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Age of consequences, indeed. It really does feel like we (humanity) are on the precipice of something. We're smack in the middle of an era that entire books will be written about. …

Huh, this story sounds familiar. I read a HN comment the other day telling this same story. They didn't just turn a random HN comment into a news article, did they? Yup. They did. …

> Perhaps one reason is that OSS system programmers are washing their dirty linen in public; not a matter of "many eyes make bugs shallow", but that "any eyes make bad code embaras…

The Thinkpad TrackPoint mouse has over 20,000 nerve endings

Prague is fantastic if you can avoid the tourist crowds. I lived there briefly with a Czech roommate who took me on tours through the "real" city. Also had a British friend there a…

For quite a while before I built my homelab, my git server was a flash drive plugged into my OpenWRT router. Honestly I still kind of prefer that to gitlab et al. It's nice to not …

I doubt that wireless energy transmission at this scale and distance will ever be practical. It will probably never be economic compared to terrestrial panels and batteries. If/whe…

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It should be entirely socially acceptable to respond to any trivial message with "ACKNOWLEDGED" á la Picard

Because the work is remarkably intricate. It requires you to get real close and personal with the work, usually with magnification. It requires complete and unimpeded dexterity of …

> When are people going to realize that telling customers what they want, reducing value and quality, and ignoring their complaints is not a good business model? Just as soon as th…

Okay, that would be a normal amount of bonkers thing to suggest in C or another language with real pointers. But in C#, that is a batshit insane thing to suggest. I'm not even sure…

For anyone actually interested in this technology, it's something you can do on your own with nothing more than an ESP32. I've seen research papers on using this method to do gestu…

> it works by directly reading the NTFS tables rather than spidering through the directories Maybe I'm just ignorant of linux filesystems, but this seems like the obvious thing to …

> tyre Believe it or not, the UK is not the entire world. In the US, we have vast stretches of highway with nothing in sight. You can pretty easily find yourself many miles away fr…

As far as I understand, modules like an ESP32 for example, carry their own FCC certification. If you include them in your product, you do still need certification of the product ov…

I would suspect that the JIT treats a reference as a call to somewhere else in memory, which can have considerable overhead in extremely tight loops. By copying a pointer into a lo…

Sure, if you discount the fact that other people exist, are conscious, have their own experiences of the same world and also experience joy, sadness, love, and suffering. To assert…

I still can't get my head around the fact that one can earn a doctorate in nursing. Therefore: Dr. Nurse Doctor

Mechanically, all hemoglobin does is take up an oxygen molecule when in an oxygen rich environment, and releases it in a CO2 rich environment. CO2 just dissolves into the bulk flui…

For anyone else wondering: your body is continually pulling calcium from your bones for metabolic processes. Usually it gets replaced when you consume something with calcium in it.…

This reminds me of one of my favorite projects. I once wrote a discord not that interfaced with our Jira system. I wrote a whole chat interface that walked users through the steps …

Several years ago, I picked up an old SmartBoard projector. The thing has no buttons, it's meant to be plugged into a remote control module attached to the board, or controlled ove…

A hard restriction would prevent a malicious prompt from being passed to the model. Instead, it seems they've simply asked the model nicely to pretty please not answer malicious pr…

This is just the same extremely poorly thought out argument against any type of pure research. Pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake always results in improvement down the line, …