lefra

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by lefra 7d ago
Rates for human drivers are currently at the correct level for insurance companies to pay for damage and make some profit. If autonomous cars result in less damage than humans, their insurance price will be cheaper than human drivers, but t
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by lefra 11d ago
I should not have to install a browser plug-in to opt out of Google analytics (that's what's proposed as an opt-out option in the privacy policy). Where's the "reject non-essential cookies" button?
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by lefra 12d ago
> A lot of datasheets are inaccessible without signing an NDA Only for very high-end stuff, where just designing the board around the chip needs a team of engineers.
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by lefra 12d ago
Any company doing consultancy in electronics. You're going to have to pay for the time an electronics engineer spend on understanding what you want to do and reviewing your design, plus the consultancy's margin.
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by lefra 13d ago
I discussed with people working on aircraft components, and my understanding is that weight is a constant obsession for them. Propose a new system to Airbus/Boeing, and the first question they'll ask is "how much does it weig
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by lefra 19d ago
I tried three times on my 5-year-old phone. First time got stuck at 90% loading. Second time the tab crashed at 90% loading. Third time Chrome itself crashed once loading finished.
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by lefra 19d ago
"Translating the datasheet into protocol <X>", is the essence of writing a hardware driver. Also my experience with hardware is that the datasheet is often incomplete or misleading. Most of the time is spend fiddling with th
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by lefra 21d ago
I've known several people on visas in my european country. They don't need to go out of the country to apply for renewal.
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by lefra 22d ago
French would use "piratage [informatique]" (roughly "digital piracy"). However, "hacker" is used to name the person committing the crime.
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by lefra 23d ago
Lots of comments here blaming the bad state of toilets on homeless people doing drugs. They're not the only issue. In France, toilets on highways are often disgusting. French highways have stupid-high tolls, so these toilets are used b
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by lefra 24d ago
To avoid that, the code should have ways to override default ports or paths for testing. Then, when testing, ask the OS for a free port or temporary file, and tell the tested code to use that instead of its default. This also allows running
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by lefra 28d ago
Now define exponentiation by a non-integer.
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by lefra 29d ago
I agree, and it's kind of sad that getting simple, clear communication is exceptional.
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by lefra 1mo ago
Obnoxious cookie banner with no "reject all" button. Too bad, it sounded interesting.
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by lefra 1mo ago
Sure if they use strait closures the same way Trump uses tariffs, everyone will try to not use it. But if they just collect fees that are cheaper than alternatives, ships will keep on going through.
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by lefra 1mo ago
For me, the main reason that I'm against all high-tech voting solutions is that a less-than-gifted citizen must be able to check that, at least for their polling station: - Their vote, and everyone else's, was counted exactly once
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by lefra 1mo ago
The term you're looking for is "color space". Depending on what you want to do there's CIE XYZ (maps spectrum of color to a 3 component vector by integrating the spectrum multiplied by three functions), CIE L a b* (descr
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by lefra 1mo ago
My anecdotal experience is yes, most spam calls come from french numbers.
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by lefra 1mo ago
I had been having the same feeling, and the same doubts. Then I went on a trip abroad and there the Mars bar tasted _exactly_ how I remember it from my childhood (I think it was in Romania, but I'm not sure). So I think the recipes are
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by lefra 1mo ago
Sounds like something that could be solved by an ambient light sensor.
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by lefra 1mo ago
Isn't all bot traffic ultimately initiated by a human? Someone plugged the computer in and gave it instructions. It may result in one http request or billions of them, but the human is still the initiator.
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by lefra 2mo ago
Kind of like airplane boarding. The ideal algorithm would be to make people board from back to front, and from window to aisle. However, people are not disciplined enough to strictly sort themselves, they won't all take the same time t
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by lefra 2mo ago
This is a mistake that shouldn't happen. It means that someone commiting crimes could trivially hide and get the wrong person accused by using homoglyphs [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph
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by lefra 2mo ago
No one went to jail when my grandparents died. Stop spreading lies.
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by lefra 2mo ago
> in Europe when someone dies somebody always has to go to jail Please cite the european law that states this.
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by lefra 2mo ago
Thanks, I have an EE education, but I didn't really understood what charges were doing in a BJT. I can use them and apply the formulas, but I never really "grokked" them. This makes it clearer.
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by lefra 2mo ago
Counterpoint: I know my car can brake and turn much harder than I do (it's not a sports car by any mean, but that's beyond the point). I'd rather not change my tires and brake pads all the time though, and keep some margin fo
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by lefra 2mo ago
Once any HDL is translated to a bunch of primitives (gates, LUTs, flip-flops, etc), that's the job of an automated place-and-route, which already exist. It's independent of the starting language.
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by lefra 2mo ago
The graphs are beautiful, however they're independent of the language (because they're a visualization of the resulting gates). You could get the same graphs from VHDL or Verilog. I don't like the "fallback" mechani
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by lefra 2mo ago
Good for american hobbyist I guess. It's not an option where I live unfortunately (orders above 75€ have free shipping though).

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