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Not if you play roguelikes.

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…

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-eve…

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 m…

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, an…

What’s your use case for locking dependencies on a single script? One things that’s useful to my organization is that we can then proceed to scan the lockfile’s declared dependenci…

I suspect there is a legal difference between offering a feature in the style of Quake (and calling it out as such) vs. baking it into your App’s branding.

This is news to me, but I’m unsurprised. Why people use so much strongly scented products is absolutely baffling to me.

I believe it’s an Independence Day movie reference.

It could potentially help with discoverability. As it stands, I’d imagine it takes a very particular sort of search query (either “open source fitness” in Google or “fitness” on Gi…

Incidentally, this also proves that GP is the main character.

This is nearly what you’re looking for (well, not that close, but it’s got the right spirit): https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist/

I’m a chemist. Bromine isn’t bromide, and lithium bromide is a simple nontoxic salt. If this is as simple as is described in the news article, then it’s likely a pretty “green” pro…

There’s a video, too, but the framerate wasn’t usefully playable. I’ve seen worse, but you wouldn’t ever want to play it this way.

But repeated application of the unary minus basically results in a no-op. So it’s somewhat exceptional in that regard.

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). Reg…

That’s my experience with movies on YouTube so far, yes.

Well, it is technically open source, open weights, and closed training set, right? (My recollection is that the training code is MIT licensed.)

Phyphox is a great sensor suite app for undergrad Physics experiments, and it includes a spectrum analyzer. Also, it supports both iOS and Android.

Coriolis corrections are thrown into sniper ballistic calculations, too. Not a huge effect in most conditions, but not zero, and there have been a lot of long shots in the past two…

You can do all of these things in software, and it is done. It’s important thing to have control over the process so you can get quantitative data at the other end, and not just a …

The “more to this story” is likely endocrine disruptors in addition to (and associated with) the other “behavior” issues you’re alluding to. And our answer to it is… another endocr…

What you’ve suggested is not equivalent. The a is always taken without negation, and that’s not the case in your rendering.

The best theatrical release since the original trilogy, IMO. I think part of it is because of how much gravity it imparts to the beginning of Episode IV. (And the other part is how…

This is the kind of ridiculous fumble that GOFAI (like Cyc) should be able to avoid by recognizing context. I wonder how neuro-symbolic systems are coming along, and whether they c…