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by nardi 1y ago
Having worked in many languages and debuggers across many kinds of backend and front end systems, I think what some folks miss here is that some debuggers are great and fast, and some suck and are extremely slow. For example, using LLDB wit
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by nardi 1y ago
Whats your prompt processing speed? That’s more important in this situation than output TPS. If you have to wait minutes to start getting an answer, that makes it much worse than a cloud-hosted version.
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by nardi 1y ago
I don't know what I'm talking about, but could you use distillation techniques?
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by nardi 2y ago
I think you missed the last bit: > scientists have found no evidence this phenomenon might make sounds that are audible to the human ear. Which I take to mean they’ve measured ultrasounds but no audible sounds.
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by nardi 2y ago
Meta: Can someone with Linux/bootloader knowledge tell me whether most of these comments are as clueless as they seem?
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by nardi 2y ago
Many people in this thread are extremely cynical and also ignorant of the actual security guarantees. If you don’t think Apple is doing what they say they’re doing, you can go audit the code and prove it doesn’t work. Apple is open sourcing
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by nardi 2y ago
This is what the “attestation” bit is supposed to take care of—if it works, which I’m assuming it will, because they’re open sourcing it for security auditing.
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by nardi 2y ago
I would agree, except the seller seems to have made a new forgery of their receipt on the fly in response to Cabel's inquiry, which leads me to believe they probably made the original forgery as well.
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by nardi 3y ago
It means you compile-in a direct reference to the node that needs to be updated when some property changes, so instead of searching the tree of n nodes to find it, you already have the reference.
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by nardi 3y ago
The fact that the data exists somewhere is small comfort if users cannot read the privacy implications in the app store itself when they're deciding whether to download an app.
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by nardi 3y ago
I do not like working with people like this, because I don't want to be anywhere near the maintenance burden of a pile of hacks that technically can run a single Excel spreadsheet. I don't even want to be within earshot of people
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by nardi 3y ago
My notes on the upgrade from 14 to 15 I took during the announcement: * Twice as bright screen * Dynamic Island * Smaller bezel * Contoured edge * New better plastic back * Big camera improvements - 48MP main camera vs. 24M
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by nardi 3y ago
The article talks about why it's maybe politically or economically difficult, but not why it's physically difficult.
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by nardi 3y ago
> The voice is the only instrument where you can "play" (sing) what note you think. This is not even close to being true.
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by nardi 3y ago
Perfect pitch is actually kind of a curse in many, many contexts. I’d be very hesitant to experiment on my kids this way without their understanding of the consequences.
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by nardi 4y ago
Do NOT read a CSV file by splitting on commas. Python has a perfect CSV library built right in: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html . If you split on commas, your code will fail for quoted fields with commas
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by nardi 5y ago
There is no “serious competitor” in VR/AR, because there is no market yet. The number of devices sold is miniscule. When AR/VR actually takes off, it’s going to look very, very different from what we have today.
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by nardi 5y ago
FYI, you’re looking for “sticky wicket.”
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Fastmail Is “Under Attack”(twitter.com)
5 points by nardi 5y ago|1 comments
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by nardi 5y ago
It is a potato battery—that's what it's called when you use a potato as the electrolyte for a battery.
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by nardi 5y ago
I'm not defending potato batteries, I'm just pointing out that the article already explains all of this.
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by nardi 5y ago
If you’d read the article, you’d know that it explains that the potato is just acting as the electrolyte, and it does mention that replacing the zinc electrode is cheap.
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by nardi 5y ago
These are not the same kind of stupid. One makes the assumption that costs will always be the same, and the other makes the assumption that cost decreases are linear, or predictable. The former is much stupider.
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by nardi 6y ago
It seems like there are a dozen or more fusion startups that are pursuing concepts that are much smaller than ITER. I'm no nuclear physicist, but it seems like there might be room for innovation still.
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by nardi 6y ago
We're talking about a laptop, and it sounds like you're talking about desktop GPUs, unless you meant GTX 960M.
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by nardi 6y ago
Just got the email: Dear Yahoo Group Moderators and Members, We launched Yahoo Groups 20 years ago to connect people around their shared interests. We helped our users navigate new towns, keep in touch with college friends, learn new skills
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by nardi 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd bet Metal is almost entirely C++ with a little Obj-C sprinkled on top for the API. And of course C++ is still a better systems language than Swift. My point was that Swift is better than pure Obj-C
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by nardi 6y ago
If you mean Objective-C code with minimal usage of C functions/structs/etc., then IMO Swift is actually the better systems language. Cf. the just-announced System library.
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by nardi 6y ago
You’re 2 for 4. Time Machine and Mail (separate from iCloud) are not cloud services.
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by nardi 6y ago
But I explained why it led me to believe that. You're just...not gonna respond to any of my argument...are you?

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