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by groos 7d ago
Is that you, Shrek?
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by groos 21d ago
The Bambu Labs mobile app doesn't work with LAN mode. I found this app for Android, "LanBu" which does a decent enough job. It's still in beta and wants to display ads. So far my PiHole has blocked all its ads so it&#x27
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by groos 1mo ago
This is a bad take. When the stste is either unable or unwilling to offer security, what is the alternative? The 'vigilantes' are doing the honorable thing, protecting their communities from criminals and oppressors. I wish them a
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by groos 2mo ago
Have LLMs produced something novel like Cantor's diagonalization procedure once was? Come up with new concepts like set theory once was and axiomatized it? Is there any indication or evidence LLMs can do this? If not, I would wager mat
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by groos 2mo ago
I read through most of the article but didn't see motion sensors mentioned. A lot of suburban streetlights are lighting up empty streets at night. With a combination of motion sensing and LEDs, lighting could follow pedestrians. Cars r
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by groos 2mo ago
35 years ago I had to program a Z80 by "assembling" programs by hand and punching hexcodes into a board. This was made easier by writing an assembler for it. This was my way into tools which took me eventually to working on a majo
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by groos 3mo ago
As an ex C++ compiler developer, I heartily approve of this project. Kudos.
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by groos 3mo ago
Love this site! Well done!
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by groos 3mo ago
How many people visited the site expecting program UI menus?
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by groos 3mo ago
Not really as large capacity capacitors (this one seems to be 4V) tend to be low voltage as well. You can touch the terminals without harm but attempting to short them is going to be, er, entertaining. I have accidentally touched a 200V cap
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by groos 3mo ago
Nice but pricey with a restrictive license.
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by groos 3mo ago
I call all these new fonts monofonts, mono in the sense of monoculture. Aesthetics practically indistinguishable from each other. Give me one of the IBM Selectric fonts in a modern form and I'll be happy as a clam.
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by groos 3mo ago
~50 years of distributed systems research and this is a problem we still have to deal with today. Sad!
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by groos 3mo ago
Every country? No. Every European country? Yes.
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by groos 3mo ago
They can ban immigration from the third world all they want but at some point, they'll have to confront the economic reality of a 1.42/couple fertility rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Swede
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by groos 3mo ago
It was a supergiant, hence died at a young age, and unlikely to have evolved life of any kind in its system.
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by groos 4mo ago
Again, note that I said "work through" and not "read". Reading code is shallow. Debugging it, modifying it, inserting diagnostic code, etc. is not.
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by groos 4mo ago
'People' in this case were Don Knuth (TeX) and Leslie Lamport (LaTeX). Both are Turing Award winners.
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by groos 4mo ago
You missed the point - understanding comes from working through the code, not just reading it. This is nothing new: nobody has learned or done new mathematics or physics or whatever by just reading a textbook.
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by groos 4mo ago
During the last few months when AI usage was mandated in our team and usage exploded, our team's throughput has barely changed. Now, if this was due to people working 2 hours a day and painting, cooking and playing golf the rest of the
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by groos 4mo ago
As I am continually amazed at how well Claude 4.7 deals with highly complicated C++ code, I am also becoming painfully aware of the developing situation mentioned in this article: I no longer completely understand the code it is editing, no
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by groos 5mo ago
Looks like this would lend itself naturally to sorting algorithm demos.
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by groos 5mo ago
A colleague once told me, the difference between software engineering and civil engineering is that they build the same bridge repeatedly while we never build the same thing twice.
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by groos 5mo ago
> How could the first Pascal compiler be compiled if it was written in Pascal, but a Pascal compiler didn't yet exist? Therein lies the magic of bootstrapping a language compiler written in the same language. Look it up.
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by groos 5mo ago
Pascal, as defined by Wirth, had no "low level" features. E.g., no control over memory allocation other than the language provided new/dispose, no bit operators, clunky strings of fixed size, no access to system calls, no acc
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by groos 5mo ago
Yes. The answer is yes.
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by groos 5mo ago
I'm not sure why people seem to be under the impression that writing a compiler means that the language the compiler is implemented in should have "low level" features. A compiler is just a text -> text translation tool if
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by groos 5mo ago
Most people don't realize how bad geolocated data is for a free society. I can buy data from a broker, geo-fence your house address, and then I'm able to see all the places where you went, who you associate with, and identify all
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by groos 5mo ago
The high level language -> assembly seems like an apt analogy for using LLMs but I would like to argue that it is only a weak one. The reason in that, previously, both the high level language and the assembly language had well defined se
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by groos 6mo ago
I wonder have the reconstruction techniques been verified by a double-blind experiment to reconstruct the face of a homo sapiens from a skull with a known photograph. Otherwise, you're just wondering how much of it is just artistry and

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