separate mobile site has an oversimplified interface that can't be zoomed in or out.
18.
by angry_cactus 7y ago
> People with engineering mindsets were in urban (non-farm) areas. Many early engineers of the Industrial Revolution were farmers though, such as Jethro Tull.
19.
by angry_cactus 7y ago
Periodic Table of Videos is a classic. Most high quality and informative videos in the first decade of YouTube probably.
20.
by angry_cactus 7y ago
Arguably the neural net is the leakiest of all abstractions. Inputting enough data, preventing overfitting. Not having a human readable implementation because of the computer figured it out with brute force. Those are all complex details le
21.
by angry_cactus 7y ago
Because of the confidence in a very random and particular statement.
22.
by angry_cactus 7y ago
Surprised the article doesn't mention Isaac Asimov's Foundation in which psychohistorians try to predict the future with mathematics, similar to Turchin's idea.
23.
by angry_cactus 7y ago
Seemingly random studies in biology can have unexpected benefits. Studying gecko toes led to the invention of a super-adhesive. https://geckskin.umass.edu/
24.
Gamasutra – How an injured dev learned to make games without using his hands(gamasutra.com)
1 points by angry_cactus 7y ago|0 comments
25.
by angry_cactus 8y ago
Local maximum instead of global maximum. In order to become more fit, it would have to temporarily decrease its fitness and thus is stuck in a dead end. More mutation or larger population size in that specific simulation might solve the iss