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Comment #47765245
> So yes, it mostly gets done for (components of) planes, spacecraft, medical devices, etc. I have to disagree here. All of these you mentioned have regularly bugs. Multiple spacec…
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Comment #47133951
Unlike the car question, where you can assume the car is at home and so the most probable answer is to drive, with the machines it gets complicated. Since the question doesn't spec…
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Comment #45534433
Kinda related question, but is code really just a math? Is it possible to express things like user input, timings, inteerupts, error handling, etc. as math?
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Comment #44579167
I wonder, if these problems aren't Ubuntu fault, since it forces snap version of Firefox on you. I had Firefox crashing repeatedly on me with the snap version. Maybe switching to F…
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Comment #44156642
When it comes to woodworking, I quite enjoyed watching some of the videos of Granpa Amu on youtube. When I seen him make table from one piece of wood, it felt like magic. Link for …
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Comment #43503157
For this case, it might be easier to package the script using pyinstaller. That way, she can just run it. Packaging it that way is more work on your side though.
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Comment #43181568
I wish. If you live in any country that uses more than ASCII, then certainly not since forever. I mean, just for my language there were 7 different encodings (according to Wikipedi…
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Comment #43156804
I have been working in my spare time on Japanese vocabulary learning app and just yesterday finally convinced myself to publish the sources: https://github.com/d3nzil/gaku Be warne…
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Comment #42272790
While Sally is usually girl's name, the question never states that. So Sally could be actually a boy and in that case Sally would have two sisters.
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Comment #40439922
Usually having index.html in /now would behave as if the /now was the page. Other index.extension files (like index.php) might also work depending on the server configuration.
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Comment #39979244
Another eclipse video, this time from Starlink satellite: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1bz9ltv/solar_eclip...
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Comment #39881932
Windows now have OpenSSH client (and server) available as optional features. Together with the new terminal the ssh client seems to be working fine. Personally I usually opt in to …
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Comment #39775747
I'm not sure if it's different for Nvidia, but the Gamer Nexus video about Intel drivers suggest a lot of the work getting good performance is done on the driver side for all GPU v…
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Comment #38822608
Of course, if you are using tape to measure your weight, you are using the wrong tool for the job.
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Comment #36929930
The satellite orbited at 320 km. At that altitude the atmosphere drag is non-negligible, so it had to burn fuel to stay there. So the life was limited by how much fuel it had and t…
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Comment #35243569
Even that is not needed. There is enough people that want open source ChatGPT clone to create the dataset from scratch by themselves. The Open Assistant community actually already …
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Comment #35053591
The folks making Open Assistant [1] (opensource ChatGPT clone) gathered enough data to start initial training, so hopefully there will be something to play with soon. [1] https://g…
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Comment #34837644
My usual strategy is to ensure that the lengthy parts are executed only once. So for example one of the lengthy parts is environment setup for me too. So what I did is to put as mu…
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Comment #34639627
Not sure if it helps in your case, but you also can access wsl disk from windows side. This could give better performance for some uses.
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Comment #34256899
Very nice. And it makes me wonder what would be the result if the GPT was asked to point out security problems in the code.
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Comment #33343762
Having had worked with both Pytest and Robot, I have to agree. And to expand on that, Robot framework had multiple disadvantages for us. (Note that this is about 2-3 years, so mayb…
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Comment #33343454
My experience with trying to use Cucumber for tests pretty much shown me that it doesn't work there. But one thing that I played a bit and seemed that it might work was using Cucum…
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Comment #32106395
My guess would be Mode X, it was quite popular in games at the DOS/VGA times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
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Comment #31775561
This comparison reminds me of Grace Hopper explaining how long nanosecond is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw
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Comment #29835749
From what I read in EU the pay is considered personal information and is thus is protected by GDPR. If your employer wanted to share it with 3rd party for something like this, he w…