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Turing was a helluva smart guy, but he doesn't have the benefit of hindsight.

The choices were clearly (far) less important than having the best model and a good product that was way ahead of the competition. However, that's not the same as the technology ch…

No, they haven't done that yet. It's just a proposal, but it's not likely to be formally stopped until 2035. The reason we've stopped having leap seconds is because the drift betwe…

> the variations mostly cancel out I don't think we know this do we? we haven't been measuring accurately enough for long enough to be confident that it does in fact cancel out. In…

Pre-GPU times you'd be right, but these days a 4U server could have 8 GPUs pulling 350+ watts each. A washing machine sized unit could contain perhaps 4 of these 4U servers so the …

The magic 50% ownership isn't relevant for that purpose. There are special provisions which means that the Foundation effectively exerts full control over the company because it ap…

But that's why you have a lockfile?

There isn't a good way to know if a given package is using semver though. There's a lot of packages in the Python ecosystem that use time based versioning rather than semver (liter…

I used to work for an AV startup. One of my favourite things to see were the random encounters that our data annotators would flag up. Unusual agricultural vehicles, large to-scale…

Alternatively they'll just wreck it down a bit so it beats a competitor but isn't unsafe.

They didn't update them last October is why. I think at this point Apple will just release new versions of laptops whenever new CPU revisions and yields allow. M5 Pro wasn't ready …

IIRC Marcan mentioned something he found that had been deliberately put into the Mac boot loader that made booting alternative operating systems easier and perhaps making it possib…

It doesn't work for transitive dependencies, so you're reliant on third party composite actions doing their own SHA locking.

The company I used to work for was developing a self driving car with stereo depth on a wide baseline. It's not all sunshine and roses to be honest - it was one of the weakest link…

The UK doesn't need to put restrictions in for 3d printing guns because the viable approaches for 3d printing them usually require _some_ off the shelf gun parts not to mention act…

But no one forces pre-commit hooks onto you? You can just not install the hook into git and run the tool manually instead.

No one forces you to install the pre-commit hook on your local checkout so what you're suggesting is universally the case. You're perfectly free to just run it manually or let it f…

It depends on the hooks you're using and how many of them. For some languages there are some rather slow hooks, and using it on a big monorepo can take a while (a full run across m…

The pre-commit tool (which prek is based on) has a large ecosystem of off the shelf checks for various language linters and other checks and a convenient way of writing them (inclu…

Ground stations would be the major problem. Maybe if Elon launched himself and the dev team into orbit and didn't use any ground stations and just Starlink terminals he could start…

Sony have actually been fairly chill about emulators etc. so I'd be surprised if lawyers got involved here. They actually used an open source Playstation emulator when they release…

In the UK we have a convenient way of observing this phenomenon. The FTSE100 is mostly multinational companies valued in pounds. The FTSE250 is mostly British companies valued in p…

I'd definitely recommend popping to an Apple store at some point and looking at a nano display in person. It's really kind of freaky, it has a paper-like quality to it that I've no…

I thought Intel was too far behind on their process nodes?

This line of chatter has been going around UK-centric online discussions and it's such a braindead line of thinking. Marginal pricing is used in a gazillion countries and is tried …