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by esterna 15d ago
Silica uses femtosecond lasers for writing and supposedly mostly ordinary silicate glass as the medium. This would probably mean more costly drives and severely cheaper media (Folio claims $3/TB now, $1/TB eventually. I wager Sili
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by esterna 20d ago
> All type parameters have an implicit bound of Sized. The special syntax ?Sized can be used to remove this bound if it’s not appropriate. , which HashMap does not do, i.e. the keys and values have to have a statically known size.
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by esterna 1mo ago
This also applies to reading restaurant reviews before visiting. Or for that matter, reading any published book you outsource judgement to the publishing house (what books they pick up). Or, if you are easily convinced by jargon: Exploratio
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by esterna 2mo ago
Read the article. The elaborator (where metaprogramming is evaluated) is not part of the trusted computing base. The security model is that bad proof terms get rejected, not that they're never generated.
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by esterna 2mo ago
And it has array programming features, logging, and (time-travel!) debugging all intuitively graspable for most non-technical people. I sincerely think there are lots of unlearned lessons in studying Excel.
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by esterna 2mo ago
There is one example that succeeded and became the most widely used programming paradigm on the planet: Spreadsheets Though you might argue that the "programming language" part was rather accidental
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by esterna 2mo ago
> How's this any different than say, not bringing your wallet with you, because 95% of the time apple pay works Apple Pay involves at least a third party (your bank) as a part of its function. This entity has to be reachable. Unlock
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by esterna 2mo ago
Why should be ? I think it is abundantly clear by now that market competition alone will not fix this. Though that does not stop people from claiming "Yes that failed and people suffered/died, but that was not real capitalism!
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by esterna 2mo ago
NIS2 allows for the arrest of managers in case of cybersecurity incidents resulting from negligence. I think it's a step in the right direction, but we'll have to see how it plays out.
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by esterna 2mo ago
Once I start a conversation about Postgres query plans, maybe 95% of the knowledge will be almost certainly not needed, and for an inference provider there will be many more concurrent queries with reasonably large overlap. Maybe future arc
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by esterna 2mo ago
I wonder if the EU will someday figure out a patch for this "Deteriorate everyone's user experience in a way that is technically compliant and blame the EU" behavioural exploit...
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by esterna 2mo ago
Once once they are rejected by charities, they can be destroyed just like before this law. EU regulators are flawed humans, but you can be assured that any argument you can come up with in 10 minutes has been considered.
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by esterna 2mo ago
... than by surprise, when you find your integer column contains "[object Object]"? Jokes aside, breaking backwards compatibility is obviously a non-starter.
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by esterna 2mo ago
Their boss hired GP over others for a reason. The person who is finally desperate enough to do it might be just a little worse at their job, a little more expensive, ... It will have a cost. German has a related expression "vorrauseile
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by esterna 2mo ago
Be here long enough and you will find people bragging about their captcha solving services, or how they found a clever loophole in anti-gambling laws. Posts about certain unmentionable topics are flagged minutes after being posted, post tit
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by esterna 3mo ago
Of course, what they charge $39.95 for is in the public domain. So it's a sort of double scam.
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by esterna 3mo ago
You can also buy licenses to use AV1, a royalty-free codec.
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by esterna 3mo ago
While I won't dispute that 6 months is outrageous, OP has not spent them to "please the bureaucracy", they spent them to escape personal liability should the company go bankrupt. The rest of the post is bemoaning the fact the
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by esterna 3mo ago
Debit cards usually also use the Mastercard or Visa payment networks. Even though I and the supermarket I go to are both part of SEPA and I can issue a bank transfer that will clear ~instantly, today cashless payments still involve EMV for
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by esterna 3mo ago
The sequence numbers of problems on Project Euler only represent the order of publication. They aren't deliberately connected except for a few problems that have one or two follow-ups. Most of the first 100 problems can be solved witho
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by esterna 3mo ago
This hinges on two misunderstandings: - That data processing always requires consent. There are exactly six reasons for storing or processing data: consent, contract fulfillment, legal compliance, vital interests of a natural person, public
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by esterna 4mo ago
There is certainly a lot of demand at the current price of free or subsidised subscriptions. It remains to be seen what the demand is at profitable prices. If the vendors decide that free (ad-supported) use is necessary to keep demand, we w
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by esterna 4mo ago
Capillaries cannot defeat the divergence theorem: If you have a volume where heat is produced but the temperature does not increase, the heat has to leave via the surface. It is true that the surface area available to diffusion can scale at
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by esterna 4mo ago
On the one hand, you can set up a proxy that supplements secrets for API calls. On the other hand, you can whitelist what you need, in the simplest case with iptables (The devcontainer in the claude code repo is an example of the latter).
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by esterna 6mo ago
And yet we cannot stop time, and a decision has to be made. It seems natural to involve the child in this decision. Of course, the next best thing (if a decision can't be made now) after stopping time are puberty blockers. Which are no
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by esterna 6mo ago
Very nice! One small note: In an Eratosthenes sieve, you can start crossing out numbers from p^2, since i*p for i<p will have already been crossed out in step i at the latest. You can simply replace for (size_t i=2; i <= 0xFFFFFFF
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by esterna 7mo ago
I also live in the EU. betfair.com is not blocked by my ISP here. Rather, they are blocking my ISP ("[...] you may be accessing the Betfair website from a country that Betfair does not accept bets from [...]"). That the website
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by esterna 7mo ago
Do you have advice how I could get someone to do a (possibly paid) review of PCBs for small hobby projects? Being new to this space, it's hard to learn quickly when the feedback cycle involves having PCBs manufactured, shipped, solderi
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by esterna 9mo ago
Isn't that in violation of GDPR?