tobz1000

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by tobz1000 4mo ago
> the proportion of all 2n-bit values that can be generated by the product of two n-bit values goes to zero as n becomes large. This means that if you have, say, 10000000-bit integers multiplying 10000000-bit integers, you’d expect relat
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by tobz1000 4mo ago
At least in the UK, the main high-street retailers will only stock goods from reputable brands with a (relatively) decent track record and safety standards. I don't believe there is any intersection between products sold on Temu and e.
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by tobz1000 4mo ago
I don't know definitively, but the Zig project has been vocally anti-LLM code; Bun was bought by an LLM company.
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by tobz1000 4mo ago
Panther Lake's efficiency doesn't match M5, but it seems to be very good by all accounts. "Extremely disappointing" is a misrepresentation.
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by tobz1000 5mo ago
> there are testimonies of smart home devices like anti-theft alarms or automatic doors, that stop working whenever [...] because their backends rely on Cloudflare. The fault here lies 100% with horribly designed IoT devices that turn in
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by tobz1000 6mo ago
All of them offer only proxied access to the internet. They do not expose access to any "private network".
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by tobz1000 11mo ago
The comment probably refers to data races over memory access, which are prevented by usage of `Send` and `Sync` traits, rather than more general race conditions.
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by tobz1000 1y ago
And live bookmarks. This was the healthy way to read news from multiple sources before social media.
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by tobz1000 2y ago
There is a years-old proposal for deeply-comparable types: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple Maybe we'll see it one day.
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by tobz1000 2y ago
Or you can adblock and donate on Patreon etc. to your favourite channels. Not every channel you watch will benefit, but a much higher percentage of your money goes to creators, who generally get a less than fair deal from platform holders.
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by tobz1000 2y ago
Measuring GDP adjusted by purchasing power parity, but not per capita, seems like an odd metric. PPP-adjusted GDP per-capita gives an indication of the level of goods/services affordable by an individual citizen. Total GDP, unadjusted,
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by tobz1000 3y ago
As always, remember to consider humidity when compararing locations - it can make both cold and hot weather feel much harsher. I'm more comfortable in 40c at low humidity than 25c at 90%. The UK experiences much more of the latter.
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by tobz1000 3y ago
I pay for ProtonMail but understand that most wouldn't. AFAIK they still offer a decent free tier, which I'm happy to help support.
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by tobz1000 3y ago
It seems equivalent to desktop for me. Add-ons -> [add-on-name]: opens the modal content for an addon Add-ons -> Add-ons manager -> [add-on name] -> Settings: opens the settings page for an addon in a new tab.
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by tobz1000 3y ago
Pocket Casts has been reliable for me for a few years.
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by tobz1000 3y ago
Could "energy density" not refer to energy-per-volume rather than mass? Then that headline might make sense per this quote from someone at Honda: "Simply, the energy density would be doubled. So same energy, same volume base,
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by tobz1000 3y ago
It sounds more like the I/O firmware was running on dedicated PS1 hardware: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/12/ps4-and-x... > The PlayStation 2, meanwhile, had the original PlaySt
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by tobz1000 3y ago
A small but passionate minority - given framework's modularity, it's not inconceivable that someone else will manufacture and sell a small batch of compatible keyboards and touchpads with buttons.
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by tobz1000 3y ago
vscode is the best-case scenario for Electron in my experience; this suggests that you need good diligence to ensure reasonable performance with the framework. Even then, performance is only acceptable, not exceptional. Sublime Text is a gr
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by tobz1000 3y ago
I'd love to see this design. There's something similar on the HP Omen 16: https://i.imgur.com/R4O5zzU.png Not sure why 99% of laptops see a numpad as a higher priority than matching a desktop keyboard layout.
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by tobz1000 4y ago
My guess is a dropdown selection box.
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by tobz1000 4y ago
1. Efficiency, and 2. Integrated graphics power. Conversely, what is the advantage of Intel, other than peak boost performance (at vastly higher wattage)?
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by tobz1000 4y ago
Most comments are in favour of the former, but we've been trained by every media player UI to understand that a button with a pause symbol means that the media is currently playing.
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by tobz1000 4y ago
If you listen to music all day, saving phone battery life is a pretty good reason. Plus a non-Android MP3 player can get 40-100 hours on a charge. > all the mp3 players I've seen are made to be as cheap as possible. There are plenty
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by tobz1000 4y ago
Compilation can be very intensive, and it's detrimental to a developer's workflow if they must wait for long recompiles. Rust was originally written in OCaml before being self-hosted, and it wouldn't be as fast (or would be e
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by tobz1000 4y ago
These changes would prompt some additional remarks about the Rust implementation: most optimisations make code more verbose and less idiomatic, but in Rust it can sometimes be the opposite.
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by tobz1000 4y ago
This is so close to my idea for the ideal note-taking app (that I never tried to make). I discovered it a couple of months ago and used it to plan a trip around Europe: research and write up on desktop, refer and make quick changes on phone
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by tobz1000 4y ago
I'm browsing on mobile. Interested in reading about the language feature being discussed here, but not in fixing demo code. It seems as though I can't advance beyond page 3 without doing this.
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by tobz1000 4y ago
All in the name of "cleanness" - yet it actually increases my cognitive load, as I have to hunt the whole window to figure out what's clickable.
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by tobz1000 4y ago
mpv will stream by default, but requires youtube-dl or yt-dlp to be installed separately.

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