robdar

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by robdar 8d ago
how does it compare to using pandoc, which is what I currently use for rendering PDFs via LLMs?
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by robdar 2y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Star-Notebook-Amethyst-840029CF1... ?
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by robdar 2y ago
printed/println debugging works if you wrote the code or have a good idea of where to go. I frequently find myself debugging large unfamiliar code bases, and typically it’s much easier to stick a breakpoint in and start following where
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by robdar 2y ago
Flight simulator games (i.e. Digital Combat Simulator) tend to be CPU bound, though, depending high-end VR or having enough monitors with enough pixels can quickly become GPU-limited, the underlying simulation, systems modelling, sensor si
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by robdar 2y ago
I suggested this on a thread in /r/cpp a few years ago, and was downvoted heavily, and chewed out for the reason that coding for ease of debugging was apparently akin to baby killing.
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by robdar 2y ago
It’s worse than that. Find a random blog that gives you shell commands that add random repositories to your apt sources.list, adds the ssl keys, and installs packages from the repo, all through a paste to the command line.
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by robdar 2y ago
>EVs generally will require less maintenance as they are substantially simpler vehicles with less moving parts. I keep hearing this, but then keep seeing stories about huge repair bills and wait times for repairs on EVs, and threats of i
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by robdar 3y ago
It's also said in the JRE video, Fravor isn't the only military pilot to have done that stunt, and likely won't be the last. When pilots perform such flights, they aren't taking those jets out with the intention of perfo
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by robdar 3y ago
The context of the story in that JRE episode ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ at about the 49:30 point) is "some things are explainable, here is an example" But, if Fravors story isn't credible b
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by robdar 3y ago
Fravors "Hoax" involved flying F/A-18E Super Hornets at low level, at night, over campfires they could see along their route and lighting their after burners. This was done in areas like Nellis where there are a lot of milit
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by robdar 3y ago
I also find peoples generatal non-response strange, though, I don't find Grusch's testimony that compelling: he didn't actually see anything, or really have any evidence. I find the US Navy pilot observations to be both more
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by robdar 3y ago
> We still have only one data point for life and one data point for intelligence. Don't we have many points for both? There are ~8.7 million species on the planet. What we only have one data point for is a planet that contains li
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by robdar 3y ago
As someone in Canada the only thing 5G lets me do is use up my incredibly expensive bandwidth limit in seconds instead of minutes.
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by robdar 4y ago
were the pipelines going to be shipping this particular chemical (Vinyl chloride) though?
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by robdar 4y ago
One reason is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies Military intelligence gathering is so common that countries basically agree to not start a shooting war for overflying each others country gathering mil
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by robdar 4y ago
Wow, excellent. Does anyone know how those interactive figures are done?
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by robdar 4y ago
> but I think the conclusions one draws from it fail to take into account how much the body can control expenditure. Yes, this is has been observed and studied. From this page: https://physiqonomics.com/constrained-energ