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pitherpather
·2 anni fa·discuss
In driver's ed class we were give the assignment to come up with safety-related rhymes.

I remember one from a friend named Roger.

"Keep your eyes off the foxes, or your car will end up like boxes."
pitherpather
·2 anni fa·discuss
Given the current style, if the book were published today would it be titled BAREFOOT?
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·2 anni fa·discuss
We live in a simulation. Dark energy corresponds to a memory leak. A reboot is specified when this proportion reaches 2/3 (66.6%). This is all written in The Runbook.
pitherpather
·2 anni fa·discuss
It is true in general that the "binding energy" of a nucleus is reflected in the measured mass or atomic weight, exactly as mc^2.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
> This shows how easy it is to end up with two opposite conclusions by using Ngram Viewer slightly differently.

Hence the commonly-encountered phrase: You believed a naive ngram reference? Oh my sweet summer child.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
I have taken my CD player/decoder made with discretes and turned it end-over-end while slowly backing away from a strong magnet.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
Stay tuned. I will let you know.

I hope this doesn't turn out like the CD-rewinder I wasted my money on last year.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
> (Probably there's some principle of standpoint theory that says that I as a white person am not allowed to judge Mi'kmaq Indians. Fine, far be it from me to challenge standpoint theory. But many of Elizabeth Hoover's ex-friends who turned against her are white, and I judge those people.)
pitherpather
·2 anni fa·discuss
Also, modulo a successful coin-in-the-middle attack.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
Watch out if the AIs start to say: I can help you, but there is one little real-world favor I need to ask for.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
> a game

Competitive prompting?
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·2 anni fa·discuss
Well-enough written. A good reminder.

Miffed that they are numbered 1-10, not 0-9. Something to work on in my next lifetime.
pitherpather
·2 anni fa·discuss
> The automotive industry, with its increasing reliance on advanced electronics for everything from engine control units to driver assistance systems, demands materials that can consistently perform under challenging conditions with defects under one part per billion, which translates to one defect per billion kilometers. Copper’s inherent properties, such as its high melting point and excellent electrical conductivity, make it particularly suited for these requirements.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
> We will protect the confidentiality and privacy of clients by:

Perhaps add h: keeping the therapist's cell phone in a sound-isolated enclosure.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
If the comment history is considered sacrosanct, it could be nice to be able to go back and retroactively change the username for an account, at least.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
> naming things is hard

Of tangential interest: I recently heard that Faraday, while discovering new electromagnetic phenomenon, then turned to either a linguist or classicist for help in assigning/inventing terms for them. (I cannot find a link for this just now, so consider this heresay.)
pitherpather
·2 anni fa·discuss
I have seen immediate-mode SVG for GUIs.

Is parsing and rendering SVG well-pipelined at this point? Offhand it might be cache-friendly. I have not tried a simple elapsed-time-in-loop test, but to me geometric screen-painting happens instantly enough.

I can imagine a separate branch in computer evolution, if PCs had not happened, where graphical terminals would have evolved to render something SVG-like, support a mouse, and send back simple mousedown/mouseup/x/y data.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
Also, is there any workflow option in current Kicad for importing a component-naming netlist (of the kind so many existing schematic packages can output), without having a live Kicad schematic?

One lesson of this thread could be: There is enough interest in text-based "schematics" -- aka netlist import -- for Kicad layout to add support for the approach, if it does not currently exist.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
Scrolled all the way through; very impressive.

> We have implemented (fully or partially) 48 POSIX Functions from above. ...[however] These 24 POSIX Functions will Halt when TCC WebAssembly calls them…

I was just wondering this evening: I have seen WASM described as an environment for selectively subsetting interfaces, in part for security. Is the following sometimes done?: Compile and link to a "glibc" which implements only a subset of calls, again for runtime security?
pitherpather
·2 anni fa·discuss
I am aware of some research into operating systems with a database rather than filesystem as a base layer. If SeaweedFS serves a middle-ground between databases and filesystems, could it also suggest a middle-ground in conceiving of research operating systems??