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Having more than one account isn't against Reddit's ToS.

If you use your different accounts in different subreddits and never have your accounts interact, you won't be banned.

The only place PFAS is used in an FDM printer is the filament guide some printers have. That's a Teflon tube that the filament travels in towards the hotend. Bowden style printers tend to have a long tube, direct drive printers sometimes have a short tube fully contained in the hotend assembly.

I don't see how PFAS can be used as a filament in FDM printer. It's not a thermoplastic, that's one of its advantages as a material.

Re:No adblocker detected on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:34AM (#45181096)
If you built your own app that does exactly what you want for your own use, kudos and more power to you. But otherwise...

You're competing with Google. The built-in Drive app does document scanning.

Re:Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:01AM (#44960071)
> You search for matching documents in your vector database / index. Once you have found the potentially relevant list of documents you check which ones can the current user access. You only pass the ones over to the LLM which the user can see.

Sometimes the potentially relevant list of documents itself is a leak all by itself.

Re:Basic Social Skills Guide on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:40AM (#44861989)
I read that as the author, going to the funeral, broke down. That is they felt devastated emotionally, internally and possibly externally as in "broke down crying".

The funeral itself probably continued without any issues. I guess that's another social skills lesson, the world carries on regardless of your emotions.

MSVC always focused on C++, and C was treated as an afterthought.
Re:The Illustrated Guide to a PhD on Sunday January 12, 2025 @06:15AM (#42672744)
Sorry, I'm having trouble parsing your point.

"Professional degree" is juxtaposed with "research degree". So if you say it's a professional degree, you're basically agreeing it's not a research degree...

In my country at least MDs are not required to be researchers and the degree has no novelty requirements. They're required to be competent medical professionals.

There are countries where the base medical degree is the MBBS and MD is a graduate research doctorate. That's not what I'm talking about here.

I'm not talking about "difficulty", by the way. Just the differences between the degrees.

Re:The Illustrated Guide to a PhD on Sunday January 12, 2025 @04:47AM (#42672398)
It's still a 5-6 year degree, as opposed to a 3-4 year bachelor's.

I agree it's not a research degree though... But some master programs don't include writing a research thesis either.

Re:The Illustrated Guide to a PhD on Sunday January 12, 2025 @03:49AM (#42672177)
That's not right. A PhD is a PhD.

An MD (Medical Doctorate) is like a master's degree. It's not like a bachelor's because many MD programs start out with or require a BSc, biology is a popular choice but a lot of STEM majors are possible.

But MD+PhD programs exist and those are definitely PhDs.

You are right that an MD is not a PhD, though. Notice how they don't call it a PhD.

Re:Xiaomi has provided official support for Home Assistant on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @06:11AM (#42440392)
Um, what?

It's perfectly fine to make a business implementing, installing, or supporting FOSS software. I would even consider that a positive thing. Even if you don't (or can't!) help the upstream development.

And in other cases the text is there because it has been used in other legal documents, and might not be needed for this document, but those documents were good and it doesn't cost anything to put that text in so we should keep using it.

In other words it's a cargo cult.

Looks fine here, maybe they're blocking your IP range for some reason?
Re:What Happened to the Japanese PC Platforms? on Sunday September 22, 2024 @06:42AM (#41616138)
In popular culture, the Hitachi H8 microprocessor was referenced in the song Space Dementia by Muse.

> Q - "What does "H Eight" mean?"

> Matt [Bellamy]: Using a microcomputer (Hitachi H8 / 3048F) which can be built into the industrialmachines, you can learn and understand the inputs /outputs of the microcomputer as a basis of robot control and conduct theexperiments by C-language for steppingmotor control, servomotor control (PWM control) and serial communication. H8 model, a 16-bit microcomputer consists of 32-bit registers, has a flash ROM of 128KB, a RAM of 4KB (SRAM) with external extension of 128KB and 78 I/O terminals with the built-in A/D and D/Aconverters. H8 is a microcomputer usually built into a TV, VTR, mobile-phone and car navigator. Since it has ample I/O terminals, H8 microcomputer is also used as a brain of a small robot.

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20160406073458/https://www.micro...

It's more for sound engineers than musicians, but Adobe Audition exists.
Re:Not all Graphs are Trees on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @11:15PM (#40232342)
There's Souffle[1] that can synthesize C++ for you that you then compile with the rest of your C++.

[1]: https://souffle-lang.github.io/

Re:Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:40AM (#40063174)
The parents of millennials are baby boomers.

The parents of Gen Z are mostly Gen X.

Re:2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi Wigderson on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:07PM (#39998029)
Haifa is the only city in Israel to have two public universities (excluding branches of the Open University.)

I can see the reporter reading that he attended university in Haifa and misconstruing that to mean the University of Haifa...

Re:Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:37PM (#39880528)
That's for 2 reasons:

1. It might not be there in the place where you're looking. It exists in the m4 in the release tarballs, not in the git repo.

2. It's highly obfuscated.

Re:Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023) on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:27AM (#39186991)
Passwords are useless if only you know them.

You can use private keys like that, but people are not expected to remember them.

Re:Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing? on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:49AM (#38912694)
Papers usually use publication date, and this is a preprint - it is to be published in NSDI'24, which will be in 3 months from now.

Usually the final paper PDF, from the conference proceedings, contains the publication information.

Re:Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:39AM (#38484555)
Iron Dome missiles reportedly cost $60k, and that is considered cheap.
The article clearly calls for legislative action, which isn't personal.
I have never seen a "best viewed in Chrome" alert. Maybe in a tech demo or something like that. Even Google products work fine in Firefox.
Not an expert, but what I'm understanding is this:

With a regular simulation, whether analogue or digital, you create a mathematical model, and evaluate that model in some way to get a result, which hopefully matches the actual phenomena in whatever it is you were trying to simulate.

Here, it's more like instead of measuring the phenomena, they instead measured something that is physically related to that phenomena. There seems to be no modelling involved.

Re:Compile-time and short-circuit evaluation on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:06PM (#37355626)
Alternatively, use tree-sitter[0] for the tooling.

[0] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

Re:Patterns with Rust Types on Friday September 01, 2023 @03:41PM (#37355333)
That's a quirk of the language, sure, but it's barely an issue, and definitely not a worse issue. Don't get many wrong, Java has many issues, but this barely qualifies.

You don't compare non-primitives (which boxed integers are) with == in Java, you use the equals method.

Re:Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu on Friday August 25, 2023 @01:15PM (#37264346)
The Debian wiki explanation[1] is technical, but it's definitely shorter than a book, and if you're running your own kernels it shouldn't be too difficult.

It gives you the "here, run these commands" version if that's what you want.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#MOK_-_Machine_Owner_Key

Re:Amsterdam to use “noise cameras” against too loud cars on Saturday August 19, 2023 @08:37AM (#37188150)
Some people optimize for the noise, and not performance, for the same reason people stick racing decals and put a spoiler on a car that doesn't really need it.

Heck, some people will literally drill a hole in the exhaust to get that noise, for absolutely no performance benefit whatsoever.

Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:54AM (#37172537)
> Testing changes a lot right after a release

You're right. But, to be honest: my solution to that is to run unstable.

The knowledge graph is Wikipedia, that they use under license, or other sources that they have paid for a license to use.

What you're thinking of is "featured snippets". As far as I know, the justification behind those is that they are exact quotes that are followed by a citation (a link). Google argues those are fair use, since it's a properly referenced quote.

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