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wildzzz
·ieri·discuss
Sure but neither side has a B-2 or F-35. Drones are great for blowing up a few conscripts or a parked plane but a stealth bomber carrying 80 JDAMs can level 5km^2.
wildzzz
·l’altro ieri·discuss
At least that stuff was written in cleartext. You'd immediately know you just typed the wrong character if you saw PRONT on your screen.
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·l’altro ieri·discuss
Isn't a C&D the first course of action in a case like this? This sounds like an overzealous lawfirm blasting anything even slightly related to AI and starting with A, maybe also using AI to do it.
wildzzz
·3 giorni fa·discuss
We buy a lot of space vehicle components from Spain used for national defense (Airbus primarily). Not sure what the justifitication is here.
wildzzz
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I work with a product that has to use Philips head for one specific area. I hate those damn screws. They all need to be torqued to a specific value and this requires putting an significant amount of force axial to the screw to keep the driver from slipping. If you do slip, you'll probably strip the head and now it needs to be replaced. It doesn't help that there's a gasket around the plate that adds extra running torque. Good luck getting a countersunk #2 screw out. The rest of the product uses hex heads so those are incredibly easy to install.
wildzzz
·4 giorni fa·discuss
Osteoarthritis (or specifically, osteoarthrosis), not rheumatoid arthritis (swelling of the areas around the joint due to immunoresponse), it's when the cartilage on the femural head wears out so its just bone on bone. Doctors can inject hyaluronic acid for temporary lubrication but a replacement is pretty much the only long term treatment.
wildzzz
·6 giorni fa·discuss
Checking the button state a bunch of times and computing an average wastes a ton of clock cycles that you could be doing anything else (like updating a display, polling sensors, etc).

The standard way to debounce is to attach an timer to the button. When you press the button, an ISR runs that temporarily disable the timer from triggering again and starts the timer for a specific period (say 20ms). The processor is free to do whatever it wants for the next 20ms. When that timer expires, another routine checks to see if the button is still being held, sets the button's state accordingly, then re-enables the button Timer so it can be triggered again.

Averaging loops are much better for analog inputs where you may have noise that throws off the reading. You only care about a button being on or off, it doesn't matter if it's been mostly on for that period only that it's still on.

When you get into extremely fast digital inputs that need to be reacted to sooner than the debounce wait period, that's when you need hardware debouncing.
wildzzz
·6 giorni fa·discuss
Probably many, but how many is the result of the title of someone's IP leaking? Other than private video titles, what can this AI actually access? I doubt it has bank account information or any other PII that could cause actual damages. The risk is real but the impact is incredibly low.
wildzzz
·7 giorni fa·discuss
So they buy up aging dinosaurs well beyond their life expectancy and do what exactly? Wring it for every dollar they can? Is there any real innovation going on at Bending Spoons and its subsideries? They sound like slumlords: buy a house that's solid but needs some TLC, renovate using the cheapest, builder grade materials they can find, and then rent it out for way more than what it's worth.
wildzzz
·7 giorni fa·discuss
One good thing about expiring passwords is that it forces you to use something that you probably don't use for everything else in your personal life.
wildzzz
·12 giorni fa·discuss
I love going to restaurants that were built when smoking indoors was a thing and trying to figure out where the smoking section (or non-smoking section in older places) used to be. There are a few bars around that still have smoking sections in my area but the requirements are more stringent now (closed room, seperate air handling system).

One of my favorite bars in college allowed smoking upstairs (and still does, although how many college kids actually smoke?). I really do miss having a cigarette in one hand and a frosty beer in the other.
wildzzz
·12 giorni fa·discuss
Is that because the amount of available memory is limited for a single process? You can always add more storage and storage access is relatively the same regardless of whether it comes from the SSD inside the server or sits in another rack. Storage is a pretty linear cost when you're a cloud host buying storage in the hundreds of PB numbers. Whereas for memory, if you want the whole thing, you need the whole server even if your process is light on CPU requirements.
wildzzz
·12 giorni fa·discuss
I don't think people should be able to sell organs or the estate receive compensation. Most organ donation procedures for a living donor are highly invasive and open you up to complications in both the short and long term. There are too many desperate people out there that would be willing to go through with it just for a paycheck. If you're dead, too bad. You signed up to be an organ donor.

However, I do think there are ways to incentivized organ donation. You could be given slightly more priority if you need an organ over someone else of equal need. There's probably another way too that doesn't involve cash.

The government should have a monopoly on recovered organs, they should become government property immediately upon removal. Recovery should only be performed by approved surgeons and verified attached with verified records to back up the source to prevent black market organs from slipping into the network.

When you need an organ transplant, you should only be allowed to register for the closest metropolitan area. This prevents the wealthy from being able to hop a plane at a moments notice and receive an organ from anywhere in the country. Everyone is on the same playing field. Organs should only be transported out of that metropolitan area if there is a greater need for it elsewhere. Like if the #1 in Dallas needs a heart and there's one in Charlotte but the top few of the list aren't eligible for it, it should go to Dallas. Everyone on a donor registration should receive a ranking that's determined anonymously by a third party. Metro areas get first dibs on an organ recovered in that area before it must be sent elsewhere.
wildzzz
·14 giorni fa·discuss
Back when I actually had a gaming PC, I loved using my Steam Link. I used powerline Ethernet to get a decent connection from my bedroom to the basement and it worked well, rarely stuttering. I could never get the D-pad working on my PS4 controller with the Link, no idea what went wrong but my wired 360 controller was perfect. I would use a handheld wireless keyboard/touchpad for any kb/mouse input. It was great.
wildzzz
·14 giorni fa·discuss
They were ROM cards that stored extra typefaces or other PostScript functions.
wildzzz
·15 giorni fa·discuss
Anything I need windows for is work related and runs on my locked down (and actually very cleanly stripped down) windows 11 laptop. Its amazing how much Microsoft hates the consumer but bends over backwards for volume license purchasers.
wildzzz
·16 giorni fa·discuss
The best thing about these fly-by-night Chinese tech companies that manage to shit out something actually good is that they rarely lock the device down so it's relatively easy to flash some new firmware when they inevitably disappear from the market.
wildzzz
·16 giorni fa·discuss
That post about GenieDB the other day has certainly opened my eyes to the sausage making behind the scenes.
wildzzz
·16 giorni fa·discuss
Its like giving every monkey in the zoo a gun and expecting it to become an Olympic-level competitive shooter and not just blow its own foot off.
wildzzz
·16 giorni fa·discuss
That's exactly what I thought, I don't know why that's not a thing yet.