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by zweifuss 20d ago
Some WTFs are to be expected: https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/
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by zweifuss 24d ago
Middle of the road, comparable to Sunflower oil. But they want to utilize waste products and a low energy conversion process.
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by zweifuss 24d ago
My gut feeling says to not trust this analysis (off by at least a magnitude). Care to share a link so I can be certain?
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by zweifuss 1mo ago
It should. With good speed even on a 12th gen Intel. But more importantly, what's your use case?
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by zweifuss 2mo ago
These claims by WH site are at least debatable/unsubstanciated: - "The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature." Furin cleavage sites are common in other types of coronaviruses (like MERS). - &
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by zweifuss 2mo ago
So, does this mean faster rendering in notebooks, better debugging, fewer NVIDIA troubles?
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by zweifuss 2mo ago
As said before, the physics for chemistry is 100 years old (Schrödinger/Dirac), but the N-body Hamiltonian is an exponential beast. Scaling to just 1mg (~10¹⁹ particles) hits the "Exponential Wall."
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by zweifuss 3mo ago
The app on your Mac today isn't a rewrite of the legendary Mac OS 7.2.1 Graphing Calculator, but an acquired app based on Curvus Pro introduced in OSX Tiger. The first one has a legendary backstory. 2 devs snuck into Apple after their
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by zweifuss 3mo ago
The disagreement in timelines usually comes from differences in the used definition of AGI. Many who predict a 2026–2028 arrival define it as: 'the ability to perform any purely cognitive task a human can do.' If we stick strictly
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by zweifuss 6mo ago
When you explore a problem, use Python and lists/sets/dictionaries/JSON. Wait with types and specific data structures till you have understanding. Speed of development over speed of execution. When you know what and how to bu
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by zweifuss 7mo ago
If you can do a successful switch to cloud only Entra (aka. AzureAD) first, you are 90% ready for a migration to Open Source. You need Entra for Licensing anyway. Yes, I'm aware that this is hard. Univention Nubus (Keycloak + OpenLDAP)
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by zweifuss 8mo ago
The text was mangeled by some OCR-software. This ad can be found as image on Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_1_Advertisemen...
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by zweifuss 8mo ago
Yes and no. They all have a very solid industrial base, like 30% to 50% of the economy, with ~50% of workers living abroad (not fully part of the welfare state). Comparatively high R&D. Low taxes. And plain tax evasion is now illegal, b
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by zweifuss 8mo ago
https://homerdixon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Environmen...
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by zweifuss 9mo ago
I made a mistake: Test # A B C Result 1 True True False True 2 False True False False 3 True False False False 4 False True True True
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by zweifuss 9mo ago
Modified Condition/Decision Coverage It's mandated by DO-178C for the highest-level (Level A) avionics software. Example: if (A && B || C) { ... } else { ... } needs individual tests for A, B, and C. Test #,A,B,A &&amp
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by zweifuss 9mo ago
AlgoDrill is so futuristic, that Gemini 3 included it in the HN front page 10 years from now (#5): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
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by zweifuss 9mo ago
I can remember perl vs python flame wars ca. 2002. Also, the early 2010s are not that recent: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Pythonista%2Cp...
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by zweifuss 10mo ago
The history of the Windows TCP/IP stack went most likely like this: IBM (NetBEUI, no TCP/IP) -> Spider TCP/IP Stack + SysV STREAMS environment -> MS rewrite 1 (early NT, Winsock instead of STREAMS) -> MS rewrite 2 (m
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by zweifuss 10mo ago
ZTE is also under scrutiny. The reason it's only Huawei and ZTE is that other Chinese providers are so insignificant that the telecoms will likely be able to replace the infrastructure themselves with spares or consolidation. However,
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by zweifuss 11mo ago
"Chat Control" is mass surveillance, not targeted Action. Targeted action mayhaps needs some readjustment, but by and large is already easy to obtain for law enforcement. Normalizing mass surveillance would set a precedent for aut
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by zweifuss 11mo ago
There is something to the existence of fads and fundamentals. When I started, it was Object-Oriented-Programming (with multiple-inheritance and operator overloading, of course), Round-Trip Engineering (RTE), XML, and UML. IMHO, not the idea
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by zweifuss 11mo ago
Silent SMS (Short Message Type 0) have been around since 1996.
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by zweifuss 11mo ago
twinBASIC tries hard to be a bug compatible successor.
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by zweifuss 11mo ago
MS Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro (1997) and Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 (USB). You can buy similar today, but nowhere near the pricepoint. Also the out of the box support by Windows has vanished, and therefore the incentive of game develope
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by zweifuss 11mo ago
A bit of both. Also, the modern Codecs have slightly different tradeoffs (image quality (PSNR, SSIM), computational complexity (CPU vs DSP vs Memory), storage requirements, bit rate) and therefore there isn't one that is best for every
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by zweifuss 11mo ago
I would claim that: (interactive labs + quizzes) > Learning from books Good online documentation > 5yr old tome on bookshelf chat/search with ai > CTRL+F in a PDF manual
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by zweifuss 1y ago
You mean file9 before file10? I have some beef with microsoft, that you can only change this at the Computer level, not per user (see registry key below). Also they call it natural sorting for users, but logical sorting internaly. Unify you
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by zweifuss 1y ago
I haven't read that. But the search for immortality is ancient. It's in the Gilgamesh epic; Emperor Qin Shi Huang searched for it, as did many others looking for the Philosopher's Stone. Of the current wealthy researching imm
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by zweifuss 1y ago
I would like to know what dystopian books you have read. I think about 50 years ago there began a slow shift from warnings of overt totalitarianism (1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451) to threats of social fragmentation, economic inequal

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