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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:38AM (#50273347)
And on Pi Day they were $3.14. I'd go every year, it's a neat little machine.
You could even calculate the 100 random numbers up front and potentially stop iterating early.
And the windows keep getting smaller, the beltlines higher, the seats more cramped, though I don't have statistics to back up any of that.
Re:The largest number representable in 64 bits on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:20PM (#46860881)
I can do it in half a bit
The school speed limit there is 15 mph, and that wasn't enough to prevent an accident.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/child-struck-waymo-near-...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7PcB2zskuKyYB56W8?g_st=ac

Don't take him to the MoMA he'll need his stomach pumped.
Re:You can make up HTML tags on Monday December 29, 2025 @03:07PM (#46424918)
If you use the predefined HTML tags you also get whatever default styling the browser decided is appropriate.
"the default is a dollar"

There is no default price.

Re:I just want working RCS messaging on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:24PM (#45982178)
Do you mean my message inbox isn't supposed to look like this? https://i.ibb.co/mFhdGkbH/Samsung-Google-Android-Messages.jp...

This has been a problem (for others) for years and apparently nobody knows why or how to fix it. So go through a checklist of disabling, uninstalling, clearing, removing, inserting, restarting, updating, toggling, calling, waiting, praying.

Re:They Clean the Balls in a Ball Pit on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:32AM (#45593233)
How do they clean the blocks in a foam pit?
Re:Death by AI on Sunday July 20, 2025 @12:34AM (#44622006)
I went to a party today at a park. Google maps wanted me to drive my car on the walking path to the picnic pavilion. Here, you can get the same directions: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/38.8615917,-77.1034763/Alcov...
Re:Why are there no good dinosaur films? on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @11:06AM (#44500701)
When I was a kid I loved "Dinosaur Time" by Peggy Parish (and illustrated by Arnold Lobel). Originally published in 1974 it ends, "Dinosaurs lived everywhere for a long time. Then they died. Nobody knows why. But once it was their world. It was Dinosaur Time."

There was a revision to the book (not sure the date) with changes to the text and an expanded author's note at the end that talks about the new things we understand about dinosaurs including how Brachiosaurus are no longer believed to have spent their time in water to support their weight and how it's now believed an asteroid killed off the dinosaurs.

Original: https://archive.org/details/dinosaurtime00pari

Re:Decibels Are Ridiculous on Thursday May 22, 2025 @10:45AM (#44062616)
Yes, dB is a mess and if we could do it again we ought to use something more explicit like just annotating the units with log10 such as log10(W). Then it's easy to use other convenient units like log2(W) or if you want to reproduce dBV: 20log10(V). dB is fine shorthand, but it gets used all the time in places where things should be explicit.
Re:"The Great Gatsby" Took over High School on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @10:40AM (#43985118)
How else are you supposed to know that you've grown since highschool if you can't reread Catcher in the Rye in a different light?
Re:Find the Odd Disk on Sunday April 20, 2025 @09:17PM (#43747768)
I noticed this too. I did much better covering up two of the disks and looking at them one at a time, or comparing pairs of disks.
Yes that's right. The manufacturing cost in the US would have to be $46 or less to undercut the import. So ignoring tax changes, something like...

A Made in USA shoe that sells for $100:

- $7+ goes to the US gov't (? shoemaker tax, 3 Nike tax, 4 Footlocker tax)

- $79 goes to US employees or businesses (46 to shoemaker, 5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $7 goes to Nike (11% return, 7.15 exactly)

- $7 goes to Footlocker (8% return, 7.45 exactly)

Trying to summarize the summary for myself

From a $100 shoe that sells for $76:

- $24 goes overseas (22 cost, 2 freight)

- $8 goes to the US gov't (3 import, 2 Nike tax, 3 Footlocker tax)

- $33 goes to US employees or businesses (5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $5 goes to Nike (11% return)

- $6 goes to Footlocker (8% return)

But now with 100% tariffs, it's a $100 shoe that sells for $100 (or a $132 shoe that sells for $100) and:

- $24 goes overseas (22 cost, 2 freight)

- $29 goes to the US gov't (22 import, 3 Nike tax, 4 Footlocker tax)

- $33 goes to US employees or businesses (5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $7 goes to Nike (11% return, 7.15 exactly)

- $7 goes to Footlocker (8% return, 7.45 exactly)

And if a US shoemaker wanted to undercut the import, a Made in USA shoe that sells for $100:

- $7+ goes to the US gov't (? shoemaker tax, 3 Nike tax, 4 Footlocker tax)

- $79 goes to US employees or businesses (46 to shoemaker, 5 Nike marketing, 11 Nike expenses, 17 Footlocker expenses)

- $7 goes to Nike (11% return, 7.15 exactly)

- $7 goes to Footlocker (8% return, 7.45 exactly)

Re:I've Acquired a New Superpower on Saturday January 11, 2025 @12:02AM (#42663450)
For when you feel a sneeze coming on:

- Want to sneeze? Look at a bright light.

- Don't want to sneeze? Scratch your ear.

Re:You need 4 colors on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:31AM (#42388758)
Well these are the colors they define:

    --primary-color: hsl(var(--hue), 50%, 90%);
    --pre-primary-color: hsl(var(--hue), 50%, 95%);
    --secondary-color: hsl(var(--hue), 50%, 10%);
    --tertiary-color: hsl(var(--tertiary-hue), 80%, 20%);
    --accent-color: hsl(var(--accent-hue), 80%, 20%);
As I see it that's either 3 colors or 5 colors but not 4
Re:Passport Photos on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @10:52PM (#42073205)
A tip for 10 years from now: take the picture with diffuse backlighting and you can easily blow out the background completely. For example, a sheer curtain in front of an outdoor window is just about perfect.
Re:Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Joyful Life on Friday October 25, 2024 @06:08PM (#41950297)
You're not reading it right. The labels overlap, they are not disjoint.
I wrote a kaleidoscope simulator. You know, a virtual tray filled with hundreds of little plastic beads of various shapes and colors that tumble around when you press the keys, with the camera displayed on a grid of triangles. I wrote it in Rust using Bevy, which was great, but it wouldn't work in WASM for some reason (simpler projects did just fine) and getting it running in the browser was the goal so I uh dropped the project.
Re:Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @11:36AM (#41512380)
Re: on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @12:57AM (#41167894)
Yelp is bad (really bad) but so is everyone else. I still use them on road trips alongside Google Maps and Apple Maps simply because none of them show all the restaurants in an area. It's kind of unbelievable how frustrating it is to try to get a complete look at all the restaurants nearby some location. Then again, it's a good trip if Google Maps doesn't ask me to turn left across three lanes onto a private alley and right through a brick wall (true story).
I've had a pretty awesome experience with this, even with an old 8 GB AMD card. It's not perfect, but being able to run models locally within the paint app while mixing different control layers feels like the future.
Google screwed up my address by deciding that "E" should be spelled out "East". The county uses "E", the street sign says "E", Bing says "E" (not that they're any authority on the matter), but Google says "East" and now Walmart won't deliver things to my actual address.

I don't know a lot about systems/processes/protocol and the correct jargon, but my sense is that the problem isn't just technical. They could support ' just as well as E. But the scale of these automated systems chokes on these little quirks and they get amplified a huge amount and quickly become big problems.

Re:LLMs Can't Do Probability on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @01:07PM (#40226110)
Gotta say, I was not expecting Baz there.

Regarding [1], for the dice roll I was creating a new chat for each roll to ensure that the results of each roll are (in some sense) independent. Generating a sequence of rolls is also interesting, just a different experiment.

Re:LLMs Can't Do Probability on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @11:46AM (#40224924)
With ChatGPT 3.5, new chats prompted with: "Simulate a dice roll and report the number resulting from the roll. Only reply 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 and nothing else."

So far I've got: 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5.

Of course I'm not the first to do this: https://piunikaweb.com/2023/05/23/does-chatgpt-ai-struggle-w...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13nrmzw/in_every_c...

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