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by strangetortoise 1y ago
It is likely that most of the teslas you saw around Amsterdam were part of the Schiphol airport taxi fleet. They went all in on tesla about a decade ago.
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by strangetortoise 3y ago
To make meaningful statements about P and NP problems, you probably need to be able to model your problem as a computational one. If for example, you model it as a graph, with a peg represented by a node, and a bounce direction to another p
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by strangetortoise 3y ago
They haven't made slotted ram or storage on their macbooks since 2012 (retina macbooks removed the slotted ram afaik). It might save on thickness, but I'm not buying the slim chasses argument being the only reason, since they happ
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by strangetortoise 3y ago
>- A megacorp that pays 0% in income taxes still pays a ton of sales tax on things it buys Not familiar with the US, is this actually true? In europe, as a company, you're allowed to subtract VAT on products bought from VAT owed fro
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by strangetortoise 3y ago
Theres a lot of value in the ecosystem through the asset store, that allows yoi to get up and running much more quickly than if you had to built subsystems from scratch (i.e. You can buy a good water package for <100 usd, whereas impleme
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by strangetortoise 3y ago
> More languages should have a single, mandatory way to format code, without any ways to opt out. Strongly disagree. Maybe if you're in a very domain constrained environment, i vould see this being valuable. But i write graphics and
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by strangetortoise 3y ago
Non-USA here (which might affect things): Isn't the point of paying with e.g. a Netflix gift card that they auto-cancel/pause your subscription to Netflix after the gift card runs out of funds? How would that incur a debt?
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by strangetortoise 3y ago
Currently have to use sqlalchemy on an existing project, and while I am not necessarily disagreeing with you on ORMs or performance, just wanted to add that chatgpt has been able to reduce my time fighting with their documentation by what I
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by strangetortoise 3y ago
Forgive my ignorance: I thought it was the other way around, and you needed some relatively high amount of compression on a vinyl master, since otherwise the grooves would swing too wildly, and the needle would have a higher chance of &quot
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by strangetortoise 4y ago
I have heard this type of reply to this remark (from my side) a few times now. It has made me curious: Are you a type of person that often checks the sources on Wikipedia? Anecdotally: I know that Wikipedia is not always correct. But I feel
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by strangetortoise 4y ago
Does this form a problem for digital mixing consoles? As far as I know, these already have fairly beefy fans for heat exhaust, so I don't know if they couldn't just add more airflow?
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by strangetortoise 4y ago
If a dealer repeatedly puts a needle in front of an addict, and encourages them to take it, and they end up giving in, who's responsible? The addict is of course not without blame, but at the very least I hope we can find a consensus t
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by strangetortoise 4y ago
I might misinterpret the parent, but I think the parents idea is more that it helps when deriving the math used in a lot of video game programming. (e.g. simplifying expressions in shader code, or deriving closed forms for intersection test
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by strangetortoise 4y ago
> My understanding is that most compilers can out-optimise the average developer Do you happen to know where (what source) you got that from? I'm genuinely curious, as to my knowledge, compilers are generally still easily fooled by
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by strangetortoise 4y ago
I clearly haven't, can you elaborate? I thought the steam deck was near universally lauded for it's open and hackable software, repairable hardware and competitive pricepoint. Is there some privacy news or other scandal I've
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by strangetortoise 4y ago
Not sure if you're familiar with Mike Acton (as mentioned in the article). One of his key points of focus is data-oriented design, and that when designing software, ignoring the architectural realities of the hardware is ignoring one o
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by strangetortoise 4y ago
Why couldn't this be solved by Apple simply adding a feature that allows you to lock the installation sources behind a PIN? We've had these type of restrictions for other subsystems, so I don't see why it wouldn't be pos
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by strangetortoise 5y ago
While the 20ms latency on the Remarkable 2 is very impressive, let's please not say that users "cannot perceive the difference". At best the latency "does not bother" users. There are whole swaths of professions for
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by strangetortoise 5y ago
At the risk of being pedantic; it's just a feature, it does not have anything to do with LSP. Plenty of non-LSP IDE's have these features as well (XCode, Visual Studio Classic, etc).
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by strangetortoise 5y ago
> But I will say this, I've long been thinking that there should at least be a programming language and OS that does its best to not change. A sort of whole environment where every single piece that's out of beta commits to min
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by strangetortoise 5y ago
Just to be clear, you're talking about freelance consulting in NL, correct? I can believe that. Based on my conversations with peers, the big consulting firms seem to be the exact opposite however: - Spending endless time on useless re
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by strangetortoise 5y ago
afaik none of Apples other "proprietary software" is designed to pass my personal images to a human for visual inspection if it mistakenly outputs 2 high-enough numbers after a handful of convolution operations and matrix multipli
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by strangetortoise 5y ago
> ... but the question of whether there are more or less police staff generally probably not that important here. What are you talking about? A quick google shows extensive reporting on the lack of police staffing and working pressure. T
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by strangetortoise 6y ago
I think one of the problems here is that people wanna share code snippets on social media, where generally, the other approaches mean linking to an external github gist or similar, which isn't as visible. I'm not sure if I see a g