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When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates

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79 points·by magnat·7 months ago·35 comments

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magnat
·12 days ago·discuss
Selecting parts of the code (in F7 mode or with SHIFT-LEFT/RIGHT) highlights which individual pixels corresponds to the actual letters.
magnat
·2 months ago·discuss
Some other examples:

- ACPI configuration for power management and platform stuff [1]

- Bitcoin transactions [2]

- TrueType fonts [3]

[1] https://wiki.osdev.org/AML

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script

[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/t...
magnat
·6 months ago·discuss
No, I mean Visual Studio (the IDE), not Visual Studio Code (the editor).
magnat
·6 months ago·discuss
Is there a way to use this (or similar) model in Visual Studio? Extensions on Visual Studio Marketplace are clunky and sluggish at best, if they even work at all.
magnat
·6 months ago·discuss
Also:

* Reverse polish notation

* Chinese remainder theorem

* Byzantine generals problem
magnat
·9 months ago·discuss
Did you, by any chance, play Outer Wilds recently?
magnat
·11 months ago·discuss
If one node kept transmitting non-stop, it could push data out at 3.5kbps and no one else in that range can transmit at the same time.

However, in EU there is a legal limit of 1% duty cycle on 868MHz band and collision avoidance mechanism, meaning on average you can send a packet (up to 255 bytes) once a minute.
magnat
·11 months ago·discuss
Hard limit is 3.5kbps with 148dB link budget (Medium Fast preset in Meshtastic [1]). In practice - a packet worth of hundred bytes every half a second or so.

[1] https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/radio-settings/
magnat
·11 months ago·discuss
> LoRa can reach a range of up to 3 miles (4.8 km) in urban areas, and up to 10 miles (16 km) in rural areas

In mountainous area LoRa on 868MHz band reaches over 100km. Last month we had a stratospheric balloon with a Meshtastic node attached. It established direct (albeit intermittent) connection between Warsaw and Berlin.
magnat
·11 months ago·discuss
> I'm a c# dev with near 20 years experience

Which IDE do you use? JetBrains Rider?
magnat
·11 months ago·discuss
> if you run it at the full 262144 tokens of context youll need ~65gb of ram

What is the relationship between context size and RAM required? Isn't the size of RAM related only to number of parameters and quantization?
magnat
·12 months ago·discuss
If RTL-SDR is a good reference - when demodulating FM it produces pretty much the same noise you'd expect from a mistuned oldschool radio.
magnat
·12 months ago·discuss
The separate noise source is a bit of surprise here. Why is it necessary? Wouldn't RF noise produce same results?
magnat
·12 months ago·discuss
Try SolidGoldMagikarp
magnat
·12 months ago·discuss
Mostly for I/O, e.g. mmap requires file offset to be multiple of the page size.
magnat
·last year·discuss
It feels like an interpolated Street View imagery. There is one scene with two people between cars in a parking lot. It is the only one I have found that has objects you would expect to change over time. When exploring the scene, those people sometimes disappear altogether and sometimes teleport around, as they would when exploring Street View panoramas. You can clearly tell when you are switching between photos taken a few seconds apart.
magnat
·last year·discuss
> The team also used a CMOS camera to capture visible-light emissions from the microplasmas (...) The CMOS imagers, however, had to be placed close to the measured radiation source, reducing their applicability to remote sensing

How can it be called long-range detector, if literally the detector has to be placed at measured object?
magnat
·4 years ago·discuss
The whole contraption should be shielded from the environment, otherwise its output could be easily influenced by an outside adversary pointing X-ray gun at it.