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by diroussel 7d ago
They already do have inductive charging. Both MagSafe, Qi. They even work on the watch charger. That’s for all AirPod Pros, and definitely the AirPod 4 with ANC, not sure about other non pros.
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by diroussel 11d ago
I don’t see the hype as inherently related to social media. There was a lot of hype for the 1999 eclipse that passed through Europe. Everyone was talking about it and where they would go. That’s what it felt like. It’s a rare and impressiv
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by diroussel 12d ago
Indeed, I don’t ask rhetorical questions to an AI. They are of doubtful use when talking verball ly to a human, less good in online discussions, and totally unnecessary for agents.
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by diroussel 18d ago
That was a very interesting read, thanks.
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by diroussel 1mo ago
Are you blaming communication technology?
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by diroussel 2mo ago
Did you read the explanation? It says right there on the page why it happens. Or was that text added since you viewed it?
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by diroussel 2mo ago
The page addresses this issue, saying that browser text wrapping can cause issues and gives advice on how to deal with it.
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by diroussel 3mo ago
GET and QUERY are both idempotent.
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by diroussel 3mo ago
That is the good old fashion workaround. But why is it better than a form causing an HTTP QUERY. If we can do QUERY forms, it would be an ideal time to add JSON encoding for forms.
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by diroussel 3mo ago
I found that Deep Research mode in Gemini was able to give me a well planned 4 day trip to a major city. I told it my preferences and of the group members, where we arrived and departed, at what times. I gave it my itinerary and then asked
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by diroussel 4mo ago
Yes, it can be confusing if you don’t read the article. He said he went on a 10 day trip and didn’t take a computer. That is context for why he got a Bluetooth keyboard. I doubt he decided to bring a monitor on the trip.
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by diroussel 4mo ago
Maybe the mechanism for sharing could be inspired by OpenBanking? In the UK and EU all the banks have to offer API access to accounts. Instant transfer (sub-second) for free is available to everyone. (Up to a certain limit)
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by diroussel 4mo ago
Yeah and those stats show a big difference. In the UK there are 2.6 fatalities per 100,000 population on average per year. And in the USA it’s 14.2 That’s five times higher! For those that don’t know these are all the checks done yearly to
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by diroussel 6mo ago
So you’ve never improvised an air conditioning system from a spare bilge pump, a propane tank and a cast iron radiator? Sir, this is a hacker news.
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by diroussel 7mo ago
Stepping out of pure maths and into engineering we find complex numbers indispensable for describing physical systems and predicting system change over time. I don’t have a list to hand, but there are so many areas of physics and engineerin
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by diroussel 8mo ago
Who should accept responsibility when a conversion is not as expected? There are very few ‘lossless” conversions possible if you consider the loss of a data or metadata could affect the result. So if printer did accept a file that needed to
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by diroussel 8mo ago
The problem isn't so much finding the shortest path, but finding the right cost function that adequately matches human satisfaction. Not just distance, not just turns, but also knowing which areas are done, and other small factors.
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by diroussel 9mo ago
I think that is a bigger impact on writes than reads, but certainly means there is some gap from optimal. To me a 4k read seems anachronistic from a modern application perspective. But I gather 4kb pages are still common in many file system
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by diroussel 10mo ago
If you try and push you sensei, before you know it you'll be doing jujitsu.
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by diroussel 10mo ago
So if WhatsApp had an outage, but you needed to communicate to someone, you wouldn't be able to? Don't you have contacts saved locally, and other message apps available?
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by diroussel 1y ago
Rare for people who don't deal with encoding and decoding maybe. To be clear the codec implements the compression (or other encoding) algorithm. So when talking about codec's we mean the implementation. But when talking about the
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by diroussel 1y ago
The vaccines were all made for early varients. Once the omicron varient came along, it had so many changes from the original strain that the effect of the vaccines were essentially unproven. The vaccines were definately useful, and had a b
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by diroussel 1y ago
> Modern computer systems are complex systems — and complex systems are characterized by their non-linear nature, which means that observed changes in an output are not proportional to the change in the input. This concept is also known
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by diroussel 1y ago
The S3 API allows requests to read a byte range of the file (sorry , object). So you could have multiple connections each reading a different byte range. Then the ranges would need to be written to the target local file using a random acces
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by diroussel 1y ago
Learning from others doesn’t mean you are not learning.
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by diroussel 1y ago
I believe that Netware had NET SEND before Microsoft had any networking at all. But maybe I’m wrong. Certainly NT had a netware compatible stack, but this was way after netware blazed the trail.
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by diroussel 1y ago
It tries to be OOP, but you can still implement a program with int, int[] and static methods. And you can’t subtype those. Other JVM languages, like scala, are more OO than Java.
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by diroussel 2y ago
It's great that they added iceberg support I guess, but it's a shame that they also removed S3 Select. S3 Select wasn't perfect. For instance the performance was no where near as good as using DuckDB to scan a parquet file,
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by diroussel 2y ago
Indeed, environment variables should be used to configure child processes, not to configure the current process, for non-shell programs, IMHO. Note that Java, and the JVM, doesn't allow changing environment variables. It was the right
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by diroussel 2y ago
So the story goes (I'm probably just regurgitating some marketing)... The founder has a software background, and built out a software service to track energy usage and deliver data-driven pricing plans. But when he tried to sell it to

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