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tobz1000
·geçen ay·discuss
> the proportion of all 2n-bit values that can be generated by the product of two n-bit values goes to zero as n becomes large. This means that if you have, say, 10000000-bit integers multiplying 10000000-bit integers, you’d expect relatively few 100000000000000-bit integers to be produced.

That should be "relatively few 20000000-bit integers", right?
tobz1000
·2 ay önce·discuss
At least in the UK, the main high-street retailers will only stock goods from reputable brands with a (relatively) decent track record and safety standards. I don't believe there is any intersection between products sold on Temu and e.g. Argos, John Lewis.
tobz1000
·2 ay önce·discuss
I don't know definitively, but the Zig project has been vocally anti-LLM code; Bun was bought by an LLM company.
tobz1000
·2 ay önce·discuss
Panther Lake's efficiency doesn't match M5, but it seems to be very good by all accounts. "Extremely disappointing" is a misrepresentation.
tobz1000
·3 ay önce·discuss
> there are testimonies of smart home devices like anti-theft alarms or automatic doors, that stop working whenever [...] because their backends rely on Cloudflare.

The fault here lies 100% with horribly designed IoT devices that turn into bricks when they lose internet connection.
tobz1000
·4 ay önce·discuss
All of them offer only proxied access to the internet. They do not expose access to any "private network".
tobz1000
·9 ay önce·discuss
The comment probably refers to data races over memory access, which are prevented by usage of `Send` and `Sync` traits, rather than more general race conditions.
tobz1000
·geçen yıl·discuss
And live bookmarks. This was the healthy way to read news from multiple sources before social media.
tobz1000
·2 yıl önce·discuss
There is a years-old proposal for deeply-comparable types: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple

Maybe we'll see it one day.
tobz1000
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Or you can adblock and donate on Patreon etc. to your favourite channels. Not every channel you watch will benefit, but a much higher percentage of your money goes to creators, who generally get a less than fair deal from platform holders. Same goes for buying music on Bandcamp + pirating, versus a music streaming subscription.
tobz1000
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Measuring GDP adjusted by purchasing power parity, but not per capita, seems like an odd metric.

PPP-adjusted GDP per-capita gives an indication of the level of goods/services affordable by an individual citizen. Total GDP, unadjusted, is an indicator of a country's economic power. What does PPP-adjusted total GDP indicate?
tobz1000
·2 yıl önce·discuss
As always, remember to consider humidity when compararing locations - it can make both cold and hot weather feel much harsher. I'm more comfortable in 40c at low humidity than 25c at 90%. The UK experiences much more of the latter.
tobz1000
·3 yıl önce·discuss
I pay for ProtonMail but understand that most wouldn't. AFAIK they still offer a decent free tier, which I'm happy to help support.
tobz1000
·3 yıl önce·discuss
It seems equivalent to desktop for me.

Add-ons -> [add-on-name]: opens the modal content for an addon

Add-ons -> Add-ons manager -> [add-on name] -> Settings: opens the settings page for an addon in a new tab.
tobz1000
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Pocket Casts has been reliable for me for a few years.
tobz1000
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Could "energy density" not refer to energy-per-volume rather than mass? Then that headline might make sense per this quote from someone at Honda: "Simply, the energy density would be doubled. So same energy, same volume base, kind of half [the weight]"

Although the author himself confuses the matter, suggesting volume is also reduced: "If Honda's solid-state batteries truly do cut weight and size in half without reducing performance, there could be quite a bit more space in the floor of future Honda vehicles."
tobz1000
·3 yıl önce·discuss
It sounds more like the I/O firmware was running on dedicated PS1 hardware:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/12/ps4-and-x...

> The PlayStation 2, meanwhile, had the original PlayStation chipset built in, so it ran pretty much any PSone title – and when that chip wasn't being used for backwards compatibility it doubled as an input/output processor, which was pretty canny.
tobz1000
·3 yıl önce·discuss
A small but passionate minority - given framework's modularity, it's not inconceivable that someone else will manufacture and sell a small batch of compatible keyboards and touchpads with buttons.
tobz1000
·3 yıl önce·discuss
vscode is the best-case scenario for Electron in my experience; this suggests that you need good diligence to ensure reasonable performance with the framework. Even then, performance is only acceptable, not exceptional.

Sublime Text is a great example of what performance can be like with a different toolkit. Compare it to vscode - even on a fast machine - and you'll start to notice all the little lags that can creep in.
tobz1000
·3 yıl önce·discuss
I'd love to see this design. There's something similar on the HP Omen 16: https://i.imgur.com/R4O5zzU.png

Not sure why 99% of laptops see a numpad as a higher priority than matching a desktop keyboard layout.