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    Comment #47305849

    > false reports. Are you sure they're false?

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    Comment #47148221

    The paper has plenty of pictures. You do have to click through to the PDF.

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    Comment #47043823

    I'm confused. > The simplest case: no transaction, just a SELECT and an UPDATE with a barrier between them: There is no context where you do not have a transaction. Postgres requir…

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    Comment #46910382

    You don't even need an AI. This is such a core misunderstanding that Asimov seems to have, and it kind of kills his entire analysis for me. The assumption is that only some small f…

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    Comment #46842139

    [flagged]

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    Comment #46728410

    If you read the article, the OP points out that static analysis for this platform is not supported in Ghidra. Also, reading between the lines, I think it's safe to assume the autho…

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    Comment #45640086

    Maybe include the next part ? It goes: > We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among the…

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    Comment #45640030

    Author is a quack. There is deliberate mis-quoting in the article that completely warps the source material. From their quoted section: > We shall not try to make these people or a…

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    Comment #45401716

    They do! Basically anything that consumes solar power incorporates what's called a "MPPT", or maximum power point tracker. Basically, it's a smart DC-DC converter that continually …

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    Comment #45328903

    A.K.A. "The UK's stupid legislation is going to prevent anyone from using non-locally-hosted services, let's try to get in on the ground floor and have a position like amazon in th…

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    Comment #44884846

    > “Younger kids do not have the same work ethic,” says RM’s Morreau. The immediate satisfaction normalized by cell phones and social media is antithetical to the know-how required …

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    Comment #44856944

    - ptr isn't declared in the class body - ptr is not being deallocated in the destructor (personal preference - use of class member without explicit `this->`)

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    Comment #44853693

    It looks like they're trying to be "linux for apple ex-pats".

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    Comment #44763308

    Flatpak, Snap, appimage, etc... I have pretty fastidiously avoided ever using any of the "package everything into the image" projects, and my life has been considerably better off.…

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    Comment #44622820

    Uh, you are describing gouging, you've just handed it off to an algorithm so you can pretend it's not exactly what it is.

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    Comment #44622809

    The ATmega328 (i.e. arduino without the garbage) is that microprocessor. It can sleep and only use ~66 microamps at 5V with the watchdog timer enabled. That's 330 microwatts. A 100…

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    Comment #44622505

    To be fair, wikipedia generally tries to represent reality, which _also_ has a "left leaning bias", so maybe it's just you?

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    Comment #44612433

    I mean, that's a distinction without a difference. I've not written nix, but javascript is a ugly, terrible language. It would make sense that if nix derives from it (whyyyyyy) it …

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    Comment #44536067

    This is ENORMOUSLY variable based on the specific group you wind up with. It can be extremely christian, it can be not substantially christian.

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    Comment #44535996

    You missed where I said it's the act that matters. So trump /says/ one thing, but his actions say something very different. ------ So, if you say nothing and do nothing, you cannot…

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    Comment #44517996

    > if he believes the terrible things he's posting or is just ironically posting them. The thing is, as I get older, I realize more and more that this is a distinction without a dif…

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    Comment #44419526

    Maybe we can't do your idea without the quoted idea.

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    Comment #44419152

    These are intended to implement things like specialized communication protocols, or other IO behaviour. Basically, it lets you push a variety of things you'd normally do via CPU po…

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    Comment #44384215

    How do you host a app with Claude. Did they release the weights?

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    Comment #44363271

    > Synthesis results can vary from run to run on the exact same code with the same parameters, with real world impacts on performance. This is because some of the challenges for the…