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billyjmc
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Not if you play roguelikes.
billyjmc
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Almost certainly. GPS is not only easily jammed, but easily spoofed. If the car believed GPS instead of its own eyes, so to speak, then there’s significant potential that you’d see glitches more often. It could also be something of a safety risk when using its self-driving capabilities.
billyjmc
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Will Chrichton gave a talk at Jane Street about his research that led to the development of this plugin. It’s a pretty good talk:

https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/rust-for-everyone/

As I recall, he also explains how Rust is uniquely positioned to enable this kind of syntax formatting.
billyjmc
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Computers have been making decisions for a while now. As a specific personal example from 2008, I found out that my lender would make home loan offers based on an inscrutable (to me and the banker I was speaking to) heuristic. If the loan was denied by the heuristic, then a human could review the decision, but had strict criteria that they would have to follow. Basically, a computer could “exercise judgement” a make offers that a human could not.
billyjmc
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Energy is how much work you can do. Power is how fast you can do it. When you express these in terms of densities, it’s how much energy a certain quantity of material can store, and how quickly that energy can be released from a certain quantity of material.

If you short out a AA battery, it will get warm for a little while. If you short out a 14500 Li-ion battery (which is the same size and comparable energy density), you might get a small explosion as it dumps its energy very quickly.
billyjmc
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
I don’t think it requires conspiratorial thinking to believe that seed oils are less healthful than more traditional sources of cooking oils / fats (for one reason or another). Regardless of that, given that seed oils can be produced cheaply and incorporated in to foods to increase profit, “seed oil infiltration” into foods is very real.