robinsonb5

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by robinsonb5 1mo ago
I'd frame it more that Google is incentivised to show you the results which are most lucrative for them to display, rather than the ones which are most beneficial for you to see.
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by robinsonb5 1mo ago
Sure - it sucks, unfortunately the alternative is the sites going away entirely. When the load from scraper bots is constantly knocking the site offline the choices are literally to allow it to remain inaccessible for much of the time, put
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by robinsonb5 1mo ago
More abundance per person isn't a good thing if only 1% of the population sees the benefit and everyone else is squeezed tighter.
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by robinsonb5 1mo ago
> All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs. So what incentive structure would you suggest? How do you prevent the concentration of wealth that results from a business raking in millions of dollars p
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by robinsonb5 1mo ago
Whatever the legal outcome, whether it's ultimately decided that people can or can't "get away" with using LLMs to license-launder code, it's undoubtedly a dick move.
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by robinsonb5 2mo ago
I never particularly liked the standard hard disk icons from MagicWB, but in general I really liked the aesthetic, especially the drawers with topic icons overlaid. As for MUI, it was a fantastic system for programming user interfaces and f
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by robinsonb5 2mo ago
Because they don't have the informed consent* of the owner of the device wich ends up running the code? * no, small print in a click-through agreement doesn't count.
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by robinsonb5 2mo ago
Also, strictly one question per email - otherwise only the first will be answered and any others ignored!
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by robinsonb5 3mo ago
The problem is, quite simply, insurance. When something is paid for from a big nebulous ball of money rather than straight out of people's pockets, the downward pressure on prices just isn't there in the same way. The conversation
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by robinsonb5 3mo ago
I would pay what I used to pay for DVDs.
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by robinsonb5 3mo ago
Sure, I can do that, but there's some value in being able to check quickly and easily that, for example, the xz utils binaries shipped by a major distro actually match the published source. Also useful for checking that a binary contai
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by robinsonb5 3mo ago
Sure, but a signature doesn't prove that a particular binary came from a particular codebase - merely that a particular human (or other trusted entity, for varying degrees of "trusted") has vouched for it. Being able to repro
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by robinsonb5 3mo ago
> But online retail (and food delivery, etc) does seem to be slowly but surely eating away at local shops so I think it's within the realm of possibility. Online retail eating away at local shops is a problem with two aspects - one
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by robinsonb5 3mo ago
Showing my age here - it took me a while to realise this has nothing to do with old Apple keyboards and mice.
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by robinsonb5 3mo ago
> In my experience the driving-behavior part of my brain can run virtually autonomously It can, but I've heard quite plausible claims in the past [1] that you shouldn't let it - because that's one of the things that kills
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
TMK includes firmware for an ADB to USB converter which is really easy to build using a 5 volt ProMicro. For the last one I made I just cut an S-Video cable in half and wired it directly to the board. Just needs one pullup resistor. (Typing
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
If some of the things that the C standard left undefined had instead been made implementation defined then the compiler would at least be obligated to do something that makes sense on the target architecture, rather than having license to t
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
> but the text color is usually set slightly off black (why!!??) This can be cause by colour management. If the black is defined in terms of RGB and then converted to CMYK as part of the pre-press workflow, you'll typically have a m
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
Good choice! oss-cad-suite will give you the open source toolchain for ULX3S in one convenient package. There are plenty of example projects and other resources, plus a discord server. https://ulx3s.github.io/ (Also, to do
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
For teaching / learning it's hard to beat Quartus Prime Lite - the virtual JTAG infrastructure (for SignalTap logic analyzer) is much better than the other options. (It's easy to create custom virtual JTAG modules to control
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
The notion of being expected to pay for software that was formerly free - when Windows users aren't expected to bear those same costs - does indeed piss me off. If I were actually using Xilinx FPGAs I'd be more pissed off. Luckily
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
> In other words, they're saying hobbyists and beginners are on Windows anyway I suspect they're massively underestimating how many hobbyists and students are on Linux. We're not talking about a typical demographic here, w
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
So does Quartus Prime Pro - and for specific Agilex 5 devices it's also free. (Presumably it was too much trouble to backport support for Agilex to the Lite version.) There are also free Linux versions of Lattice Diamond, Gowin EDA and
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
> I see no problem with monetizing Linux users. If I am monetizing Windows and macOS users, there should be no exceptions towards Linux Here I agree with you - Linux users shouldn't expect any special privileges here. But we're
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
When did we stop spelling it "nybble"?
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
Inkscape is awesome - I use it regularly for extracting design elements from PDFs and vectorising bitmaps. It works surprisingly well for simple CAD tasks, too - I've used it in combination with TinkerCAD to produce some 3D-printed par
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by robinsonb5 4mo ago
Indeed. Trusting that it will only be processing the user's queries - as opposed to, say, becoming part of a distributed grid of AI processing nodes - isn't a bet I'd be willing to place much money on.
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by robinsonb5 5mo ago
In the small town where I live we have a small cinema with three screens. They always start the movie at the advertised time - no adverts, just a few trailers in the preceding 10 minutes. You can book online, but I usually just walk in and
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by robinsonb5 5mo ago
> But the point is that FPGAs are that accessible today. They've been accessible for a lot longer than most people think. The original Minimig project (an FPGA recreation of the Amiga chipset, coupled with a real 68000 CPU) started
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by robinsonb5 5mo ago
Those would be the Pork Futures Warehouse from Discworld.

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