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Sounds like something that could be solved by an ambient light sensor.

Isn't all bot traffic ultimately initiated by a human? Someone plugged the computer in and gave it instructions. It may result in one http request or billions of them, but the huma…

Kind of like airplane boarding. The ideal algorithm would be to make people board from back to front, and from window to aisle. However, people are not disciplined enough to strict…

This is a mistake that shouldn't happen. It means that someone commiting crimes could trivially hide and get the wrong person accused by using homoglyphs [0]. [0] https://en.wikipe…

No one went to jail when my grandparents died. Stop spreading lies.

> in Europe when someone dies somebody always has to go to jail Please cite the european law that states this.

Thanks, I have an EE education, but I didn't really understood what charges were doing in a BJT. I can use them and apply the formulas, but I never really "grokked" them. This make…

Counterpoint: I know my car can brake and turn much harder than I do (it's not a sports car by any mean, but that's beyond the point). I'd rather not change my tires and brake pads…

Once any HDL is translated to a bunch of primitives (gates, LUTs, flip-flops, etc), that's the job of an automated place-and-route, which already exist. It's independent of the sta…

The graphs are beautiful, however they're independent of the language (because they're a visualization of the resulting gates). You could get the same graphs from VHDL or Verilog. …

Good for american hobbyist I guess. It's not an option where I live unfortunately (orders above 75€ have free shipping though).

Some still do, but they'll only send to businesses, not to individuals. What's annoying for me is Digikey and friends insisting on only delivering with express carrier. I'd like to…

Assuming the orbit is at 200km, these mirrors could only focus the image of the Sun on a 1.7km wide disk (that's (Sun diameter)/(Sun's distance)×(Earth distance)). Moreover, the Su…

It's not for doing nothing, it's for fooling around at the edge of knowledge. Sometimes, very useful stuff emerges.

Conveniently, there's already an electric cable sized to transport a few MW nearby. This might reduce the cost of installation, also there'll be no land acquisition/impact study is…

That "if it hits a populated area" reduces the probability by a factor 100 (because about 1% of the world's surface is urbanized [1]). So the actual frequency of "city wiped" is mo…

The french government (more pro-business than pro-ecology, but not climate deniers) is seriously planning for how to manage 55C heatwaves around the half of the century. Because cl…

European here. Maybe I'm not typical, but I know that the contiguous US is about as large as the EU (around 4000 km from one side to the other). And if you need 24h to get to the o…

I don't understand this argument. When someone uses a tool to create something, they are the copyright holder. Why would it be different when the tool is an LLM?

Last year a research group managed to do just that, see https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052 for details.

Really nice article, I'll look closer to green lights next time I see one. The most striking experience I had was working with a blue laser (430nm). The best way I found to describ…

You got it backwards, Watts are Joules/second (or joules are Watt•second).

Enjoy the annoying-to-debug errors when someone inevitably mixes arr[0] with arr[1] and tramples the heap (this could be mitigated by accessing the fields with macros), or writes a…

The second tome I had to do that for the same project (new computer), I sarted taking very detailed notes when doing this kind of unpleasant, supposedly one-off things.