utensil4778

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by utensil4778 2y ago
Age of consequences, indeed. It really does feel like we (humanity) are on the precipice of something. We're smack in the middle of an era that entire books will be written about. I really don't like thinking about the decades to
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Huh, this story sounds familiar. I read a HN comment the other day telling this same story. They didn't just turn a random HN comment into a news article, did they? Yup. They did. At least they cited it I suppose.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
> Perhaps one reason is that OSS system programmers are washing their dirty linen in public; not a matter of "many eyes make bugs shallow", but that "any eyes make bad code embarassing". I've committed sins in pr
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by utensil4778 2y ago
The Thinkpad TrackPoint mouse has over 20,000 nerve endings
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Prague is fantastic if you can avoid the tourist crowds. I lived there briefly with a Czech roommate who took me on tours through the "real" city. Also had a British friend there and we went through the usual tourist destination
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by utensil4778 2y ago
For quite a while before I built my homelab, my git server was a flash drive plugged into my OpenWRT router. Honestly I still kind of prefer that to gitlab et al. It's nice to not have to leave my terminal to setup a new repo. It takes
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by utensil4778 2y ago
I doubt that wireless energy transmission at this scale and distance will ever be practical. It will probably never be economic compared to terrestrial panels and batteries. If/when we build space elevators, then orbital solar might
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by utensil4778 2y ago
<iPhone user> reacted haha to your message <iPhone user> liked your message
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by utensil4778 2y ago
It should be entirely socially acceptable to respond to any trivial message with "ACKNOWLEDGED" á la Picard
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Because the work is remarkably intricate. It requires you to get real close and personal with the work, usually with magnification. It requires complete and unimpeded dexterity of your fingers, so bulky gloves are absolutely not an option.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
> When are people going to realize that telling customers what they want, reducing value and quality, and ignoring their complaints is not a good business model? Just as soon as they realize that short-term immediate profit is not the on
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Okay, that would be a normal amount of bonkers thing to suggest in C or another language with real pointers. But in C#, that is a batshit insane thing to suggest. I'm not even sure if it's even legal in C# to take a pointer to an
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by utensil4778 2y ago
For anyone actually interested in this technology, it's something you can do on your own with nothing more than an ESP32. I've seen research papers on using this method to do gesture detection as well.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
> it works by directly reading the NTFS tables rather than spidering through the directories Maybe I'm just ignorant of linux filesystems, but this seems like the obvious thing to do. Do ext and friends not have a file table like th
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by utensil4778 2y ago
> tyre Believe it or not, the UK is not the entire world. In the US, we have vast stretches of highway with nothing in sight. You can pretty easily find yourself many miles away from the nearest town and with no cell service to call for
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by utensil4778 2y ago
As far as I understand, modules like an ESP32 for example, carry their own FCC certification. If you include them in your product, you do still need certification of the product overall, but you don't have to worry about the radio ce
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by utensil4778 2y ago
I would suspect that the JIT treats a reference as a call to somewhere else in memory, which can have considerable overhead in extremely tight loops. By copying a pointer into a local variable, it may hint to the JIT that you want the poi
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Sure, if you discount the fact that other people exist, are conscious, have their own experiences of the same world and also experience joy, sadness, love, and suffering. To assert that your perspective is the only thing that matters is t
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by utensil4778 2y ago
I still can't get my head around the fact that one can earn a doctorate in nursing. Therefore: Dr. Nurse Doctor
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Mechanically, all hemoglobin does is take up an oxygen molecule when in an oxygen rich environment, and releases it in a CO2 rich environment. CO2 just dissolves into the bulk fluid of the blood and diffuses out in the lungs, it is not carr
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by utensil4778 2y ago
For anyone else wondering: your body is continually pulling calcium from your bones for metabolic processes. Usually it gets replaced when you consume something with calcium in it. It makes sense to have somewhere to store extra nutrients s
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by utensil4778 2y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite projects. I once wrote a discord not that interfaced with our Jira system. I wrote a whole chat interface that walked users through the steps required to produce a useful ticket, and they got thrown int
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Several years ago, I picked up an old SmartBoard projector. The thing has no buttons, it's meant to be plugged into a remote control module attached to the board, or controlled over serial as part of a room system, or through its Ether
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by utensil4778 2y ago
A hard restriction would prevent a malicious prompt from being passed to the model. Instead, it seems they've simply asked the model nicely to pretty please not answer malicious prompts. A hard restriction would be a regex or a simpler
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by utensil4778 2y ago
This is just the same extremely poorly thought out argument against any type of pure research. Pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake always results in improvement down the line, even if it's impossible to predict when and how.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
I've had enough bad experiences with ST to just avoid their MCUs altogether when possible. Last year I wasted several days trying to figure out why a certain ST chip wouldn't respond to the programmer I was using. The chip claimed
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by utensil4778 2y ago
Maybe this doesn't count as static, but I used to regularly use reflection in C# to generate code for interacting with foreign DLLs. This was a video game mod, essentially. I needed to create a text interface to modify settings for any
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by utensil4778 2y ago
One could argue that template metaprogramming is a kludge DSL of its own.
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by utensil4778 2y ago
I like OOP precisely because you can just treat any object like a black box. You don't need to fully understand what the object does at all times. The way my brain works is by turning all problems into spatial problems. Programs take
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by utensil4778 2y ago
How do you feel about the Intel management engine, which is a permanent backdoor with total hardware access which is fundamentally impossible to remove? Or AMD's equivalent, or NVIDIA's proprietary driver blobs, or the closed an

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