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Shouldn't a sufficiently powerful laser be able to cook the sensor quickly and easily?

I had an idea years ago to hook up a bunch of old payphones on the playa at burning man. Solar powered and connected over VoIP on a mesh network. Sadly never got to make it happen …

Maybe we can skip the compiler...

Why stop at getting AI to write Rust? If everything is vibe coded and code is no longer reviewed, get an LLM to devise its own ultra terse, super dense language intended solely for…

GDS was a national level effort and they certainly did a better, albeit not perfect, job than the myriad of private solutions councils use. There just doesn't appear to be the capa…

It's the most ridiculous situation with council technology that they all use different providers for what are fundamentally the same functions. It's the same for council tax and a …

Am I alone in not wanting banal homogeneity even on a work trip?

Which Claude literally uses.

Given their username I would raise you that they're on the victoria line :-)

This was many moons ago, written in perl. From memory we used Regexp::Trie - https://metacpan.org/release/DANKOGAI/Regexp-Trie-0.02/view/... We used it to tokenize search input and…

Supporting 10 different languages in regex is a drop in the ocean. The regex can be generated programmatically and you can compress regexes easily. We used to have a compressed reg…

Agree with this. Mismatching types are generally an indicator of an underlying issue with the code, not the language itself. These are areas AI can be helpful flagging potential pr…

Railway is getting so good I'm not sure what Vercel brings to the party anyway.

I don't think OP was implying punishing voters.

That is ... an oddly specific reference?

Never understood why the yanks don't like vans? Pickups are much less popular here in the UK, many more people use vans. A crew cab van with removable seats is infinitely more flex…

I don't use it but I did still have an account which is now deleted. Thanks for the reminder.

My ADHD brain recoils at the thought of this, which probably means I would benefit even more from doing so.

FWIW I gave up trying to render SVG for our project and switched to using fabric.js (and node-canvas for server side rendering). For us it was mostly because it had far better text…

We've very recently been testing multiple dithering techniques for graphics we send as bitmaps to a TIJ printer that's used as a dynamic labeller.

It hasn't gone well for several UK companies listing through SPACs on US exchanges recently. Think that's given plenty of reason for a rethink.

I currently use Mylio. The feature I like most is that I can store a compressed version of my entire catalog on my phone so it's very quick to find something and it works offline. …

There's a good choice in formaldehyde free boards these days. In the UK a popular one is Sterling Zero.

There are various research projects looking at storing waste heat, often for the purpose of more efficient defrosting. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-022-00018-3