etatoby

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by etatoby 8d ago
The law (which is supposed to codify the common sense and shared values underpinning a society—note "supposed to") disagrees with you: if I use a bulldozer to damage your property, you can sue me, not the bulldozer or its maker.
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by etatoby 19d ago
As others have said, turns need to precede the actual moment the vehicle turns, otherwise it's a blind spot. I wouldn't use it as is. Also the 3D performance is 2fps on my device. Other than that it's a cool demo, but not wor
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by etatoby 23d ago
I have only heard of it in passing. I wonder what it adds beyond Webp and Avif.
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by etatoby 10mo ago
Something I've never understood about DRM is, if the content is ultimately played on my device, what stops me from reverse engineering their code to make an alternative client or downloader? Is it just making it harder to do so? Or is
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by etatoby 11mo ago
For what its worth, all of my local banking and e-government apps work flawlessly on GrapheneOS. The only unsupported feature or app I've found so far is Google Pay. (I'm from Italy)
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by etatoby 11mo ago
> Just intuitively, in such a high dimensional space, two random vectors are basically orthogonal. Which, incidentally, is the main reason why deep learning and LLM are effective in the first place. A vector of a few thousands dimensions
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by etatoby 11mo ago
Came here to say the same thing. Uiua is my favorite language by far. BQN is also a cool "Nu-APL" but Uiua is just a full generation ahead.
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by etatoby 4y ago
> I have a good understanding of the problem, but I do not have a solution REALLY Just don't call background services, unless the user explicitly requested a remote service! My Linux installs and (to a lesser degree) my Windows LT
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by etatoby 4y ago
I'm very puzzled by this language. Why put the verbs at the end of the sentence, for instance? Was this shell inspired by Japanese or German?
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by etatoby 4y ago
Even after perusing jq's manual multiple times and having written several complex incantations, I still have no idea how to properly combine `|` and `.[]` except by trial and error, or why `select()` needs to be used inside `map(select
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by etatoby 5y ago
They should all be either allowed or denied. Why are UR-MOM or F-YOU considered offensive, while newer memes and slang that may be even more offensive can probably pass through the radar? Either allow everything, or deny vanity plates altog
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by etatoby 5y ago
IIRC a spinning space station would only be beneficial if it was very large and thus far from Earth and expensive. Otherwise the difference in gravity acting on different sides of the body and more importantly the Coriolis forces would wrea
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by etatoby 7y ago
Have you considered Nim? Much better type system than C, syntax is very similar to Python, compile times are excellent and speed analogous to C++.
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by etatoby 7y ago
Yes, it will complain and for good reason: it has no way of knowing whether the kid next door is spoofing your router's IP or Mac address and presenting their own self-signed certificate. I wouldn't go as far as calling it «capric
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by etatoby 7y ago
> Futurama was right: nuclear winter cancels global warming I'm not sure it does (I'd love to read an accurate model of it) but I get your point. It's a very compelling point. I wish humans didn't need the threat of
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by etatoby 7y ago
It was definitely not. It was in the food we interested. Trees and other plants take carbon from air, energy from the sub, and use it to build themselves. We take carbon from them and put it back into the air, using the excess energy to mov
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by etatoby 7y ago
Does European privacy law have the same provision? They are removing non-US accounts first, after all.
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by etatoby 7y ago
That's exactly the taboo aspect of it.
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by etatoby 7y ago
I agree. It probably got fixed into our instincts and our culture a long time ago.
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by etatoby 7y ago
To play devil's advocate, such a thing as transcribing Western names phonetically using Chinese characters does exist, both in contemporary Chinese and in other historical or minority Chinese-derived languages, as well as in old Japa
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by etatoby 7y ago
I recommend the Linear Algebra series of YouTube videos by 3blue1brown.
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by etatoby 7y ago
By "older kids" you mean "moronic young adults," I agree: https://youtu.be/JA7jc4rpTns
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by etatoby 7y ago
With the second party (Gitlab in this case) I have a contact, give them money regularly, and have other such leverage in case they screw up. Third parties generally could not case less what damage they may cause.
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by etatoby 7y ago
I'm not young by any stretch of the imagination, but I also consume content on my phone whenever I'm doing mundane tasks that allow for it, such as walking or riding public transportation. (Of course if I'm walking I look up
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by etatoby 7y ago
I second a ThinkPad with XFCE (such as Xubuntu) as the best combination. A few things which, although obvious in retrospect, I had to learn the hard way: • Get a ThinkPad with physical buttons under the touchpad, if you like to track with y
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by etatoby 7y ago
If you plot them as XY it's even more obvious which one is perfect consonance and which one dissonance: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%7B+x+%3D+sin%28t%29%3... https://www.wolframalpha.com/
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by etatoby 7y ago
I've been using the Slimblade for years. I even contributed a small change to Xorg evdev input driver (the Emulate3Button option) to work around the weird internal numbering of the buttons on the device. On my couch / entertainmen
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by etatoby 7y ago
Such as?
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by etatoby 7y ago
You might want to look for smartphones targeted to gamers, which usually have loud speakers, or buy a Bluetooth ringer amplifier and carry it with you.
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by etatoby 7y ago
Today it's on sale again for $25. Just grabbed a copy!

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