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Germany is ruining Europe the third time in 100 years. That’s quite a feat!
Re:Why Wasn’t the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? on Friday October 14, 2022 @10:27AM (#33203938)
Resistor matching is still a thing to this day.
Re:TikTok has an open computational chemistry position on Friday October 14, 2022 @10:23AM (#33203893)
I’ve heard they received some kind of government healthcare grant early on, which requires them to keep providing services under the TikTok name for at least 15 years.
Re:TikTok has an open computational chemistry position on Friday October 14, 2022 @10:12AM (#33203749)
And it was a resounding success! (Not)
Re:TikTok has an open computational chemistry position on Friday October 14, 2022 @10:10AM (#33203727)
People seem to forget that TikTok was originally a pharmaceutical startup…
Re:A DRAM Failure on Friday October 14, 2022 @07:21AM (#33202060)
What does uncorrectable error mean in RAM? I’ve read somewhere that they use Hamming codes for ECC RAM. Isn’t it the case that too many errors (more than floor((d - 1) / 2)) simply result in an incorrect codeword? Or do they know the error locations a priori? (i.e. erasure coding)
Re:What influences keyboard input speed (2018) on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:04PM (#33193718)
Maybe you’re getting slower at the same rate as computers ;-)
Re:What influences keyboard input speed (2018) on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:57AM (#33191009)
Why does debouncing increase latency? Can’t they report the keypress immediately on the first signal spike, and then use the debounce timer to ensure that no additional presses are reported within the debounce interval?

Or are switches generating spurious signal spikes even when left untouched? That would explain why they need to delay the keypress…

Re:Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:10AM (#33189217)
>free forever

Like Geocities?

What is this comment about?
Re:AI Language Models Are Struggling to “Get” Math on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:53AM (#33178812)
Even if neural networks were fundamentally incompatible with conventional computation, I don't see why you couldn't augment a neural network with a conventional ALU to do the numerical computations. This is exactly what humans do with pencil and paper - it's just a bit too slow.
Re:Carmack Unscripted on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:02PM (#33170910)
Funny, but work anniversaries at FB are literally called “Metaversary” after the Meta rebranding.

Also, your colleagues are your “Metamates”. I’m not even kidding.

Re:Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:35PM (#33166261)
I stopped too, after they threw back some of my reports because they were missing some completely unrelated generic diagnostic info (like which MacBook generation was I using, even if the bug was 100% reproducible everywhere), even though I’ve provided them a minimal working example on GitHub, and even the method name of the problematic private API.
Re:/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:28PM (#33166146)
“Oh no! Someone asked something on the Internet that I consider inappropriate!”

You know there are communities/societies where people openly discuss their salary, right?

Re:/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:15PM (#33165967)
How much?
Re:Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:11PM (#33165916)
How about instead fixing any of the hundreds of well-documented bugreports raised by your developers instead?
Re:Geothermal May Beat Batteries for Energy Storage on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @07:45AM (#33162149)
Geothermal smartphones when?
Re:Quiet Quitting on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:19AM (#33152474)
Step 1: *systematically kill the middle class over a generation*

Step 2: "noooooo, why are these workers not pushing themselves like they used to? are you not believing in our mission statement? but we've introduced Pride Month this year! what else do you want???"

Step 3: ???

Re:Your browsing behavior is being modeled as a language on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:17AM (#33150979)
This is not an article. This is a so-called content marketing piece.
Re:Your browsing behavior is being modeled as a language on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:09AM (#33150894)
And it’s still mostly shit.
The H1B benefit only applies if you have a Masters from a U.S. university.
Predicting the minimum-energy configuration of any physical system that can be modeled with a cluster of bubbles.
Re:Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:46PM (#33142860)
2 hours ago, when you made your comment, it wasn’t morning in Dublin. It was mid-afternoon.
Re:Algebraic Geometry for Computer Graphics - Jim Blinn on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:53PM (#33135433)
I remember watching this Jim Blinn seminar on tensor diagrams from the University of Utah: https://youtu.be/40TdlWURkS8

I understood maybe a third of what he’s talking about, but it’s fascinating.

He seems to be using similar slides than the one on this page.

Re:Algebraic Geometry for Computer Graphics - Jim Blinn on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:50PM (#33135408)
Geometric algebra is not the same as algebraic geometry.
Re:4x4 ASCII Font on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:29PM (#33128654)
Unfortunately there’s no hope for upgrading it to full Unicode coverage, as 2^16 is less than half the number of Unicode characters :(
Re:Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:19PM (#33128156)
Oh it's very simple. I can show you if you give me my luggage with the AirTag ;)
Re:Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:02PM (#33128011)
It's a bullshit excuse and they know it. Lufthansa even has on-board WiFi on their planes. How are you going to use it if your laptop is supposed to have "transmission function" turned off?

They just don't want people to have proof they've lost their luggage.

Re:Vectors are over, hashes are the future on Friday October 07, 2022 @04:09PM (#33126304)
Pfhew, I thought you wanted to ditch std::vector for hash maps!

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