anlumo

@anlumo@feddit.de
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Tesla should mill the car from one solid block of steel.

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Using a Large Language Model for image detection is peak human intelligence.

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Does a CEO even know the value of $20 or $51? Isn't that the same as $0 to them?

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Based on the videos of near misses on YouTube, the safety margins are so enormous that even an event classified as near miss is not really recognizable by a layperson, because the two airplanes are nowhere near each other.

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Right now it looks like it's a decisive victory for spez, contrary to the article's title.

Of course, the long-term consequences aren't clear yet, the moderator exodus might result in the whole platform becoming too low-quality to sustain the user interaction, leading to people moving away from it.

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Maybe they should have paid these people who run the company.

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You only have to cry once a day to power your contact lenses!

Yeah, this worked so well for XMPP when everybody federated with Gmail chat.

It also means that people who quit immediately lose their home. This is great for employee retention.

The others are probably still busy installing the fax-to-toot gateways.

As a web developer, Safari needs to either die in a fire or be transferred to a company that actually cares. It’s more than half a decade behind everybody else.

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They are wrong. Theft means depriving someone of having something, and that’s not the case here. It’s more a “they’re taking our jobs” kind of situation.

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If he never tried to get consent, there was no consent, implied or otherwise.

We get one of those about once a year, and none of them have been replicated yet.

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It's not related to the left/right divide, this is the authoritarian/liberal axis.

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This sounds very familiar to when Steve Ballmer wasn’t worried about the iPhone at all.

This bodes well for the elections coming up next year…

Regular brand LED bulbs don't strobe at all, only the very cheap ones from AliExpress and the resellers of Chinese crapware (like Walmart) do. IKEA has some nice and cheap bulbs, for example.

It was a bad name back when this project was created, and it’s a bad name now.

Well, last time around, the CIA intervened and installed a conservative government when Iran had too much freedom.

Murphy should probably stay clear of windows and high-risk endeavors for the rest of his life.

The fact that Trump doesn’t even want to commit to pardoning the people who tried to overthrow the government for him should get them to make a brief pause and think things over.

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  • That didn't happen.
  • And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
  • And if it was, that's not a big deal. <- WE ARE HERE
  • And if it is, that's not my fault.
  • And if it was, I didn't mean it.
  • And if I did, you deserved it.

He fired everyone who tried to question him on the spot, sometimes even by public tweets.

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Those two things aren’t remotely comparable. Solar roadways are technically totally possible without any new inventions, they are just a fundamentally stupid idea.

The whole point of replication by other groups is to rule out parlor tricks. If it can be replicated by independent labs and even works in simulations, it’s real. That’s why this is a preliminary paper at the moment.

It failed because the CCP didn’t spend the time gained by the strategy to vaccinate the whole population. They would have had plenty of time for that until Omicron hit.

In an unvaccinated workplace, a single infected person can easily infect everybody in a single day. In my country, by that time everybody already was either vaccinated or recovered (or dead), so it only hit half of the people (I was one of the ones who got it back then btw).

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For my professional work, the training data is way too outdated by now for ChatGPT to be anywhere near being useful. The browsing feature also can’t make up for it, because it’s pretty bad at Internet search (bad search phrases etc).

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Probably got cold feet because a few important people left as well.

I recently got a folding e-bike in a city with great public transport (a folding bike can be carried along at any time, regular bikes only outside rush hours). Now I can be anywhere in the city within about 20mins, which is very liberating. I'm actually faster than going by car due to being able to bypass traffic jams, and not even including the 20mins+ needed for finding a parking spot.

When the SD is discharged, it tries to charge from the external power source (it doesn’t know that it’s a battery and not a charger). Battery to battery charging is just losing energy to heat. So, it’s probably better to discharge the external pack while the SD is at 100%.

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Weta was an especially weird and expensive acquisition, since they're not even in the same field.

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Besides being the wrong size by definition, AA batteries are expected to have 0.8V to 1.5V, while Lithium Ion cells (such as 18650) have a voltage range of 2V to 4.2V. That’s completely incompatible, you couldn’t even replace two AA batteries with a single Li-Ion cell.

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Installing it as a PWA on my iPhone causes the history buttons to disappear (since they're part of the browser). This means that if I open a comments page, I can't get back to the post list again. I can tap on the logo to get to the main page, but my scrolling position is lost, so I'd have to scroll down to find where I stopped scrolling last time.

Yeah no, still have to use an app.

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It wasn't branch prediction alone, it was the cache combined with branch prediction. The problem is that even discarded outcomes fill the cache with data. Those older vulnerabilities also had the problem that the access permissions check was done after the branch prediction. It's probably too expensive to do when it's not even clear yet whether the branch is going to be taken (that's just speculation on my part though).

We have to stop voting for neoliberals first, globally.

Carrie Fisher died after the premiere of Rogue 1, so she doesn’t belong on this list.

To me, it sounded like they'd just randomly not send the DRM information sometimes. So, the fix for web sites would be to tell the user to reload until the information is passed along.

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As everyone who watched Fight Club knows, it’s a simple calculation. If the costs of the recall exceed the cost for the expected lawsuits, they don’t do it.

An OTA update has essentially zero cost, so it’s even easier.

Modern ARM GPUs already support OpenGL and Vulkan, that’s not a problem. Just some platforms chose to go mobile APIs due to running Android.

The trick with emulation that Apple did was to add custom instructions to the CPU that are used by the emulation layer to efficiently run x86_64 code. Nothing is stopping other CPU manufacturers from doing the same, the only issue is that they have to collaborate with the emulation developer.