themulticaster

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by themulticaster 9mo ago
> [...] but the real reason is their uni can't afford a PET scanner for them to use. This is incorrect, TUM has a PET scanner (site in German): https://nuklearmedizin.mri.tum.de/de/Patienten-Zuweiser/Pet-..
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by themulticaster 1y ago
There's both: GTFS is a standard for the regular schedule, and GTFS-RT is a standard for realtime information. Link: https://gtfs.org/documentation/realtime/reference/
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by themulticaster 2y ago
no-panic uses link-time shenanigans to prevent panics in the compiled binary, but this isn't 100% reliable (as explained in the README, just pointing this out)
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by themulticaster 2y ago
The user you replied to likely means something different: The priority of the event often depends on the exact contents on the event and not the hardware event source. For example, say you receive a "read request completed" interr
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by themulticaster 2y ago
When it comes to exchangeable lens cameras (DSLRs/DSLMs), as you increase the number of pixels you very quickly reach a point where you're limited by the optical performance of the lens instead of the sensor. Lots of systems offer
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by themulticaster 2y ago
Isabelle/HOL has Quickcheck, which is precisely what you think it is. Although it only works if the free variables in the thesis you'd like to prove are sufficiently simple AFAIK (think integers or lists). The more powerful altern
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by themulticaster 3y ago
Of all the BSDs, I'm only a little familiar with OpenBSD through its OpenSSH fame, so I'm a little surprised to hear that a (probably) somewhat related project would use XML in a system call. In other words, if an OpenSSH release
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by themulticaster 3y ago
When choosing a bowl for your potato salad, you need to keep some important properties of potato salad bowls in mind. Different bowls have different designs that make some better suited to storing potato salad than others. For example, a hi
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by themulticaster 3y ago
Based on its name I think it's used in Arch Linux packages (at least makepkg says it is generating an mtree file at some point during the build process IIRC). However it appears mtree (the tool) isn't packages, so perhaps it'
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by themulticaster 3y ago
Yeah, I think coming up with definitions of "understanding" or "reasoning" that GPT-4 and friends supposedly don't fulfill is moving goalposts. To continue your line of thinking, when we add salt and pepper to a dis
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by themulticaster 3y ago
The anti-pattern described as Deref Polymorphism is not the same as using Deref with the newtype pattern, in order to allow using the wrapped type transparently. In the latter case, the Target type of the Deref trait is always going to be p
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by themulticaster 3y ago
Yes, it should just work for all projects if you put in in ~/.cargo/config.toml, or as a per-project setting. Git life pro tip (that you didn't know you needed until now): You can use .git/info/exclude (present in e
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by themulticaster 3y ago
As far as I know, non stick surfaces are mostly (always?) made out of PTFE (brand name Teflon), which is a little unusual in that it starts releasing toxic gases when it's heated way before it shows any signs of structural damage or de
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by themulticaster 3y ago
Is the Neural Engine/CoreML used in "normal" desktop apps on macOS, or is it limited to specialized ML centered apps? In other words, where should I expect performance improvements if there was a hypothetical Mesa for compute
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by themulticaster 3y ago
I'd see that as a benefit of llama.cpp - it's specifically designed to be usable on consumer hardware such as laptops, without professional GPUs.
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by themulticaster 3y ago
I'd like to add some context as to why lockless algorithms are popular in the Linux kernel. Roughly speaking, there are two possible scenarios in which kernel code is executed: Either in context of a process (e.g. while handling a sysc
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by themulticaster 4y ago
This is the way. In theory, you're only supposed to downvote comments that don't contribute to the discussion. For me, that mostly amounts to very rude/unhelpful comments or extremely flawed arguments (flat earth level, not j
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by themulticaster 4y ago
Well, using the identity function as a hash does not provide any avalanche effect at all. And as parent comments point out, certain hash map implementations require a strong hash function. I'm guessing that the identity function probab
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by themulticaster 4y ago
I was genuinely surprised when I stumbled upon this Stack Overflow question [1] where someone asked why std::hash is the identity function for int, and some commenters argue that it is a perfectly sensible choice for a hash function. [1] h
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by themulticaster 4y ago
I'm not familiar with how it compares to ARM/Intel's profiling tools, but I found the Linux perf suite to be very capable (though limited to Linux obviously). And Hotspot [1] allows effortless profile visualization using flam
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by themulticaster 4y ago
Indeed. I'm currently stuck with 8GB RAM on my laptop and it feels like the OOM killer [1] is playing whack-a-mole with Firefox and any Electron apps. Start Firefox, then VS Code gets killed by the OOM killer. Start VS Code, then Slack
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by themulticaster 4y ago
Mesa (the Linux OpenGL driver) supports caching shaders on any GPU. And Vulkan essentially has shader caching built in at the specification level. I know that Steam ships precompiled Vulkan shaders, and while there's no equivalent for
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by themulticaster 4y ago
That looks like an nice idea in principle, however (I hope this doesn't come across too negative) I don't think using similar colors for lines if they're going to similar destinations is quite the optimal solution. In my expe
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by themulticaster 4y ago
Interestingly, your example renders incorrectly for me (Firefox/W10). The overline is placed between 1 and ).
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by themulticaster 4y ago
> (My apologies to non-native speakers of English; if someone did that to me in German I'd have no clue what was meant). At least for me it's perfectly understandable (except the "Mrs" part). This reminds of those &qu
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by themulticaster 4y ago
When I opened HN today I really did not expect to find a comment mentioning the Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege e.V.
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by themulticaster 4y ago
Hey Raph, hoping you might see this: Almost all (Rust) game engines seem to focus entirely on sprites (or more generally, texture-based primitives) for rendering. I've been experimenting with a toy game project based heavily around mor
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by themulticaster 4y ago
Do you suggest there is any security benefit of a short canary? Or is it just about keeping a canary simple and comprehensible even for non-technical users?
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by themulticaster 4y ago
I think your question is a little too broad to answer precisely, as it depends on your definition of "making sense" - however, CPU cycles are still relevant in many aspects. Generally speaking, just because modern x86 CPUs use num
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by themulticaster 4y ago
My personal Bluetooth experience also improved drastically when I finally got around properly importing the pairing keys from Windows into Linux. Now everything works flawlessly. If anyone is dual-booting Linux and Windows, here's a go

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