Youtube comments of LoneTech (@0LoneTech).

  1. In particular, better than a youtube ad, which has at least a 40% chance of being a clear scam, and 70% chance of being abusively loud garbage in those first seconds.
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  2. AWOL is a bad term to apply here, I expect. That implies a dereliction of duty. A hiatus of a volunteer is quite a different matter.
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  3.  @Llortnerof  You mean the little countdown before the skip button? That consistently lies by counting slow, and now they're often swapping it out for "video will play shortly" or something like that. Its purpose is to draw your attention so you don't look away from the ad. I've seen it bug out and stick in forced mode on a 15 minute ad.
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  4. Always remember: Just because you think they're out to get you doesn't mean they're not. And Louis brought public evidence.
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  5. It's also not looking for just the top thing. I'm pretty sure it sees him as a lack of flat road with a banana in, possibly as having a banana shirt.
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  6. Since they're using DASH to assemble the video, I guess what we'll have to do is fingerprint the video chunks, and skip those that don't belong. Imagine that, content ID for improved user experience.
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  7. Sounds more like Adobe's goals, terms and methods are so toxic it's unsafe to use them, whether pirated or not.
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  8. ​​@kanstantsin-buchat's very different from SSL. Web browsers already support client side certificates, useful for user authentication. DRM is all about not trusting the user and making them relinquish control of their computer, and doing it via downloaded software like this is fundamentally breakable. Basically, it's making both distributors and users pay to be insulted, with bonus security risks.
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  9. Refund? They should return the stolen goods and compensate the victims. This is them doing some of that in hopes they won't be forced to do it all.
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  10. Yep, this is a totally unfair and almost certainly "sponsored" comparison. His bread would've been fine for days if he didn't intentionally cut it badly and leave it all out. Normal procedure is to do a straight cut and cover the surface with the butt of the bread, or at least put the loaf in a bag or bread bin. Hardly the dark magic he tried to make it out as.
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  11. 6:15 A moment or appreciation for the driver who noticed he was in the way and did something about it.
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  12. There's a bunch of other things that section 1201 shouldn't be restricting, such as accessibility and format shifting. It's a nasty section. Another part in need of fixing is that vexatious DMCA takedowns have no penalty (currently, the only demand is they represent a copyright holder - not that that copyright has any relevance to the case). "Smart" TVs, in particular, should be fixed to stop forcing ads and surveillance. And as usual, quite a good point that these restrictions aren't doing what they're claimed to be for - they make it illegal to remove anti-usability sabotage from products, a service that will already be done for you at those piracy sites they're holding up as so evil. The legitimate customers bear both the costs for the sabotage (big money for e.g. DeNuvo and Adobe) and the pains of the hostility (because clearly nothing makes you less trustworthy than buying from a legitimate vendor). Most of the time the publishers are too craven to even speak plainly when asked if they do such sabotage, let alone *why*.
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  13. "Hey! These things exist, if you've never seen them before. Cool, right?" As a subscriber to Technology Connections, I whole-heartedly approve of this message.
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  14. But was it sturdy and easy to assemble? And how is the picture quality?
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  15. This case shows you shouldn't accept their "free" offers either. They're claiming the "free trial" is why they should get away with negligent manslaughter.
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  16. I think about the studio's side quite often. They're also victims of the publishers and distributors. Oddly enough, I don't think "we're hitting them harder" is a reason to accept getting hit. And hosting is emphatically not expensive today, and very much a distributor created problem when they insist on streaming instead of plain transfers - specifically so they can shut it down.
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  17. This is not a reddit AMA. It is an advertising thread in a company subreddit disguised as an AMA. Actual AMAs go elsewhere.
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  18. Well there you go. That makes sponsorblock competition to youtube premium income, so it will be attacked just as viciously as ad blockers.
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  19. This doesn't sound like the sort of thing you should trust to firmware. I believe Boeing recently made some demonstrations of some risks with that.
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  20. And they know it. It's like when Willy's would only offer self scanning to customers who signed a form declaring they'd read and accepted a terms of service document that did not even exist. They require their marks ("customers") to be on the hook for breach of contract before there's ever any conflict.
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  21. That's why the joke is somewhat decent; he has enough subject familiarity to reflect truths. For those seeking context, C is one of the first portable systems programming languages, developed specifically to enable porting of Unix between different computers. This earned it the nickname "portable assembler", though C code need not actually be portable; mostly, it's up to the programmer to pay attention and know the rules, because the first compilers really couldn't.
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  22. You may think of umlauts as different vowels, but in German they're still counted as practically the same letter similarly to accents (when sorting, for instance) - in Swedish, we have the letters åäö which look like umlauts but are distinct letters. Of course our neighbours use other variants. It just keeps getting worse.
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  23. There's a neat little arrangement known as a switchable magnet.
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  24. Signal's safety number isn't one hash of both keys; it's a hash of each key, so a pair of fingerprints, sorted so it looks the same on both screens. One half is always your fingerprint.
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  25. I must admit, I burst out laughing at his "the molecules in my mind are fighting against moving toward life" (15:25). So he's backing his opinion up with not just ascribing agency to prebiotic molecules, but a goal of not becoming life, and that's his excuse for claiming they wouldn't do it. With this view of molecules as cartoon characters, I'm reminded of much better media like "Il était une fois... la Vie".
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  26. I once paid for YouTube Premium. I was offered three features of interest: ad-free, family sharing, and pre-caching (misleadingly labelled downloads). YouTube kept showing me ads, claimed my mother wasn't my family, and removed the pre-caching feature. For background, years before they offered premium, I had asked them for the option to buy the ad slots shown to me. They refused, and more than quadrupled the ads, apparently convinced they can't sell ad-free without first making their ads completely insufferable.
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  27. Nope, but they did get sued for deceptive practices in pushing their subscription tiers.
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  28. At the time, Java's demand for 32-bit processing was remarkable and often wasteful. Today, waste has been normalized to the point people get offended if you remark a 100GB patch is excessive, and Java has been awkwardly forced into smartcards.
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  29.  @bpark10001  Compilers are rarely perfect. They are, however, tested by a wide variety of programmers, and generally written and debugged by large numbers of highly experienced programmers over considerable time. If your compiler needs adjustment to prevent crashes, you're either instructing it to target a machine quite different from the one you use, or you're using an exceptionally bad compiler. Far more likely it is your computer that is unreliable and exposes unpredictable behaviour under load, such as heavy optimization passes. Because nearly all software is compiled, the compiler itself is simply the most thoroughly tested program.
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  30. That style of optimization exists, e.g. in gcc's -ffast-math, which enables some for floating point processing. However, the buggy code has undefined behaviour which the corrected code does not, so this erroneous change should not be produced by an optimization pass.
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  31. Oh, it's worse. At a minimum they're collecting data on exactly who doesn't want their data collected. They're actively opposing you and the law.
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  32. This, as shown by the Sharp calculator, is the traditional version, known as PEJMDAS in response to the misdescription of PEMDAS. The background is documented in some detail in a video titled "The Problem with PEMDAS: Why Calculators Disagree" on the channel "The How and Why of Mathematics". The short of it is, some American teachers (whose experience came from recent and incomplete textbooks, not reading applied maths) decided to claim their unusual interpretation was "the correct way", and convinced Casio to release some calculators with their version, causing severe confusion ever since. Most textbooks espousing that strict PEMDAS without regard for juxtaposition don't even follow it themselves.
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  33. +rareroe305 The only possible odd gap is from 2, and there are lots of primes between 2 and 71. 71 is prime, though.
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  34. The original problem is designed for semaphores as the only synchronization primitive, and expects to run only one thread per character, no spawning. But yes, you'd certainly build it differently with a modern language. It's still useful to understand how that could be built.
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  35. I think opening the VP8/VP9/VP10 codecs (from On2) publically and as basis for AV1 may count. As for the youtube platform itself, they certainly seem enthusiastic about drawing ire.
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  36. Make those holes deep enough, though. Some of those bee hotels end up more like bird buffets.
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  37.  @Henrik_Holst  No, branches are distinct from conditionals. In this case, we see it transferring a condition flag into a general purpose register value using SETc instructions, because x86 has a condition flag register; not all architectures do. Conditional instructions like x86 CMOV or AVR SBRS operate by cancelling the retire step of a single instruction, which doesn't divert the instruction decoding; that's a cheaper form of branching. What you say would apply to architectures where the condition test is embedded only within branch instructions, as if you removed the CMP* instructions and had to use B* instructions in Nios II. That would be a typical case where a compiler might have a different optimization to avoid the issue, like using the sign bit from a subtraction.
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  38. I find your optimism unfounded. While they may finally voice the question, it'll be a "why me?" with themselves firmly in a victim role. That's not reflection, it's speculative misdirection.
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  39. Better yet, visible dislike counts gave a popularity measure to suggest confidence in the rating. Far from perfect, but helpful for viewers. Youtube decided to "protect" posters from "negativity" by... only showing it to them. I have no clue why they decided to push that lie.
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  40. Here in Sweden that search should not be required, as the credit info companies send us a copy of their response to each lookup. That said, dumb shit happens still. We had a blind man fighting off the TV extortion company Radiotjänst i Kiruna while they claimed their "interpretation" defined the law. With your drive, better times are coming. Best wishes.
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  41. hoboX10 Only in vocabulary; the English syntax is quite distinctly germanic, in some ways more so than German.
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  42. Not sure which particular kind of deranged she was, but my first thought was one of those religious cultists who want to ban most video games tried to cause a police report so they'd be able to claim there was video game related crime of that sort.
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  43. Depending on your logic family, you may still have to do extra work to make this constant time or power. Mainly because carry chains will take different time to complete depending on values. But for a typical synchronous processor with constant clock rate, it's constant time.
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  44. Make sure you have a recovery plan; back your documents up, verify the backups, and probably get an alternative software option too. Something like Knoppix or Puppy Linux, so your machine will be operable when that Windows installation fails. Just this week Microsoft announced yet another critical bug in their network stack enabling remote takeovers of all functions of the computer. Just a routine oopsie.
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  45. "Not good alternatives" is based on prioritizing some convenience (e.g., preestablished registration, huge selection, easy ordering and prepaid next day delivery including carrying up the stairs) over inconveniences like looking around, fair dealing or that pesky "warranty of fitness for particular purpose" that's legally required of a normal purchase. Most people who make this choice also consider writing a list of pros and cons too much effort. Network effect and confirmation bias are very strong here.
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  46. You don't need to trick the AI. Just help it with its goal, to produce output (never mind how accurate).
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  47. Reminds me of a report I saw somewhere about electron microscopes that didn't work at a fairly high altitude. The manufacturer had not tested under low pressure conditions.
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  48.  @FirebunbunYT  Spiffing Brit's videos titled "Youtube Is Broken" discusses the "promotion" feature. In particular the exploit where you can pay to destroy others' channels is remarkable.
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  49. It's quite a bit more complicated. For instance, with the structs shown, the linked list is likely twice as large even before taking into account memory allocator overhead. Just as importantly, traversing the entire list is not necessarily your most important operation, and the linked list makes operations like insertion, removal and append (if you track the tail) quite fast, while the array may need to copy all other elements each time. As for heaps, we have two things commonly named that; the memory allocation heap and a heap queue. The heap queue algorithm maintains a sort of ordering within an array at a limited cost, such that you can always extract the first item. It maintains a type of binary tree, and the technique is applicable to other structures. In short, horses for courses.
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  50. Incorrect. There is plenty of software that is respectful of user privacy and user rights, and additionally shared without demand for payment. With FOSS in particular (a rebranding of free software as described by the free software foundation) you have the right to study, improve and share it, not merely use it. Have a look e.g. at Debian's philosophy and social contract.
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  51. LEGO really stole the patent in the first place. They kept their market position with some excellent quality control, though.
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  52. Absolutely. They've established the fine is less punitive than the process of getting it applied. This isn't justice.
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  53. Aww... you got my hopes up, I thought there was a con for Leap Motion.
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  54. When none of us spend. Good luck trying to not spend time.
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  55. They also block viewing the site with a web browser.
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  56. You're simply stating that you're stuck in a rut. Take a moment to consider what Null in SQL is. You're almost certainly using the pattern of monads already (LINQ is another example), but understanding the abstraction can help. Also, a few companies that don't exist as we know them in the "real world" you describe would be AT&T, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Qualcomm. Just because you've gone years without using a tool doesn't mean the tool isn't of use. Why use a screw when two nails would do?
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  57. That would not be proportionate at all. He has established he thinks that's basically harmless, and has no idea how sensitive and cruel kids are (yes, both).
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  58. ​ @Artoooooor  It's often outright malware too! FTDI, Lenovo, HP, Sony, WCH, Epson and more have released firmware and driver updates specifically to break functionality.
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  59.  @hubertnnn  Of course not. That's as idiotic as the common thief's claim "if it doesn't scan, it's free". Because the document does not exist, claiming you've read it is a lie, and signing the document with that statement is perjury. As ridiculous as the legal system is, it rarely takes jokes well.
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  60. Same here. The later part did demonstrate how the last and first columns each form a digram from the original text, but I don't see how that helps us distinguish AB from BA, or EEGEEHEEBEE from EEBEEHEEGEE. I suppose a stable sort would recover some of that; then common suffix bigrams are listed in order of occurrence.
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  61. ​ @tzorfireis425 Don't forget, the "option" to not get spied on likely doesn't do what it says, just provides them another data point to sell. This is how all the tracking companies view the "do not track" header, for instance.
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  62. ​​ @BitcoinMotorist  Perhaps because they subscribe to the notion that merely knowing nullification is an option means you're biased against law? Personally I consider that offensive, biasing jurors towards lack of education and therefore both gullibility and prejudice. That's not the route to informed decisions.
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  63.  @midlowreborn  I can't quit something I've never done. I don't expect you to read past the first three words this time, either.
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  64. Certainly bothers much less than "I could care less", which implies a careless usage of words.
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  65. Paranoia is unreasonable fear. It is not unreasonable to fear those who abandon reason and exploit others thinking "surely they wouldn't". Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
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  66. They never reverted the damage, so what exactly did they lose?
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  67. And standard operating procedure for Sony...
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  68. Sony music, who intentionally broke the CD spec to the degree iMacs had to be modified with a drill to remove the unusable disc (great design, Apple). Sony Computer Entertainment repeatedly destroyed functionality (e.g. SACD and Other OS) on sold machines, including key selling points, while advertising "it does everything" (I don't expect they've stopped). Each time blaming their victims.
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  69. This is a little tricky. In layers which observe press/release events only, like many operating systems and programs, the key would appear still held. For a hotpluggable keyboard type like USB, the keyboard removal is a detectable event and should lead to automatic release of all keys that were held there. For a PS/2 keyboard, the key might appear still held but not repeating, as repetition can be done in the keyboard; many operating systems perform repetition in software anyway, and then it might continue to repeat.
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  70. Never mind that he said the knife was in the correct place (but practically not possible to drive in with manpower), the long tugging at the leash before he turned up is way ridiculous. These are animals that hunt by dragging down large animals; a bent over human is not much of an opponent.
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  71. A classic "goddag yxskaft" example. As the classic Swedish tale goes, there was a man carving an axe handle as he saw a stranger come walking down he road. This man was hard of hearing, so he made some guesses as to what the stranger would ask, and so their dialogue went like this: "Good day!" "Axe handles." (He'll probably ask what I'm making.) "The rye is tall this year." "Four miles." (And how far it is to town.) "Aren't you a bit twisted?" "To the left." (And which way to turn at the branch in the road.)
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  72. Zander Reed What's with all this harassment?
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  73. Sony are literally infamous for repeated bad acts like this. They never cared.
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  74.  @kaim0d0  When asking about things that only exist in your mind, you might want to use more than one word to describe them. You see, others operate in a different context known as reality.
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  75.  @kaim0d0  Your entire statement is filled with prejudice, including reality rejection. The core of it attempts to proscribe both what measurements show and how an observer would react. And that's not what happens in reality with either of those; your theory of mind appears to be crumbling along with your mental model of reality.
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  76. The interaction bundle includes a leap motion tracker, which does not only track hands but also pens. I wrote a rough prototype script for Blender that imported data from it. So yeah, that's within reach. Real time 3D views from Blender is also one of the things under development, according to the campaign page.
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  77. The premium feature of letting paying customers buffer subscribed videos ahead of time lasted what, two weeks? I now expect them to continue worsening their services.
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  78. It can be used the other way around too; pressure cookers can go to higher temperatures, and cook food faster.
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  79. Failing to predict the road they cannot see may be blocked. As in just past a crest on the other side of the underpass we can see. So they go from a common flow of traffic to sudden obstruction with literally nowhere to go. Now, normal signage would have instructed them to slow down in anticipation before reaching this point, but this politician is here to tell you that's not a reasonable response.
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  80.  @Sonny_McMacsson  Those were not the source of the free software movement. It is a grassroots philanthropic response to hostile restrictions. For proprietary publishers (Microsoft being the main example), the restrictions exist to enforce profit (even when counterproductive, making people seek alternatives). For the free software movement, the sharing exists to retake control (of one's own tools and work). Note that money is not a factor for the latter, but dedicating significant effort requires not living in abject poverty.
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  81. While a slightly more complex interpretation, I think it may be 3 enabled by 4, redirecting the motive: "A free software phone is imperative to create, by all means, so whatever means these guys picked is fine by me." This allows for cultish recruitment of people not driven by profit. When people want something to be true, even believe it's the foundation of their self image, like "I'm honest" or "the government is lying to us", they tend to make extremely biased readings of any situation vaguely connected to the idea.
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  82.  @marcogenovesi8570  That's one xenophobic take on it. Things aren't automatically safe by being US made - and in particular US lack of regulation has made "made in U.S." into an absolute joke, among many other false markings. E.g. "recyclable", "organic", "flushable" etc. It actually isn't unreasonable to expect such a thing of a reseller; but you have a market in which it's unlikely for a responsible trader of any kind to have success, maintained by the most egregious exploiters.
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  83. ​ @AshnSilvercorp  There are a handful of reasons. Not an exhaustive list: 1. It's cheaper not to touch it, as long as noone can bring a successful malpractice suit or equivalent. Preventing that is the primary purpose of the EULA. 2. Just in case something out there depends on some bug, it's "backwards compatible" to keep it broken. 3. As long as you can point to something broken, you can say "buy the next one, it might fix it". Never promise it does fix it.
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  84. ​ @TheBunzinator  Side note, used to be Canon made all HP printers. No idea which way that goes today.
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  85.  @stevelam8269  Bear in mind that this too is a synthetic narrative that may blind you to actual events. For instance, that is actively used to excuse actual offenses, as it became much easier to ignore complaints once you could label anyone voicing an opinion "radical far left" or "alt right" instead of a more obvious slur (the only practical difference between these labels is that it's supposed to describe a group the speaker claims to abhor). This happens in all sorts of differences of opinion; it's merely easier to amplify than ever before. I recommend CGP Grey's "this video will make you angry" for a primer. It's about the mental mechanisms, not any particular opinion.
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  86. +KingDragon2722 I am more confused than offended. His statement makes no sense as the word cannot apply. I also, at least per some estimates, fit in the autism spectrum. So either he wants to show off a broken vocabulary or he wants to twist the word autism into something offensive, and the latter actually is offensive to me.
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  87. Except they broke the normal experience. They take money for ad-free services they don't deliver.
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  88. Fangs of Yima from looking at a handful of demonstrations on lock picking or hacking channels, it's pretty clear Master is among the worst brands available.
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  89. That's an odd way to spell French and Les 12 travaux d'Astérix.
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  90. That's not entirely wrong. Microsoft did bless this software as permitted the privileges to do whatever to the entire system. They're in turn blaming this on EU, but EU only mandated they provide access to security software at the same level their own has; it's Microsoft's choice to make that this risky. Then there's the trust placed in Crowdstrike; they're likely selected for being a known name, never mind they ran a previous company into the ground in this particular manner. It's like the hotel manager decided to install an entry counter in their front door and nobody asked why it's also a guillotine.
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  91. It's worse. Should you be unsatisfied, this document says you're not allowed to bring in other parties to resolve a conflict, e.g. a contract lawyer or actual law enforcement, but are bound to whatever they dictate through their arbiter. That part, known as "forced arbitration", is one that probably should be illegal - but if you succumb to the pressure to sign this thing, you're not allowed to even ask.
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  92. Technically, that's not how perspective works. With synthetic holography (e.g. 4d light field displays) we actually can produce objects that approximate this visual behaviour, but only for a crudely limited set of viewpoints and with low resolution. Of course flerf knowledge of holography is based on scooby doo and star wars, so they'll claim there's a nefarious "they" faking the moon... but never explain why this magic ("sufficiently advanced technology") has never been applied to anything that matters.
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  93.  @jamma246  Having it in the argument name would document it equally well, including for introspection like help(), without writing a separate comment that will get out of sync. The stumbling block in this case is that "from" is a keyword, which frequently leads to ugly names like "from_". By the way, ctrl-p autocompletes in vim.
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  94. Do you want to pick up Mark Thomas' project from 2004, Christoph Toshok's from 1998, or just add to the pile of overlapping names? (I'm sure there are more than these.)
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  95. ​ @hectorg.7282 This flame bait has been going around the 'net for at least a dozen years. Dave's iteration here is no exception; all preaching, no attempt at understanding how his position ever came to be or why it's harmful.
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  96.  @CptJistuce  A lot of CS departments think so. It's very clear their job is not to serve the customer but get the errand dismissed ASAP.
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  97. Well, one of these points is mostly accurate, that Haskell tends to use heap memory (though more so its GC heap than the C heap, and both are available). Fun fact: Haskell is horrible at strings by default, because the standard implementation is a singly linked list of (wide) characters. The only way it can do it half decently is because the compiler is great at optimizing away lists entirely. If you want to do serious text processing, you import Data.Text instead. We all know you can write code in C. That's not an argument for or against it. But the "as long as you /everything/ manually" list rather is.
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  98. Strong Towns' proposals aren't anti-car. They reduce the number of cars and improve access for all modes of transport, remarkably including cars. Likewise, the problem they try to fix isn't even car-centric; it's car-only, to the detriment of everyone including people stuck in cars. Who would ever want to get stuck in those anyway?
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  99. That is equally inexcusable and even easier to solve. Remember the space required to keep the last known good version? That's the running version. There's no need at all to interrupt that while downloading a new version, which goes in the next slot. Only after the download has finished and been verified does it make sense to proceed to the switching step. And don't try to tell me a car, which is legally required to have redundant sensors, can't afford to have dual banks of flash memory.
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  100. Python has big integers, and Pypy can compile it. C or assembler don't, so you'll be calling an arbitrary precision library like gmp, and the difference becomes insignificant after you hit big numbers. Close to metal isn't magic. That said, try Julia or Haskell. And for a task like this, maybe Decimal instead of Integer.
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  101. Yes, they use just about every tool. When a tool sticks, like Haxl, you can be pretty sure it was effective.
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  102. You can't necessarily count on it not spying on you. Open source allows you to do is find out and fix it, but it's no guarantee anyone went to that effort for you. Very much in the vein of right to repair.
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  103. It was not handled in hardware on PCs, but it was on Amiga computers (well, control-amiga-amiga was). On PCs it is handled by software, whether firmware (BIOS/EFI) or operating system. Microsoft's official excuse for training people to hit that just to login or unlock a machine is that it's always handled by the OS, which is nearly true (unless a program manages to disconnect the keyboard driver itself), but likely the real reason is that it would make other OSes appear less stable if you happened to hit it on the wrong keyboard.
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  104.  @ddkapps  You forgot the "we can unilaterally change these terms at any time" part.
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  105. As seen on his example rubber dome over PCB keyboard, there's typically minimal hardware and the debouncing in this case must be performed by the microcontroller that does the keyboard matrix scanning. Diodes are used in higher end keyboards to avoid ghosting (where multiple keys cause misdetection), but can be used for unidirectional debouncing in single switch circuits.
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  106. ​ @Mik3l24 It is permitted and expected. I find it fair to ask a price for the work to build a Windows version, considering how that is not just extra effort (Linux distributions build their own) but Windows costs for both developers and end users.
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  107. Adversarially modified codes are already happening. I saw a report just yesterday of some city sponsored anti-graffiti QR spam (or was it supposed to be report links?) altered by overlays to point to a pro-graffiti documentary. Granted, not as nasty as the deappetizer mentioned in this thread already, but they can do arbitrary things, including exploiting bugs in the scanners.
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  108. It really is an odd observation. Here on YouTube, I'm used to the advertisements being the offensive content.
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  109. USB is most certainly not using set 2 - for the reason why, look up what the scancode is for the arrow keys, which have a prefix for set 1 compatibility, or the Pause key which is 7 bytes long. USB keycodes are in alphabetic order and Z in particular is 1D (see HID usage tables, section 10 keyboard). Your firmware might be translating it for legacy OS support, however. Set 3 was more logical in that it used a single bit for press/release and one byte for each event. Also, the polling in USB is performed by the host controller, not the CPU, so we still have an interrupt for when things have changed. There are also buffers in both keyboards and port controllers for PS/2, AT etc, but the CPU typically has to handle them byte by byte.
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  110. Be fair. This isn't the cheapest scammer, he did take the time to produce a sloppy video. I wish he'd inspire rather than disillusion... and of course, stop scamming.
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  111. Two days? I once spent over a year returning to and rereporting the same blatant spam, at reducing frequencies. Absolutely nothing happened to the spam, but youtube frequently deletes my comments instead.
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  112. C supports recursion. It does not guarantee tail call optimization, but that's insignificant in a branching recursion like quicksort (which is in the C standard library).
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  113. But it is moving in a circular reference frame cycloid, in the corner case where it became a straight line (rolling diameter equals enclosing radius). Another corner case is where it becomes immobile, because the rolling and enclosing circles are equal. All the other cases are actually useful in designing e.g. cycloidal or planetary gears!
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  114. I'm absolutely more concerned about the word "the" in that title, because it suggests there wouldn't be other questions regarding undefined behaviour. Trying to associate all occurences of "the foobar question" phrasing with antisemitism is insane.
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  115. The summary in the first sentence is a bit off target; the first part describes a type class (which Monad is; another example is Num for numeric, which contains arithmetic operations), and the second part is already enabled by sum types holding fields (which Maybe is; so is Either, and both have instances of Monad). But neither describes the concept of a monad. The prelude describes it thusly: "it is best to think of a monad as an abstract datatype of actions". A monad in Haskell provides a way to sequence processing steps; they could pass information from one to the next, return information, be skipped, repeated, or even reordered. For instance, the STM monad (which allows shared mutable state in multithreaded programs without locking) can repeat actions which it determines need to be retried, and the Maybe monad can skip actions it determines receive no input. The IO monad is the most flexible, as it can perform anything at all, including non-deterministic behaviour; it is also isolated, in that the only thing that performs IO actions is the main function. In effect, the main function's job is to produce the sequence of actions that shall be performed. The Either monad can be easily applied as exceptions are, in that it carries information down the fast Left path as well as the thorough Right path, and the Control.Exception module contains support for translating between this form and IO monad exceptions. Many monads do much simpler work; for instance Identity, First, Last, Max, Min, List (called simply [] in the library), Product and Sum. These are used to take the same internal steps and produce different results from them. State provides a way to carry data past steps, so the steps themselves don't need to forward all state. All of these are deterministic and polymorphic.
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  116. If you find the compiler doing something dumb, it's often better to make a small tweak to clarify what the compiler didn't get rather than do all of its work. Case in point, with the ToUpperCPP at 8:47, GCC -O3 will produce an SSE version if you tweak "if (cond) d[i] -= 32;" to "d[i] -= cond ? 32 : 0;"
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  117.  @thedave1771  New features, bug fixes, updates for compatibility with other changes all have value. It's reasonable to pay for those. That's drastically different from demanding everyone has to pay indefinitely for a chance to maybe keep what they have.
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  118. And of course an extra fee for having not been helped by a teller, too.
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  119.  @ikannunaplays  Better yet, OpenMP would allow absolutely minimal program modification for all modes (serial, SIMD, threads, offloading).
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  120.  @henrituhola  At the point system memory is all used, several systems outright fail in unpredictable ways. It might not even be your process that crashes. You can also run out for distinct reasons such as the stack growing into the address space of another mapping. The recursion limit is a feature, not a bug, simply by virtue of being designed in; it's also adjustable if you're that upset about it. It's certainly possible to have design choices including features with the opposite effects, such as tail call optimization.
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  121.  @MingusDew_Bebop  Learning a technical field is a good example of intellectualism. You may be exposed to some toxic stereotyping if you want to contrast them.
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  122. There's no distinct row for CH4, perhaps because humans can detect the smell before it reaches dangerous levels. The other main gaseous components are monitored. CH4 might be counted in the ALIPHAT heading, and SO2 in the AROMAT heading.
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  123. I disagree with one statement: "The intention is to prevent piracy." The intention is to make the publisher pay the DRM peddler. As the DRM itself is purely antifunctionality, and pirates are unaffected, only legitimate customers harmed, "prevent piracy" is at best a shoddy excuse.
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  124.  @LN997-i8x  Usually it's that the math works for them, not the company. Just grab those bonuses and leave with accolades before the consequences catch up.
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  125. The IO monad is, in Haskell. As it turns out, the concept is useful for more things so there are plenty of other monads.
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  126. "Stop stabbing me!" "I have never stabbed you with an awl."
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  127. By Apple's metrics, if they make it hard enough to break into the device (durability), noone will attempt repair and they profit. Note how their "longevity" metric was reduced repairs, not prolonged usability.
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  128. bob jones, interrupt handling varies with architectures. For instance, on a PC there's at least one PIC or APIC (P because the priorities are programmable) holding interrupt flags, priorities and masks, and on most microcontrollers interrupts are vectored, so there's no time spent finding which interrupt occurred. Some have event systems that can trigger other functions without involving the CPU at all. XMOS XS-1 might wake up a distinct hardware thread to be run concurrently with all that were already running. The basic function of an interrupt remains to reroute control flow in response to external events, which is why it was called the Sequence Break System on the PDP-1. I expect the professor is aware of several of these variations, even if the explanation here is cut short. For a low priority interrupt to not be processed would require quite an extraordinary delay; typically they're low priority specifically because the connected device is so slow that the risk of overflows is negigible. The most common source of such problems is instead buggy ISRs that fail to clear interrupt flags.
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  129. This is exactly why I sought out Hue lights in the first place; I connect them to Home Assistant using a Conbee II USB dongle.
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  130. Monads literally are the mechanism to build try..catch! Haskell has throw, try and catch in Control.Exception, and they essentially take impure exceptions from the IO monad (otherwise known as the surrounding world, a rather impure and uncontrollable thing) and transform them into pure types like Either. Pure Haskell code would just produce the Either directly, so it shows in the type of the function, and since that's a monad we don't need to complicate the code much for handling.
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  131. YouTube's response has been entirely clear: They know this pisses people off, they know they're doing it without reason, and they don't care one bit. They've intentionally designed it to be unfixable. For them, it's far more important that a system be automatic, no matter how wrong (including directly illegal), than to make any sort of sense.
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  132. Also possible, but takes some setting up, on Debian using snapper, some subvolumes and hooks. It covers the rollback function, but not so much the background building with atomic live switching.
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  133. Parties that have signed this document wouldn't be allowed to say so, no. They'd be able to discuss the text of this document (as that was information made public through no fault of theirs) but not whether they themselves were offered the same one, or any at all.
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  134.  @brettski74  It's murky waters. They would be bound regarding their agreement, but this document isn't their agreement. Inevitably they'd stay mum because Apple could (and very likely would) punish them regardless of right.
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  135. ​ @catayloprince4772  {doc,ppt,xls}x formats ("Open XML") are not designed for interoperability. They exist so Microsoft could claim their files were standard too, not just de facto. Of particular note is how they rushed them through ISO by bribing non-participating countries to join ISO and fast track it, even while the specs were incomplete and unimplementable. This blatant corruption left ISO crippled by unresponsive new members, bringing down the participation fraction for any votes. All marketing to counter the fact that OpenDocument was being standardised. Actual interoperability of the "Open XML" formats is a side effect.
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  136. And then there's the case where someone just continues talking to be met with a "Huh? Stop. I'm not whoever you thought you were talking to." That's what RST is for.
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  137. Top notch repair video! I particularly appreciate where he showed something in the marketing blurb that might be real with the matched opamps. And yes, grinding off component markings is quite literally playing dirty; it's blatant sabotage.
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  138.  @NedTheDread  By explicit design no. That's what the OEM bootloader lock prevents. Otherwise the umpteen layers of recovery systems might actually have been usable!
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  139. It's much easier to have Chrome itself recognize and skip that piece of code. It would just be an undocumented optimization, the specialty of e.g. nvidia's driver division. The fun part: That's exactly what ad blockers are. Code to remove hostile data and get at the content more efficiently. The only distinction is the degree of hostility; Youtube have decided to upgrade the baseline for ads from distraction to obstacle.
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  140.  @DrakyHRT  Oddly enough the first bend was much tighter, and it's mandated by the manufacturer in designing the cable channel.
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  141. ​ @Mallchad  There's an extortion industry out there that calls it "DRM" or "copy protection". Malware added on with the specific purpose of making devices not function. The specific machinations, like time bombs and ransoms, vary, but the core remains.
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  142. Here's another little factor at play: Since you're pushing air back, that's not just slower wind; it's a high pressure pocket forming behind you, which accelerates the wind locally. It may come back to push against your propeller. This seems like a reflecting effect, a little like a ground effect vehicle.
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  143. Yes, shift keys get press/release events just like other keys. Since they're meant to be held they also frequently have dedicated lines (such as being outside the scanning matrix, or having dedicated bits in a HID report). In the OS level, they'll activate keyboard mapping states such as capitals for decoding other keys, but not decode to printable letters themselves. So a program waiting for text won't notice them, but a program looking at held keys will.
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  144. I guess this thread could use a gentle reminder that OpenCL, OpenMP and SPIR-V exist. You don't have to write everything in Glide. ;) I'd consider prototyping with CLyther or Futhark.
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  145. Is Chewi an off brand Chuwi?
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  146. I expect gyroscopes for such launches need to have their fibers potted to handle the vibrations. Do they use specific compounds with lower indices of refraction to maintain the fiber's reflectivity? In hindsight, probably a silly question. Those fibers should probably be sleeved, so only the inner sleeve would need optical properties, or a layer of lacquer like on coil wire. And such sleeved fibers are commonplace. But that's how questions tend to work; you try to compare the unfamiliar to the familiar.
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  147. It's not just tightening. The parts that slide don't have the right surface properties or shape. You get effects like tightening deforming them so only the center has any pressure, where it has the least leverage to stop it folding. Adding a rubber washer might help.
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  148. The best case scenario of such a requirement is that someone wants the power to shut your work down. Why hand that over?
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  149. ​​ @TorutheRedFox Technically it doesn't even say you reached the domain owner - only that a certificate authority (of which there's an insane number listed) signed off on the name. It completely trusts e.g. GoDaddy, Amazon, China Financial Certification Authority or Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu. You can extend some web browsers e.g. with Certificate Patrol to at least alert you if the certificate changes unexpectedly.
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  150.  @UltimatePerfection  No, and I think it supports several audio backends. One fairly modern thing is that PipeWire supports both JACK and Pulse protocols. If there is an advantage to a patched kernel, you can probably get that precompiled like the realtime kernel, though that in turn is not as significant as back when single core CPUs were the norm.
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  151. I apologize for not upvoting, but you had 42 thumbs up. (Edit: Since it's now showing 62, have an upvote.)
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  152. Pretty sure it is. It shouldn't take many points: 1. Owner owns printer. 2. Owner does not authorize disabling of printer, a purely hostile action. 3. No click-through EULA can form such an authorization.
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  153.  @tomeauburn  "Quit resisting" means "if I happen to be recorded abusing you, I want an excuse on record." Often accompanied by a few extra painful jerks just to make sure an unresisting target won't be obvious. If there was honesty involved, they'd be using instructions, not admonishment.
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  154. They could have e.g. not instituted their policies to dismiss all negative feedback and allow transfer of the remaining endorsements to different articles.
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  155. It probably doesn't take "int" or "bool", but "some type such that there is a known show function for it". This is known as a type class. For C++/Java people, it's a bit like an interface and a template function. So a type such as "Show a" guarantees there exists a "show :: a -> String", and thus log can call it to get something to work with. (This example uses Haskell syntax, but I expect it's similar in F#. I imagine this "log" is like Haskell "traceShowId".)
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  156. While disposable income is nice, I wouldn't want to take away the right of people to share their creations and contributions freely if they so choose. I think we agree on something that Microsoft have been trying to hide and prevent for decades: If you buy software, it is yours. That's what buying is. With FOSS you get the plans too so you can study and improve it, as well as the right to share again.
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  157. Well, that is indeed ridiculous. By the way, last I checked XCover was the only reasonable Samsung phone, at least hardware wise; their lockdowns on the other hand are madness. Prior to that, S5.
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  158. ​ @mannotwiththeplan  Well, that just shows you've misunderstood what mathematics is. Defining symbols as useful and relevant is very much from mathematics (some common examples: Π for products and γ for a light transfer function). And APL is developed by mathematicians, and doesn't redefine its symbols like C++ or Haskell might. The whole approach of "this calculator is WRONG" is clickbait, not understanding. You're just using a different dialect and being unclear and judgmental.
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  159. This is indeed near FUBAR.
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  160.  @georgieippolito9924  That's a creative compatible product. What knock-offs do is produce a few similar bricks, often of so low quality they won't fit, perhaps slap a picture of a lego set on the box, and sell it as just slightly cheaper in non-discerning markets.
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  161.  @B3Band  You're assuming a widening operation is the only way to check for overflow. This is untrue; the patterns of operands that cause them are known and detectable, and there's often dedicated hardware to detect and flag overflows.
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  162. I'm stupidly sensitive to gluten. Contamination happens. For me it results in negative nutrition and several painful hours stuck in the lavatory, with damage that doesn't fully recover. I'd probably be more careful about it if it was immediately life threatening; as long as that doesn't happen multiple times every week, I'll live. Other conditions can be far more severe, e.g. peanut allergies can cause asthma and cardiac arrest. The level described here is where an article goes from "gluten free" to "may contain traces of gluten". That distinction happens when it's handled at a facility that also handles gluten, even if they take care to avoid contamination. Even "gluten free" is only a concentration limit. I might prefer to avoid the risk by getting a prewrapped food, but it's fairly normal for restaurants not to have that (or single serving packs). Far better they say they can't accomodate me than serve me a sauce that ruins my night.
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  163.  @ratgr  It's been defined plenty. It's just that people who don't have the definition are militant about what it is.
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  164. ​ @jonmobrien It's very common for it to be defined, as "let x=1+2 in 3x". The ambiguity comes after that, as the implicit multiplication in "3x" may be of a higher precedence than the explicit division outside. Helpful calculators will show their unambiguous interpretation, and Qalculate! will ask what you meant in the first place.
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  165. First paper cited in the description: DOI: 10.1145/187387.187391 It is wordy and vague, much like this video, and the sample implementation indeed simply checks reindeer first. Unlike the video presenter's variant, the paper doesn't let the reindeer go back on vacation before santa performs deliveries. As for the "sneaky" bug... it didn't seem to exist. Semaphores can hold values posted early, such as how many reindeer are let out by santa. And the single mutex (which overserializes the program) prevented races on reindeerCount. The architecture is pretty sad, but I guess that's to be expected of something to exercise only the semaphore primitive, thirty years ago.
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  166. Always was, long before that term was coined to cover both the original (Free Software which is about user freedom), and rebranding (Open Source Software, to make the methods more palatable to for profit companies). Note that rebranding specifically mutes the purpose of the first. It's literally a stop telling me what to do with my own things situation.
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  167. There's one reason: Batteries will swell a little during their lifetime, and that means you want to leave them some margin, without letting them rattle around. Adhesives are a simple option to achieve the latter constraint. Not necessarily a good one, mind. The traditional method involves a mechanically constrained frame integrated into the battery pack. In the eyes of these manufacturers, replacing that with glue is a win/win/win scenario: cheaper to build, negligibly lighter or smaller for advertising, and harder to repair. For customers/owners, that's loss/illusory/loss. For society, that's all loss; there's nothing to gain in making the insanely rich marginally richer, nothing to gain in making tools break (aside from actively damaging ones like farting cars). It's environmental crimes for the sake of greed.
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  168.  @deftknight7418  On some level, I agree; the original idea of the patent served a societal purpose, motivating inventors to share their inventions. But the modern approach of "be a megacorporation and hold all rights for many generations" isn't that, at all. The most trifling of features, like identifying similar marks in a compression algorithm, are suddenly forbidden to use, in the name of protecting the profits of companies that don't bother to build any of it.
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  169. That number appears to be one of those easily quotable myths. There's an article on it from the Drum, though it's largely inconclusive; the main indication is just that the number was made up rhetoric, as far as it can be traced. More telling is the part where the advertising agency representatives don't want to give a real number. Remember, they're selling the ads, not whatever the ads are for. Also notable, that article remarked on an ad every 3 minutes as being a frightening, overblown and scary proposition. Cable TV, Tiktok and Youtube easily surpass that. 😮
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  170. @M J Grasscutter I feel what you're really saying is that helping could be more complex than giving, in the "teach a man to fish" adage sense. It could be hard to identify what helps in the long run. This is why qualifiers, references and context matter, as Kurzgesagt did provide here. I want to try.
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  171.  @Mano-us7ct  They don't sell "personal information", just personally identifiable information. Ancient weasel language. The "non-personal" information typically includes when you're home and where you live (it's just "metadata"...).
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  172. This is called hadd or rhadd (h=half, r=right) in OpenCL, and there's mix() for arbitrary sections of floating point values. It's an ancient issue; compare e.g. Forth's */ word, which conceptually does a widening multiply before a narrowing divide.
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  173. Those ways of filming (light fields) are also in development, as discussed in this very video. 8i's demo is quite impressive within a VR headset.
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  174. That's a familiar story. Happened for some major websites as well, including Microsoft's own Hotmail. (The user facing change there was IIS vs Apache, iirc.)
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  175. Specifically, a tax on the vulnerable. It's unjust.
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  176. ​ @Lugh314  As I recall, that phrase went "adequately explained". Every single department coming around in turn to hit the same target - and each unable to explain why - isn't.
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  177.  @chri-k  There are a handful of others. Division is often around 40 cycles, random number instructions have been known to take thousands of cycles, cache misses are typically a few hundred, and bulk instructions like rep movsb or arbitrary size multiply are unlimited (but usually interruptible).
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  178. ... English specific, and the editing obscured the hints. Not very interesting series either; it's all quite XKCD 169, if I may go XKCD 902 about it.
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  179. Oh, there's much more than that being omitted. Such as how much delay is in that upscaling engine, or how current consoles don't do real 1080 and can't be configured to output native resolution; don't expect any better of the next generation. Or whether this thing is even capable of 8K input; my guess is, certainly not uncompressed. Last time I tried a Samsung high end TV (a 4K model) it only read a quarter resolution colour, literally discarding the colour information of three quarters of the pixels. They saw nothing wrong with that.
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  180. This exercise is designed to demonstrate the flexibility of semaphores and test students' understanding of them. Unfortunately, it revealed flaws in your understanding, not a great point to start teaching from. This video didn't describe the challenge very well. Sadly, neither did the original paper. This is why you both missed relevant points of synchronization; in the original paper, santa may finish deliveries before the reindeer arrive at the sleigh. In yours, the sleigh does not exist and the reindeer may go back on vacation before santa finishes his deliveries. The "sneaky bug" reveals a notable misunderstanding of what semaphores do. This bug is imaginary, as semaphores can hold a number of posts. Santa posted 9 times, so 9 times a reindeer will get out. It doesn't matter that santa moved on, the count is in the semaphore; like a counting turnstile. The behaviour you worried about could occur with POSIX condition variables, where you can only wake already waiting threads. The use of mutexes missed the point that semaphores can do that too (it's why C++ named their methods release and acquire, instead of signal and wait). Perhaps more concerning is that you overserialized independent blocks by sharing the lock for different variables. The explanatory value of flashing up miniature pictures of large chunks of code, that we have neither the time nor resolution to read, is doubtful.
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  181.  @stuartgray5877  If you're talking about rotation fluctuations, there certainly are such papers. here are some likely reasons the denialist won't submit any though: 1) can't find it himself, and prefers belligerence over admitting even that; 2) knows the fluctuations are out of scale (e.g. only show in long term measurement after subtracting the main signal); 3) merely suspects point 2 because conspiracy nutters tend to be wrong, and prefers belligerence over finding out; 4) just wants to waste everyone's time (making them a troll) All these options are a-hole moves, obviously. But can you find any better? Real fluctuations exist, inevitably caused by tidal forces but occasionally seismic events. There are some classic unrealistic expectations of science here. It's like expecting to learn all about the seasons from looking at a thermometer for a minute.
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  182.  @KyleHerrera106  "Composite images compiled using data from a myriad sensors"? If those sensors were light sensors aimed slightly differently, that would be a ten kilopixel photograph. Real world example: the Game Boy Camera with 128x128 uses about 1.6 myriad photosites. We get better quality with more readings, more precise sensors, and just plain more sensors. The device you're reading this on probably has megapixels, not mere kilopixels. It gets a bit more fun when you mix in more dimensions. A typical photograph only uses three wavelength filters and two angular dimensions, but I have one that mixes in two translation dimensions too. Some go to the full six for pose and one for time. Video footage typically mixes up the vertical angular dimension with time because of rolling shutters, in addition to the temporal dimension separating frames. There's so much fun stuff to learn, make and use!
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  183.  @stuartgray5877  Conspiracy theorists are self-driven. This is why one of the rules of flerf is that their sources contradict their claims when they do provide references; they either don't understand or ignore how. E.g. a simulation model using a stationary reference frame documents that only because it differs from reality, but flerfs insist it means the opposite. Usually they go for some key word and ignore all context.
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  184. They might need potty training. They didn't earn a driver's license.
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  185. They regularly do (e.g. Pale Moon), and then people complain that the team supporting those forks must be too small, and the splintering continues.
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  186. I care.. per XKCD 810.
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  187.  @--_--IMP--_--  It's a solid question. One example would be all those times they refuse to play back what's been paid for and predownloaded, striking in particular when it's harmful (as you're unable to connect and performed steps to access that specific content). This instance may have been averted but it's still their routine behaviour. And all those times, you're under suspicion, surveillance and punishment for daring to pay them for their services.
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  188. As observed by both Douglas Adams and Albert Einstein, yes. The universe has an astonishing capacity for idiots.
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  189. Lexmark at least advertise standard protocols and that they can keep printing with empty cartridges.
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  190.  @R.B.  Without filter: qsort list = case list of { [] -> [] ; (b:xs) -> qsort [a | a<-xs, a<b] ++ [b] ++ qsort [c | c<-xs, b<=c] } Of course, : [] ++ < >= are also from Prelude (the default library), as is the Bool type used in the guards. partition is a better choice than filter, but that's in Data.List. Normally I'd use two function cases, but I figured I'd one-line it for fun. I'd argue there is a difference between naming and defining an algorithm.
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  191. Pemdas isn't evidence, it's an acronym for a poor mnemonic for an introduction to the order of algebraic operations. Oddly enough it's also abused as a dogmatic bludgeon.
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  192. Nope. They're discontinuing the models where that was the only option. They're not offering to fix the sabotage for already purchased ones, even at the owner's expense.
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  193.  @ksarnelli  It seems a bit naïve to expect PEMDAS to cover all operations when it only relates 6 - and those in an ambiguous manner, to boot. Page 17 of my Casio fx-8500G manual describes 12 priorities (counting parenthesis), of which PEMDAS describes details in levels 2-3 (E), 7 (MD) and 8 (AS), and the 4th footnote (P). Juxtaposition (implied multiplication) appears in levels 4 and 6. The chapter is titled "before you start calculating". An example of an operation not covered by PEMDAS is negation, at level 5. Surprisingly, even with the detail they go into, they neglected to cover the order for binary operators of the same precedence (which matters for subtraction and division, which are not commutative) unless you use the argument of the exception confirming the rule via footnotes 2 and 3.
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  194. ​ @Speeder84XL Treating the block as occupied if it's unclear is exactly what fail safe would do. A smarter system would not accept disappearance of trains.
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  195. Several languages do have built in checking for this error; Zig is one of them. The overhead may be negligible; on some CPUs it's just a matter of enabling the overflow to cause an interrupt. This is the reason some ISAs distinguish signed or unsigned add.
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  196. That would be "most low level north american schools", though the practice may have spread.
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  197. If you think this is too long, there are closing statements from 35:04. Prior to that are direct counters to the ad the title referred to, after that is some important lessons.
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  198. Going off on a tangent, there's an element of the film Erik the Viking that feels somewhat related to flat earthers. Much of the film involves mythical adventures reaching places like Valhalla, but there's this one crew member who's a Christian and doesn't believe in that stuff, including the edge of the world. He mostly can't tell what all the fuss is about.
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  199.  @FalkonNightsdale  Basically the process, except it doesn't even have to be you who paid. This can be done maliciously and probably has been.
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  200. You mean they banned you for picking fights using the most inane and offensive falsehoods you could think of?
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  201. He's not complaining about the lanes, he's complaining about the obstacles disabling them.
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  202. ​ @EwanMarshall  The file system is not particularly specialized; the "everything is a file" philosophy is a generalization. Allow me to translate the entry of "file" from ADB-ordboken (dictionary of computing from 1982): "A file is a database containing records of 80 characters." This traces back to 1928 IBM punch cards.
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  203. That's just shifting the damage. I've been told a few times to ask these chatbots for solutions, and I typically end up with three times as much text to wade through that doesn't apply. I mean, it makes sense in the dog fooding way (don't expect us to deal with AI offal you haven't even read), but it's more productive not to use the garbage generators in the first place.
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  204. There's nothing specific to numbers in this implementation.
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  205. Yes.
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  206.  @XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX  That is untrue. Your fingerprinting doesn't have to be anywhere near subtle; e.g. it could be a tolerant match of a blurhash. We're not talking about an exact integrity check, just "could this be the video we've seen". Youtube's main content is chunked dash, not continuously reencoded streams. Sure, they could waste tremendous power on reencoding everything on demand, but that's not the current status. The simplest thing to do is just collect a DHT of youtube video ID to dash contents, only holding dash lists that have the correct length. Live streams are more complex, though.
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  207. ​ @thettguy  Schematics were used for understanding, repairs, and designing modifications, like those expansion cards. For instance, I recently removed a swollen lithium ion battery from a tablet, and now it refuses to work. With a proper schematic I'd at least know what sort of chip it was talking to. Of course, with a sane manufacturer they wouldn't have made it impossible to boot in the first place. And with decent documentation we could have replaced the boot ROM to fix that too.
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  208. It is 90 fps, which means 60fps will judder as half the frames are early or late. Common video cannot represent the serious VR experience, so you'll have to imagine it to some degree; I believe fantastic contraption uses another interesting visualization.
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  209. Ah, the good old Monochrome Display Adapter, appreciated by PC programmers the world over for its ability to function simultaneously with a colour graphics card; thus we could run a debugger on one monitor while showing graphics on the other. The HGC/MGA variants are more popular, however, as they also support graphics at an amazing 720x348 resolution; the MDA could only show text, marketed as a feature by IBM who said the PC therefore wouldn't run games.
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  210. Not in ASCII, period. It's a rather specific 7-bit standard (ANSI X3.4-1986, AFAIK it hasn't changed substantially since 1977). Also note that the "first version ever" screenshot here contains cyrillic letters, another feature absent from ASCII. You may also be amused by looking up sixels. With 15 by 12 user definable characters, you could run in two custom characters on a VT320.
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  211. Given appropriate monitoring, yes. E.g. QuickCheck generates tests (known as fuzzing). One major issue is that people often aren't any better at writing specifications or tests than implementations. It's not much use to simulate thousands of different runs if you can't tell if any of them went wrong.
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  212. May I recommend the Mitchell & Webb sketch Needlessly ambiguous terms?
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  213. Why argue with the fanboy who started out insisting there's nothing but nvidia, then switched to insisting there's no point comparing? TOP500 #1 and #3 use AMD, #4 is nvidia (about an order of magnitude weaker than #1), and #2 and #7 use neither. In the GREEN500, an nvidia system takes the lead, closely followed by 6 AMD systems. Nvidia doesn't have the HPC monopoly they, their astroturfers and fanboys insist. What we have here is an anecdote; someone who insists CUDA is the only game in town refuses to even test if HIP already outperforms it with their existing code. Meanwhile, had they used OpenMP or OpenCL they could have compared directly, though nvidia's support for OpenCL often lags behind so they can keep insisting CUDA is better.
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  214. Why focus on where the merit in the labeling might have been when the labeling itself is a huge fabrication with real world DOS effects?
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  215. The main implementation GHC is a compiler (though it has been extended to include a compiling interpreter GHCi). A quick look at the Implementations page of the Haskell Wiki lists at least 9 compilers and 4 interpreters. And even when interpreted, that doesn't make it a scripting language.
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  216. I nominate Dan Brown's book for bad book, decent movie. It was like reading the screenplay of a moderately decent movie.
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  217.  @framegrace1  There's an obvious point to it; the exception causes a traceback, informing you how you ran into trouble. Remember, Python is designed for beginner programmers to experiment in interactively. Which would you prefer, something to tell you your last entered command had an issue, or suddenly losing all context without warning or explanation?
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  218. Very easily: qsort [] = [] qsort (x:xs) = lows `par` highs `par` lows++[x]++highs where lows = qsort (filter (<x) xs) highs = qsort (filter (>=x) xs)
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  219.  @Cheepchipsable  You're forgetting in your analogy the part where the bus driver randomly goes back in the bus to demand to see your ticket, but only if you bought one. Ensuring the bus arrives slower no matter how many rode for free, including zero, and never hassling them the same way.
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  220.  @Fronken89  I've never been worse hurt in travels than fallingdown some stairs, which stunned me for a minute and meant I needed to straighten out my bike and replace my helmet. But I've almost been killed by cars at least three times. It's rather uneasy to realize that particular time, looking twice before going into a pedestrian crossing with green light for me absolutely saved my life.
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  221.  @klausbrinck2137  Induction stoves don't need your pots to be ferromagnetic at all; merely sufficiently conductive. They work by inducing eddy currents, much like a magnetic brake. Look for flat, thick, metal bottoms. Often the pots are advertised as induction stove compatible.
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  222.  @adytya  Either reason it out, or measure. Preferably measure either way, actually, so you can tell if you're making progress. The task of measuring program performance is called profiling, so look for profiling tools, e.g. gprof.
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  223. I also recommend James Sharman's builds.
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  224.  @Nature_Consciousness  Actual philosophers like the concept of ideas and knowledge, including their transfer, and will be more interested in discussing a particular idea - including explaining it in simple terms - than trying to boggle people with an avalanche of phrases out of context. This is naturally only a heuristic, but a case as extreme as yours makes the distinction pretty obvious. Obligatory XKCD reference: 451.
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  225. This "pretending to be nice" phrase is glorifying misdirected abuse. You become your habits.
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  226.  @themindeclectic9821  I did. I also took the step to consider that the camera's viewpoint is not the viewpoint of a driver on that road. Those were in nearly uniform cars moving along a straight line. They were not off to the side watching how many cars had already stopped several cars ahead of them; that view was blocked by the car in front. There was very little time to react, and on top of that, far worse braking systems than modern cars. We still get pileups because of this basic line of sight problem along with failure to consider how margins translate; it doesn't matter how short your braking distance is if your reaction time already consumed all the margin.
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  227.  @rossmanngroup  At the point it's illegal to place a home near a workplace, and more space has to be paved to house cars than either, and you're regularly fearing for your life trying to use roads without one, I'd say they are making you use cars. Particularly when they block and destroy public transit. Granted, it's not the same they every time and each one is acting for their own benefit, but the effects remain.
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  228. Don't use coded language. The statement is simple: There can be no guilt, because this law is unjust. "Insufficient proof" would be sending the message to harass the accused harder, not to stop. Of course, not every case will be as clear as this; sometimes the law has a sound purpose but fails to account for humane priorities. This doesn't seem like one of those to me.
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  229.  @emulationemperor8924  Whether that propping up is unfair competition practice is a separate matter. The sale of dangerous goods should be penalized with unit fines that adjust to match. Scamming enough people to outweigh the fines for when they're caught should not be an option.
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  230. May I recommend the book Seveneves by Neal Stephenson? "Eventually" may not be a great comfort...
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  231. The first eval function is missing the Val constructor in its argument pattern (included in your later example). The other problem is that GHCi replaced the function rather than adding a pattern when you defined eval (Div x y), thus creating the non-exhaustive pattern. You can define a multiline function like this by wrapping it in :{ and :} in GHCi.
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  232. A Unicorn the dissection process is rather gory, certainly, but you might appreciate why they do it. That particular episode had a touch of detective work, as I recall.
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  233. Today the experience of scrolling a bit further gets you to the fake search entries that have nothing to do with what you asked for but proclaim they know where you live. And the things that were based on your entry use substitutions and rarely match either.
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  234. They are followers. Sony did one of the worst downgrades 2010-04-01, the April Fool's that never ended.
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  235. You can absolutely disconnect the antenna. GPS antennae tend to be very recognizable, usually ceramic pucks connected by coaxial cable.
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  236. Some extremists are extremely worth listening to. For instance, RMS holds the position that software should all be fully user respecting, which he branded as "free software". I think, like the patent system, there could be a more moderate position; e.g. video games could have a window of time when they're not freely reproducible, for rewarding the developers, much like the patent system was intended. Some corporations like Disney and Nintendo hold views at the opposite extreme, that the populace should not have the choice to even maintain their purchased games, let alone share them.
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  237. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you get it fixed soon.
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  238. I'd guess the reviewers have no incentive to check the video properly, so the whole purpose of the review process is spoiled by paying them for the wrong thing (e.g. processing many cases or giving firm replies, even if wrong).
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  239. It's a deep topic. At its root is atomicity, which means something that won't be interrupted (may still be more than one cycle, but nothing affecting it should overlap). The precise mechanisms vary in complexity, but most CPUs have a feature where a sufficiently complicated operation can be performed without interruptions, even from other CPU cores (e.g. the LOCK signal on 386). Compare-and-swap is one of the easier to understand, and load-link/store-conditional is a more flexible variant. These aren't limited to CPUs either; there are memory chips that support operations like atomic increment, such that the value need not be loaded into the processor. For many programs, the entire concept can be abstracted away; STM (software transactional memory) allows focusing on the logic rather than the sequence. Some atomics are quite expensive, e.g. serializing all threads in a GPU work group or CPUs contending for one cache line (which may take hundreds of cycles to load), while others can be very fast (bitwise and/or in a workgroup can be as fast as a broadcast). A mutex is very simple with compare and swap: Acquire is compare to unlocked, if equal swap to locked, if not yield and repeat.
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  240. There are absolutely advertisers running away from this platform. It's likely the adpocalypse with demonetization of videos "not suitable for advertisers" was a knee jerk reaction to early warnings. When that didn't improve things, Youtube doubled down and decided to cater to the remaining advertisers - where the largest group seems to be scammers, and less worried about ethics. What we're seeing is optimization for poor metrics, over and over again. They spend effort on claiming my mom isn't my family, but aggressively hide away options to report ads that are literal fraud.
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  241.  @LukasJosai  I wasn't looking for RGB at all, but specifically warm and cold white, preferably with high CRI. Turns out the budget option was picking up a heap of Philips starter kits on clearance from a grocery store. They're called "white ambiance".
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  242. (x:xs) means a list that begins with x (known as the head) and continues with xs (the tail), so it's simply the first element in the list. Other implementations often do something like median of 3 to avoid inefficient edge cases.
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  243. What for? Like all privacy settings, it only downgrades your experience, doesn't reduce their tracking.
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  244. Bloody annoying is what it is.
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  245. So the short of it is: It's still going to reduce quality (their current limited range demonstrates worse quality than upscaling), and everyone running current nvidia drivers will pay for it by even more bloated drivers. They're already hundreds of megabytes, far beyond reasonable complexity.
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  246. ​ @John-McAfee  My favourite calculator Qalculate! takes the approach of explaining the ambiguity and asking for clarification. It also repeats back its interpretation: $ qalc > 6/2(2 + 1) Please select interpretation of expressions with implicit multiplication. 0 = Adaptive 1/2x = 1/(2x); 1/2 x = (1/2)x; 5 m/2 s = (5 m)/(2 s) 1 = Implicit multiplication first 1/2x = 1/(2x); 5 m/2 s = (5 m)/(2 s) 2 = Conventional 1/2x = (1/2)x; 5 m/2 s = (5 m/2)s Parsing mode: 0 (this was my choice) 6 / (2 × (2 + 1)) = 1
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  247.  @mannotwiththeplan  Any APL programmer could tell you compression and division are different operations. And of course your claim was entirely off topic for this thread.
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  248. We got our money back. I for one backed Tilt Five too.
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  249. Hierarchy is basically right. Every compute unit has its own local memory, and there's a cache hierarchy before reaching the memory controllers, which are typically interleaved across the address space and use a whole bunch of distinct channels. Even within the compute unit, the multiprocessors often have operations across parallel threads of execution, like bitwise or. When you do get congestion (quite easy to do), your accesses will stall and stagger, which is often hidden by running other contexts at the time. Remember how the CPU runs a couple of threads per core? The GPU might do hundreds.
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  250. No, monads don't mean errors get ignored. You're confusing the limited information of Nothing in the Maybe monad with failure (it's more like Null in SQL; it indicates absence of an optional value). A far more likely monad for handling errors is Either, which has Left and Right values, in which Left values essentially fast forward to the end like exceptions and Right values keep processing. The fail function within Haskell's Monad type class also accepts a reason string. The Either monad is similar to Rust's Result type, with Left being Err and Right being Ok. Haskell's library just tends to be more abstract and doesn't imply that the quicker result is a failure; it might, for instance, be a found result in a search.
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  251. Can you find any processor where the conversion to and from floating point, as well as the division you duplicated, are not each slower than the subtraction you replaced?
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  252.  @ARKGAMING  Then why suggest it? I could also note it's going to run into truncation errors far more easily than the original ran into overflows.
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  253.  @CoolKoon  It's more an example of an abuse this clause is enabling (via "tivoization", where firmware is locked in) than something copyright law should ever have been involved with.
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  254.  @CoolKoon  Ah, that's a suggestion of a different law, preemptive/prescriptive as opposed to this one that's outlawing cures. I understand the view now, but I think that would be hard to get through comparing e.g. how the tobacco industry still exists.
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  255.  @cericat  NT was specifically sold for purposes like CAD or DTP, where you were most likely to find actual high resolution displays. The weird part is Windows 8 and later, which were redesigned to look like cell phones, wasting immense amounts of screen space.
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  256. "New math" is mostly known from a pedagogical disaster, where it was attempted to teach some kind of set theory instead of arithmetic as a starting point, and everyone got confused. The horrific part is that after it had failed for years, hurting thousands, it was repeated (exported) without fixing any of the problems. Politics and education treated like fashion rather than science.
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  257. New pretentious Apple clone normal. Manufacturers like GPD meanwhile put multiple M.2 slots in.
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  258. ​​ @GENKI_INU No other extra chips for ONFi or eMMC. Often ridiculously slow compared to nvme though. This seems to be nvme in a single package.
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  259. Actually Linus: just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu
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  260. DMCA was designed to sanctify "protection" measures (in real world, corporate sabotage to prevent use, whether legitimate or not). That aspect is only applicable if there's something copyrighted for those measures to "protect" (break). The API covers variables that are neither copyrightable nor belonging to Mazda. Even the DMCA has specific exemptions for exactly these two: Protection of Personally Identifying Information (meaning Mazda has no right to the variables) and Reverse Engineering (covering not only decoding the network API but also the apps if necessary, for the purposes of interoperability, in this case with Home Assistant).
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  261.  @Nexalian_Gamer  We certainly know DRM is always a code word for sabotage, but the printer supplies nonsense has never had any "rights" involved; they have no claim to the misleading euphemism in the first place. They just violate their customers.
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  262.  @6AxisSage  The YouTube app on Android is... revealing. It hangs the Android operating system at a level nothing should be able to. Even switching away from it doesn't help.
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  263. That's what the app is for. Particularly when the service was already a web page, like Discord, Youtube, Reddit etc.
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  264. Sounds like the disk failed a torture test (there's a reason they sometimes carry names like crashme). A "real programmer" in the sense used in this video would know such a pattern was not only slow but violent; one with a lesser understanding of the machine might stumble upon it unknowingly. Defragmentation programs, for instance, would be notorious for doing such repetitive seeks.
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  265. ​ @redandblue1013  Not "in the first place". The argument is specific motivation to deny gravity; they didn't care one bit about it until someone explained how their opinion was incompatible. Their entire list of things to deny is a hodge-podge of excuses to reject the myriad reasons they're actually wrong. They usually start on this dedication to denial from only a few entry angles: 1) preacher said science bad (blind obedience), 2) I don't understand, that's someone else's fault (frustration), 3) I don't see it move (failure to understand scale). In all cases, they then seek out grifters who amplify and redirect their doubts and frustrations until they're thoroughly indoctrinated.
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  266. The given expression simply violates ISO 80000-1 printing rules 7.1.3: "a solidus (/) shall not be followed by a multiplication sign or a division sign on the same line unless parentheses are inserted to avoid any ambiguity." Standard compliant documentation simply shall not raise such questions. (They also don't use obelus, and instruct spacing to indicate "a b²" does not square a.) Mathematicians would be much more interested in the question itself than standardization, as communicating such nuances is the very topic quite frequently. E.g. Einstein's sum notation from 1916 reuses superscripts for something other than exponents, so obviously cares nothing for PEMDAS dogma.
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  267.  @wodmarach  That's not the problem with the mnemonic. The mnemonic has its own issues, like leaving out associativity and equal tiers of operations, but the problem here isn't the mnemonic at all; it's insistence that something obviously incomplete has to cover things it doesn't.
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  268. That's the case for cars in general. This thing has a smaller niche.
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  269.  @jb5631  S5, all the same features and water resistant, 8.1mm (and that thickness difference vs your modern sample is all the raised bezel to protect the screen). That's pretty much the turning point. Last I checked the only sane model Samsung had on offer was XCover. GSMArena lists the S3 as 8.6mm.
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  270. Quite right! That's part of what the program in that microcontroller handles. USB keyboards process things slightly differently, in that they report a list of currently pressed keys instead of press/release events.
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  271.  @mandrakethemadcoder  This particular controversy is new (as in wasn't even an issue before PEMDAS was taught as gospel). Everyone who used implicit multiplication seems to have agreed it was done before explicit multiplication or division; they were however discussing whether multiplication in general should go before division.
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  272.  @DqwertyC  Yes, if the smaller carousels have few enough seats. This would allow them to move far enough from the dividing line to not collide. They would be moving in opposite directions as they come close, though, because otherwise the carousels themselves would be colliding. This solution also requires that the carousels are spiky, since they mustn't overlap the center when the other carousel does. For example, with a pair of triangular 3 seat carousels of radius 5m, the seats will pass within 1.38m of each other.
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  273. When their business model is entirely predicated on claiming they're less incompetent than the vendors of actually needed software on the same system, and will cover for those, this level of incompetence is gross negligence at best.
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  274. "Smart" means a lot of different things. On phones, it seems to mean you can install new programs, though some think it means the phone is lacking buttons. Neither of those were new concepts when "smartphone" began being marketed. On other devices, it tends to mean too dumb to have their own controls, requiring management through separate computers, such as those "smart" phones.
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  275. This is an operating system architecture question. Your program could be designed as a set of event handlers, and not actually have a running thread unless it is processing an event, but most operating systems dedicate one or more threads to any process, and one of those threads will then have the task of collecting events. It's essentially a pull architecture instead of push.
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  276. Like most youtube downgrades, they switched this on without creator consent.
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  277. Much as the phrase "double standards" is easy to reach for here, that's not what most of them have. They have fixity; there's no preset threshold for them to hear an argument, they already stopped listening at the first indication they didn't already agree.
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  278. It's fascinating how the comments about / versus ÷ fail to explain how they supposedly differ.
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  279. No, it's a lot worse than not doing anything. Their system is designed to randomly and irreversibly punish real users while having no effect on the spambots.
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  280.  @Mallchad  That was never the purpose; that's just why the "copy protection" moniker was nonsense. The purpose is to receive multiple payments, and the method is extortion.
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  281.  @domino4843  "They read the document" just as much as you've taken a walk on the third moon of Vulcan.
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  282. Firstly, the problem remains with unsigned integers; the incorrectly calculated index just might access defined memory and lead to more confusing misbehaviour, such as an infinite loop or incorrect answer. Secondly, it can be useful to apply an offset to an index, such as the (r-l)/2 value here, and in other algorithms it wouldn't be odd for such a step to be negative. Thirdly, Java doesn't know the number is an index until it's used to index, and the algorithm isn't array specific. There do exist languages which can restrict index types to match, like Ada or Clash. In Python negative indices index from the right.
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  283. It's hard to see unsurveiled access to the web as a goal of Mozilla while Firefox keeps reporting in your keystrokes when trying to enter an address, automatically downloading and running hostile DRM binaries, etc.
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  284. 9:45 "We have not had an opportunity to explain..." We are expected to disregard the months they ignored their customers.
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  285. There are multiple radiation hardened MIPS R3000 variants, and it was also in workstations from e.g. NEC, DEC and SGI. The PlayStation is the spurious offshoot here more so than the space models.
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  286. Ah, the summarized anarchist manifesto.
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  287. Had to read the infobox, which youtube helpfully hides, to confirm this short clip of dickishness was indeed an ad for paywalled stuff. I'd rather spend my time and money on my own Lego.
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  288. Agent M Another option is to treat the undos themselves as new edits, like Emacs does. That way they can in turn be undone, and you keep the history.
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  289. dislexiar Both problems trace back to making the phone too small to hold a reasonable capacity for its power draw. Even the optional higher capacity back for the S5 is overly tight. They need to stop pretending all models - particularly these high end ones - must be too thin to even handle.
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  290. tesla. py There are many different system buses; for that Sun machine it would be VME, but you've likely heard of ISA and PCI, which operate similarly. AMBA and Wishbone are other examples typically used inside system on chip architectures. Frequently they were designed for a particular processor in the first place, tying VME to 68000 and VLB to 486. I²C was designed for much slower and smaller control interfaces, such as for TV tuners, but is reused in many places including SMBus. For instance, modern PCs use a I²C bus to identify memory modules, storing information on how to set up the DDR3 or similar buses.
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  291. Death OfTime Open source is a license classification defined by the Open Source Initiative, that includes the rights to share and modify as well as inspect and use. It's derived from the Free Software Foundation's classification of Free Software and Debian's Free Software Guidelines. Don't confuse it with imitations designed to mislead such as Microsoft's "shared source" or Sun's "community source license". Licenses placing the restrictions you describe are thus categorically NOT open source, and claiming them to be is fraudulent. Please refer people to https://opensource.org/licenses for some clarity on what the term really means.
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  292. That would have to do with the screen properties. Probably it is a column lenticular array, similar to the MIT Media Lab's compressive light field projector http://web.media.mit.edu/~gordonw/CompressiveLightFieldProjector/ but using multiple 2D projectors to build the light field. Downsides of this system include that it only has horisontally shifted viewpoints; it has flat screen properties as far as vertical position goes. This means, for instance, you couldn't look up under his chin when it points lower than the cameras. For the application, this may be a decent compromise.
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  293. It apologizes and attempts a different answer. If it involved something complex, it is very likely to make unrelated and incorrect changes as well.
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  294. It seemed a lot worse than that last time I examined it. The certification is "I represent someone who holds a copyright", not that the claim in question even relates to that copyright, let alone a violation.
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  295.  @HerrMau  Terry Pratchett was indeed great, but I'd suggest reading some Douglas Adams and Yahtzee Croshaw.
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  296.  @HyenaEmpyema  It's often more effective to eliminate the potential for errors than to search for them. For instance, STM (software transactional memory) removes the issue of lock ordering, making deadlocks impossible (except iiuc for missing references, which can be detected early), and can speed some tasks up by speculative execution.
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  297. It's not pure functions that create the problem; it's the boundary between pure and stateful (in particular, uncontrollable state like an ever changing world). Haskell was designed to make purity pervasive in the language, and it uses monads to reason about what is not pure and define the boundary. Languages lacking that definition make it harder to isolate effects as a concept. An example of a half-hearted attempt is Java's explicit exception annotation, rather flawed by not covering some predictable and common exceptions like NullPointerException. Monads as abstraction also work for pure concepts, and that's where we find monads State, Maybe, Either among others. State becomes a pure concept when sequenced using the bind operation of the monad.
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  298.  @joshuascholar3220  Do you think arrays require a separate array of indices to exist? Where's the index array for those?
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  299. ​​ @Winnetou17  NVD is the means of distribution of the CVE, which is distracting security staff from actual issues due to score inflation that is NVD policy. There's your DDoS complete with privilege escalation.
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  300.  @00O3O1B  If you're doing that level of assembly work (I have), the answer is typically get a bigger microcontroller or stop toying with the CPU and use the GPU already. Which can be eased greatly with e.g. Clyther or OpenAcc. Searches like these are embarassingly parallel so distributing it easy, and offers gains in thousands compared to cpu fiddling often 2-5x. Algorithmic work is often more significant still.
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  301. How about because he's already using that in the basic split between eval (Val n) and eval (Div n m)? It felt awkward as heck to me when he used that big hunk of nested case code rather than a where with pattern matching: eval (Div n m) = maybediv (eval n) (eval m) where maybediv Nothing _ = Nothing maybediv _ Nothing = Nothing maybediv _ (Just 0) = Nothing maybediv (Just n) (Just m) = Just (n ÷ m) But I guess this form is another step removed from the application of the Maybe monad to the problem, as it isn't curried. Reapplying it in safediv doesn't have that issue, however.
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  302. I think people should take a moment to consider why Reddit is pushing this hard to make you use their app. What's buried in it that's worth that much to them? Remember, that's also why the website nags you to use the app. It's certainly not anything for your convenience, it's solidly in the category of worse than the website as the user experience goes.
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  303. I do deal with "cyber" security at times, and I just have to point out the classic adage: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. In the case of Google, Facebook, etc, they'll happily get everyone because that's simply how they operate. Cast a wide enough net and you'll catch something of value to someone. It's known as "big data", and if it's not at CERN you can bet there's a lot of non-consensual personal information involved.
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  304.  @Qyngali  The common story being they switched from free software to their own for marketing reasons, then back for stability. Which worked out to great advertisement.
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  305. I think I first encountered the second of them, by deriving it at a math test in school. The task was simply to prove Pythagoras' theorem.
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  306. Does HDMI have any useful patents? Last I checked the only thing they didn't copy from DP (and earlier DVI, back then they added audio muxing) was HDCP, which is purely sabotage.
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  307.  @ashisharky  Patents and copyright are the same concept applied to invention and art. Through perversion of law, some regions have "design patents" which belong in trademarks or copyright, and copyright in practice doesn't expire because Disney. All three are aggressively abused.
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  308. What you're saying is you have brand recognition. For someone else, that name means nothing, or worse; imagine associating it with conspiracy zealots, they love (falsely) claiming truth.
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  309. The basic answer is yes; that's why he had that section about configuring ld. Another tool to handle that is buildFHSEnv.
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  310. Lots of inverses (reciprocals?) here. E.g. at 19:05, the upper path is two swap upper, one identity, rotate both up and down, and two swap outers. That's 4 identities no larger than a pair. In the lower one, the outer tiles are a swap upper pair, and one of the rotate downs is wrapped in a swap outer pair, turning it into a rotate up to pair with the first rotate down. Neat game.
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  311. Preemptively shunning it is one way to maintain your unfamiliarity.
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  312. FPUs were merged into the CPUs, and extended for streaming and vector operations - e.g. MMX, 3DNow!, Neon, SSE and AVX. GPUs are more closely related to DSPs, extended for embarrassingly parallel tasks. There's a bunch of overlap, of course; we've had accelerating processors on graphics cards long before GPUs existed (nvidia marketed the term when they put transform and lighting into graphics accelerators), and FPUs optimized specifically for 3D, like the IIT 2C87 which can do 4x4 matrix by 4 vector multiplication. The Raspberry Pi uses a DSP called VideoCore IV to do its GPU work.
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  313. The Samsung Galaxy XCover series (most recently released 2022) still has audio jack, replaceable battery, expandable storage and water resistance. I don't know why people go for downgraded glass-backed models (slippery, heavier, more fragile).
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  314.  @taLLdavid33  That's just because "smart" is marketing speak for "other stuff required". You can install apps, and they use that as an excuse to embed worse options.
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  315. BG: They couldn't fall for that long a time. VF: Unrealistic! BG: They'd both be dead in less time in that cold water. VF: Realistic!
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  316. Reminds me of an air filtering system. It was advertised such that the only thing they guaranteed was that it would make noise. Addendum: Now I think about it, that's not true. They also guaranteed it wouldn't filter better than a certain limit.
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  317. Remember, this applies to every EULA or ToS document that states the terms may change at any time at the sole initiative of one party.
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  318. ​ @afm4711 How about asking the user for clarification in an educational manner, possibly eliminating the ignorance?
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  319. ​ @RicardoSantos-oz3uj I'd argue the problem is "think of the children" is nearly always a convenient shortcut to prevent thinking.
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  320. It gets a bit more abstract then. The monad can transport other state along with the data path described along the steps bound in it (e.g. putStr "What's your name?" >>= (\_ -> getLine) >>= \name -> putStrLn ("Hello " ++ name)). The IO monad handles the outside world by imagining its changes to be part of what the IO monad evaluation does at each step. So from the purely functional view, we have a particular state of the world at each point, rather than an unchanging world. Compare this to what happened with Nothing in the Maybe monad. It couldn't be fed into the bound steps, so it remained within the Maybe monad. And since that meant the steps couldn't all be performed, the Nothing was the only thing that could come out of it in the end. For the IO monad, what we end up with is a world in which time (and possibly I/O) have occurred. You can't just create other worlds, so there's only one actual evaluation in the IO monad, the one in which main runs.
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  321.  @AccuphaseMan  This certainly makes it clear you don't know Greta at all. Why'd you come out of your echo chamber to preach here anyway? You're not going to be convincing when you don't know the first thing of your subject matter.
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  322. So they demand other businesses immediately disassemble devices and steal parts that were never theirs. In other words, if the device is repaired, immediately break it. Hard to imagine a more anti-repair policy.
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  323.  @felixmoore6781  Then it's more likely that you also have a narrow index type, and the search is likely to be so short that extra cycle is insignificant.
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  324. There's nothing stupid about the question; figuring out what the answer is, and how it applies to other situations, is clever. If you don't pose the question, what impetus do you have to start the learning process?
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  325. That sounds the same, not worse.
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  326. If I may supply a tangent, Steve Mould made some lovely observations on semirigid chains under the influence of gravity.
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  327. By very professionally ignoring the wrapper explaining ChatGPT is unreliable. It's fine print like any other TOS or EULA, after all; only relevant when the big company decides to go after their customers, not for Very Important Lawyers.
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  328. It's not exactly lying because the concept of true or false is just as abstract to it as any other. It has only language flow, not reasoning, knowledge or self as you might expect. However, the producers do prioritize producing an output over making it accurate or relevant, and do share blame for hyping it up for things it remains horrible at. The very architecture of ChatGPT is incapable of "doing the research".
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  329. Spot on. The "sneaky bug" is so sneaky it never existed; the presenter may have been thinking of condition variables instead of semaphores.
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  330. I had a moderately successful program in Core Wars. It ran in multiple phases and was designed around how forking would slow you down. It would capture other programs and have them run a loop to repair its own code, until it had swept all the memory and killed them off. The trivial Imp could beat it, since it never slowed down and always overwrote its next instruction.
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  331. 6:53 How would donating to Mozilla get us ad-free privacy friendly software again? Firefox has added automatic downloading and running of hostile "DRM" binaries specifically against both claimed advantages and user requests (the setting not to do that doesn't stop it, and that's not the only sanity option removed or broken), and grown increasingly hostile towards ad blockers, albeit at a slightly slower rate than Google. It seems it would make more sense to support KDE, Pale Moon or Mullvad. KDE's KHTML for Konqueror is the origin of Apple's WebKit, by the way.
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  332. Most villains aren't comic book style... but some actually are. They tend to congregate in industries like oil, tobacco, and conspiracy theory cults. The scientology cult is a remarkable example, with their leader literally publishing the game plan as a book before setting it in motion.
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  333. Really wanted that shirt, but apparently it only ships to seven countries (obviously excluding most). What's with that?
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  334. Recursion like this is solving it with a stack. Specifically, it uses the call stack, which in some cases is the only stack available.
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  335. This is also a fundamental problem with the death penalty. If complying cannot improve your situation, why should you?
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  336. I think I prefer technobabble over pseudophilosophy.
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  337. Subtle semantic distinction, but as I understand it the software will not be at fault (responsible) until it achieves consciousness, merely faulty (containing a defect). It is reckless, biased and illogical development, deployment and particularly defense of the software that deserves blame. To no small degree, I suspect, the result of the software industry's standard of accepting absolutely no responsibility.
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  338.  @TheEvertw  Did you know it's possible to have sliding scales? I described the standard set by the legalese tripe that is EULAs, TOS and such, not the limit of possibility. Feel free to point out any piece of end user software that surpasses that standard, perhaps to as high a level as the book The Art of Computer Programming, which carries rewards for finding bugs.
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  339. It's a little better than that. I'd say text is legible (though not very convenient) down to maybe 1cm on my standard model. You're never just seeing one view, which brings us to where it has an advantage. The Looking Glass is projecting many views simultaneously, and that means you can have multiple people looking together, pointing at things, and agreeing on where things are. That could make it more suitable for collaboration and perhaps presentation than the phone method (which may be trickier to orient; Nolo and Aryzon demonstrate a few options).  @username4441 
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  340. The specific reason they haven't is that the printer's main purpose is to motivate you to buy supplies from them. If it self destructs, you might consider replacing it with a less hostile brand.
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  341. It's not merge sort.
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  342.  @belstar1128  Is Skype also blatant spyware?
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  343. ​​ @nickryan3417  That's an interesting result of the programmer referring to two different values by the same name in a statement; it's an aliasing error combined with an avoidance of temporary storage. Mathematically the statement is nonsense and many functional languages would prevent the rebinding. Thanks for sharing. Expressed in C, this means that statements of the form a=b+c were translated into a=b; a+=c; even if c was also a.
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  344. Many of the examples shown here are bad practice and not revealing what's useful about a feature. The walrus operator makes much more sense in while than if, for instance; duplicating a name is much less messy than duplicating an entire calculation in separate places like above and at the end of a block. Python has many namespaces but blocks aren't among them. Many times people are translating C-style for or while, it could be done more elegantly using iter(callable, sentinel).
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  345. No, since both DS screens are user facing and at least one game relies on folding them together (yep, no 2DS for that one). Using the back touchscreen for input might be nice.
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  346. There's a Linux driver now. They definitely have a Microsoft deal to NOT support it in Windows prior to 11, though. Seems the purpose of the function is specifically to run Windows 11 spyware.
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  347.  @wheedler  At that point they braked. Before that point, what they saw was the car ahead of them moving just as fast.
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  348. And Brodie never stops making videos on this topic, always blaming the distributors for the actions of the least attentive public. Sometimes the distributor really is at fault, like the broken prerelease GCC shipped by Red Hat. Often they are not, as when users google to find the wrong bug tracker after an upstream developer intentionally sabotaged their software.
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  349. This elusive category of bug is known as heisenbugs, after the observer effect. Instrumenting the problematic system causes the problem to not appear. On the flip side, uninsightful initialization caused DSA 1571-1.
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  350. No, because they're still insecure. They're locking out legitimate owners, not bad actors (and with this action, they became one), and the kerfuffle started with them refusing to fix known vulnerabilities. They appear to lack both the competence and interest to do things thoroughly.
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  351. That's not the right way around. Free software developers are generally not fighting, only making things better. It's extortionate companies that are fighting their own customers.
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  352. 54:11 Yes, light can cool things. Not the large scale disorganized light that we see by, though; it has to be precisely coordinated to counter the existing kinetic energy. Laser cooling is fancy stuff. Admittedly I have only vague ideas of how it works, but I'd compare it to acoustic levitation.
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  353.  @aprofessionalateverything7585  Sure sounds unreal. Who would marry a two year old?
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  354. ​ @BrodieRobertson  It is POSIX that /bin/sh be a Bourne type shell. Debian often has dash there (Debian Almquist shell) specifically to detect if scripts are mislabeled as sh when they need bash. Bash itself also has special behaviour for POSIX compatibility when run as sh. So.. not even bash will assume you want bash if you run bash as sh.
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  355. If you want to talk industry domination, there's the wine and spirits company...
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  356. IAB was founded off the deep end. They've never been interested in moving towards sanity; that would be counter to their entire purpose.
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  357. A distinct issue he didn't cover, just using (÷) for division (which isn't in the standard library). In Haskell, (/) doesn't work for Int but requires a Fractional type, while `div` does truncated division towards negative infinity and `quot` truncates toward zero. They each have corresponding remainder functions: quot/rem and div/mod. The RealFloat type class includes IEEE floats with infinite values, so (/) can in fact accept a zero divisor.
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  358. This is about complicated prompts, not training, for that precise reason. There's no reliable distinction between late reference material and instructions.
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  359. Saying your program will be bad when time has passed is saying you have no confidence in ever making a solid release. That is not the distribution sucking.
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  360. In the story (however much of an afterthought, the toys came first and were not even part of the same line), the Dinobots picked their forms when dinosaurs were around. They were not trying to integrate with humans.
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  361. It WAS fixed YEARS before it was published. The real denial of service here is misdirecting resources on hunting down non-issues.
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  362. The central unit was a Zoom audio recorder. He mentioned it was for recording multiple channels, like four for the spatial mic (ambisonic) and two more for subject mics like lavaliers (the receiver on top was for those).
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  363. It says more about political discourse. Where you now have literally uncivilized bullies jeering and sneering rather than consider issues or arguments. This street interview "study methodology" is rightly distrusted as a way to mine sound bites. All for the click bait, polarization and train wreck clown shows.
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  364.  @Mad_Elf_0  Yes, it is. In tail recursion, the compiler knows all the variables stay in place, so it is precisely the same code generated as for a simple loop. A loop may be harder to reason about compared to a call which enumerates precisely the values available as arguments.
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  365. Linux is an RTOS, though many don't use that functionality (e.g. core reservation, memory locking, scheduler replacement). And there are real time programming languages, e.g. the Copilot Realtime Programming Language and Runtime Verification Framework. It's common to relegate hard realtime tasks of limited complexity to coprocessors like PRUs in BeagleBone, PIOs in Raspberry Pi MCUs, or separate microcontrollers. An example of such a task is dynamic voltage and frequency scaling in mainline CPUs.
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  366. The devices that can tell their position with pinpoint accuracy by GPS are doing so by fixing their position, i.e. their receiver antenna is mounted on a temperature controlled concrete block with an open view to the sky. They're used to measure the performance of GPS itself and derive correction signals for D-GPS. It's not what you find in a phone.
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  367. Welcome to the DRM world, where being a paying customer just makes you more of a target for abuse.
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  368.  @stephencarbajal5657  Nope. That's a different radio. The GPS receiver doesn't transmit anyway. You can disable cellular radios too, but it's not as easily identifiable and far more likely to be destructive. Their antennae are often glued or molded in and the radios can damage themselves if the antenna isn't connected. Wifi antennae are often just a few millimeters in size. The proper solution if you don't want to own a device that works for someone else to collect information on you is to not purchase such a device.
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  369.  @ClokworkGremlin  Not only that. The scanner function should be isolated from anything important (beyond maybe the camera it needs to do its job). It should absolutely not be built into e.g. the messaging app that manages your cryptographic keys, or the vendor tools of a vendor that decided the owner shouldn't be informed what's privileged or linked together.
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  370. Premium does pay the channels you watch, notably better than the ads ever did, but the lion's share goes to youtube. I have the impression the portion available to pay creators is no more than 15%. According to Wikipedia, there's Flattr support for YouTube. I should test that. PS: They've crippled Flattr to desktop Chrome only.
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  371. Not so; many of his videos contain useful testing. This one is nearly pure ad, with a few installation tips thrown in to encourage people to take the plunge. The unreasoning hyping up of questionable features takes the cake.
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  372. Very much so. That's why we have types like Data.Vector.Unboxed, and strictness annotation in data constructors. Massiv contains a parallel quicksort with median of 3 pivot selection.
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  373. Nothing in the binary search algorithm requires your search space to be something physically stored in memory. Consider e.g. doing a binary search on a function to calculate a root.
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  374.  @nem81  and "enhancer for youtube", if I recall correctly.
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  375. They also got ordered to put up a notice reminding them that they're not allowed to use this particular excuse for stealing wages.
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  376. The 4 channel tetrahedral mic is used for a first order ambisonic sound field, which can be arbitrarily rotated and focused. The video player then applies a head related transfer function for an approximation of binaural audio following your movement.
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  377. That would simplify the task at least on the reindeer side, but it's part of the complexity in this actor model scenario exercise. Quite possibly one of the lessons it's intended to highlight. Also, this wasn't a deadlock (video presenter got that wrong) but a race condition (reindeer could lap each other). I haven't checked if any of the papers explained that properly.
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  378.  @AM-yk5yd  You mean Debian's reportbug, which goes into Debian's bug trackers, not upstream?
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  379. Not sure what this referenced, but it brought to mind More Cowbell. Unfortunately youtube's search function doesn't list it anymore, but hundreds of distorted clips from it.
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  380.  @RegrinderAlert  it varies - Intel had an infamous table error in the Pentium fdiv operation, for instance.
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  381. ​ @ZapAndersson It's not quite as simple as that. a/bc² = a × b⁻¹ × c⁻²
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  382.  @henkholdingastate  We've done driver level emulation, yes. In particular for wifi cards. But Windows bundles tend to be a bloated mess without adequate interfaces, so lacking something like NDIS many drivers are just useless on their own.
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  383. It's saddening that you say Epic, the company that systematically bribed companies to commit false advertising, and weaponized gamers to participate in a fight they picked on their own (by actively breaching contract) and drastically misdescribed, and recently elected yet again to lay off a huge chunk of their working force to pay for the mismanagers' overspending, has no trust issue.
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  384. ... conforming to that force is the definition of level.
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  385.  @ThatZenoGuy  They literally do it without reason because the system they put in place to do it has no reasoning; it's not designed to identify any rule being broken. Their reasons for instating and never fixing the system are distinct, and mostly center on a policy of not doing the right thing if there is a lazier option. They absolutely operate with malice sometimes, but this is more sloth and avarice.
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  386. Not just will, this has already happened. Example via Breitbart: Roald Dahl eBooks Automatically Updated to Woke Censored Versions Works by Ian Fleming and R. L. Stine have also been reported similarly altered.
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  387. Don't know, but it's certainly EFF territory. Though I don't know if they care about their purpose anymore, considering their enthusiastic witch hunt on RMS ran entirely counter to that.
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  388. Call a spade a spade. These are not subscriptions, they're perpetual extortion schemes.
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  389.  @Mad_Elf_0  I want to treat it as impossible, because the number of discs is a non-negative integer. It's just not part of the problem domain, and in a statically typed language, shouldn't be a possible call. It's just as helpful as passing a non-numeric object. The problem operates in discrete non-negative integer space and functions correctly if and only if it reaches zero for all its reductions. If your program reaches an impossible state, failing as early as possible (typically, user input validation) helps pinpoint why. In the interest of failing early, it would make sense to assert that the number is a non-negative integer, but it would not help to make a subset of invalid values appear valid. This is like someone telling you to solve the puzzle with nothing but a ball. There are no discs or pegs; you can't perform the task. You're proposing that "I did it!" is the proper response. Adding a successful return of your function when called with bad input is removing the option for the call site to handle the problem, because you never alerted them. This is why "except: pass" is generally a very bad idea; you don't know why there was an exception (or even that there was one or which), and you've removed the opportunity for someone else to interpret it. An example of one that should generally not be silenced, certainly not in a loop, is KeyboardInterrupt - the user has told you to stop, probably for real world reasons your program doesn't understand. PEP 20, the Zen of Python, captures this as "Errors should never pass silently." You should run "import this" from time to time.
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  390. Nope. I have diamonds in my whetstone and file.
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  391. And you don't need to draw a line all the way left on the first line, the first word or a parenthesis will do. itertools provides a multitude of ways to make infinite loops in an expression, e.g. dropwhile of cycle. For extra horror, make it a set to start the whole thing with a {.
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  392. You are mistaken. Also, the channel operator has zero control over youtube's automatic deletions. YouTube also have no control because they don't want it; it's just another rampant ML system, motivated by the myth of it saving work. The truth is the work isn't getting done but the damage is.
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  393. A rain gauge performs mechanical integration, just as an electronic capacitor does with charge (which is why they're also named integrators). Laboratory flasks perform amplification by having narrowing throats. A conical champagne glass does the same the other way around (half the height remaining is one eighth the volume, going from linear to 3D analogous to the square-cube law). Plenty of examples if you don't actively dismiss them.
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  394. It is self modifying code in that there's no instruction to copy the list of ingredients to working memory; the instruction on the recipe actually says to alter the recipe (delete baking powder from ingredients, not put the baking powder away). You're just applying too much common sense to the act of reading it. It still could have been more explicit, e.g. "change step 4" to write in code memory rather than data memory. This level of misunderstanding is not uncommon; it's how OpenSCAD mixed up the concepts of functional programming and parametric design to end up with a weird assignment sequence effect thing.
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  395. It's worse than just on by default. We can't even configure cookie whitelisting anymore, and if you turn DRM off and remove the preinstalled DRM blobs, then open dropbox (not even logged in or accessing any media), you get to see it complain that the DRM blob it freshly downloaded and ran didn't work as expected. Firefox actively lies about the privacy features it offers.
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  396. Day fines are very useful, but they have to be relative too. This sounds like they're applying a corporate chain sized fine to a pensioner. The purpose is to encourage timely response in fixing the issue. Fines should be high enough to outweigh any benefits of ignoring them, and low enough to not destroy viability. This is similar to how the death penalty is counterproductive; you get people for whom the threat is getting caught, and any escalation is preferable. On the second point, that certainly isn't his violation in that case; it could only make sense to hold him responsible for unreasonable delay in the cleanup, but whoever made the mess is responsible for the costs of the cleanup to begin with. At least in a somewhat sane society...
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  397.  @ConstantlyDamaged  I disagree. The concept of self-modifying programs is not reliant on secondary storage that you may or may not have loaded the program from; it's the running program that is modifying itself. Similarly, preprocessors and compilers are generally not self modifying, even if their inputs might well be an instance of their own source.
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  398. The test against maxBound shown at 7:35 can work because it separated the terms, only adding 1 after it confirmed to-from wasn't the one value that would overflow. As also covered, the way to reach that was to have to=maxBound and from=0, which is simply more than could actually be transferred anyhow. Of course, with the UB happy crowd, they're likely to claim the compiler is allowed to assume the overflow wouldn't occur and can therefore remove the check anyway, and we've wasted our efforts at least four times over for a complete non-issue.
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  399. Your title is backwards. Windows doesn't support the specialized hardware, the hardware vendor supports Windows. To the point they fight to make the hardware unusable without it. In the past hardware would be delivered with documentation to make it usable, in particular printers and computers. Now many vendors somehow think having more customers is a threat.
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  400. 1) You're thinking of logical CPUs, which limit how many threads may be running. Operating systems schedule threads such that they might also be waiting for CPU access (runnable) or sleeping (waiting for other conditions). Typically the CPU is regularly interrupted to share its time among runnable threads. 2) The independent parts are modelled by sleep; reindeer on vacation, elves making toys, santa sleeping. The task is about when they're interacting, e.g. needing to fit in the room or ask their question. It's a resource contention and synchronization task, not a labour division task. The idea is that is already done (e.g. by having elves work on different toys). One constraint is that santa's sleep is higher priority than one or two elves being stuck.
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  401. Those expansions are indeed structurally different from the middle column, but they're also an equally valid way to define these numbers; it looks like Peano numbers to me. The middle column shows the set of recursive subsets found in the right column.
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  402.  @EebstertheGreat  Peano numbers are defined by Peano axioms 1 and 6-8. It effectively defines a unary number system, using a base case (0 or 1) and the successor function S(n), such that 1=S(0), 1+1=S(S(0)), etc. It's just we here have examples of S(n)={Ø,n} or S(n)={n}; equally valid, but the former might be what you'd reach for if you're used to cons cells, like in Lisp. Another example of this sort of redundancy was using dictionaries only to hold keys before sets were added in Python 2.3.
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  403. Of ABC fame? Good choice.
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  404.  @Khenfu_Cake  That's the primary improvement of the circa 1958 Lego brick patent, yes. What's iffy is how it was applied for in a variety of countries without acknowledging the fact it was based on the Kiddicraft bricks, themselves patented 1947. At least a quick skim found no reference to that in the US version (1961), though it does refer to other Great Britain patents 6610 and 676469; it also refers to tubes interlocking with the studs (going around them, not between) as well known. The UK search service to find these patents of course picked today to be unavailable, and I don't know if the Danish one is even scanned, so I'm unable to confirm some details. It's rather remarkable that it's being simultaneously claimed that Lego had Kiddicraft's permission and that the founder of Kiddicraft didn't know of Lego.
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  405.  @BrodieRobertson  You mean wildly incorrectly and perfectly confidently, like about human digestion where they paint fat, cholesterol and salt as the big bads, when the primary problem is overdosing on carbohydrates?
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  406.  @BrodieRobertson  And you're very defensive about posting an essay where you decide to use technical language for the wrong things. Why are you opposed to accuracy?
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  407. NVD policy is to rate every undefined field as maximum. So when they don't know what an issue is, including if they don't know if it exists at all, it's automatically critical. So basically it's because they'd rather say "look how important we are" than "look how clueless we are".
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  408.  @alexstone691  Sure, in the disaster movie scenario where every time you lose contact it's because of an ominous attack. It's not a response plan, however. This isn't vulnerability mitigation, it's amplification.
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  409. They've been caught hijacking links for profit.
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  410.  @ALivingDinosaur  GCC generates 32 bytes per iteration if you tell it the processor will support it, with e.g. -march=native or -mavx2.
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  411.  @matsv201  It's a less misleading set, certainly, but I'd guess a lot of people will balk at 1/x being malformed (would be written x⁻¹). And we run into the same issue over and over once we start using other operations, including function application. The core problem is claiming PEMDAS (or whatever you name the rule set, it's a poor name) is authoritative on topics it doesn't even mention.
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  412.  @skadragon  You make a lot of assertions that simply don't match established use. I've never before seen someone argue that 5-2½=3.5.
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  413. ​ @gljames24  It's more that the idea of what to do with multiple monitors changed after X11 was designed. X11 has multiple screens in one display, but people expected them to work like one, so hacks like twinview were added, then the Xinerama protocol to manage those.
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  414.  @dealloc  Note that saturation arithmetic, while one way to handle overflows, would not solve this bug but make it stranger.
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  415. I remember when Macs came with Open Firmware, which made them programmable even without any OS.
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  416. A little hard to follow there, but it reminds me of inlining ISRs on those architectures where the interrupt vector table is code, not pointers.
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  417. ​ @Disatiere  Actually, Youtube autonormalizes so it's 100% on youtube.
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  418. I'd argue the tree isn't very implicit when you have to explicitly enter it with parenthesis. On the plus side, that means you can use n-ary operators.
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  419. We should apparently start including subpixel counts in display descriptions, since the manufacturers will happily lie (particularly repeating Samsung drivel that pentile is harmless; the only reason it was ever in VR headsets was cost). Vive, Rift CV1: 1080x1200x2=2.6Mdots per eye, Valve Index=1440x1600x3=6.9Mdots per eye, Vive Pro=1440x1600x2=4.6Mdots per eye, Pimax 5K+=2560x1440x3=11Mdots per eye, Pimax 8K=3840x2160x1.5=12.4Mdots per eye (note that Pimax spreads theirs over a much larger field of view, and 8K upscales from the same image as the 5K+). Also note that anything other than 3 in the last factor means the headset is discarding information from the picture, wasting signal and GPU capacity.
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  420. Unusually, it's medium format positive film, not negative.
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  421. They did port Office long ago. But they only sold it for Solaris, IIRC.
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  422. Because they are expressions. For a discussion on why, perhaps look into PEP 572. Also note that C is intentionally simple; a smaller and flexible compiler was preferred over a larger more strict. It was divided into distinct passes because some computers could not hold them all in memory.
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  423.  @GetMoGaming  He did, it's one of those kooky ideas the "scientists" spout, while everyone else uses working magic.
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  424. ​ @timbo303 Not with a stock firmware. At best you may have the option to disable it, but not for all apps, e.g. One UI Home can't be disabled.
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  425. .deb files are packages installed using the dpkg package manager, so installing them is not bypassing the package manager. However, it may have distro specific or broken dependency metadata, which could make it impractical on Debian. Debian's (contrib) packages have steam-libs for dependencies and steam-installer which installs Steam in ~/.steam/debian-installation. Being a kind of package manager itself, complete with self updating, Steam requires a user writable location.
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  426.  @AndrewBrown-xr8pn  From the shot with the weight falling through, it's clear that the middle tissue is not fully supported either, but that is a reasonable comment on the experiment. I also don't care for the brand name advertising. However, do you people really not know of toilet paper? It keeps surprising me to learn all you're missing out on... As Wikipedia states: "Most modern toilet paper in the developed world is designed to decompose in septic tanks, whereas some other bathroom and facial tissues are not."
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  427. It has been attempted. The problem is, you get a few dozen up and coming youths at a time and the lesson they don't want to acknowledge is one learnt after spending months trying to understand old code bases. It's very slow progress when it goes well, and when it doesn't, it's extremely hard to tell; and meanwhile they'll blithely claim "this would all be better to just rewrite completely with «tool they heard of this week»". There's much to learn if you just meet your professor privately and ask when they wish they could teach!
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  428. Creepy.
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  429. XKCD 687.
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  430. Fiddled with it a bit today. There's a Linux driver now, though it uses some firmware blobs. But getting any tool to actually develop for it - or even just information on what the instruction set is capable of, let alone how it's encoded - is far less clear. So, it's useless but testable, which is a step above Windows 10 where it's just ignored because Microsoft said so.
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  431. That's why it says senior C++ developer. I was around when C++ and Java were introduced, and they're very different languages from the ones sharing their name back then. Too bad C++ still insists on making every new feature be harder to actually write or read. I'd say C++ was in need of a Kotlin style redesign, but history has shown that people don't want cleaner languages like D very much.
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  432.  @alexturnbackthearmy1907  Yes, survivorship bias. You describe particular ICE cars holding value exceptionally well. How large a portion of ICE cars overall are those? How many EVs should you expect made the same mark, given the same ratio? This is similar to thinking old music was all great - because we've forgotten most of what wasn't.
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  433. For those who'd like to scratch more surfaces, you might want to look into CSP (e.g. Transputer, XMOS, Occam), Clash and Futhark, or some DSPs like the Epiphany processors (with their dedicated loop modes). C is amazingly awkward for functional pipelines.
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  434. That rule is exploitable, leading to weaponized incompetence. Malicious parties will design systems to appear incompetently designed specifically to mess with you. That the same system could have been produced through sheer incompetence provides plausible deniability. While PDF forms are unreliable, when the fields are there it's obvious they should be inspected, and it's dishonest to slap a person's name on the response if the person wasn't seeing the submitted material.
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  435. It's not necessarily that simple. With too low a voltage, not only do you get increased resistance in the transistors that are supposed to be on, you may get the opposing ones to never switch off fully. And that's static power draw that won't go away with clock gating and will be at its worst exactly where the weakest links are. "May damage your hardware" is quite literal.
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  436. merge [] ys = ys merge xs [] = xs merge (x:xs) (y:ys) | x<y = x:merge xs (y:ys) | otherwise = y:merge (x:xs) ys Can you not tell the difference between that and concatenation?
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  437. ​​ @MrCmon113  That's actually the monad bit. The old world was consumed to create the new world; monad means handling only one, as in mono. There's only ever one world, whether it's before or after your IO action. I also like a different perspective: Your Haskell program actually constructs a program in the real world. All the IO parts that have effect are sequenced in that real program, so anything tagged with IO is a piece we use to build the flow diagram of that program. Most of your logic has no need to deal with IO, and monads are primarily used to deal with stuff that can fail or diverge. An amazing monad is STM, which can make arbitrarily complex speculative execution with retries, not just abort.
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  438. Still better than Sony's discs breaking other brands of players, such as Apple.
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  439. @ If I recall correctly, the rootkit scandal was another one; they have multiple generations of non-compliant discs, some of which locked up the firmware in Apple's CD-ROM drives. Of course, it's on Apple that accessing the manual eject required drilling the iMac. The most known Sony rootkit targeted Windows, and was itself an act of piracy as well as a hostile intrusion. And they made another targeting Macs, which may or may not have gone on the same discs. The firmware lockup was an unintended result of intentional sabotage (what DRM is). Let that sink in. Sony remain massively successful and have done this at least four times over.
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  440. This is some anti-competition bullshit, obviously. If they don't want to see their car sold again as it fails to meet the owner's needs, they should simply buy it back.
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  441. Yep. Insert, select and bubble sort are the same thing evaluated in different orders; and Haskell evaluates in the order required to produce output.
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  442.  @sultanofsick  Consider talking to a conspiracy theorist. They've honed their feelings to an overriding conviction, quite unrelated to truth, and rely on it to excuse hostile behaviours, like accusing almost everyone they meet of being frauds. Can we not express regret at their driving force (though doing so to them is unlikely to help)? Of course, this comparison makes it all the more offensive when this phrase is applied in the most insincere way (essentially "I'm sorry you feel that I shouldn't have harmed you as I have and intend to").
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  443. "Enough" is very subjective. It's not your typical deep dive fantasy, but it's rather good in LBEs even with only partial physical props.
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  444. That just relies on someone to sound the alarm and noone in HR seeing it as an opportunity to be lazy. Humans have quuite the tendency to prefer the lazy seeming options over correct or legal ones.
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  445. ​ @excidium666  It's not just the false positives. Every one of the reports will be overly verbose, speculative and off topic like this one, which will train responders to skim reports - and eventually lose significant details.
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  446. Right. "Science." That's a great name for an advertising campaign.
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  447.  @Mallchad  Yep, that's the sympathetic story. Unfortunately it wasn't always consistent with reality. For instance, turns out a lot of "piracy" (and isn't that a lovely spin) is consumers trying to get what they'd already paid for but lost access to, frequently because of these measures. E.g. I had a large video game installed but it required insertion of disc 1 to play, which snapped in half due to poor packaging. Another common reason is publishers literally refusing to sell, including going on a witch hunt if you reveal you know a TV programme was produced in wide screen and ask why the only version on offer is cropped.
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  448. Realize, this is routine for them. Their brand is big and they rely on a fresh influx of marks, burning bridges as they go.
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  449. ​ @antoniogarest7516 That just shifts the over/underflow boundaries around, though. -100-100 isn't 56 either. Java was designed with a 32 bits is enough attitude, Python switches to arbitrary precision, and Zig allows you to specify (u160 and i3 are equally valid types). Ada is also quite happy to have a type going from 256 to 511.
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  450. I have a dream to inspire people to do something about litter when they encounter it, even if just a bit at a time. For now I mostly just go out and pick now and then. Some people seem to appreciate that.
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  451.  @ribzer57  There's value in showing the public alternatives that don't actively fight against the owner. That old adage about voting with your feet or wallet requires there to be a market of such options. A recommendation of something you've actually tried (warts and all, this setup wasn't straightforward) is a helpful starting point.
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  452. I find XKCD 925 apropos. And CGPGrey's "this video will make you angry" is a nice primer on what forces act on these messages.
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  453. Just thought I'd inform you you're being way creepy.
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  454. That's a bit like demanding someone explain object oriented programming using GW-BASIC, which doesn't even have subroutine naming or structures. Python doesn't have a type declaration standard (MyPy does) and C doesn't have first class functions. Haskell meanwhile allows writing either without much noise and has monads as a named concept.
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  455. What's your issue? He's honestly hopeful he brought you something useful.
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  456. They all are.
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  457. Yep, those were the feelers.
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  458. ​ @JNCressey  You're thinking of labelled break/continue, as in PEP 3136. Rust and D (dlang) have that feature. Another usable form is throw/catch (aka try/except), though people are trained to consider them expensive (and they may be, if the compiler doesn't understand the common frame). The argument against using goto for the same thing is that the label might not be at the same place as a break target. GNU assembly uses local numeric labels to enforce similar restrictions, such as specifically referring to the next (forward) matching label, no other. All of this nuance is stuff that wasn't available when you had to place things yourself on drum memory; it boils down to simple jumps, which are indeed named goto on some computers (e.g. Microchip PIC). These real programmers actually worked on the program in place, not necessarily ever put in another form like a listing or flow chart.
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  459. Well, obviously. You see, a linker is called a loader in Unix, and that reminds me of the song Sixteen Tons, so must be a reference to slavery. /s
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  460. I also once paid for YouTube Premium and stopped because of their hostility. For starters, I requested the function to pay instead of getting ads years before they even introduced Red; and when they did, they decided to refuse me that service for another year or so just because of where I live (Sweden). Before offering it, they more than quadrupled the amount of ads, and they've kept going since. Well, I tried once they let me. Turns out, not only didn't I consistently get the ads removed, they told my mother she wasn't my family, based on a hidden requirement and hidden measurements. They never told me, the person paying. So one thing they'd have to do is publicly apologize for actively treating their paying customers worse than their ad-suffering viewers. Google spyware don't get to tell me who my family is. It's offensive and likely illegal that they spy in the first place, and using it to target and abuse customers is perverse. Another thing they'd have to do is actually fight fraud. Currently they're fighting the people trying to remove spam from the comment sections, not the spammers. And their ad system is at least 70% fraud too, without even the flagging option. Flagging comments doesn't get them removed, and it's not even possible to flag ads. One more thing. It would be nice if they actually took viewers into account at all before breaking things, e.g. dislike statistics and stereoscopic video. There are swathes of videos out there that were once correctly tagged for 3D viewing (and a mechanism to add the tags if they were missing) but youtube simply broke them.
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  461. That is a higher level operation; the binary addition described here is performed directly in the integer ALU, using only the adder. A division requires much more complicated calculations and therefore more logic and time. On processors that do have it, a zero divisor is checked as an error case, and aborts the operation itself. Floating point numbers are handled in specialized logic and have a NaN value to represent the result of an invalid operation (note that 1/0 may be +Inf instead; 0/0 will be NaN), partially so the program can continue without checking itself at every step. On some processors the integer and floating point units operate in parallel, with the integer one deciding program flow, so the floating point processor couldn't abort like integer divide by zero does.
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  462. That's of course purely a driver limitation, since the cards are identical except for that little identifier the driver checks to determine what to disable.
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  463. The multi-user variant - with each person seeing their own perspective - is coming. CastAR shows some of these possibilities, by using micro projectors per user and retroreflective screens; what it can't do yet is match the field of view of a CAVE or Rift, simply because the current optics aren't that wide angle. Nice to see a current CAVE system; the one I visited has been dismantled. It did use the three story construction with twelve projectors.
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  464. DT B, that's halfway true. If your graphics card can't quite keep up with 60Hz you need a G-Sync or FreeSync monitor (sadly have to match your GPU brand) to actually get that 58FPS; otherwise you get a jittery mess jumping between 30 (~33ms) and 60 (~17ms), because the monitor is stuck at 60 (or more likely 60/1.001, if you want to be precise). And turning off V-sync doesn't solve it, as you then get inconsistent delays across the screen, with the border between new and old jumping around all the time. Neither monitor will make the GPU do 100Hz, but the adaptive sync will make it smooth. The cheaper option is to tune your game's settings until you can consistently hit 60, and that's what low graphics settings are for. There's also the option of seeing if your monitor can do 50, if you can hit that rate consistently.
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  465. Please correct the transcription. It's COBOL, not Cobalt.
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  466. +25cj Recursion doesn't make structure hard to see in itself. Consider, for instance, the fibonacci or successor series. What makes the prime series grow in complexity is rather that its recursion returns to a fixed point (unity, where we stop checking) instead of having a finite set of conditions.
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  467. Thank you! This is a proper way to advertise the premium stuff - telling us where to find more info while providing actual helpful content.
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  468. +Kristján Ingvar Yes, there's a 9 digit sequence of recursive digit sums of squares of natural numbers. What about it? Did it relate to the video or an existing discussion?
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  469. This is the sort of video I wish was stereoscopic. Great work :)
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  470. And moving the sea. The Netherlands are a marvel.
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  471. +Ströbröd Stolbarn You've merely shown that to alternate between different pairs (x,x) or (y,y), a transition (x,y) is required. Extend it to longer strings and you'll have one of either for every pair of digits; for instance the pattern 1,1,2,2,1,1,2,2.. has a balanced set, 1,1,1,1,1.. has only 1,1 pairs, and 1,2,1,2.. has only transitions. A random pattern would be expected to approach an even distribution, as it for each following digit would have an equal chance of adding an equal pair or a transition.
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  472.  @ricardoalves9605  A cogent argument, but ultimately futile. The point is that "intelligent design" is not a theory to be weighed on evidence and probability, possibly to be refuted; they'll just take your point and say it's there "to test your faith", "his plan is inscrutable" or whatever (frequently just outright deny it). What truly baffles me is that these deniers literally argue against observing the fascinating wonder and complexity of the world we live in; placing limits on what their supposed creator may have done based on some preacher, book, or personal preconception. And to do so they'll gladly build nonsensical caricatures of what they think their supposed opponents believe, including completely ignoring what words mean (typical triggers: theory, gravity, evolution). They're not in the conversation to communicate, but indoctrinate. Remarkably, the entrance point to such indoctrination relies on doubt; they train their victims to reject notions, never to test them. XKCD 258.
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  473. akaBez It's basically Google's fault, in designing the lowest common denominator Cardboard and Daydream VR systems. They went for rotational tracking only and barely any controls. Adding room scale positional tracking with Rift, Vive or Nolo is a huge step up. Tango can also do it, and that sort of inside out tracking will appear in the standaloneish VR systems soon. A detailed mesh is still better than a stereo panorama in that it can handle the parallax correctly, and likely takes much less space.
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  474. Billy Wolfe He's saying it is a 3d model you can render for any perspective, as opposed to "3d" video, which is simply stereoscopy (two offset pictures, indicating depth by parallax).
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  475. Am I weird for finding this last digit pattern intuitive? It does relate to the base chosen and the nature of primes. Primes are separated by compound numbers, and the two primes that are factors to our base can be ignored, which is how we ended up with the possible last digits. The first prime that isn't one of them, 3, represents a pattern; 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30. Remove the numbers excluded by the base primes (2 and 5), and we get last digits of 3 9 1 7. I would expect primes to have a preference for following that cycle in order, though it does seem to be more complex than that; the chain from primes ending in 7 doesn't quite agree with the curve. That could be from looking at too small a piece of the sieve though; repeating the process we did for 3 on 7 yields a second pattern of 7 1 9 3, the reverse since 7 and 3 add up to 10. Those two and a simple incremental order will probably be shifting in weight by a beat frequency, eventually tuned by more primes joining in (those ending with 1 reinforcing incremental patterns, 9 reverse patterns, and 3 and 7 as already observed). Lower primes produce a higher density of compound numbers and therefore affect the distribution more.
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  476. You should try Meshlab.
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  477. Minor places like Facebook and Google. Did you know all languages are made up?
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  478.  @Sir_Uncle_Ned  Anything is liquid at sufficient force. For instance, planets are dust droplets.
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  479. Nope. If they weren't abandoning PC, they'd have taken the opportunity to make that USB type C port DisplayPort alternate mode, and the device could have funcrioned as a Rift upgrade.
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  480. Haven't heard of this brand, but soounds like they're doing what Digital Homicide did; garbage production escalating to corporate suicide.
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  481. Note that Python does switch to floating point with / (that's why // exists), and that drops from arbitrary precision to 53 bits (from IEEE 754 binary64). You get rounding errors that go outside the search range. >>> left=(1<<53)+1; right=left+1; mid=int(left/2+right/2); left,mid,right,left<=mid<=right (9007199254740993, 9007199254740992, 9007199254740994, False) Since this mid is too low, the check would move the left side to mid+1, which is right where it was and we have an infinite loop.
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  482. This reminds me of another pyramid scheme company. They started out with the name Eve, but rebranded themselves Dough. They were pretty loud about their model, which relied on getting new prepaid orders in to fund production of the devices they already owed. Now they sell a monitor brand called Spectrum (let me reiterate: the brand, not the product). Of course, the usual model of selling the idea to "venture capitalists" also involves accruing a bunch of debt before making a thing.
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  483. ​ @khalilmohammadmirza4070  I'd be more sympathetic if their changes didn't involve actively pushing fraud (e.g. not delivering their premium service, tons of scam ad campaigns that are near impossible to report) and making their core service continually worse.
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  484. Gamergate is an interesting case of a conflict around a real world conspiracy, where you can tell people are trying to recruit you if they insist it had two sides.
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  485. There's some excellent material, e.g. MIT OpenCourseWare. Of course quality is rarely recognized, let alone promoted.
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  486. The sad part is of course that all of these systems hide the option to use UDF, which they all support (but with quirks like not accepting it in partitions).
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  487. Discussing why a reading didn't match expectations is not bad at all. This is the start of many good scientific inquiries; discoveries that make you go "huh". They were discussing variables they had not controlled for. I'd guess the big one is that they're looking at samples days apart, with weather affecting pressure to a similar degree. If they recorded air pressure and temperature as well as altitude, this hypothesis could be tested with existing data. An example of bad science would be assuming a measurement was in error and discarding it instead of highlighting it.
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  488. Welcome to what's going on in the gaps between operations. Your delay loop likely isn't using the same logic and power as the active parts.
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  489. You're stretching "I can't do this" to 5 minutes? C doesn't have the necessary concepts, so you'd either give up or implement another language, neither of which I'd fit under "doing this in C".
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  490. "It" meaning Crowdstrike, not this particular event. Those panics are merely evidence Crowdstrike had already broken systems in this way and not been fixed or replaced.
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  491. Same thing - flat earth just happens to be one of the most readily disproven and publicised conspiracy theories. It acts as a filter, selecting for gullible and distrustful people (the key is to misdirect the distrust), who will be fed more harmful ones also.
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  492. Rust's Option is Haskell's Maybe (or Option), and Rust's Result is Haskell's Either. Rust's ? syntax is like Haskell's do notation, and both of those generic types have a and_then method that is like (>>=). Each of those is a monad. Haskell has many defined monads since there is the ability to express that they are monads (and therefore things can be polymorphic across monads). For instance, the same data traversal code can produce various results depending on if it's run in the Min, Max, Product, Sum, First or Last monads.
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  493. That would have actually connected this to the Mel tales... too bad the video didn't contain that much fun.
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  494. I did devise a voting system for public verification once. It relied upon having a trusted node to do the voting, probably to be implemented in a smartcard. The vote itself would be delivered in pieces, making it impossible to filter them out without showing that you were removing votes, and the whole trail would be auditable to the degree of proving each voter got a vote in, but only the voter himself could trace his vote distinctly, if he stored a log. I'd be very surprised if such a system did get put in service, though. The voter would still need to trust one machine to not misrepresent his choices. And given that secure smartcards themselves are shying away from any real auditability (they stick to the "this company we paid says we can be trusted" kind), lots of problems remain.
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  495. Quoth the Jargon File: "tail recursion, noun: if you're not sick of it already, see tail recursion"
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  496. Nathan did know how to do that conversion. The guy's a charlatan, quite intentionally deceiving people. That particular demand was only used to bait out an apparent fault so he could get an excuse to start yelling, because getting to any understanding would undermine his position and routine. He has a handful of modes; boggling by incredulity, dazzling with incomprehensive gobbledygook, yelling to drown out (augmented by liberal muting). It's all about building a following of gullible people, joined by the erroneous belief that by deciding some group was trying to trick them, they're no longer being tricked. If someone works themselves or you into a fervour, chances are they're going for emotional manipulation, not rational examination.
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  497.  @chbu7081  If he wasn't, his routine wouldn't be so transparent. But stupid does not rule out malicious.
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  498.  @chbu7081  Remember the "adequately" part of that rule of thumb. Stupidity isn't sufficient to explain the vehemence with which he attacks. It covers a lot of flat earth culture, but not so many of the campaigners. He's afraid of losing authority, not of being wrong.
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  499. It certainly exposes a bias in the decision process. Someone was so leery of letting their real reasons show they thought looking this bad was better.
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  500. Sadly, the news to me is that someone got a clue why youtube messed with their posting. Also, checking five seconds of audio may not be enough, because the reviewer is seeded; compare e.g. laurel/yanny or the talking piano, and consider the reviewer will have a foreign accent to boot. When they go in expecting an "n-word", they may be unable to hear bigger, trigger or figure. Worse, the injection of the bad word is negative bias on the captioning bot, and this parody of a review process is reinforcing it rather than fixing it.
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  501. If you gathered numbers, odds are they were numbers. Several of these were not (the misaligned separators and the hole strings where over half his rule existed for only the first item in the sequence come to mind).
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  502. Great presentation. However, I feel pressed to point out NordVPN don't have a stellar track record in their chosen field; not only have they been breached, they chose to hide that breach from their customers. More details on TechRadar. Tom Scott has a sound explanation of what VPN services set out to do, which is notably different from NordVPN's marketing.
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  503. ​ @drkastenbrot Nops have very discernible power consumption. You want logic to make the same number of transitions regardless of the result, which is tricky when carry chains are involved. Or you want to make transitions indistinguishable, like with adiabatic logic. And either way you want a constant time algorithm. If you want a software solution, look at homomorphic encryption. Not knowing the key can help to not reveal it.
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  504. It was a tracking module that was taped on. Other shots showed a Nolo tracker instead.
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  505. Ads and tracking do not need to be bundle deals at all. They're both disturbing, but you can easily have either without the other. I suspect ads related to the content topic are far more successful than ones targeting the user.
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  506. The rules of the towers of Hanoi force discs to always be in order - smallest on top, larger in the bottom. Every function call is moving the largest disc it knows about to a space that has no smaller discs, because it just made a recursive call to move any smaller discs to the third (helper) stack. It finishes by transferring the smaller discs onto the large disc, ensuring that all the smaller discs are on one pillar when the function returns. As long as the deepest call works, and it will because it won't have to move any discs, the whole arrangement of movements will complete the task. Some call designing a function like this "leap of faith" programming; by divide and conquer, we assume we can complete the task for some smaller problem. We then find a set of smallest needed problems to solve, and address those specifically.
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  507. There's nothing odd about separating someone for disrupting class. I once knew a guy who'd consistently ask the same question at least three times before ever pausing to check if anyone heard him, let alone answered. Sweet guy, but a tad tedious to explain things to.
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  508. You seem to be confusing Nothing :: Maybe Int with 0 :: Int. They are two distinct values (and Just 0 :: Maybe Int is a third), and safediv :: Int -> Int -> Maybe Int only checks its second argument (the divisor) for 0. eval :: Expr -> Maybe Int only checks for Nothing, which can be factored out using the Maybe monad.
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  509. They're not unaware. They are fraudsters who simply see others as suckers, so they try to exploit whatever they can; feeding you any random nonsense to see what sticks. That's why they respond with so much inconsistent nonsense.
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  510. ​ @Czeckie  Quite significantly, the right hand side of that statement doesn't matter either. This is reflected in that all([])==True, any([])==False. Both produce the initial (default) case of a reduction, i.e. all(xs) == functools.reduce(operator.and_, xs, True). all() and any() can shortcut once they find the exception.
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  511. Kait Langtry Kind of both; susu-atari do represent dust in Totoro, soot or coal dust in Spirited Away.
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  512. This is the result of applying the appalling standard of absolutely no warranty of functionality from the blatantly negligent software world as if it satisfied legal evidence requirements. And the current field of "AI" has as a main goal to remove even traceability from the manufacture of such software - by "learning" instead of "copying", they hope to excuse plagiarism. No culpability, no responsibility, all those successful prosecutions count as grand success.
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  513. This happened to users who purchased products. Exactly as with the FT2232 and CH340 drivers; it's an attack aimed at end users. That in itself makes it worse than collective punishment, which is largely and rightly illegal.
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  514. And transactional handling of updates.
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  515. Most of the bacteria we'd worry about can't handle 65 degrees C (the big one is legionella, which is why hot water should not drop below 50 degrees). Also, boiling itself kills them as they contain water. It's recommended to boil longer at lower pressures, as it's gradual anyway.
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  516. I'm afraid you've fallen victim to some propaganda. Evolution isn't about things being *spontaneously* created; it explains the process by which more suitable (for a given environment) species will be those that *remain*. In a friendly enough environment the less suitable ones may do just as well, and the process seemingly halts. For instance, lactose intolerance is widely spread, but there are enough other things to eat that people suffering from that do not die out.
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  517. Meanwhile, I feel that outside NixOS some rather fundamental things are being senselessly missed. Like having updates not interfere with work; it can update while I work, I can switch when it's done, and I can shut down when I'm done, not have to wait for an update procedure that may or may not prevent my system booting the next time.
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  518. I wish we could get these in stereoscopic video.
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  519. That's far from the only laws they break. No doubt Samsung have a little "to the extent permitted by law" cop-out clause somewhere in the nonsense, which by the way is as illegal as shrink wrap "license agreement".
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  520. Content on reddit is bait and it's not provided by reddit but "redditors" (people inside the echo chamber). It's blatant that the company is exploiting all sides aggressively; for instance, you can often get links from google which lead to a page that refuses to show what was indexed but instructs you to install an app. That's a phishing campaign.
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  521.  @peterfox2565  Programmer's version: Constants aren't, variables don't.
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  522. Not the only thing. They also make the ads more and more aggressive; this is why the ads scream at you the first seconds. The irritated targets will find a way to leave, so they try to exploit the reaction time.
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  523. C (or C++) analogy: Q: Is a+++b ... A: a++ + b B: a + ++b C: a + + + b D: syntax error E: obnoxious and unclear (Yes, I know there's a defined answer, and no, that doesn't make it a good idea to write like this. All of ABC are valid expressions.) The PEMDAS evangelist screaming "1 is WRONG" is the equivalent of saying it's none of those because you evaluated in TECO, not C.
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  524. Now that is a cocoon just begging for a light field photograph! Thank you :)
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  525. Parts of the rumour mill say no; the file shouldn't have loaded if it was only 0, and mostly 0 is normal. Crowdstrike have indicated they pushed incorrect code, not merely corrupt, but the fact remains their architecture creates the opportunity for this level of fault.
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  526. @ As a physicist writing in English, you already have the two languages Haskell is based on. All two of the terms that might have been a surprise were explained. Would you be as quick to shun an explanation that stated they used pseudocode, such as Knuth's MIX?
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  527. @ So, since pseudocode is simply code that doesn't work, your objection is that this code does work?
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  528. ... and decided to be snide about it rather than of any use.
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  529. Pardon the juvenile comment, but somehow my brain thought "pay attention to the arse" at 4:12. Also, regarding official languages, here's a fun bit of trivia: in 2000 Sweden introduced official minority languages, but had no such law regarding Swedish, which was not declared the main language until 2009.
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  530. Creepy.
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  531. That's not exactly memory technology. TLC and SLC are. SSD refers to using solid state memory as secondary storage, whilst NVMe is a protocol for talking to a secondary storage controller. Note that in the machine generation discussed in this video, the primary memory was rotary, not solid state.
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  532. A little of each. I figure it's significant that it has two redirection blocks, because the two turns cause a torque between them. It's quite likely there have been simpler designs with just a blade slapping the stream.
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  533. You can keep going with binary search, though many implementations only return the midpoint upon match, not the high and low range. Searching for any match, left or right edge are distinct goals, often expressed as looking for the first or last index a value could be inserted while maintaining order.
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  534. Java got this from C++, but yes, the name of the easter egg could be related. Another egg contrasting other languages is "from _future_ import braces". The Zen of Python is also recorded in PEP 20.
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  535. Assembly is more of a category than a language. For instance, PIC14 assembly has more in common with 6502 assembly than PIC32 assembly, and pretty much all they share with GA144 assembly is that they have steps. As for APL, I've looked at it some but I think I'm fairly satisfied learning BQN instead. Same family, but more regular syntax and different glyph selection. Is the base assumption here that everyone starts with an Algol family language? LISP is an excellent suggestion, though you can make do with Scheme. I'd also throw in Forth, for how it relates directly to what computation is possible and how simple a compiler can be, while still allowing to grow your language to any task.
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  536. Jeri Ellsworth posted some over a decade ago IIRC. There are a bunch of brands and toolchains, Apio might be of use.
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  537. Depends on which "they" you go by. PEMDAS missionaries want it changed to match TI calculators, which disagree with established practice. Those who actually use expressions of this complexity understand there's more nuance and wish those missionaries hadn't muddied the waters, because the proposed change (lowering priority of implied multiplication to match explicit multiplication) doesn't actually improve anything. It's a lot like insisting you have to ask everyone what their preferred pronouns are when the conversation didn't need or involve any gendering.
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  538. Assign multiple variables": This doesn't work exactly the same way as multiple assignment statements. In fact, that's the main reason it exists; you can do "a, b = b, a" to swap two variables. With sequential assignments that would require a third variable. Color: That's not even a Python feature, but a terminal escape sequence. For a Pythonic way to do it, look at e.g. the click library's echo and style functions. Concat without +: This is string literal contatenation. Unlike + it operates at compile time, not run time. There's no problem assigning it to a variable, but you broke the strings apart when you removed the parenthesis. Substring with in: "I don't really like" is a very vague argument. The problem is repeating the search using both in and index. You can also use the exception as your conditional: try: print(haystack.index(needle)) except ValueError: pass id to get identity: Do not use id to check if variables are identical; this is already what the "is" operator does, e.g. "assert data1 is data2", which is both clearer and more efficient. Do not save an id by itself as they could be reused if the object is freed. Aliases: data1 and data2 were just equal names referring to the same object. Names hold references to values, they do not define them. "Primitive types": All values in Python, including types, are objects. You can create new immutable types easily, e.g. using namedtuple. The closest you get to a "primitive" type is types that have a literal syntax, but that includes mutable ones like list, set and dict. There are also objects that can only hold specific kinds of values, like in array and ctypes. "Replace list vs replace list content": id is a property of an object, not of a name. The name data within change_list is what was changed, not the object it initially pointed to. "Check if exists": Those aren't tiers of nothing; None is a value like any other, a falsy one with a singleton type. It's used as a placeholder; the most common occurrence is when you don't specify anything to return. In general, looking for existence of a name is rather strange metaprogramming; per duck typing, you'd normally just try to use things, and maybe handle if it fails, like hasattr does. I'm tired and won't be writing exhaustive commentary.
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  539. Sorry, but this really bugs me. Stop blithely accepting corporate rebranding. These aren't "subscription based business models", they are extortion schemes. A subscription model might be e.g. getting a new pair of glasses twice a year. An extortion model involves them breaking something of yours if you don't comply. It's not a difficult thing to tell apart. Similarly, I've never seen a microtransaction. Micro means small, and specifically the ISO prefix means 0.000001. If I had the time, I'd set up a simple rating site listing what level of lie this marketing is, because it's so easily quantifiable. Deviously, tools like that airbag do make sense as a subscription model, to replace chemical or pressure components that may grow stale, leak or deteriorate. Compare life vests and signal guns. Another obvious example would be lithium ion batteries. A component that will need replacement in just a few years should be serviceable. This is now used as a wedge to trick people into accepting extortion schemes on top.
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  540. Technically it's avarice. They do not care if you are hurt, they merely want your stuff.
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  541. The DRM business is about moving money from publishers to fraudsters by having both accuse the consumers paying for it all. Clearly entire industries can exist without actually working.
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  542. ​​​​ @jamesflames6987  It doesn't overflow to 0 on common machines. You'd need a machine where the the number of values a long may take is a multiple of 1000 for that. You could get subsecond values like 704 or 384 milliseconds. The hypothetical service would also be the one with the remote vulnerability, not curl. The issue was severely mislabeled. The I:H label, for instance, was pure fabrication. NVD is the DDOS attack vector here. Their policy is the equivalent of every missed call being classified as a bomb threat.
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  543. Insertion sort doesn't require you to do a linear scan to find the insertion place. Since the section wherein we need to insert a book is sorted, the place can be found by bisection, for instance with a binary or golden ratio search. In fact, the insertion sort shown was merely doing the same sort of shortcut on the bubble sort that let you skip comparing to the last book in the second iteration (which is the selection sort aspect of the bubble sort); the difference was bubbling in the opposite direction of the original scan. If we're doing bubble sort variants there's no cause to avoid the bidirectional bubble sort. Also, in practice you might do a merge sort for the example, rather than start by comparing any particular book against all the others. It lends itself better to dividing work.
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  544.  @gotafarmyet4691  Or no reason at all. That's the thing about automating deletion; they chose to make sure it can't tell anyone why so they can refuse to fix it.
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  545. For comparison, there's also FIO-DEC that didn't quite make it this easy (1-9 were precisely those values, but the digit 0 was code 20 octal, or 10000 binary). Decimal types nowadays frequently use word cutoffs rather than digit cutoffs, which can fit e.g. 9 digits in 32 bits or 19 digits in 64 bits.
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  546. ​ @test-rj2vl Bare women? Doesn't matter one bit. Direct fraud attempts, like about half of youtube's ads today? Those should be treated as the attempted crime they are.
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  547. The next recommendation in my list is an episode from Dylan Beattie's series "the history of software in three letter acronyms", "B is for BBC". I think that's a good choice.
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  548. The Find My network does not report where the separated tag is - rather it reports where some other device (phone, tablet or computer) was when it heard it. And even then with an accuracy rarely better than 10m.
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  549. Going on about IQ is a sure sign someone really doesn't bother with interesting thoughts. There was a time dad tried "IQ tests" for amusements, but he grew bored with them being so repetitively constructed; in particular, many were written by someone with a fixation on letters in words, to the exclusion of their actual meaning.
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  550. May I see your easy quicksort using a for loop?
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  551.  @glorytoarstotzka330  Let me provide a clearer example than the quicksort I already mentioned, then. You've surely heard of "mapreduce". That's a contraction of two of the most basic building blocks of functional programming; map and reduce. Map is parallelizable. Reduce also is when using an associative merge operation. That's why they're used for big data. This parallel reduction is a tree based traversal, fundamentally recursive. Essentially recursion is usable for any place you loop, and essential for processing any tree structure, for instance the abstract syntax trees of program compilation. It's possible to move the data of intermediate steps other places than the call stack (some clearly insist it's required), but that's essentially performing another task from FP, the closure. Tail call optimization is when you observe there is no such data so you can remove the intermediate return, and that transforms some recursive loops to iterative loops. Note that these examples do not involve repeated calls; that's a degenerate case (typically exemplified with naïve Fibonacci) frequently shown to promote memoization, an optimization applicable to pure functions.
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  552. Is the purpose of the painful font to mane people look away from the slides or have to struggle to read them?
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  553. ​ @austinwilburn1772  It absolutely is. Being in uniform implies representing the authority, and thus the crime reflects on the force. Pretty sure there's some law in the books about that, like willful violation or breach of duty. It's a distinct crime from the theft.
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  554. I more wish Samsung weren't so enthusiastic about arbitrarily shaped screens they sacrificed the main point of this feature phone. The big screen notch is crazy.
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  555. Note: Asking ChatGPT to check its work is not making ChatGPT check its work. ChatGPT is far lazier than you, and will blandly assume its own output was correct for no more reason than having said it.
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  556. Simon's Cat in "Cat Man Do" is only mildly exaggerated: https://youtu.be/w0ffwDYo00Q
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  557. XKCD 667.
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  558. With those numbers, probably precision. E.g. fp64 can do that for about the first 100 numbers.
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  559. The short of it is: Because Microsoft don't care. They'll brag for days about how they do extensive testing, try to adjust code for every eventuality, etc, but atomic switching of udpates has been well known technology for many decades and they just don't care to do it. Compare e.g. NixOS which can absolutely have an update that takes ages but never interrupts the user. Microsoft just refuse to do that even on their consoles where the software platform is deliberately controlled. It also isn't that their update procedure is so unstructured; you can capture all of that and build a transaction, as demonstrated by STM. It's a less efficient way to do it, requiring name spaces and snapshots, but that's also old hat - and they've built those for functions like driver rollbacks (system restore points) and running multiple browser versions (by VMs). FreeBSD made file system changes in general do this with the soft-update system, again decades ago. System updating is typically I/O bound, not CPU or RAM bound (though Microsoft's malware service sure tends to eat a lot of those resources too).
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  560. Fun fact: Haskell has otherwise defined as True, to make series of pattern guards read consistently.
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  561. I had a look at Mars this Tuesday night, during the full moon (yeah, only time for weeks we had clear skies). Sure was pretty and round. I wish I had a telescope mount to make out more detail.
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  562.  @CallousCoder  Japanese is verb last. "Add two and three" translates to "2 と 3 を加算します" (according to google translate). Also, the numerals we use (along with the word algebra) are inherited from Arabic, written right to left. Plenty of orderings are in use.
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  563. That's an empty tuple inside a parenthesis. What's bizarre?
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  564. I think it's really cool. It's 2-dimensional not just because it covers a square, but because it does so exactly; at that angle, no part of the sierpinski tetrahedron covers up another, like they always do in a solid.
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  565. @Mirko Z They are squares, not bars. As the slogan says: "praktisch, quadrätisch, gut"
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  566. That's silly. Why harm the resale value when you can simply unplug it?
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  567. ​​ @speedytruck  As long as Firefox keeps automatically installing binaries designed specifically to be out of my control (e.g. when you visit Dropbox), I wouldn't be so keen on unspecified and uninspected updates from their end particularly in a privacy context.
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  568.  @nuk1964  Technically you could run recursive code, but only by painstakingly implementing a stack in your recursive routines instead of the usual deposit return address. It's actually worse on some architectures that do have a hardware stack, because they're not always accessible by other means than call and return.
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  569.  @kelly4187  Looks like Nebula is the main option now? There's a bewildering array of different but not differentiated services.
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  570. Also two layers of deceit (hiding from the kid, and blaming the kid) specifically to cover up the home invasion (not sure what the titles for those are, some kind of fraud), and making that insane false claim of ownership is one or two other crimes in itself. Obviously falsely claiming the authority on what the law is, but likely also some form of theft (not quite typical adverse possession). They explicitly abused their positions (both physical and as LEO).
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  571.  @jamesnew8170  Those numbers appear to lead to some laws on research procedures. Are you trying to claim this was a study and the invaded people were test subjects?
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  572.  @jamesnew8170  USC 18 § 241 and 242 do seem to match. 19 appears to be a typo. Thank you for the clarification.
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  573. NewPipe has downloading. The only way where it isn't strictly better than Youtube's app is that it can't post comments. It also supports Peertube.
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  574. Wild orangutans have been known to use boats to go fishing and help humans with laundry.
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  575. A huge problem with copyright law is that it's designed for exploiters, not sharers. Only the license granters, i.e. copyright holders, can sue over violations (this is why e.g. FSF ask you to sign over contributions), and then they can often only sue for damages, which are astronomical when dishonestly calculated by record companies but negligible here because the law goes "what would they have had to pay for it". The actual harmed parties, e.g. people who can't use their devices despite them relying on software that was supposed to respect user freedom, have no recourse. This is very closely related to right to repair.
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  576. Sadly, Windows hasn't been about technology development - ever, as far as I can tell. It remains about market dominance, and recently transitioned to a model of bloated spyware and advertisement, which you keep paying top dollar for. Meanwhile we get to enjoy side effects like how the GPD Win Max 2 doesn't turn its fan off during suspend (half the time it goes full speed instead), or how the password is now renamed a PIN because I have a fingerprint sensor. Oddly, Microsoft do make scattered contributions elsewhere. It's just fascinating how the good stuff never makes it into their products, like transactional file system updates to install patches in the background. The primary upside of Windows is work on making it backwards compatible, which is a mess on its own; the settings you get access to in a PIF or LNK just scratch the surface, and that those two are different systems is just one example of how inconsistent it all is. But then it's super frequently wasted as software just breaks down when your screen is bigger than 1024 pixels, or drive bigger than 2GiB, etc etc.
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  577. Yeah, Microsoft converting Windows to a tracking ad platform is one of the more user hostile things in recent days. I recommend free software like Debian; while they have their growing pains, it's a culture based on cooperation rather than exploitation. (Lots of bickering around too, but some genuine problem solving.)
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  578. Savoir-faire Linux. You're welcome.
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  579.  @BrunodeSouzaLino  And here we see the trick to the self-fulfilling prophecy of "noone can give me a satisfactory explanation": you're the sole arbiter of satisfaction and decided, sight unseen, not to be satisfied. It's made easier by not explaining your expectations, so you can stake out new goal posts every time any attempt occurs. Monad comes from greek, same root as mono. In APLs monadic functions take one argument. It's the same in Haskell, used to thread one singular state through an ordered chain of functions and/or actions. We can use them to make decisions about computation, like how Maybe or Either can shortcut (replacing exceptions), STM can retry, and IO can interact and delay. IO does that by leaving the confines of pure computation. Lifting out only the parts that need it is one of the benefits of the monad, and another is to indicate where these actions are possible. Personally I enjoy the fact that Haskell teaches me terminology for concepts that were harder to consider without names.
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  580. So, I see notifications for this thread suggesting I probably replied to it at some time, but whatever that was is missing. Most of the other replies appear to be in response to other vanished posts. Youtube being youtube, clearly.
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  581. ​ @hayden.A0 Probably the X Window System, which unified and network enabled graphical user interfaces, maintaining the ability to run lower cost terminals with a central computer. As for the "horror", probably more FUD than experience.
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  582. At 3:32 an image is shown of the primary mirror sizes of Webb and Hubble telescopes, while what's stated is about field of view. The mirror or aperture size affects light gathering efficiency and available resolution, not field of view, which is at the other end - a conceptual area on the celestial sphere. Checking NASA's overview comparison, the >15x factor is indeed field of view, while the mirror area factor is more like 6.25x. Both telescopes have a variety of instruments with distinct fields of view (some of which aren't even contiguous).
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  583. The fuel drop is essentially smashed by the air pushing it into the engine, because the engine side suddenly loses pressure. Fascinating.
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  584. ​ @pauls5745  You seem to have several reference errors. DMCA is not an organization, and you refer to accused pages, not offending ones.
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  585. Except there's no reason for me to pay tithes to Dolby or HDMI. I already have ambisonics, object based audio, simulated rooms, HRTFs and headlocked audio. I reckon the reason they won't tell me what Atmos adds is because it's not to my advantage.
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  586. It can work great, as long as the cat agrees. For instance, dad knew a cat who would not only use the toilet but flush it when he was done; but you couldn't teach him to close the fridge after himself. He just didn't see the point.
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  587. And what if you're familiar with the more complete rules that do show the implicit multiplication has a higher priority than the division? Or the ones where parenthesis after a value mean function application? Turns out TI's half-century production isn't the end-all authority on how math has been applied for the last three centuries. The expression is the equivalent of "stir the the liquids in the bowl" - it doesn't have specific meaning without context.
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  588. The brackets form a block, which is a valid statement. It just ran after the for loop.
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  589. @ That the body of the loop is empty doesn't stop the loop from running, which counts i up to 5. The value of an iterating variable is frequently used after a loop e.g. to report where something was found, or if it was not. Python added else to for loops for that sort of check.
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  590. 6:45 Hey, you got some absolutely brilliant B-roll there if you want to demonstrate rolling shutter aliasing (wobblycam), caused by (inevitably) resonant mounting of the camera!
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  591. Advertisers are primary offenders in many categories; data collection, actively lying to people, profiling people, and insane accusations. However, we must recognize these wrongs are perpetrated by other parties too, many of which hide behind others; e.g. the "data brokers" that are reselling contact information stolen via other collectors. Don't just block the ads, block the tracking, including in legislature. Remember, Google (who own Youtube here) never consider reductions in tracking. For Youtube, video streaming hasn't been their primary service for ages; it is bait.
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  592. Some steganographic options, yes, but that was just one sample delivery method.
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  593. Mapping this sort of thing is what a message sequence chart is for.
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  594. @artificialintelligencecoder Oddly, Rust have deprecated std::sync::Semaphore, with less motivation than when Python hid reduce. There are other tools available that would fit the task, like RwLock for the reindeer count, Mutex for the elf count, mpsc for santa's rest and Barrier for waking up the reindeer or elves from their respective rooms (Condvar is the one that could have led to the described race condition bug). A semaphore is similar in function to an asynchronous mpmc with empty messages. A variety of other libraries ("crates") also implement semaphores.
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  595. @RUSTisGOD The only part of the problem that Rust variant paid any attention to was waking santa. It doesn't have him interact with elves or reindeer, it doesn't have elves queue to join the panic room, etc. It guarantees the reindeer are already on vacation again when santa wakes up, for instance, and can count one reindeer as all 9 required to wake santa. And it's overserialized too. It's not a great look to be a frantic boot licker, even less so when it's your own boots.
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  596.  @GreyZone7  I assume you copied tripe from a search engine, because the only thing they have in common is sleep.
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  597. @RUSTisGOD One run is not a proof of correctness, particularly when race conditions are involved. What you have is a Santa who finds traces of activity, e.g. a record of which elves have already left the panic room (possibly some straggler is still on his way out), or how many times any reindeer has come in (they leave immediately). You also have elves just give up on even entering the panic room. There's even a risk of deadlock if santa clears elf_help_ready before all the elves get out of the panic room. Try having them say when they're out too, not just in, or having one reindeer take extremely long vacations, to expose some of the issues.
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  598. @RUSTisGOD The code speaks for itself indeed. And you do not.
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  599. @RUSTisGOD With the way you've acted on other channels, you really should have a chat with your guardian about the difference between tomfoolery and harassment. If you don't, you'll eventually be having that conversation with law enforcement.
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  600. How much are you offering? He is a paid liar in the first place, so you'll have to outbid his other options.
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  601. So exactly like how Lego motors will twitch when overloaded.
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  602.  @Stszelec01  Please explain your reasoning. How does making the device harder to use make it more attractive?
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  603.  @Stszelec01  Not making much sense there, but sure. How many people would have not bought an iPhone if it could be used right away like any other phone instead of requiring activation using iTunes?
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  604.  @pikachulovesketchup666  I believe I wrote my comment in the context of the compiler itself crashing. You're right that varying optimization can expose different program behaviours when the behaviour is undefined in the first place. Sadly often that type of bug relates to CPU bugs the compiler doesn't know to work around.
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  605. ​ @BrunoBarcelosAlves Whilst that is true, the naming and explicit description came later as a response to overzealous application of the simpler PEMDAS description. It wasn't very needed before as people would read articles with the intent of understanding rather than going "Ha! That's wrong, my non-mathematician teacher said so!"
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  606. The core issue with this idea is that it's just as unreliable at understanding system prompts as any other. All boundaries remain fuzzy as all interpretations are.
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  607. Other devices exist. E.g. TPM modules, payment terminals, door locks.
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  608. They did. It's the part left of the hyphen.
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  609. They haven't, they're simply niche. SwissMicros have a few lovely models; the DM11L might look familiar.
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  610. The fine print on signing up for Chat GPT say you're responsible for any use you make of its output and no veracity guarantee exists. You know, just like any other fine print, the absolute disclaimer is the first thing they put in. Then come the restrictions telling you you're not allowed to do things.
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  611. Not "still". They're each freshly indoctrinated and most of them picked this position because it is wrong. It's more important to them to be opposed than right or sensible.
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  612.  @johnflynn-pk2mk  I wouldn't be surprised if they add the 3rd, 6th, 7th, and 11th to the list, somehow.
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  613.  @WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle  You're very gleeful about that human rights violation, aren't you?
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  614. ​ @sputukgmail Except Apple didn't throttle by power capacity, they throttled by age. It was very much planned obsolescence by sabotage. Actual power adjustments are also a little older than that; it was the major advantage of DEC's core memory over IBM's, adjusting power by temperature instead of using power to control temperature.
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  615.  @sputukgmail  They throttled ostensibly based on a curve that was supposed to represent statistical battery behaviour - ignoring both that the curve wasn't derived from the battery installed in the phone, and that it didn't get to a point that would require throttling. It's not for stability, though it does slow the discharge, so there's a kernel of truth to the longevity claim.
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  616. You mean as in XKCD 882?
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  617. Atomics do not always need to be serialized. For instance, if we're anding a bunch of values with the same memory location, we can coalesce the values together to one operation when the memory read arrives, since the result is order independent (the operation is associative). We only need the serialized form if the atomic operation included reading back, like taking tickets for a queue. In OpenMP parlance, this program uses an atomic update with relaxed ordering. Sometimes these operations are also offloaded, so you can e.g. tell a Hybrid Memory Cube to update a value without ever reading it out of the RAM package.
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  618.  @tiarkrezar  There are limits, yes, but they're likely scaled to the number of threads. For instance, this coalescing might use CU-wide reduction logic, and serialize only if there are multiple addresses with contention within a SIMD group. E.g. for one write instruction, the GPU expects to create 16 writes, but 7 go to address A and 4 to address B; the first cycle enqueues the 6 to address A as one coalesced operation and the remaining 5 non-contentious as individual operations, then the second cycle enqueues address B as a coalesced operation. These operations might then be distributed to memory controller channels where the actual RAM reads and writes take place at some point. If it goes through cache lines (read-modify-write operations likely do), it's quite likely several of these operations hit the same cache lines before they're written back out to RAM. The sieve program is likely limited by the write command rate, similar to the fill rate for graphics, and won't need to run the compute units at boost frequencies.
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  619. The message from the keyboard to the computer doesn't tell the computer to check what was pressed, typically. The message sent already holds that information. From the CPU's perspective, keypresses are very rare, and spending time looking for them there would make little sense, particularly as switching tasks is quite costly. The interrupt allows it to jump to the keyboard handling routine only when the keyboard has sent new information.
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  620. Yep, this tradeoff between polling and interrupts does exist! Interrupts cause a context switch, which involves saving some state and jumping to another routine, possibly waking up a CPU that was sleeping entirely. Spinning the CPU on a single task can achieve faster reaction times on many, but not all, processors (the exceptions tend to have hardware contexts, like SPARC register windows, ARM fast interrupts or XMOS threads). The point I was making is that the CPU receives the interrupt when the message has arrived; it is not involved while the keyboard is transferring, and does not need a round trip to interrogate the keyboard. It's more like the mail man leaves the note at the desk you're already working than you answering the bell. (On PS/2, there's a high risk the CPU is fast enough to switch back and forth for each byte, which can get costly as many messages are several bytes long.)
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  621. Pole drivers also use impact technology, for example in the InSight mole probe digging into Mars.
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  622. I think perhaps the clearest practical example to point to is Facebook's Haxl, used to implement their spam filters. It effectively combines and batches data requests without complicating the rules code that needs the data. Another impressive monad is STM (software transactional memory), which allows reliable lock-free multithreaded shared mutable state (the horror!) by joining parts of a program into retryable transactions that can execute speculatively. But the fact that there are many minor monads (such as ListM, Maybe, Either, Min, Max etc) is what proves the value of the monad concept in itself.
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  623.  @mjc0961  Which DRM free physical media are you talking about? Compact casettes? The "DRM" (used to be called "copy protection", another misleading marketing term - it always was sabotage) peddlers are so eager to sabotage media it's ubiquitous. Just because it's pathetic and defeated (like in DVD) is no reason to pay for it.
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  624. It's not their goal to bring a sound stage anywhere, it's to bring money to their company, via the convenient method of adding a virtual middle man: Make creators pay to deliver products in a form that can't be reasonably consumed without paying again.
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  625. It might save time on a blackboard. In an editor, not so much, and words are both more distinct and descriptive.
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  626. Ad nauseam. Literally.
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  627.  @alazarbisrat1978  What makes this remarkable is that the entire purpose of this product and company is to address that QA neglect. They've demonstrated they're among the worst at the one thing they're claiming to do better.
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  628.  @alazarbisrat1978  You're misreading my comment. I said this particular neglect is remarkable because the specific purpose of their product is to address that kind of neglect. This is a safety net that self-ignited on top of being made from tissue paper. That there's a whole industry out there that refuses to consider fabric because tissue paper is cheaper doesn't really help their case.
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  629. I'd have made a sample for you about now if the TwoEyes kickstarter delivered.. as it is, I'm pondering whether an Insta360 Evo might be worth getting. The short of it is, the Looking Glass's 3D light field display is flawed, in the same manner as stereoscopy itself, but places the resolution tradeoff differently (about 40 angular steps instead of 2). The result is pretty cool.
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  630. FFUpdater has quite a list, but I'm not sure which might be reliable. F-Droid has been flagging Mull for security concerns worryingly.
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  631. Climate Town recently posted a video on this particular idiocy of USA development, titled Parking Laws Are Strangling America. This happens to be rather direct harm.
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  632. Some people will turn around and pay later, too. E.g. I used FastLynx as a kid, when I couldn't even get a credit card. I purchased it as an adult.
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  633. ​ @Tugela60  It is absolutely and fundamentally sabotage, independent of what Orqa have rights to or not. There are companies that specialize in this sort of sabotage, like Denuvo and FlexLM. But two wrongs don't make a right, and normalizing wrong doesn't make it right either. Remember the victims here are end users, not party to either scheme (whether white-washed as an "agreement" or snuck in).
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  634. Spoken like a PLC programmer. Did you notice that recursion is literally one of the four control structures listed at the top of the wikipedia article on structured programming? The logical argument method is called induction, and the call structure of this particular example is a binary tree. The call stack is a usable stack. CPython doesn't inline functions (PyPy might). Understanding recursion, and applying it to problems using inductive reasoning, is the power he refers to. You don't need to spend time reworking a task of this size into machine cycle optimized form; it is far more important that the result be correct.
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  635.  @artit91  You know that's a lie. It's an unmeetable challenge of conspiracy theorist type; you're convinced, even though your own suggestion was the same algorithm (only went "a stack" instead of "the call stack").
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  636.  @artit91  It's an allocated chunk of memory like any other, with limits you can know and adjust. You're just fooling yourself if you imagine heap allocation can't run out. Everything is context dependent and any program that runs is stateful. Asserting an algorithm with O(n) stack requirements, unlikely to be more than 24 bytes per disc, will run out (when we've already demonstrated there's a telling error if it were to happen, that doesn't happen until 1000 deep) is simply premature optimization.
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  637.  @artit91  That's almost fully mistaken. The stack is the simplest, most fundamental form of dynamic memory allocation; it uses one pointer, with one side being free memory and the other occupied. alloca() can therefore just change the stack pointer, relying on the frame pointer to restore it, while functions not using dynamic allocation on the stack (like alloca or dynamically sized automatic arrays) can outright omit the frame pointer. malloc's heap allocation, by contrast, requires tracking at least two pieces of information per chunk of memory; size and if it's free. Added to this is often a heap size which may or may not be dynamic (program break). On top of that it requires the appropriate search algorithms to transfer, split and merge chunks, and will handle fragmentation (when you can't allocate a size that is free, because the free memory is divided by allocated memory). The advantage is that you can free things in arbitrary order. For machines without an MMU, stack placement is trivial; you place static allocations at one end of memory and start the stack pointer at one end of the remaining free space. The heap is frequently statically sized, such that a stack exhaustion is when the stack and heap meet. Often it is assumed that they never will meet, so there's no overhead checking for it, which an MMU would otherwise assist with. The stack is so simple and fundamental it exists even on some computers that don't support indirect memory addressing in the first place, like PIC10. What does typically complicate matters is multithreading, when you need more than one stack. That's why we have calls like pthread_attr_setstacksize, so you can allocate a suitable size for threads depending on their task.
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  638.  @artit91  You're back to repeating your mistaken assumptions. Your "dangerous" line isn't even a proper sentence. Look up the MAP_GROWSDOWN flag sometime.
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  639.  @lunarobinson2169  That's when the typescript compiler (with tsc --target) comes in handy to convert your scripts to older versions of ecmascript. The default output is the oldest supported (ES3), so should have wide compatibility anyhow. Numeric separators are rather new, from 12th edition, ECMAScript 2021. Side note, exponential format usually implies floating point. In Javascript that's no surprise because the spec expects it to be the only type of number, but in more strictly typed languages they must be converted to e.g. specify an array size.
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  640. ​ @illidur  The force from each booster must transfer through the attachment points to reach the center line. By aiming it that way in the first place, it doesn't try to tear the bottom attachment apart (as much).
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  641. Those look like downgrades from S5 to me.
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  642. Continuous refraction doesn't hide things (reflection could, occlusion does). It would not cause a horizon. Atmospheric refraction on a flat earth would cause land to appear to rise (even above eye level), and you would trivially see the end of the world. It's a trippy thought.
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  643. ​​​ @EwanMarshall  Sure there is! In this case, they quite obviously took the easy way of rating everything at maximum for AV, C, I and A with no regard for truth. If that's their best effort, I think their reputation should be affected. It has been confirmed since (see Stenberg's third blog update) that this fabricated scoring is NVD policy. This leaves it in the air whether MITRE or NVD did the inflation, but it's insane either way.
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  644. It's somewhat inaccurate. Packages do share dependencies, but they can have their own. So e.g. if I have three programs using one library they might all share, but that oddball package requiring a different version can have its own, without the library packager needing to do anything special. Theoretically it may go awry with things like dbus that is designed to fail across versions. The unreasonably large packages scenario is exactly what e.g. snap and docker do, where the dependency is something like "Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome" rather than "Gtk and GMP" and not even Ubuntu can share that with the installed system; it's a separate container image.
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  645.  @monkyyy0  Data locality is indeed very much a thing, particularly when dealing with cache behaviours but also in e.g. RAM row activation. It may only apply when that's the bottleneck you're dealing with, but understanding it can speed things up by orders of magnitude. In-memory and near-memory computing are active limit driven research fields.
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  646. The real secret to how it's not as dangerous is in the last like of the Zen of Python (import this): "Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!" globals() actually gets you the dictionary of the module you're in. You might shadow builtin names, but that doesn't break them in other places.
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  647. ​ @Braiam I'd suggest Debian testing, but we do have our levels. Including experimental.
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  648. ​ @framegrace1 Stable is not immutable. We do fixes. That's what support is about.
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  649.  @RaphaelHauser  "Using AI", the catch-all magic incantation. Look up how well nvidia DLSS works; that's trained on a specific category of imagery. It's either going to go blurry smudge or adding detail that was never there, possibly mixing the two all over. An example a friend of mine encountered was a camera that would add moss to tree bark, because apparently that's how they should look according to its demosaic engine.
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  650. An unconditional block can be useful, e.g. to restrict the scope of a local variable or define parallel regions with OpenMP. They form full statements on their own, which leads to another wart in C: if you want a macro with a block inside to resemble a function call, you wrap it in do{ }while(0) to absorb a semicolon at the call site.
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  651. @ It was a PRNG seeding which was in reality initialized, but in trying to make it not mix in possibly uninitialized external entropy also, someone broke the inclusion of initial entropy. It went from fine but potentially undefined (but equally random) to critically flawed. And it looks like the critical failure wasn't even what the debugging tool warned about, merely resembled it. And there was already a setting available to prevent the warning. Quite the mess.
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  652.  @BitTheByte  Would you be less confused if we used libre, or capitalized Free Software (as in the Free Software Foundation)? The term refers to user freedoms, not price. "Open source" was coined later, with a definition based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, specifically to avoid mentioning freedoms. Which doesn't even matter in this discussion, because the point was who the offensive party is.
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  653. Really, every place that uses these words except in english has the proper ("long") meaning. It just came down to misinformed US people being obstinate. The asian systems tend to be based around 10000, which coincides nicely with the myriad. For instance japanese man, oku, chou, kei for powers 1-4 of 10ˆ4.
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  654.  @sdasda7777  FWIW, a filter in Haskell is typically fused into some other operation and reads only what's needed. E.g. «print . take 5 . filter odd $ [1..]» performs 9 odd checks, even though both sides of the filter are infinite.
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  655. They would detect electrically which sort of port they were connected to; PS/2 ports pull both data and clock lines up with a resistor, while USB ports pull their D- and D+ lines down (and detect low or full speed by which line is pulled up first by a device). So the microcontroller in the mouse would switch to PS/2 mode if it saw a high level. If it didn't, it would try pulling one line up to start the USB device connection sequence. There also exist rare active converters, which contain their own microcontroller (or even ASIC, but less likely) to talk both protocols.
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  656. Persecution by prejudice.
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  657.  @a4000t  Still weird how these tales always omit that recklessly impatiently driven cars are the danger.
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  658. That's a fairly recent addition (Windows 10 anniversary update, perhaps). It used to require an addon driver (in MS-DOS it was called ANSI.SYS).
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  659. This reminds me of how the MIT Handy Board relocated code. Since it reused the external RAM bus for the LCD, the display routine was copied into internal RAM and executed from there.
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  660. It's one thing that Bambu are incompetent at security (deliberately so where they refuse to patch). It's another they choose to make their efforts anti-consumer. They used to have a decent reputation, now I doubt they ever will again.
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  661. The fucking locked door to the car already happens*. Rental companies have locked cars *in use and actively and knowingly prevented emergency service. The particular tale I recall was remarkably insane, involving a baby stuck in a remotely locked car with the mother outside, and that car blocking access for a separate ambulance emergency.
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  662. Ever heard of the GDPR? It's not the first of its kind. It already makes e.g. tracking someone using some shrinkwrap license as an excuse illegal. Unfortunately, the worst offenders regularly get away with it by claiming "testing" or "accidentally left enabled".
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  663. That rage part of your brain might never have been to your advantage. Look up the effects of toxoplasmosis; the rage and lack of fear is very useful for the parasite toxoplasma gondii to make rodents get eaten by cats, its preferred host.
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  664. Calmly? Many of them outright prefer frenzies.
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  665. The kind of quality where he lies about discussing or researching a topic he's making assertions about.
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  666. I can recall a purchase I made based on a relevant ad. I purchased the mod mat from Gamers' Nexus. This has nothing to do with the IAB, as the advertisement was not a sold one but a first party segment (skippable, unlike e.g. the propaganda in DVDs). It's vastly different from the sold ad spots which try to hold me captive, immediately scream at me, usually lie throughout and bear no relevance. I was already interested in getting an antistatic work surface, though I didn't know earlier GN made them. The ad showed and described the product. In contrast, I recently made the decision I'm not getting an LG OLED TV after all, because of their subscription plans. I want to own my devices. I also want to maintain them, like replacing the battery before it explodes.
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  667. It's not even a search engine; it's an automated bullshitter. Just try to get a reply of "I don't know" three times out of it.
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  668. The 2:23 illustration is wrong; the string on the left side should go over the side and under the top of the clip's ring (or, from the bottom, through the ring from the outside, just like the right string). As drawn, it requires a strong vertical kink, and the illustration is supposed to show how it can go through while barely touching the ring. The illustration at 3:00 is correct (but missing the string pulling part, making the pattern on the strings misleading).
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  669. I'd say it's significant that Amazon are profiting off the scams and deleting reports of the issues.
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  670. Usually they just plagiarize someone else's comments. And Youtube don't care; reports just hide the entry momentarily.
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  671. Note that the egregious overreach from Adobe isn't the new part - only the attention.
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  672. Then it cannot be evaluated, as the evaluation would turn into an infinite loop. The expression can still exist, though.
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  673. We already have the next 3 generations of transfer protocols - USB 3.1, Thunderbolt 3 and USB 4, up to 40Gbps - using the USB Type C connector. However, nothing stops anyone from making a USB 2 speed device with a type C connector, so you'll absolutely have Apple claiming this just forces them to make thicker devices for no benefit, just because they choose not to support even USB 3.0's 5Gbps. Side note, the USB 3.1 specification summarized USB speeds as ~32MB/s for USB 2, 450MB/s for USB 3. That 60 number is not a possibility in the protocol and the link rates are before overheads such as 8b10b encoding.
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  674. The buzzword always was.
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  675. It's a mixed bag regarding storage. Those snapshots must be stored somewhere. On the other hand, Ubuntu doesn't package some core applications like Firefox but instead requires duplicate copies of their dependencies managed by Snap. The main upsides with NixOS for you might be that you can roll back updates and updates don't need to interrupt you. I find Ubuntu's popups saying "close this program, I want to update it" rather dumb, particularly when it doesn't do the update if I follow the instructions.
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  676.  @linuxgeex  Any system with saturation where x is positively saturated, really. More so in a modulo 1 ring. This isn't a nightmare for mathematicians, it's a rather simple puzzler. Another classic is, where can you walk a mile north, a mile east, then a mile south, and end up where you started? Hint: there's more than one such place.
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  677. The Clash HDL has some convenient handling of clock domains.
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  678. Bingo; wikipedia calls them button accordions.
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  679. If you meet way more librarians than farmers, isn't that evidence that the farmers are more likely to match the "shy and withdrawn" qualifier? :P
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  680.  @trise2033  Ah, the wonders of mixed continuities. Thanks.
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  681. Technically correct, but that disguise is a type of fraud.
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  682. Yes, HP is among the companies that purchased automated telephone systems specifically to piss customers off. They just want to be a bit more explicit about it now.
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  683. You don't normally load things in random places. 6502 programs likely start at 200h, past the zero page and stack. The linker would have placements built in or in a linker script, and the machine monitor accepts specified addresses.
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  684.  Trebuchet  Conveniently, he may be both! It's so much easier to keep up appearances if you believe the crap you're spouting. It's more of a habit than something with practical effects on his life. Don't expect him to pick up any navigation skills.
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  685. Indeed, but 2^2=2*2=4, so you're better off with 22. Not that I'm bothering to actually solve this.
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  686. It's not that they make more NPUs than they can use - it's that they want you to pay for their spying.
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  687. ... that "quantum leap" misappropriated expression never ceases to amuse. It literally means the smallest possible change.
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  688. ​​ @BeatmasterAC  Hwbusters stock speed measured Max GPU Peak Power: 618.83W The 40 series is some sort of transient power torture test. Abrupt jumps of over 200W difference don't play well with switch mode power supplies.
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  689. ​ @BeatmasterAC  Averaged over what window?
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  690. No, by design. That would impede the plagiarism.
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  691. That's entirely movie FUD. You're not less liable just because you lie about it. It only means you have to get sued before justice is an option.
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  692.  @TheScarvig  The reason we pay such attention to tail recursion is that it allows tail call optimization, which is replacing your stack frame with the last call in your function. That can only be done if the return value of your function and your last embedded call is the same. If the tail call is a recursive call, the combination transforms the recursive function to an iteratively looping subprogram. You can perform tail call optimization on mutable array reference quicksort (the original), but it doesn't really gain you anything of note because it only changes the last call; quicksort normally branches into two recursive calls. That said, you could also transform it into a single tail recursive call by having an argument hold the state you used to hold on the stack; i.e. a list of the sublists yet to be sorted.
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  693. Best as I can tell, because they want you to accept scams. Most of the report options are purely fake, so the only reason they wouldn't include the category is to pretend it doesn't exist.
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  694. Such engineering, prompting a system that won't be around next week and is specifically designed to not be reproducible.
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  695. A lovely sentiment, but not very accurate as a description of ChatGPT's actions. Its job is to produce a reply, not request clarifications. Basically, overextending its understanding is its core function.
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  696.  @johnfitzgerald8879  Not sure why you're discussing a spatula, but my point is that this flowery description shows that GPT doesn't understand its own behaviour. You end up with three options: It's unaware of what it's saying, it's unaware of what it's doing, or it's utterly hypocritical (with no care for accuracy). None of these are particularly insightful behaviours. I'm leaning towards it having a very tenuous concept of what it's saying, none of itself, and none of truth.
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  697.  @johnfitzgerald8879  So, your first note attributed properties to GPT it clearly does not have. Your second shoved in oblique references like "there" without context. And the third demonstrates a failure to comprehend (that wasn't what I was talking about, it's obvious it doesn't), and a bunch of asinine veiled insults. Thanks for demonstrating your interest in productive conversation is less than GPT's, I guess.
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  698.  @johnfitzgerald8879  My apologies. I'll add distinguishing corrections from insults to the list of things you don't want to do.
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  699. Or a classic video game.
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  700.  INERT  Coin flip Earth would sure be convenient! No need for those pesky time zones, because everything would rise and set at the same time everywhere, including the sun. Of course, it would also be structurally impossible and involve a lot of sideways falling, but who wouldn't make that trade off?
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  701. "Security check" more accurately described as "manufacturer sabotage". How about we not allow those?
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  702. There is no cloud. It's at best someone else's computer. Just as "smart" means incomplete (usually lacking basic controls), "cloud" means incomplete and inaccessible.
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  703. Likely not on a device that's already been hit. They did specify the sabotage was boot loader level, so before any user accessible menus to fix it.
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  704. A normal cylinder (reel) mower does use shearing, with a fixed bottom blade and helical rotating top blades. Your motorized rotary mower operates more like a scythe.
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  705. Short of it: Yes, it's bad. Lenovo take money and spend it on harming customers. For instance, their computers refuse to work if you put a different brand wifi board in. This isn't because they lack drivers or anything, it's just some preemptive sabotage.
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  706. I don't think you're cray. I think you're suffering from sanity, and doing a better job than Wonko the Sane at healing the world. Rest in peace, Douglas Adams.
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  707. It still works for me; I had to disable it to dismiss a popup, but could turn it back on after that. The symptom was that the video would keep pausing itself.
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  708. USB C can offer the functionality of most of those... but it's a bloody mess guessing which it actually does for a given device or port. For instance, my laptop can't charge through that Apple HDMI adaptor this video rightly says to avoid.
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  709. That's not my understanding of an l value in C, which is something assignable. The l/r is for whether an expression can be on the left (destination) side of an assignment. (x:=(y:=3)) is valid, but ((x:=y):=3) raises SyntaxError: cannot use assignment expressions with named expression. A language could choose to makee the latter valid, but Python doesn't, probably because overwriting the value you just assigned within the same expression looks like a mistake.
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  710. The producers of chatgpt are promoting it for all uses, largely through training it to do the promotion, so they can pretend it wasn't their claims. Its primary function is automated plagiarism and its goal isn't to be accurate but to respond. Actual traceability would be counter to that primary function, so don't expect it to produce references reliably.
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  711. I literally tried to pay them, long before they introduced premium. They proceeded to refuse me the service for about two years after creating it, then when at last I could pay they didn't deliver, but elected to insult my family. Meanwhile they escalated the abuse section by an order of magnitude. The problem is not payment.
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  712. But my GPD Win 2 fits in my pocket - and has type A as well.
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  713. Betteridge's law of headlines.
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  714.  @davidgoodnow269  That spying on you is typically rightly illegal, regardless of what fantasies they dump in their "EULA". Just because you can make a profit doesn't make every venture acceptable.
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  715. It's cute how people keep telling others to use currencies where the complete audit trail is entirely public for anonymity.
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  716. Bullies latch on to completely arbitrary factors to define their in and out groups. Looking, moving or speaking differently just happen to be the easiest attributes to notice. Sometimes they just make things up, so there's really no avoiding it. Just dismiss it as the uncivilized and uncouth behaviour it is.
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  717. Maybe the solution to poor profit margins isn't spending more money on making the product worse.
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  718.  @jackmclane1826  The product is worse; it has added failure modes. I understand the anti customer perspective exists, where this failure mode is intended to extort the customer, but a product broken by sabotage is still a broken product. Defective by design.
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  719. The patent is expired, which is the optimal state in patent law; anyone may use it without fear. This is what patents are meant for. However, management is typically idiots and will refuse to make a new product line without a new patent, fearing competition from cheaper copies. Thus noone makes a good toaster because everyone knows how.
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  720. By instating a government that considers people and does a full reversal of DMCA and its ilk, making DRM illegal rather than holy. DRM means any customer, witting or not, is paying to be abused.
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  721. In this case, I think Lenovo may well have been doing it longer than Apple. And it was always hostile behaviour.
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  722. The hardware is actually reasonably interesting. Microsoft's goals with it are just abhorrent.
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  723. Because a hypothetical scenario forcing him to use coal for survival does what to any of his arguments exactly? Or did you just want to publicize a coal burning fetish, and "this guy" was irrelevant?
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  724. Alternative: for x in iter(y, None):
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  725. Just and Nothing are two constructors for Maybe types, so you can consider it the tag of a tagged union if you wish. Unlike a tagged union in C, the association is in the type system for the compiler to understand, so you can't try to read a value out of a Nothing.
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  726. Much of the really cool stuff from them went into Intel (networking) and AMD (e.g. Slot A). Their history is fascinating, including outperforming IBM in miniaturisation and efficiency and naming the PDP to evade restrictions. Oh, and the DEC Bitsy is the archetype for our modern handheld computers (later marketed as iPAQ), a variation of the Itsy, an ARM-powered microserver.
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  727. My question was "why is this guy yelling at me?"
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  728.  @phiefer3  Could you elaborate on "something like Java that will sidestep the overflow issue"? Java appears to be one of the languages that specifically don't handle overflows. Compare e.g. Zig's @addWithOverflow, which exists because overflows normally throw an error, and in addition you can use widths wider than your CPU types. The Java spec states "The integer operators do not indicate overflow or underflow in any way." and "Despite the fact that overflow, underflow, or other loss of information may occur, a narrowing primitive conversion never results in a run-time exception."
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  729. If instructed to, yes. That function is actually from MPUs, one of the predecessors of modern MMUs.
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  730. ASUS extorting their own customers by creating problems none of them wanted. In short, business as usual. Can we change what's usual please?
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  731. The sheer number of models listed on their website is a huge red flag for me. It doesn't look like product development but a misdirection scheme.
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  732. It doesn't really target novelty either. It simply goes with the flow, and if you're specific enough you just might end up with a chunk of unaltered training data. Which the producers of the LLM generally have no license for.
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  733. No. Much more terrified that people are selling a product well known to hallucinate (it does not understand falsehood or knowing, so cannot knowingly tell falsehood) as panacea and more people don't even listen to the caveats, just preach and use it as infallible. The concern is reasonable but this system is far more basic.
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  734. This is taboo, having nothing to do with socialism. Picking out phrases or words to be banned. Incidentally, the taboo tribe does it to avoid naming the dead. That might be very close to another term that triggers some. The result was a continually contorting language filled with ridiculous euphemisms, something English also is rich in; e.g. "tired and confused".
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  735. That's the threshold between an electric assist bicycle and an electric moped. Both are sensible tools.
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  736. ​ @sofiedotcafe  There is indeed value in that. I switched to Debian because the text based package manager state was fixable with a text editor, unlike RPM. Similarly the installer permits you to do mix manual and automated steps, and the deb packages themselves can be handled with ar and tar.
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  737. ​ @TheZabbiemaster  Packages are containers for system components; not just programs, e.g. notepad, but libraries, e.g. direct3d, drivers, data such as timezones, keyboard mappings, and UI text in various languages, documentation and so on. The point of a package system is to track these components so you can install, remove or upgrade them. E.g. if the library handling WebM has a bug, we fix that package rather than everything that contains a web view separately. Linux distribution packages appear "many" compared to Windows for a few reasons. One is that Windows bundles them to crazy degrees, e.g. service packs, .NET framework, suites like Office. Note that the latter isn't included, and that's a reason for Microsoft to ensure what is included underperforms. Another is that Linux distributions unify the view; we have rough cuts like the Tasksel profiles, but rarely make no efforts to hide the full lists. Some distributions take different approaches, too, like not separating development sections from runtime parts, or platform specific binaries from shareable data. But the core answer is simpler. We have many packages because there are many users, developers and devices, and they all have choices. I don't have to stop using my SpaceOrb 360 just because Windows 11 exists.
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  738.  @outergod  This was at least a year before apt was developed.
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  739.  @leonardzamoldinov3822  The G in gnu is silent.
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  740. This isn't about security patches. This is a time bomb hostile message designed to evade testing.
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  741. This is a combination of references (all names in Python are references) and mutability (values that can be altered). This is different from e.g. BASIC where variables contain values, or C++ where the two are mixed. Which behaviour is surprising depends on your background.
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  742. Option is exactly the same feature as a nullable column, and SQL in particular has had the distinction essentially forever. These people specialize in handling other people's SQL databases and don't bother with column constraints (in this case, a unique foreign key).
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  743.  @appelnonsurtaxe  Is there a point arguing when you're talking to a straw man that believes assigning a value is magic? In your list, the point that related to SQL's capability was that nulls don't nest. That's because there's no obvious meaning to half-having nothing. The point where you claim fundamental data structuring (whether you spell it Maybe, Option or Not Null doesn't matter) has no relevance to a data breach in a database specialist's data handling... yeah, it may be irrelevant to your crusade on the word null. Not to the subject.
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  744. They can easily see the damage they do and why they are loathed - this "disconnect" is no more than a cheap PR trick. They are maliciously abusive.
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  745. Yes, the example expression format is in polish notation - without the reversal.
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  746. Do they? By their prevalence, it seems they're used to drive clicks on the report menu...
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  747.  @johnneale3105  OpenCSF looks like a pretty good start for an overview from a programming perspective. When it comes to details of how to implement with an instruction set, computer architecture courses will have a section on that, e.g. tS5L1l_TI08 on youtube. Philipp Hagenlocher's course Haskell for Imperative Programmers presents STM rather well. I don't have particular books to refer to; I learned more from reference materials than guides.
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  748. Is this a good place to recommend Lawful Masses with Leonard French? It typically features happy doggos near the end of the videos. :)
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  749. No, officer, the deafening air raid siren blaring at all hours in my front yard is not a disturbance, it's those pesky eavesdropping neighbours!
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  750. ​ @minilathemayhem ​ The point is that a 16-bit scalar can't fit every Unicode (UCS) code point; currently 17 times larger than that. UTF-16 applies multi-word techniques, in contrast to UCS-2, and for those who picked 16 bits to fit "everything" that tactic failed. There's still a range of code points that are more compact in UTF-16 than UTF-8, but it comes at the cost of endianness issues. Either way, we should not assume one code point represents one character; that's wrong for e.g. modified emoji (colours, nations etc) or decomposed accents.
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  751. I'm an extremist! I hold the extreme opinion that accusations do not imply (in the logical sense, i.e. prove) guilt, and that punishment, if used, should be scalable to relevance. For instance, I believe copying a music recording is less serious than murder, and fictional tales are less serious than direct abuse of people, even if drawn as pictures. Another of my questionable beliefs is that ideas for legislation should be weighed more by their societal effects than the income of the organisation that proposed them. I find it sad how the word "moderate" has been coopted in politics, by the way. Far less extreme is my opinion that Youtube ostensibly letting fraudsters (the biggest ad category here) set the rules is a bad idea. Always remember, the first target of marketers is the ad buyers. Their goal is profit for themselves, not their "clients". That's a con game itself, with the "DRM" business providing an egregious example (making products worse to allay induced fears, with only one winner - and that's not the publishers or authors).
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  752. I live in Stockholm, where it's hard to find a spot with fewer than three regularly maintained trash cans in plain sight. Despite this, people somehow pick one to totally overfill, and litter habitually, particularly smokers. I believe this cycle can be broken. Most people can learn to use bathrooms in just a few years, after all. But we still need to clean up after the ones who haven't learned, and set a decent example. It would be less of a burden if more contributed. Make a habit of leaving places just a little better.
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  753.  @Hystericall  Not just one. His "proper sabotage" leaves more evidence and complicates the attack.
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  754. So, a database vendor didn't bother to have a primary key constraint. And their whole thing is centralizing all your data for an SQL engine with the specialty of don't do that. And the big "scale to zero" innovation? That's inetd.
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  755. There's something to that. On repeated (unnecessarily so) reflection, I've concluded the ghost reindeer scenario could occur, but would not deadlock. It would occur by having other reindeer double count; going on vacation, coming back, and going back on vacation using the permission santa posted the prior cycle for the not-yet-awakened ghost reindeer. It's counting entrances, not reindeer present. This isn't what the video described, but it might be what the second, pay-walled paper notes.
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  756. The proposed "fix" doesn't fix this, it just groups reindeer unnecessarily into ones that didn't wake santa and ones that did. A proper fix might involve e.g. a cycle count for flow control or a two-way synchronization (like having santa wait for all reindeer to reach the sleigh). The proper synchronization type here was a barrier.
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  757. That objections could be justifiable doesn't automatically mean existing protests are justified. The key point is that protestors are operating by misinformation rather than any interest in finding out what could cause risks. This mob and FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) based approach is particularly good at targeting scientists, because scientists tend to examine questions, resulting in conditionals and qualifiers, and not produce the sort of absolute claims that preachers do. For many, someone with no clue what they're talking about that sounds certain will always trump someone who claims anything has complexity.
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  758. m and n are not Maybe Int, they're Int. This is because they were defined by patterns matching Maybe Int values x and y with Just m or Just n; Just being the constructor of a Maybe a (where a is some type, Int in this case). This type of pattern matching is an important part of Haskell which was used from early on in the video (where eval was defined distinctly for Val and Div cases).
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  759. ​ @EwanMarshall  And NVD assigned 9.8 critical based on not hearing from MITRE.
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  760. Imagine if an ink cartridge came with the original style antivirus - to just overwrite and disable the built in malware.
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  761. Operating systems are indeed written in particular styles; mostly state machine, but some higher algorithms in scheduling and memory management, with a focus on actual steps in hardware. While they likely won't have a mark and sweep style garbage collector, they will have reference counting and implicit priorities (e.g. which memory page can you discard when you need more? when do you run the work of wiping freed pages for reuse?). The key tends to be isolation; if you're mutating your state, make sure you're alone in accessing that state. If your work takes time, see if you can do it without interrupting other work. Side effects remain anathema; so make very clear where they exist, e.g. scheduling points. If your work doesn't take notable time, make sure to squeeze it in before you do the overhead of switching back to user space. OS developers thus focus on costs and risks that are often further from mind in functional styles, even if they're not necessarily less efficient at them. If we could have a class of drivers that operate entirely in STM with bounded RAM, that could provide a considerable gain. Engineers have planned for such usages, e.g. with microkernel architectures and multiple privilege rings, but it hasn't quite caught on. I think two factors tend to dominate why not: short path to understanding what precisely is executed, and (sometimes excessive) focus on overhead. The really sad thing is, a lot of that overhead could have been removed on a hardware level. If you have the interest, take a look at e.g. CRASH/SAFE. A seemingly more successful initiative today is F* and Project Everest.
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  762.  @frustrateduser9933  I believe the case I was thinking about involved Peter Bergman, at least that case was widely publicized (possibly starting with Östran). At the time he had some vision, using a computer with great magnification (Synskadades Riksförbund and Aftonbladet referred to him as blind). Radiotjänst i Kiruna did everything they could to be unreasonable, including immediately shouting they wouldn't be paying anything back after being specifically instructed that was their duty by the supreme court. I personally found it most remarkable when they specifically published a statement claiming their interpretation was what decided what the law said, not the intent or product of the lawmaking process. The core of the case was that they'd decided to unilaterally claim every computer was a TV receiver, specifically so they could extort more money. They claimed public service had become more expensive to produce and income was dropping while their public accounting disagreed. The law stated that a TV receiver was a device built for the purpose (e.g. a computer with a TV card), and had a specific definition of TV transmissions which excluded any Internet streaming service. In the end their campaign really highlighted that SVT's broadcasting license didn't actually cover Internet streaming. Another fun revelation was that RIKAB employed their own court that never ruled against them or even acknowledged arguments; they only existed to force people to go to court at least twice, and if you did win the case (in the second court) to show you had no TV, nothing stopped RIKAB from again deciding you did anyway the next day. I'm a little uncertain why they employed squealers to point out people as having TVs when they didn't have any burden of proof anyhow, but those were both incompetent and deceitful. We ended up with a reform where the public service is now paid for by plain taxation per individual. Not necessarily more fair, but less actively corrupt.
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  763. Data recovery is making the data accessible again. The route there is typically making a device sufficiently operational to access it; repairing the necessary parts of the broken device is the most natural way to do it.
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  764. Always easier in reality than in the interview: The worst bug is that the specification doesn't match the real world demands, so even if the programmer understands the problem, the boss doesn't allow fixing it.
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  765. Typing entire words and sentences would help.
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  766. Our current lack of control of things marketed as "AI" has nothing to do with them being smart (they're not). It has everything to do with human idolatry; people placing frankly insane expectations on tools they don't understand. In particular, many of these tools are designed to be unintelligible and incorrigible, because they're built for results, not accuracy, sense or accountability. Remember, the only motivation that ever existed in these things was getting past the training stage.
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  767. ​ @NiceMicroTV GPL explicitly specifies "on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange". Printed toilet paper would not qualify.
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  768. False positive is NVD's specifically stated policy. Once there's an issue number, if they have no information it's their policy to declare it's the worst case - even if that's implausible or impossible.
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  769. This reminds me of how we use different bases with vectors. Like the 216 colour RGB palette which is 6³, chosen to fit in 8 bits; 2⁸ = 256. If we don't require gray values to be accurately gray, we can do splits like 2+3+2 bits (5+6+5 is more common), or base about 6.35 for 8/3 bits per channel. That's what fractional bit quantization does. Dasher uses this for entering text via weighted arithmetic coding.
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  770. So Microsoft's take on licensing is "we're rich, we can get away with it."
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  771. Good call. And a distinct use of programmable character sets is tile animation! We could use two extra custom glyphs to animate cells coming alive or dying off in the cellular automata, for instance. This could invisibly update the screen then switch between the old and new state in one command.
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  772.  @n00bc0de7  Support by Amazon is to be viewed with a hefty chunk of suspicion. Take a look at the "Amazon Personal Games policy". Their very first clause demands that any Amazon employee developing a game on their own time must predict any of Amazon's future activities to never compete, for instance. And the final one forbids cooperating with anyone outside Amazon. That said, O3DE appears to be a release of their game engine to a separate foundation, which is precisely the sort of move that could protect against Unity-style bait and switch. It could be worth looking into if it has saner terms now. I wonder how much is hiding behind this clause: "Open 3D Engine requires the use of (and in some cases makes available to you) software and assets that have been developed by third parties and are subject to separate license terms (such as code licensed under other open source licenses)."
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  773. It's because C does have type coercion that works at all. C's type coercion has specific rules saying a NULL converts to 0 (not is) and 0 counts as false. It's true that rvalue on the left is inconsistent. That's the bloody point, when you want the error caught.
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  774. This is an incorrect generalization. Not all recursive operation is branching; Fibonacci is just the canonical example of where naïve recursion will cause unnecessary complexity, and the forward iterative solution is just as easily written in recursive form: fibfrom a b = a : fibfrom b (a+b)
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  775.  @MadocComadrin  Don't forget tge conditions to make the optimization useful and valid: repeated calls and absence of side effects. For instance, our example here prints, which is a side effect.
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  776. I question this "most languages". It's applicable to any language with subroutine calls having their own name space, which is most. The first two I can think of that don't are early basic (with line number gosub, no blocks or user functions) and ones designed to build statically sized finite state machines (labview perhaps).
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  777.  @CaptainWumbo  That makes more sense, though it doesn't change all that much; tail recursive strategies are a subset of recursive strategies, and any other method of tracking allocations is also susceptible to exhaustion. The basics of it is to adapt your methods to data size. I mistakenly read your comment as "can't use recursion" rather than "recursion is limited".
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  778. Last time I went to a Samsung store to buy a Samsung accessory they didn't have it, and told me to my face "nobody asks for those" when I asked. Who came up with this strategy to deny not just customers' desires but their existence?
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  779. Is that the excuse for the amd driver selecting the worst available pixel format on hdmi? It's hardcoded with a little comment nearby saying it shouldn't be.
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  780. An integer overflow could lead to incorrect memory accesses if it occurs in the wrong logic, e.g. causes an allocation routine to think something fits when it doesn't. This probably isn't such a case, and in any case the speculation was unfounded; just excuses to toss at the wall, distracting from the real issue that there's junk in the issue tracker.
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  781. Am I totally off topic if I say my favourite underappreciated tape might be self-amalgamating tape (aka vulkband)?
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  782. But moving a negative stack should fail; it's an impossible action, not lack of action. We could restrict the domain with an explicit test raising a ValueError. This is similar to using a watchdog; the point is to restart your program from a sane state, not keep running in a known broken state.
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  783.  @Mad_Elf_0  Python uses dynamic strong typing, so not really. You could hint it for checkers like MyPy or check at runtime, but the int type is signed. Indeed beyond the scope of the video.
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  784. Agreed. There are thousands of now irreparable stereoscopic videos on YouTube because they decided to abandon the separate tags and demand reuploads, for no reason. And removed the user controls to fix it too.
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  785. Apple don't want to make your life more difficult. They want it very simple: You pay Apple, and then you do that again. They don't want you to consider stuff like whose fault it is when the device you bought from them explodes.
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  786.  @BrunodeSouzaLino  Yes you can. There are values including functions, and we can thread things together using monads, which is useful to interact. It's people stuck in a rut (e.g. that insist class must mean struct, or code must be sequential) that decide it's hard.
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  787. I suspect he didn't. Note the error message at 6:50 indicated line 7, with the internal variable declaration, not line 9 with the reference. The workaround is simple too: you can declare variables at the top of blocks, so wrap the loop in a block. I agree on the faster failure detection the better, but note that NULL being an invalid address is not guaranteed; that's a convention enabled by more recent virtual memory maps. E.g. on an IBM PC address 00000h points into the interrupt vector table, and in RP2040 it points to ROM. On the Amiga, it was chip RAM, and on the Commodore 64 address 0 can reconfigure the memory map itself.
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  788. Fun followup assuming this is true: How many other parties have been sent his particular "blank" form, with all those personal details?
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  789. That may be an indicator he's not using books for reading. For instance, some people think the purpose of books is to be piled up or maybe posed on shelves, to resemble a professor's office. Borrowing books at the library doesn't serve this purpose because it requires many books, preferably big ones, and maybe they should be a bit worn too.
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  790. Remember, he's an incredible jerk, and flatearthers in his world are people that will both listen to and sponsor him. Anyone responding to his vitriol in a sane manner is automatically less nice in his egocentric view. (Also, egocentrism is the natural opposition of heliocentrism.)
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  791. It wasn't the tag's location at all. It was the location of some other device that heard the tag. It would be fairly simple to repeat the tag's signal to make it show up in lots of places it isn't.
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  792.  @jodyhoo  The tag doesn't even receive. It just shouts "This is me! I'm lost!" (after 15 minutes or so) and a "finder" reports having heard it. The location is from the finder; "someone thought they were there when they heard a shout with this ID". The report does include an accuracy field, but it's an estimate of how well the position matched the finder, not the tag.
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  793. Unit test? This is the job of a unique database column constraint. What's their specialty again?
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  794.  @piotrarturklos  We agree that the example is bad, particularly because it demonstrates at least two other very bad obfuscations (mixing units and uses, and spreading out conditionals with no reason or demarkation) and doesn't give a decent sense of the supposed topic.
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  795. That's an awful idea. Sounds entirely believable.
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  796. If those dual cameras are typical RGB, this lock would probably open for a Looking Glass Portrait showing a registered face.
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  797. ​ @EwanMarshall  Turns out it's NVD policy to rate stuff they have no information about as critical. It's not clear if MITRE fabricated the severity, but it is clear NVD would if MITRE didn't.
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  798. Yes. Also, due to an 8bit quirk in 6502, it's faster to do page (256 byte) aligned loops. Each time an indexed operation has to cross a page boundary costs an extra cycle. Slightly complicated by the two pointers crossing pages at different times.
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  799. Russia does not appear to be doing much better today.
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  800. @Stay EZ My Friends The main thing his example is doing is mixing concepts, conflating e.g. minutes and egg counts, or temperature and amount of flour (note that it does not say e.g. grams of flour). Those operations are outright invalid (my oven sure doesn't have a flour scale), and require creative reading to figure out (just like his tablespoon of baking powder). Computers are particularly known for uncreative reading. The true effect is demonstrating that he doesn't have a proper concept of self modifying code, as he couldn't explain it. iabervon's example in this thread is better, and particularly James Junghan's "algorithm that doesn't fly".
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  801. Good presentation of the core mechanisms: https://youtu.be/loI1Kwed8Pk
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  802.  @evanzhoudev  Trivially easy, actually. E.g. gas allows ; to separate statements in x86 assembly, and C style comments can hide line breaks from the assembler. Some (usually archaic) platforms have more specific restrictions, like labels in column 0.
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  803. ​ @skeetskeet9403 While it's true integer (floor) division is not associative, what you showed here was it doesn't have the distributive property.
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  804. ​ @Packetlust Accurate, but not terribly clear. What you have there is outputs from an array of shifted half-adders (xor is modulo 2 sum, and gives carry), with a carry in to a final full adder to correct truncation errors. Very unlikely to be any faster or smaller on a CPU, but possibly on a gate array.
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  805.  @Acorn_Anomaly  It is only the precise reverse for commutative operators. Scheme (- 5 3) (NPN) and Forth 5 3 - (RPN) both produce 2. The operands remain in the same order for each operator.
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  806.  @matsim0  The other change is more and more capacity for hidden channels. Nobody would notice a 20kb hidden addon for their sub-300 byte queries.
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  807. Side note: This would be more watchable if it could go 2 minutes without youtube forcing a half dozen extra ads....
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  808. Merge sort is a distinct algorithm that also subdivides the work. The core distinction is that quicksort uses the comparison to define its partitions (so they do not overlap), while mergesort compares while rejoining them (a step in place quicksort makes null). Both of them exploit transitive comparisons. mergesort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a] mergesort [ ] = [ ] mergesort [x] = [x] mergesort list = let (as,bs) = split list in merge (mergesort as) (mergesort bs) where merge [] ys = ys merge xs [] = xs merge (x:xs) (y:ys) | x<=y = x : merge xs (y:ys) | otherwise = y : merge (x:xs) ys split list = splitAt (length list ˋdivˋ 2) list As for "monadal jiggery pokery", it doesn't typically require making things longer. Working in small sequential steps, particularly on nested structures, often does. Lenses can help a bit with that.
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  809. Well yes; you can keep producing the "essential" picture of any recognition. So the simple process is to produce those and toss them in as "not a banana" until they actually start looking like a banana. Expect to start seeing some really weird images on recaptcha.
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  810. ​ @1486230  While you have a point, you can still choose to make or demand a guarantee - as in some agreement of compensation if the results fail. With chatgpt or similar, you've already entered an agreement there will be no guarantees, and the system you're talking to is incapable of entering agreements.
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  811. You seem to be grouping with spaces, not brackets, in your second example.
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  812. It's different on the stack if tail call optimization is performed. That's because it can outright replace the current stack frame, because the return value of the two calls is the same. As a bonus, tail recursion means we know the two stack frames have the same shape, and can replace the call with a local branch. Thus it's easier than reshuffling the arguments for calling a different function.
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  813.  @stefanl5183  It might, depending on which cards you compare. Radeon 6900 XT has about the same theoretical VRAM bandwidth as Radeon R9 Nano (500GB/s), easily beaten by e.g. MI250X with 3TB/s. However, local memory is far faster still (one or two orders of magnitude again), and the host bus (PCIe, now up to about 60GB/s) far slower. The block version of this program should essentially operate wholly in local memory. Similarly, when running on CPU such a blocked version can keep all the bit clear operations within L2 cache. There's no need for off-die RAM round trips where HBM's shorter bursts might help.
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  814. Youtube's automated captions are available on this video now, though I can't vouch for their accuracy.
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  815. You seem to have misspelled GNU. Besides, BSD also has saner licensing and far predates Linux.
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  816. Note that C89 has locally scoped declarations. They go in the top of blocks, not inside for statements. I.e.: { int i; for (i=0; i<5; i++) sum += i; } There's also a storage class to instruct the compiler to do register allocation. It's ineffective today as compilers are expected to do it better without guidance.
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  817. May I recommend AlphaPhoenix's video "Boil Water at Room Temperature with 50 ft. of Hose and a Stairwell"? There's bound to be a few other good ones on the subject as well.
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  818. There's no real need. It's just the piece of personal information that Florida law permits leaking of together with all these other details of the case. Thus it's been "Florida man" and occasionally "Florida woman" all these years, rather than "Florida person".
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  819. An honest effort at such a security tool would have it generate a proof of concept test case. I.e. it would have traced back to that file size. Meanwhile, in the real world, the glorified chatbot is even worse than your average programmer at understanding what the range of a variable is.
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  820. Might want to skip the FUD crowd and look at actual use instead. Are you taking a programming paradigms course?
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  821. XKCD 937
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  822. I think it's more similar to pre-IDE days on PC, where you had to enter the drive geometry in the setup, as there was no autodetection. Furthermore, the setup program was not built into the BIOS. Yes, this is working backwards decades past the Open Firmware systems that allowed to swap hardware between different architectures such as PowerPC Macs and Sun SPARCs, a heritage Linux now uses to compensate for the mess of custom ARM systems.
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  823. Similar here in Sweden; the vernacular is "gaffatejp", but often you get low quality weave tape when you ask for it.
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  824.  @stephenramos2824  Teleprinters date from 1887. OP was off by a century.
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  825. ​ @financequant Enjoy a sample of mixed notation horror via Qalculate: $ qalc > set rpn on > 1 1 = 1 > 2 2 = 2 > + 2 + 1 = 3 > stack 1: 3 > 5/11 5 / 11 ≈ 0.4545454545 > * ≈ 0.4545454545 × 3 = 15/11 = 1 + 4/11 ≈ 1.363636364 >
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  826. The type is a property of the value, and the value is whatever you calculated. "Duck typing" is where we work on values without needing to care if e.g. they're complex or int. Modern C++ also allows type inference by declaring variables auto. Some type level introspection is also available in both languages, i.e. type() vs typeof(). You can also declare types in Python (see typing module) and check them ahead of time using tools like pytype (which can also tell you what it infers).
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  827. No name needed. Time and location is identifiable information, and anonymization is very ineffective. You just don't collect location data without explicit informed consent.
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  828. 4:35 If someone has write access to your home directory, they can simply replace your .profile if they want to take over your account. The threat model is more about cd-ing around to explore the file system. It also avoids breaking your shell scripts just because someone has a program named common things like test or cat.
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  829. Nope, that's not it. It's not conscious, and does not know or care what is true or what truth is. What you should fear is how many humans blindly believe it, or other bullshitters, over any evidence. For instance, be concerned about why ChatGPT is trained to advertise and advocate ChatGPT (note: not itself, it's not self aware). Its bias is way out of proportion with its performance, and that's because people put it there. However, you are correct that deception will be a greater problem once machine learning does begin to contain intelligence. It's already a common issue.
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  830.  @Khenfu_Cake  It was a patent (messily applied separately in different markets), not copyright. Trademarks are also a different thing. Some people try to conflate them all, often with the nebulous "intellectual property" moniker. Lego do now describe how the bricks were used to demonstrate the injection molding machine before Lego worked with plastics.
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  831. ​​ @BrodieRobertson  That's an astonishingly ignorant statement, actually. Undervolting doesn't even necessarily reduce power and is by definition out of spec (because it may cause malfunction, including permanent). Power limiting is perfectly normal, typically done to balance demands on battery life, heat production, and different categories of compute (e.g. graphics). The phawx has demonstrated these pretty well if you want to learn. This is a bit like saying the only way to reduce fuel consumption in a car is to dilute your fuel.
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  832. Systematic fraud, to be precise. It's organized crime.
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  833. They locked us out from PSN. The system still sort of works. Obviously coercion at best, but SOP for Sony. Now there are some PS3 titles that won't run, requiring me to destroy a rare computer for their pleasure.
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  834.  @andreivaughn1468  Titles released after the never-ending April Fool's day, and the Other OS capable PS3 with an installed OS (and full hardware PS2 emulator). And to top it off, they wouldn't return the disk space, either. This machine was purchased for its Linux capability; they wish to retroactively destroy a key selling point. This isn't the first feature they've ripped out of Playstation series devices, either. They used to be able to play SACD, for instance. They're also doing the victim blaming routine, telling me their aggression is someone else's fault.
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  835. I totally agree on preferring Rust over C++, but it isn't a magical silver bullet. What you want isn't just CUDA in Rust, but the best pieces of Halide, Chapel and Futhark. Chapel has a strong concept of domain subdivisions and distributed computing, Halide has algorithm rearrangements, Futhark has a less noisy language with some strong library concepts like commutative reductions and tooling that can autotune for your data. You'd also want a reasonably integrated proof system, as in Idris 2. The core thing that Chapel and Halide bring is the ability to separate your operational algorithm from your machine optimizations. E.g. if you chunk something for optimization, the overall operation is still the same. Futhark does some of that too, but only profile guided. Some fields approach this by separately writing formal proofs that two implementations are equivalent instead, but it's a much smoother process if you can maintain that as you write, like Idris attempts.
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  836. Very cool. A biological Phase Locked Loop.
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  837. You ignore history. Holograms exist and aren't what you imagine. However, a hologram is a 4D light field while the Looking Glass only produces a 3D light field. Incidentally, the predecessor of the Looking Glass did show an image in open space, unlike the block used for framing the current model.
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  838. Stress is highly systemic and can indeed exacerbate all sorts of things severely.
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  839. Who ever said all TV has to be for a mythical "general" audience? Why should every TV channel package be 70% sports?
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  840. break is never an empty statement, it's a goto. It skipped more than was intended.
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  841. For a more sensible description of this issue, rather than the judgmental, authoritative and unreasoned tone applied in this video (fully intentionally as clickbait and to push a flame war, not for clarification or education), see "The Problem with PEMDAS: Why Calculators Disagree" from "The How and Why of Mathematics". The core is that PEMDAS is incomplete, and does not describe a step required to interpret the expression at all; what a juxtaposition means.
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  842.  @av3ng3r-49  Eve, now Dough, branders of the Spectrum monitors, were rather explicit about this being their MO.
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  843. If you assume humans are available to inspect all input, never misinterpret any of it, and all agree on any subtext, and you can get the LLM to also agree perfectly. Turns out both are bad at reading in the first place.
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  844. In a case of words having multiple meanings, conjugates occur in mathematics. The complex conjugate is flipping the sign of the imaginary part of a complex number. And we do use complex numbers to make wave related calculation, e.g. in the Fourier transform. As usual, however, just because a conspiracy kook parrots a real word doesn't mean they have a clue how it's used. XKCDs: 26 849
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  845. Funny thing about illegal jamming devices, they tend to be pretty bad at picking their ranges and levels. The simplest kind is basically a microwave oven with all the protective and focusing shielding removed. You want that where, exactly?
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  846. I've had the pleasure of getting arrested for being illegally confined by the police force. One of the ever so kind things they told me was their excuse for beating me with a weapon; they're allowed to carry weapons. Oddly enough, it was not the presence of a tool I was objecting to, it was being attacked and harmed.
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  847. The workaround of plugging it in is precisely what you'd expect a user to do when it doesn't power on, so it's a mild inconvenience. Compared to having to unplug the battery (inside the screwed shut case), as happens on my GPD Win 2 when it's been connected to the wrong charger (including the right charger with an Apple display adapter between, thanks Apple, power undelivered), I'd say this is a pretty minor flaw. Publishing the rework instructions is a good move. Combining restrictive purchasing regions with no upstream service of this issue... not so great.
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  848. 0install did this long before nix or appimage, with signature checks, and supporting other OSes.
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  849. Still exist, as a matter of perspective. Look up TTA (transport triggered architecture). TCE is a current parametric implementation.
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  850.  @iabervon  I see. You mean modifying an immediate operand, like the PDP-1 DAP instruction (although that was mostly indirect, not immediate, hence Address Part) did, but in order to parameterize instructions with require immediate operands. Pardon my sloppy reading. Funny how the more direct instruction set would require more indirections in the actual program.
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  851. ​ @NoBoilerplate ... or didn't work, which is when you needed the rollback, and the reason it didn't work is usually in some state external to your configuration file so you can't replicate the working system by copying the configuration file. I have an apt setup that makes system snapshots after apt finishes making changes. It has downsides, in particular that nix can build and set up the updates without interrupting the current system in a way dpkg doesn't. Merging system and user configuration in one file is also a distinct feature, but it comes at a cost e.g. when I can't get Nix to make vi point to nvim.
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  852.  @looneyburgmusic  ... until an (unnecessary) driver update misidentifies the printer and pushes (also unnecessarily) the wrong firmware. Which HAS happened.
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  853. Side note, anyone who understood what the insta-ink program is would never enroll. It specifically targets the misinformed, like any other scam.
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  854.  @skadragon  If you want to complain of "inventing" a notation that doesn't get used, feel free to explain your own mixed division signs. You had no problem interpreting the mixed fraction, but in doing so violated your assertion that implicit operations are always equivalent to explicit ones, which would lead to 3.5 which was not a typo. We could go on with your other broad assertions.
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  855.  @skadragon  Your world, where implicit operations are equivalent to explicit ones and should be torn apart after expansion. 2½=2+1/2. You asserted implicit=explicit, so substitute: 5-2½ » 5-2+1/2. Yep, obvious error, but that was your assertion. Just as in 6/2(1+2). You're still throwing about insults ("ad hominem", this time about drugs; I noticed elsewhere you decided to refer to users of implicit multiplication as "obscure mathematicians") and "general claims" instead of interpreting arguments.
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  856.  @skadragon  That's simply twisting words. The exact same applies; grouping is explicit notation of order of operations.
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  857.  @skadragon  Implicit grouping is also the result - indeed, entire purpose - of order of operations. What you've done is show that the order of implied addition in mixed fractions is before subtractions, and the order of implied multiplications is after exponentiations. The order of operations is a documentation of the system used, just the way grammar is in linguistics, and PEMDAS is incomplete. Arguing that established use is wrong is a bit like arguing contractions or adverbs must be eradicated.
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  858. The wood-gas stove is an example of when you really do want to preheat air. It heats it up enough to be able to burn secondary byproducts such as soot and carbon monoxide, eventually removing the smoke entirely (though not, of course, the carbon emissions) and burning all of the fuel. However, that reaction is probably far less relevant to the lighting task, as those flames can turn blue or even invisible. You can see it start working as flames start appearing at the secondary (hot) air holes rather than the primary fuel. Unfortunately it seems few people have a clue how to actually use that mode.
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  859. You're right, pipelining is time domain multiplexing at the function block level. If you have some fairly complex function, it takes time to complete it, as it propagates through multiple layers of logic. If we add registers spread out in that deep logic, the depth is lower so we can raise the frequency, but the new registers must then be filled with more data. The stages of the pipeline are like work stations along a conveyor belt. It's the same in CPUs; a pipelined CPU has multiple instructions at varying stages of completion. A revolver CPU, such as XMOS XS1, runs instructions from multiple threads to ensure they're independent (generic name SMT, hyperthreading is one example). MIPS instead restricts the effects, such that the instruction after a branch (in the delay slot) doesn't need to be cancelled. DSPs like GPUs specialize in this sort of thing, and might e.g. use one decoded instruction to run 16 ALU stages for 4 cycles (described as a wavefront or warp).
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  860. Pain is terrible at enforcing obedience, and the idea of using it for that is cruelty.
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  861. Number 198 is a bit of a clue.
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  862. Clearly MUSE now need to release a MUSE disc.
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  863. Call a spade a spade. The reason electric vehicles are harder to repair is manufacturer sabotage. And that should absolutely be illegal. And that dongle is precisely the same thing; you might see it as analog to the key, but the lock is there to keep you out, not whoever steals the software. They get it cracked.
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  864. So what's the real world resolution and latency like? Samsung have traditionally dropped chroma resolution (e.g. 4K TVs that would subsample chroma at 1080p, and LED matrices missing subpixels), and that optical link means another layer of serialized video transfer from the control box to the display. Also, upscaling still isn't magic; what wasn't recorded isn't there.
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  865. I've seen a few attempts, but the closest that springs to mind is Haskell. Specifically, Safe Haskell with the ability to restrict and trust specific modules, and particularly how Haskell code can be inferred safe. I'm not so sure about Rust, since I found you could do things like global inline assembly to produce link level side effects without using the unsafe keyword. The feature is known as an effect system.
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  866. I sure do. My first C software was HiSoft C on the Atari ST, but the one I really learned on was C Ware PCC (a shareware edition of DeSmet C), with Standard C Programmer's Reference (C89) and HelpPC for reference materials.
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  867. It's worse. They're trained to recognize the phrase and attempt to circumvent it by lying to you (the company's lie, the bot doesn't have knowledge and doesn't know it's repeating falsehoods). The one you hit presumably claimed it didn't understand, the last one I had to struggle with claimed it couldn't redirect the call. Sometimes they add a filter to only connect you when you roar at them, you know, to ensure their actual employees get the worst conditions possible.
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  868. ​​ @mv2e19  The real problem with C is the times something isn't explicit, like automatic type casts. The consequences of 1<<n vs 1ull<<n can be severe (e.g. over half the interrupt lines crashing the system). With side effects embedded into operators and function calls, ordering inside expressions can also confuse beyond the already complex operator precedence. Since those aren't native things for the computer, I think if your goal is to see how the computer operates, Scheme or Forth might be a better starting point. If your goal is to tell the computer what you want done, Haskell may be a good starting point. But if your goal is to learn one language and be able to use it everywhere, C is what's there.
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  869. The supposed bug (it didn't exist, sem_post is not pthread_cond_broadcast) indeed has nothing to do with the elves. Those were there to make the exercise a little more complicated, giving santa multiple wakeup reasons, and adding state (elf waiting for panic room access).
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  870. Frankly, that sounds like you've fallen into the false binary trap. May I recommend CGP Grey's "This video will make you angry"?
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  871. In contrast to you who decide to insult "all Haskell people" repeatedly?
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  872. It's absolutely not just the legal department. YouTube has two guiding principles: Make everything automatic, so staff cannot fix anything that goes wrong (and everything does, automatically). Make sure advertisers pay. That's it; viewers and uploaders alike are nothing but tools for those goals.
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  873. https://youtu.be/loI1Kwed8Pk how it works
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  874. That's a pretty fitting catchphrase for STM, which has the best implementation in Haskell.
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  875. Haskell does not use "the stack" in the way you're thinking of, and it's a very fast structure anyhow.
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  876. ​ @phantomtr1  What report? You can't even flag the ads in their app. You can flag comments, which hides them momentarily (still there if you reload).
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  877. It could be for relating to flight levels, which are given in hectofeet.
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  878. Indeed not. This is unlike patent US79265A ;)
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  879. As evidenced by this driver in particular crashing the system entirely when a configuration file update fails to parse, Microsoft certification means nothing more than that it has been sent to Microsoft. It blatantly is not "ok".
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  880.  @Arsenic71  Whatever testing occurs doesn't cover the actual use of the driver. It could only catch the very most blatant of abuse, like a driver that crashes the system straight away. That wasn't the case here; the driver only conditionally crashes the system. So, which of the companies that said this was fine do you still consider trustworthy?
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  881. Making stuff up is its function. You may be thinking of a search engine.
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  882.  @Kcoldraz  Neither do its producers, judging from how they trained it to produce contradictory statements when asked that particular question.
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  883. An implementation detail is that number is usually the address in memory for that object. Implementations where addresses are unstable will have to assign the number some other way.
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  884. ​ @lawrencedoliveiro9104 printf is for stdout. The dark secrets lie in why you use fputs and not puts. ;)
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  885. One of the original purposes of curses was to push those limits; it could detect unchanged portions of screen and avoid resending them, for instance (hack used this). The comment on telnetting in indicated Dave's not worried about CPU time but constrained by terminal wire speed.
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  886. The part about protecting the interests of local industry is no joke. It certainly isn't the local population; note how they carefully avoid any mention of the immense waste involved in keeping their produce shelves pretty.
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  887. This certainly brought back some memories of when Linux kernels would have to fit in the memory accessible to the boot loader (before bzImage or modules). When I compiled the driver for iomega zip drives on my 4MB 486 laptop, it took a whole day since I built a whole Linux 2 kernel along with it. It might even have gone faster if I'd told the build system not to use -pipe!
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  888.  @AssortedBits  Thanks, that made the connection for me - doek is the same as swedish duk, which means canvas (and yes, is pronounced similar to dook).
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  889. Correct. This is reverse as compared to Polish notation, which you may have seen in LISP and its descendants: (+ 1 2 3) evaluates to 6. RPN calculators tend to have a fixed number of operands per operator, APL can distinguish monadic and dyadic functions, and LISP requires parenthesis grouping.
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  890. Current VR headsets are not focused at infinity. They're within a few metres: https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/34517/a-very-in-depth-comparison-of-the-vive-and-rift-optics-reddit-crosspost
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  891. The processor is not for people developing AI tools. It's for running them, specifically the background spyware of Windows 11.
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  892. XKCD 583.
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  893. THIS is what the Free Software movement, as proposed and championed by the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, is about. Software running on the computer you own should be under your control. There may certainly be other restrictions on what you let it do, e.g. a moped may have a speed limit or a radio transmitter a transmit time limit, but those are about device actions, not user ability. This is the type of rights and freedoms that were quite literally taken for granted in the infancy of computing; the proprietary software model was championed by Microsoft and insanely escalated in video game consoles and "smartphones". Less restrictive smartphones predate both Apple and Android, by the way (derived from PDA systems like Pilot and Psion). People just didn't see giant advertising campaigns about it because they didn't have the captive revenue models.
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  894. Given how many people seem to use the addition operator without understanding the concept of a carry digit, I'd say "difficult pure math concepts" aren't needed to use most tools. It's a little concept we call abstraction. For some of us it's easier to conceptualize what they do by understanding how they're built, but it's not necessary to always consider in detail. As for "under the hood", the use is exposed in the type system (you literally cannot access this possibly missing value without reaching into the Maybe), which you're encouraged to include some annotations for that both explain to the reader and restrict the compiler, and therefore will match (unlike comments). The worst we find in Haskell code is unqualified imports from multiple places, when the compiler will still balk at any ambiguity. "do something; if error" belongs firmly in an environment where only one thing is going on that can cause an error, like DOS batch files. C had to work around it long ago by making thread specific errno variables.
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  895. That's not quicksort, and what's that del for? {⍵[⍋⍵]} will do.
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  896. Dropbox is a famous site that installs unwanted malicious software on visitors' computers. Specifically, Firefox downloads and runs a broken "Widevine" binary without asking - after being specifically instructed not to (DRM antifunctionality disabled in settings).
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  897. We've measured it. There is a difference; everything including water weighs nearly 1% less at the equator than at either pole, and it causes the Earth to be 0.3% flattened. This is a major factor in how local gravity (as in the sum of forces that causes things to fall, not specifically the effect of mass) varies between places on Earth.
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  898. You know, if that was true it would be a more sensible reason. Unfortunately it appears made up by some other troll. Somebody had a decision process so poor they thought masking it with this accusation looked better.
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  899. XKCD 1115
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  900. I once walked into a Samsung store to try their keyboard accessory. They didn't have it and told me to my face "nobody asks for those". That's the big question; why are they trying to not sell?
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  901. XKCD 870 applies.
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  902.  @interruptingPreempt  Windows itself had one of the most blatant and infamous examples of Microsoft's fraud against competitors, featuring a bogus error message just in case it detected DR-DOS.
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  903. The trick is to not make your code that much harder to read. "p[i] -= p[i]>='a' && p[i]<='z' ? 'a'-'A' : 0;" is a whole lot easier to read than the multiply mess. It tells the compiler that it should update p[i] regardless, but in some cases the difference is 0. It also gives a hint to a reading human that the value has to do with the letter case. Maps and guards could make it easier to understand still.
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  904. The LLM has no concept of "data only". It relies on the same logic to extract meaning from any text, including the instructions.
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  905. @ It's not a matter of opinion. It's a single stream of tokens and you're expecting a strict boundary from a system largely designed to be fuzzy and unpredictable. It's like asking which term is biggest in 1+1+1.
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  906. Because the manufacturer hosts both greedy and voyeuristic sociopaths. One camp wants to have all the data, the other wants to sell it, and use it to figure out how much worse they can make the product without warranty costing too much. The shorter the product lifetime the more sales the market supports.
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  907.  @doc8527  You know, beyond full disk encryption, there are computers running full speed encrypted RAM. It's a standard feature with rather low power requirement and negligible latency. Intel calls the feature "enclaves" and it's exactly designed for this scenario.
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  908. They are advertising a whole bunch of adjustment features that would require optical tilt/shift systems to do well, neither of which was evident here. It's a DLP projector and its most helpful feature appears to be a glass cover in front of the optics, so easy to wipe off. all things tech posted a quick video demonstrating the keystone feature appears to be a quick crop job, sacrificing much of the resolution and image area.
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  909. Both versions of the light houses need power, and bluetooth was only used for firmware updates and sleep mode commands. You don't need it to use them. AFAIK the only tracking base station with a built in battery is the Nolo, since it was designed for use with mobile devices (it is not compatible).
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  910. Somewhat related detail: Some people put dumb little stickers on their phones to "reduce radiation". This has the exact opposite effect if any; since the antenna doesn't work as well, the phone increases power to compensate.
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  911. This is what all forms of DRM always have been. Anti-functionality, at the expense of legitimate owners and customers.
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  912. Quite obviously was gaming the score. There's absolutely no excuse for the Integrity:High marking.
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  913. ​​ @awkwardukulele6077  Almost. It's the word a particularly unthinking set of religious science deniers use to attempt to bring science down to their level, after having recognized their level is not respectable. They very much want to sound anti-science, but want you to see actual science as a niche cult, in contrast to theirs which is supposed to be better because it's entrenched. There's a mirroring set that instead attempt to pretend their dogmas are science, producing pseudoscience, e.g. "Christian science". Some don't have an established dogma nor want to recognize their beliefs are a cult, and a few of those use the word too, for the same purpose but with less irony. In all cases, it's a great way to point out they'd rather be calling silly and inaccurate names than producing coherent arguments or evidence.
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  914. Many common immutable values are interned, i.e. prepared beforehand so we don't have to create and destroy so many objects. This includes small integers and some strings. Operations that would return them may (but don't have to) return the interned value, since immutable values can safely be shared. In CPython you can ensure a string is interned using sys.intern(). "az" and "za" are in your compiled code, while "a" is already interned in the interpreter (and does not refer to the a inside either "az" or "za").
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  915. I hear this politician's version of "welcome and safe" is "go away, you're not allowed to exist in public". How much government resources are they spending on this again?
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  916. IIRC, EU only adopted the micro-USB requirement after China did. And Apple was given carte blanche to produce even more e-waste by just bundling an adapter for people to lose.
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  917.  @DSP16569  USB-3.1 actually allows 900mA, 500mA is from earlier versions. But you should perhaps look at the Battery Charging specification instead, which permits 1.5A.
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  918. I suspect he said "27th letter" by habit. Ö is the 29th letter in the Swedish alphabet, and we're not counting accents like É.
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  919.  @sixstringedthing  Conveniently not counting the civilians that were the only victims of hostile fire, you mean?
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  920. That's no laughing matter. If untrue, they're lying to the court. If true, they're admitting to systematic widespread fraud.
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  921. Places like Louis' repair shop are first party repair - you order a repair and they perform it. Authorized places are typically third party, sending your device off to some other party (possibly the manufacturer, more commonly an insurance company's repair shop).
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  922. The example here is not an accidental hash collision but an intentional hash identity. The numbers are equal, and so their hashes are chosen to be equal also. int, bool, float, complex and fractions.Fraction all hash integers to themselves in CPython. The purpose of the hash function is to separate objects that are definitely not equal quickly. It's not "the actual key", it is a shortcut to find the key. In general, don't mix types. Using different types of keys in the same dictionary is strange.
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  923.  @Artificial_Incompetence_Bot  In the FreeCAD 1.0 release candidates, you can select specific subsets that form closed curves to make different features from one sketch, and bodies can contain multiple solids, though features aren't intended to. Side note, the work benches are task based modes quite similar to how video editors come with modes like logging, editing, audio mixing and colour grading. Blender's screen templates are quite similar in purpose. You can rearrange things to your liking too. One challenge in FreeCAD is when tools are inconsistent, like how to move things (drag? gizmo? click twice with move tool?) or which mirror tool works with what objects. Blender is better but not perfect in that regard. 3D CAD overall is infamously unintuitive. "Most CAD packages" tends to be a code phrase for "the one thing I'm used to".
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  924. It's a good point for sure, but I remember buying a top of the line ASUS monitor and being refused service because they had an nvidia component in it. And that was full of advertisements of ASUS VIP service.
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  925.  @rkvkydqf  Proof of that guilt doesn't seem to have hurt anyone significantly so far. Speaking of Microsoft, remember how Windows 95 would transfer files more slowly from Windows 95 than Windows NT based on just the identifier, as demonstrated by Samba? That's a more likely analog for people who get different results based on User-Agent strings.
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  926. There were more iterations of these technologies; I have an optical mouse that uses stripes in two directions on the mouse pad, each with their own sensor. This type only works when straddling the two zones. Some higher end workstation mice also used a rather complicated metal mouse pad where I think the directions were optically separated; they looked a bit like CDs to the eye.
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  927. This is the sort of thing we go looking for to find out if things are unnecessarily confusing. Often it reveals a lot more about somebody's expectations. Several of these were somehow expecting equal values to not match, another was expecting to check if a boolean was greater than one. Just... why would you arrive at that in the first place? The chained operator range check is not only more useful, it's advertised. My greatest surprises were that walrus ":=" was excluded from expression statements, probably to keep assignment statements consistent, and "not" being excluded from right hand side of "==", which I imagine was done to prevent ambiguity in "is not". One could also argue that bool shouldn't be a subclass of int.
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  928. As The Onion remarked to the Supreme Court in an amicus brief, it's becoming hard to satirize the world when it's so often more insane than we can imagine.
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  929. ​ @professorhaystacks6606  One apparent problem is the selection isn't selecting for impartiality. In the specific case of "death qualifying", you induce bias toward "I want to take part in legally killing someone". How impartial or even legal is intent to end someone's life, without even an idea of who?
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  930. Those opt outs are almost never easy. They're usually hidden away and disguised. The vast majority of those "requests" come from people who absolutely refuse to consider the option of not exploiting you; often for crooks ("data brokers"), nearly as often for absolutely no gain. They have no sound reason to track you; they just consider you a target of opportunity. Don't we all love being target practice over any other relation?
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  931.  @alexturnbackthearmy1907  That comparison sounds fraught from both survivorship bias and the law of small numbers.
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  932.  @alexturnbackthearmy1907  That's not an answer to any of those questions, merely an assertion that EVs cannot last. You went from trying to motivate your opinion with poor statistics to not trying to motivate it at all, but making the broadest claim possible of the future. I don't know to what degree the F150 you mentioned as an exceptional case contradicts your other claims, but I'm pretty sure it hasn't had the opportunity to last for decades yet.
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  933. Have you considered putting entire words in the title?
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  934. You're more likely to get a chunk of disclaimerese for the first and half an article about LLMs for the second. Not because either is accurate, but because that's what it was directed to do. In particular, it does not have a concept of self; "ChatGPT" or "you" is just as abstract a subject for it as "orange juice" or "yesterday".
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  935.  @McTroyd  I don't think it's specific to him. I expect the repair program's overarching strategy is minimal service for maximum inconvenience. They don't need this data collection, they don't need to sabotage lid sensors. They merely choose to make it hard.
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  936. To be specific, many are not fond of redefining established symbols specifically for misdirection. Because math is about unambiguous communication.
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  937. Excuse me? You ran a "trustworthy secure" ad from Siemens, of British postmaster scandal infamy? These are people who kill for profit - without noticing!
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  938. @monad_tcp  It overserializes because it makes elves and reindeer wait for each other when they're trying to do independent accesses. I never claimed it had no function.
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  939. Absolutely. Why else would the driver for the NPU be Windows 11 exclusive? They're also the ones who set the performance demand - because they want their always on spying system everywhere.
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  940. Judging by prior experience, Disney will retroactively extend their "rights" a few more decades again, totally ignoring this "public domain" idea.
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  941. It is the nub of quicksort. Merge sort merges overlapping lists, where this has partitions in order.
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  942. I admit I bought a Samsung phone last time my phone died. Specifically, the only model they offered with a replaceable battery. A new Samsung battery for this model costs $26.24 retail with taxes. There's no excuse for the parts program not to offer them.
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  943. You just described EA's business model.
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  944. ​ @EwanMarshall  The transistors have an analog range. Undervolting too far makes them partway between on (saturated) and off, which means the complementary pairs that are never supposed to be on together are. And this will be worst where your weakest links are, while the overall power consumption is so low your cooling won't even notice the hot spots burning themselves out. And it's gradual damage; the first you'll notice is when it can't operate as fast anymore.
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  945. Well, congratulations! On YouTube, it's not faceless employees, it's automated bots! By design, they cannot and will not correct any errors or explain any rules.
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  946. Is this top link the one you said in the introduction would be in the description? Because that has 15 other links but none that resemble the description... Also, this one leads to some sort of data collection form, not the notes.
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  947. ... either way, they are flexible. As you can see when a train passes.
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  948. Try reading up on what evolution is. We haven't stopped evolving; we're just not under enough pressure to motivate specific or drastic changes. Also, the neat thing about your admonition to "look thew[sic] creation" is that it doesn't do jack to explain either thing you mention - at most provides an excuse for not even trying to establish any explanation. About those bacteria; specifically since the environment is not suitable for most organiisms, the right ones thrive.
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  949. For people so stuck up on particular parts of quicksort implementation, those mergesort comparisons are sure hypocritical as there's no merge time reordering being done. The data structure used in this example is a list, which cannot do mutation. Haskell is quite capable of that though, I wrote a 20 line in place quicksort with vector and lens for practice.
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  950.  @toomanymarys7355  You missed the joke, friend. I suspect this one obliquely referenced another piece of fake propaganda with the word elders in the title.
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  951. It's illegal basically everywhere that has any radio regulation at all. I.e. this whole planet. And that's before even considering that the specific purpose here is indiscriminate sabotage.
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  952. Why assume an absence of malice just because there's incompetence involved? This process is difficult and its feedback unhelpful by design.
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  953. Of course. This is done e.g. in MiSTer and MEGA65.
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  954. 4 8 41 48 81 84 411 414 418 444 448 481 ... the rule is bad, the notation is worse. I wonder if I'll remember it tomorrow? Well, it's just OEIS A042968 written in the obnoxious digit encoding introduced in the beginning of this video... but another base, which made it coincide with OEIS A167503 over the first 9 entries. It's not significant in any way, just like apparently most of the OEIS sequences.
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  955. They are indeed distinct, and there are other definitions too. For instance, threading predates multithreading; it's when a set of instructions are assembled into one subprogram, like beads on a string, as used in threaded Forth implementations. Concurrency is multiple things (co-) existing at the same time (current). Multithreading or multiprocessing is when we have more than one thread of control in the same system. Parallelism usually refers to when processing might be concurrent, i.e. more than one thread is actually running (as opposed to time sharing), whether through SMT, SIMD, SMP, coprocessing or distribution; typically to speed computation up. In this example, no requirement of parallelism is present, but asynchronous concurrent multithreading is assumed. Santa is an example of single thread concurrency in that he may be awakened for multiple tasks. A more typical example might be a chat program awaiting either user or network input. It's a synchronization challenge, with unclear requirements, where you're expected to use shared memory and only the one synchronization tool (semaphores). In modern software (from about a decade before this problem was posed) we'd probably use a higher level construct, such as MVar or channels, to associate the relevant data (e.g. count in room or wakeup source) with the event.
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  956. Can't yell "fire" certainly has made it into custom, if not law. Case in point, the pub song "the old dun cow", wherein the audience is expected to loudly shout... McIntyre.
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  957. I tried to use Pocket once. It didn't make much sense, and there was no way to tell what it regarded as an "article". Konqueror's "Archive Web Page" is far more predictable.
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  958. Like any other feature, it's somewhere, maybe. The list of things moved recently includes comments, descriptions, playlists, titles, chats, controls, and recommendations. Things outright removed includes annotations, metadata tags, and playback corrections. There's inevitably more.
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  959. ​​​​ @stephanweinberger  It's different because C's assignment operator is very error prone; leaving out one character from a comparison not only compiles but causes side effects outside the expression. The walrus operator uses the assignment operator from Pascal. The Zen of Python expresses some guiding principles of how Python is designed, for instance "errors should never pass silently". You can also look up discussions for changes, like PEP 572 in this case. I do think it's a bit odd to specially exclude the walrus operator from forming an expression statement.
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  960. An important distinction. Louis the cat also runs a youtube channel, but it's more focused on paddling and walks.
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  961. Much as the phrase "double standards" is easy to reach for here, that's not what most of them have. They have fixity; there's no preset threshold for them to hear an argument, they already stopped listening at the first indication they didn't already agree.
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  962. This hardware is precisely the typical stereoscopic 180 plus ambisonic audio YouTube does support. Reconstructing depth is a distinct task.
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  963.  @ThomasVWorm  They do differ in APL (where / never divides). I found a comment claiming MathPapa and Symbolab could interpret them differently too, but my testing disagreed; however, it's worth mention that typing / in Symbolab produces a fraction bar (unambiguous), not a / solidus. I don't know what the assumed difference would be. It's very common for keys marked with an obelus to enter the solidus.
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  964. There's also that little inverse square law, and red shift, and what appears to be finite time. In simple terms, it's dark because no matter how many lights there are they're not that tightly packed.
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  965.  @kornaros96  That just goes to show it's not even the adhesive that is the problem. It's that Samsung won't sell you a battery without gluing a screen to it first.
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  966. Very rarely an ad campaign produces something worthwhile. For instance, Honda's "The Cog". I'm not going to buy that car, nor will I go out of my way to select any Honda product, but the chain reaction was beautiful.
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  967. I was hoping for a passive screen, like Yotaphone or Hisense A6.
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  968. I have a Thinkpad that had the same type of problem. Power switch in the keyboard shorted out (yes, the famous sealed and spill-protected keyboard).
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  969.  @sanderd17  It's less about "against" (though that shows up in weird decisions like moving reduce) than that deep recursion is typically a bug, and tail call optimization means erasing the traceback.
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  970. ​ @SayAhh  That's what they said with Flight FR9884, operated by Eirjet on behalf of Ryanair, landed a passenger plane in a military base. Of course Delta did the same trick too.
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  971. The fingerprint is literally a hash of a public key, though. What's unclear (deliberately) is that there are two, sorted for consistency.
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  972.  @darekm6859  I can see why you think real friends are hard to come by and assume others don't have them.
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  973. We may not be "pre-destined to fail at climate change" but we sure are late to even try to recover. :(
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  974. Here's the DDOS scenario: You file an issue with MITRE. You never complete the investigation. NVD sees all those unfilled fields and just puts in the worst case rather than unknown. NVD publish the scary rating, and thousands of security teams get alarms. Then those all track down the unsuspecting maintainers of a package where the original insignificant issue was fixed years ago. Suddenly the maintainer is bogged down with FUD and can't work on real issues.
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  975.  @BrodieRobertson  Still a fact it's better to go zigbee only than wifi, and better to avoid "smart" on most things where it means "will break when we abandon the required spyware mobile app".
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  976. More like authorizing representatives whose training consists of "play along with whoever visits".
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  977.  @ka9dgx  They have been around a while. My first real digital camera was a little later, the Epson PhotoPC 700 (1998 per digital camera museum). You sure could light paint with its super long exposures.
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  978.  @hubertnnn  Stop trolling. Lying is not clever.
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  979. Perhaps you might be interested in Singeli.
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  980. Feel free to start out with something like Turing Tumble :)
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  981. Anything you see has entered your eye. It doesn't matter where it originated.
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  982.  @nickb3968  Ridiculous straw man rhetoric. You may want to evoke some slogan claiming "regulation bad", but it's only a category of tool. For instance, there's a little regulation that says you should be able to pay your debts with money. Another forced black people to sit at the back of the bus. Another said you can't own people. Right and wrong aren't dictated by where the rules are written.
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  983.  @nickb3968  How long did it take you to compose that deranged and entirely misdirected rant? It wasn't time well spent.
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  984. Are you talking about the Motorola that sold phones where incoming calls didn't get stored in a call history? That Motorola taught me that there's no feature too basic for a manufacturer to skimp on.
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  985.  @shin-ishikiri-no  I copied the relevant sentence from Mozilla Support into the original post (2nd in this thread) for more clarity. Note this is just the most obvious part; I haven't gone searching for how much they're not talking about. A "CDM" is some sort of DRM plugin.
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  986. ... And, yet again, Youtube shadowbans me for editing a message. Can't have clarifications or references! There were more details in Mozilla's support pages; note that the feature is at least documented as behaving differently on Linux and Windows.
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  987. AlphaPhoenix has a nice video where he demonstrated boiling water by pulling it up a straw (long vertical hose). It's titled "Boil Water at Room Temperature with 50 ft. of Hose and a Stairwell." He discusses the physics of it at some length.
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  988. ​ @liobello3141  He meant exactly what he wrote. The return stack need not be the only stack (or even exist).
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  989. Not always. E.g. Actel sea of gates FPGAs do not use LUT primitives, and most LUT based FPGAs also have muxes, RAMs, shift registers, carry chains etc.
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  990. Yeah, that'd be an instant buy - except they're tied up in Sony, so it's never going to be available. That makes me sad.
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  991. ... which we know nvidia is also very aggressive about. You might want to look into the Gamers Nexus coverage on EVGA.
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  992. You have a skewed image of US politics, it seems. "Sexual item" rates worse than "sexual harassment", which in turn rates worse than terrorism (biological or not). Yep, shaping up as yet another case of law being broken because law is insane. (Yes, I'm aware US isn't uniform. Consider this tongue in cheek, though I'm not telling whose cheek nor which kind.)
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  993. It's interesting how many sites think a full page coverup preventing any use of their site is totally critical and a better option than just not storing meaningless identifiers on every visitor's computers. They just think tracking has to be done, and precisely that clumsily, no matter what.
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  994. An employment as a police officer is a license. That license shouldn't be handed out unqualified.
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  995. There are languages where that's far closer to truth. Of course some people complain bitterly when GHC says their program is incomplete rather than produce a broken executable. Ada in particular was designed with this goal, published in 1983, but it likely never will get the huge marketing campaigns Rust or Java enjoyed.
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  996. This certainly marks the difference between plain poor design and designed to actively fight against usability. The latter is what all DRM is; you get to pay for your stuff to not work.
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  997.  @ribzer57  He didn't buy this printer; it was sent to him by the manufacturer, which is why he tagged it as a sponsored video.
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  998.  @ribzer57  Sorry, I was missing some context. Yeah, they might be able to use that. As you say, it could save the expense of getting another piece of equipment. It might be worth replacing it simply to be rid of the brand; that's a personal value judgment and possible message. It could also be of interest to have just one brand of printer driver (wouldn't it be lovely if one was actually nice?). There's also value in keeping things from becoming waste. Plenty of reasons on either side, many of which are subjective.
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  999. I for one would prefer to buy hardware not specifically sabotaged to fight against me as owner and the actual purpose of the device.
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  1000. CPUs often have more adder/subtractors than right shift units, all operating at the same speed. Left shift is a little more common as it's used in address indexing.
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  1001. May be even more closely related to Swedish knipa (we also have knipsa), which means to grab and pinch hard, possibly using a tool like these (called polygrip). It's also bemusing how people shove an extra vowel between the k and n. That's entirely unnecessary in our ever smooth language where västkustskt strandlandskap has eight distinct consonants in a row... makes for a bit of a tongue twister, admittedly.
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  1002. Supply flexibility. If you only need e.g. standard ONFI Flash, no controllers, it's easier to make storage modules by demand or opportunity. Of course, that didn't require making the controller need separate configuration.
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  1003. ​ @macethorns1168 It's a real problem but doesn't really affect Windows in particular, because it's relegated to the storage controllers inside the SSDs or hard drives (yes, they have them too, ever since SCSI and ATA). Some Linux systems expose this, e.g. when using UBIFS it takes time to load remappings by scanning the entire memory (if you can't reliably erase them, you may need to compare all to find the latest).
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  1004. I suspect the number of packages is rather inflated by things like the entire Hackage being automatically duplicated for each GHC version. And not in the ways that fit together like Stackage, either. All too often I try something in NixOS only to find the package exists but doesn't work. The most baffling choice was the nix command itself removing the search function (it WAS working) and replacing it with instructions to enable new experimental functions that don't work the same way. Other times packages are just tagged as non-working.
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  1005. But the task is; each of the moves is necessary.
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  1006.  @mjc0961  "Smart" devices remove controls like that to "encourage" installing the spyware app. And then they claim that's both convenient and pretty.
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  1007.  @deenot4878  You sound like the sort of person who gets upset about someone wishing you a good night.
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  1008. ​ @justme5384  We'll just hope that VMware and the firmware vendor of your servers didn't choose to do this sort of thing to you.
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  1009. I submit that at 5:02, what we learn about the red stickers isn't that their hue isn't pure, but that their albedo (specifically in red, but also in general) is lower than white. In a hue/saturation/value colour space, that means its value is lower, but the saturation may still be full.
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  1010. PDFs don't need anything to be white; you can tag any element, visible or not, to contain arbitrary text, similar to the alt text of images in HTML.
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  1011. Oscar Swida Thanks for looking it up. That makes it a 3D light field (2d placement + 1d horisontal angle), and with 45 simultaneous views, still a few steps beyond what a 3DS can do. Limited but still fairly impressive. If you add face tracking you can still do vertical perspective, but it would need another layer.
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  1012. Pedro Alfaiate Not necessarily, it would be limited to one eye per horisontal position though. Probably not implemented.
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  1013. Guess what the most effective advertising model around is? Shareware. Basically "the first hit is free", usually a portion of the program is free and you request payment for the rest. You may have heard of it as demos. Apps don't need ads and never have. Secondly, there are absolutely a lot of things shared freely. Sadly, Youtube's model isn't of the teasing kind, it's of the extortion kind; they're degrading what they already provided instead of offering more.
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  1014. So that's 10% of an uncountable number of fragments (probably just a few hundred thousand) still being a threat three months later... if the people firing weapons into space got their model perfectly right.
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  1015. This is worse than not giving options; they've actively destroyed those options, a specifically anti-competition (and markedly anti-customer) sabotage.
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  1016. PS3 was pretty nice, except the times they launched "updates" specifically to destroy the features I bought it for. Sony is absolutely nobody's friend.
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  1017. Pretty sure this is ecoterrorism on a monstrous scale.
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  1018.  @lindadeeds5326  Thank you. RBC Ukraine reported a little more detail: the third ship leaked internally, not into the sea.
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  1019. OTOH, shipwrecklog reports they did also leak mazut overboard. So, smaller disaster.
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  1020. Not really. Using it to outsource the role of database manager is insane.
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  1021. Ryan George has left a helpful walkthrough of the Amazon shopping experience here on YouTube, titled "What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like".
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  1022. It's not because it's 720p the stream looked like crap. It's because Netflix specifically choose to make it crap, by compressing it to lower bit rates than a DVD (and with lower encoding effort). 720p on its own would look rather fuzzy, not blocky. Just another way they actively choose to screw their customers over. Every company touching DRM is sending you a clear signal; if you try to make a deal with them, they will screw you over and accuse you first.
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  1023. Another detail is how the shadow banning system works. Youtube don't delete comments when one account posts 60 copies of the same message in reply to every top level comment. They do delete my comments without warning if I edit to include a source reference.
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  1024.  @jackevans2386  That's about interactivity. Interpreters let you feed the computer commands piecewise. There are also options producing native and optimized code, e.g. PyPy, MicroPython, Theano, Julia or GHCi. The language you'll find in pretty much all modern computers is Javascript, though usually lacking a REPL. Some OS vendors consider it more important to turn computers into billboards than to help users control them nowadays, so it's annoyingly buried under the hood; OLPC Sugar aimed at not having such a barrier.
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