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For me it was for a bit, but it was very fragile, then eventually broke and didn't recover.

So your wife is right, unless she's against AI, in which case she is sarcastically right. > My wife thinks we should never use AI. Ha! Your wife is absolutely right! Artificial Int…

> 4 NANDs and an inverter give you a D-latch that lets you synchronize your circuits to the clock signal. A D latch would be enabled all the time the clock signal is high, so it is…

Arb depends on MPFR, so it is not exactly "instead of". https://arblib.org/setup.html#dependencies

Imagine you get the result correct with infinite precision, and then round to the required precision in the specified way (round up, round down, round towards zero, round to neares…

MPFR has some timing comparison on its page. https://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-4.0.1/timings.html Also, MPFR depends on GMP which has integers and rationals. Then there is MPC which in tur…

It's LGPL not GPL.

He retweeted Suchkov's summary of Putin's "address to the nation regarding his decision on Donbass" ( https://twitter.com/m_suchkov/status/1495831112102338563 ). No surprises there…

> Me, because we don't use transparent compression anywhere. Since Fedora 34, a clean install will result in btrfs with zstd compression turned on. (An update of an older install w…

Would it work though? The transistors are quite large compared to today's processor's transistors, and at that high frequency the routing delay for the signal to travel around tran…

Touch controls. I hate that I cannot turn off my hob in dim light as I have to see which of five barely visible areas I am to touch.

> in the anglosphere, open source licenses are by default bare licenses -- they do not have the force of contract, meaning they can be revoked at any time. Any example where this h…

It depends on the hand motion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZk5rAVuNsc&t=15s

I love Rust, but I love and recommend ripgrep because of its usefulness, reliability and robustness, not because of the language it's written in. I haven't looked into all the tool…

I also found the series lacking humour, but maybe that's because I've only mostly watched Mock The Week and Have I Got News for You for the last few years.

Game of Thrones did not have a budget problem for the last season; it had a writing problem. While other seasons used the novels for the build-up and for the story to make sense, t…

Some things work differently on TV and on books, and they changed things to make the storytelling better suited to TV. For example Camina Drummer was introduced much earlier in the…

As long as they profited from the whole thing, I don't think they should be applauded. It's like applauding someone for stealing from the cookie jar for some time and then stopping…

In that case they can store quarters of a cent instead of hundredths of a cent, and still be able to store $0.0625, while increasing their range by a factor of 25.

> did a good thing once Discounting something as "a good thing once" sounds weird to me: many things require a huge amount of work to carry off, so "once" here can encompass dedica…

Lucky you :) In my case the only thing I could to do was to change the README of my crate from saying that I plan to migrate from typenum to const generics "when they are supported…

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