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Trying to understand it... if by comparison I'm using tmux then switching to something like this adds mouse based window (panel) management?

> For anyone wondering why it takes so long to actually switch this stuff out One counterpoint is do we really NEED to have brightly colored foods? It's a hard problem if you need …

I thought this might be a useful article because I've often had a similar question. But there's a diagram that has text: > More simply put: imagine that you have red, green, and bl…

> I don't know why the narrative became "don't call it hallucination". Context is "don't call it hallicination" picked up meme energy since https://link.springer.com/article/10.100…

> Unless you could somehow make an Alcubierre warp drive. Even if you can make it, even though it's theoretically possible that the warp bubble could move through space faster than…

There are a lot of real world caveats that go into those range estimates. I just took my long range Tesla Model Y with an advertised 326 mile range on a multi-day road trip and I w…

A pet nit, and the standards probably don't permit this, but for encoding 128-bit numbers, I prefer base-57 in my own implementations. 22 characters for a 128-bit encoding, same as…

Evidence suggests that none of this is true. Just look at how Google Fiber wasn't able to navigate the myriad regional regulatory roadblocks thrown up by local governments when lob…

I think there is true emergence coming from these newest large language models, which is something that can't be captured by reducing the system to merely a mathematical Plinko mac…

Love the demo jitters as he picks up the frosted flakes, "Well that's working. That's good."

I can't seem to find the reference, but I seem to recall that Valve had specialized rendering logic for the power lines in Half Life 2? I presume that's basically the same fundamen…

> They successfully show that Niemann was playing many games with a high percentage of "engine perfect" moves, but they do not do enough to show that this is inconsistent with what…

The real problem isn't the veracity of the information, but the consensus protocol we use to agree on what's true. Before the internet, we were more likely to debate with their nei…

> Maybe it would be worth spending some mental cycles thinking about the impacts this will have and how we design these systems. Regardless if the bot is actually sentient, a porti…

Hilarious the visceral response here to the apparent and inevitable decline of YouTube content quality with the removal of a dislike count -- when Hacker News itself doesn't show a…

Nice. And now the museum can create a piece of art in response called "Repercussions". (Or, maybe it was all one piece of art all along.)

Title should read: China has forbidden under-18s from playing ONLINE VIDEO games for more than three hours/week. (And even ONLINE may not be quite precise enough.)

The final bit that locked it in for me (and someone please correct me if this is wrong) is that going to the bathroom (which what many people assume is where weight leaves the body…

If it ever gets to home computing, it will get to data center computing far sooner. What does a world look like where data center computing is roughly 100x cheaper than home comput…

You're not wrong that BMI is okay enough of a metric for most people. But, in terms of a metric that is even more simple (one simple measurement tool instead of two), accounts for …

360 Wh for 18 cubic meters? Is this a joke? That is indeed the volume of a small room. You need nearly 40 of them, the volume of a large house, to give the equivalent energy storag…

What does the super scheduler that coordinates the two schedulers approximately look like?

For instance, I assume for instance a common workload that would otherwise benefit from the fair scheduler has a fair chance of wanting to do low latency audio. I believe Android h…

> A NOTE ABOUT DEADLINES: While fair scheduling is appropriate for the vast majority of workloads, there are some tasks that require very specific timing and/or do not adapt well t…

> Years later, when we discover these relics and hop on, it’s as if we never stopped biking. I'd like to challenge this. Barring scientific evidence to this fact, it is at best an …