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by lambda 2y ago
> Developer on reddit clarifies that it builds and does the wrong thing, and recommends dropping Debian as a solutio Can you link to the post on Reddit you are referring to?
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by lambda 2y ago
Because that portion is digital. Digital is fairly immune to noise, but it can produce a lot of noise. The power distribution network can carry that noise to other components that it passes over, but because that section is all digital, it&
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by lambda 2y ago
You are approaching the limit of good taste
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by lambda 2y ago
Gravity works just as well if you're in combat or smuggling coke. They don't suddenly give you the ability to takeoff under too much load
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by lambda 2y ago
Yeah, there were the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies campaigns, which led Worldcon to change the award rules. Then in 2023 there was the self-censorship incident for the Chengdu Worldcon (and also some question about the ballot for selection
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by lambda 2y ago
I have successfully used GDB's build in reverse debugging once, on a platform that rr didn't yet support at the time. It worked, it helped me track down the bug, but it was painfully slow, I had to do things to limit the size of t
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by lambda 2y ago
While Linux isn't a panacea, the OS does matter as Linux provides tools for security scanners like Crowdstrike to operate entirely in userspace, with just a sandboxed eBPF program performing the filtering and blocking within the kernel
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by lambda 2y ago
But... that's what bindgen is for. Which I mentioned. I said it "can be quite simple"; for simple use cases, just using extern and translating the declarations by hand is perfectly viable. For more complex cases, you use bind
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by lambda 2y ago
Calling C from Rust can be quite simple. You just declare the external function and call it. For example, straight out of the Rust book https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html#usin... : extern &quot
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by lambda 2y ago
You realize it's a rhetorical device and not an actual threat of violence, right?
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by lambda 2y ago
It works when using multiple languages that share the same writing system (the Latin alphabet). It means that you have a single keyboard, but the words that swipe or auto complete are from more than one language; generally the predictive na
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by lambda 2y ago
If the LLM hallucinates a Python package, someone else might notice that and sneak in a malicious version of that hallucinated package. Or if it hallucinates a method name, it might be in a code path that goes untested. How often are people
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by lambda 2y ago
Pumped hydro is great, but only in certain areas where you already have the elevation gain available. Compressed air storage is another one that's pretty good, but it's only particularly good if you can store it in underground cav
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by lambda 3y ago
Generally they use pulse density modulation, rather than pulse width modulation, which increases the frequency of the noise and makes it easier to filter out. Sigma delta modulation, which the comment you replied to mentioned, is a way of d
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by lambda 3y ago
Funny thing is, Anthony Gatto was brought up in a circus family and went on to become the world's best technical juggler (based on endurance at high numbers, incredibly difficult technical tricks, and overall consistency rather than ju
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by lambda 3y ago
> Mill's Mess. Once you've mastered this, you've mastered 3 balls! Ugh, no way. There's way more to three ball juggling than just Mills Mess (no apostrophe, his name was Steve Mills and it's not possessive but ju
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by lambda 3y ago
Sure. No solution is one size fits all. This particular solar installation happens to be in Colorado, very close to a lot of area where pumped hydro would be extremely cost effective. Somewhere like Kansas, wind power and battery based stor
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by lambda 3y ago
True. This happens to be in a region of the country that gets a 25-30% capacity factor on solar; in the northeast or northwest, you'd see much worse results. The basic point is that nuclear is just really, really expensive, and it has
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by lambda 3y ago
It does require a lot more land; but we have a lot of land available. Nuclear will continue to be viable in denser areas, with lower solar resources, and when you want to get a lot of production closer to large population. There's a re
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by lambda 3y ago
Yes, it's an over-simplification. But this is an area of the country where capacity factors are in the 25-30% range: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39832 (the Ute Mountain Reservation is in the ve
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by lambda 3y ago
Wind, hydro, and storage. Pumped hydro has already existed for a long time for helping nuclear with load following https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/12/02/northfield-mountain-hyd... and as battery prices fa
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by lambda 3y ago
Yeah, but even renewables + storage is likely to be cheaper than nuclear. Right now pumped hydro is one of the best for grid-scale storage, but with the the reduction in cost of batteries, it may be that grid-scale battery storage becomes v
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by lambda 3y ago
Yeah, it's definitely a simplification. A lot of the nuclear risk is already included in that cost; we have fairly robust nuclear regulation and safety engineering these days. I have pretty high confidence in the safety of modern nucle
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by lambda 3y ago
And an AP1000 reactor costs about $6.8 billion to build, and substantially higher operating costs. 68% of the power for 14% of the price seems like a pretty good deal to me, there's a reason people are investing more in solar than nucl
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by lambda 3y ago
Yeah, this is a preliminary report, they only report direct factual findings that they have collected so far, and as they mention in this report, they haven't yet examined the electronic manufacturing records that the insider was refer
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by lambda 3y ago
Yep, biggest new thing here is discussion of witness marks showing no evidence of the bolts, and photo before the rivet repair showing that at least two of the bolts were present, and photo after the rivet repair during installation of the
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by lambda 3y ago
It's amazing, your experience with Git is so different than my own. I routinely open a file in my editor, hit "Ctrl-c v B" for Git Blame mode, go to the line I'm interested in, and hit "Enter". Bam, there'
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by lambda 3y ago
Exactly; people would like their databases to be correct and consistent, but generally don't care enough to actually do something like hiring someone like Kyle to verify it before buying a database. They just find something with the ri
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by lambda 3y ago
No, no figures to back it up. This is just based on anecdotal experience, having never seen very many businesses that actually prioritize consistency or testing or validating it. The fact that Kyle keeps on finding these massive problems in
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by lambda 3y ago
Aviation has an extremely strong safety record, which has been getting better year by year. Yes, there are misses, but they have been happening increasingly less frequently over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviat

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