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It's a 32-bit unsigned integer, so that should give us until Feb 2106. > A time field is an unsigned 4-octet number containing the number of seconds elapsed since midnight, 1 Janua…

There don’t seem to be any challenges there yet, and the page states it doesn’t begin until December 9th.

From the PEP: > A tool will be provided to automatically update code to replace bare except: with except BaseException:.

Yeah that's the normal way in physics in my experience, certainly from undergrad level up.

As used on HN. It just works, even today.

The article links to Mozilla’s press release / blog entry about the acquisition of Anonym [0]. It’s pretty dystopian reading. The last three paragraphs and the summary of Anonym ar…

In England and Wales, at least, there’s even a legal principle that information produced by software is correct unless it is proven otherwise. [0] [0] https://openaccess.city.ac.uk…

About 1.8e20 US cups according to Google.

Well, that's the first time I've seen cubic miles used as a unit. For reference it's about 4.4e19 litres or 4.4e16 cubic metres.

Can confirm Bard is available in France and the UI has been translated to French.

For those interested in using AES with reduced rounds as a PRNG, it is covered in the paper "Parallel Random Numbers: As Easy as 1, 2, 3" by John Salmon et al. https://www.thesalmo…

Interesting article. Probably better to link directly to where it was originally published, because there are pictures: https://theconversation.com/if-the-first-solar-entrepreneur-…

> When the FreeBSD kernel boots in Firecracker (1 CPU, 128 MB RAM), it now spends 7% of its time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs. It’s a 100x speed increase on 7% of the boot …

If you look up a data sheet for any 7483 variant, it is immediately notable: the first lines are something like "4-bit binary full adder" and the description says "…accept two 4-bi…

For garbage collection, which operates at runtime. Integers are unboxed; every other type requires additional data.

> We designed our initial solution as a distributed system using serverless components (for example, AWS Step Functions or AWS Lambda), which was a good choice for building the ser…

I’ve been asking questions about F# after a while of using OCaml. I’ve found GPT-4 to hallucinate syntax that doesn’t exist, such as being able to do open in a function. It’s actua…

Had to admit I came to the same conclusion when I read this part of the readme: > The NC license permits "use by any charitable organization, educational institution, public resear…

I have the kernel and zfs modules in IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf. This way I have to update them explicitly. I usually have to manually install a kernel from archive.archlinux.or…

I have found Blender more than competent for my relatively simple video editing needs.

Here is an example in ocaml, where |> is the pipeline operator: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/chapters/hop/pipelining.ht...

That post is dead, so by my understanding that will be why you can't comment on it.

If you were to have an array of such sensors, perhaps you'd be able to estimate direction of travel.

Having just recently played with astro, I can confirm it's got some really nice qualities. Things I liked about Astro: - It can use front-end js frameworks like Svelte and Vue as c…