maltelau

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by maltelau 1mo ago
To people outside the USA, it's becoming harder to justify not treating American services with the same caution we treat Chinese services
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by maltelau 2mo ago
At 60 Hz, there are 16.6 ms between frames, so the ~3 ms improvement from not using XWayland would be very hard to notice visually. Where it can make a difference is that some competitive FPS games have some kind of client side hitscan or l
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by maltelau 4mo ago
Rather disingenuous to call slamming on the brakes "it was crashed into". Rule #1 of the road is to be predictable -- if a human slammed on their brakes and caused a crash on their first day of driving, they shouldn't be driv
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by maltelau 5mo ago
The presence of the "Do Not Track" header was a pretty clear indicator of the intent of the user. Fingerprinting persisted exactly in the face of such countermeasures.
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by maltelau 5mo ago
Alpha waves refer to the measurable 8-12Hz waves in the electromagnetic field coming out of the human head. They are the clearest "signal" we can read out with eeg ("electro" "encephalo" (brain) "graphy&qu
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by maltelau 5mo ago
A free and open society is a prerequisite for the rights EFF fight for. We cannot enjoy the freedoms of digital privacy in a an authoritarian regime. The rights to fight for EFFs concerns are currently being threated by the fascist turn of
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by maltelau 6mo ago
Wtf!? Is this an early April's fools? I've been recommending astral tools left and right, Looks like I'm out a good chunk of social capital on that. Who's organizing a fork, or is python back to having only shitty packag
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by maltelau 6mo ago
And every time the issue is side-stepped by chatbot proponents. Accuracy and reliability are necessary to know real productivity. If you have produced code that doesn't work right, you haven't "produced" anything (except
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by maltelau 9mo ago
Water vapour absorbs the thermal radiation (heat trying to escape earth) better than it absorbs sunlight (heat trying to enter earth). Therefore, the more water vapour in the atmosphere, the stronger the greenhouse effect. https:/&#x2
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by maltelau 1y ago
That is a fantastic question, and you've hit on a very good balance between a curious and non-confrontational tone. The key to getting good responses on the internet is to say something that sounds wrong (Cunningham's law), and yo
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by maltelau 1y ago
In your quote, the number is "<1 per week", not "<1 per day"
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by maltelau 2y ago
Would git commit --fixup <sha> and git rebase -i --autosquash <previous-sha> do what you need? Random blog link explaining it: [1] [1] https://fle.github.io/git-tip-keep-your-branch-clean-with-fi...
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by maltelau 2y ago
I wonder if hn (or wherever else this was posted) is big enough to register on the ads-vs-adblocker war. Ads are 509 pixels wide coming in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
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by maltelau 3y ago
Maybe you would find it useful to read a textbook on bayesian stats for inspiration. I can recommend Richard McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" which makes it very clear how inflexible it is to just know recipes like t-test
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by maltelau 3y ago
I think your comment misunderstands the comment you're responding to. The point is that while LLMs can solve the puzzle when the constraints are unchanged -- as you said, there are loads of examples of people asking and answering varia
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by maltelau 3y ago
Noun class is a benefit for reliable communication, and that's why most languages evolved (and kept) those mechanisms. Languages are optimized firstly for the people that speak it as their first language. There are some suggestions tha
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by maltelau 5y ago
One time Windows 10 wiped the boot loader on my desktop and threw a fit until I formatted the whole disk so it could place itself first unlike the partition I thought I had assigned it. Then I reinstalled windows 10 on the same computer a c
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by maltelau 5y ago
It's better to just look for a game /you want to play/. Chances are, it'll "just work" via proton even if there's no native version. Right click game -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Pick any rec
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by maltelau 7y ago
Looks cool. I like that you're focusing on the usage that's important when planning / running an adventure: In the moment, you need to be able to look up things fast , AND you also want those links to stay in your notes in a
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by maltelau 7y ago
> https://youtu.be/Ao9X1GsUPys?t=125 > 1988 presentation where Alan Kay [...] I'm getting no sound throughout the whole video, and youtube lists it as having music from a particular Debussy recording, which is th
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by maltelau 7y ago
A popular counterpoint in the R community is that in many data cleaning tasks, the bottleneck is human understanding / coding time, not comptutation time. In other words, we'd rather spend 1 hour writing up a script that runs in 1
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by maltelau 8y ago
Using the hammer already in my hand, I would write a small R script to do the joins. Example script: library(tidyverse) old = read_tsv("path/to/old/db.tsv") new = read_tsv("path/to/new/db