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Re:The last time my family was replaced by technology on Thursday October 01, 2026 @12:51PM (#49924109)
Just because there are open problems AI cannot solve, it does not mean you can make meaningful contributions. AI might become more capable than you in every way. Say AI cannot solve P vs NP. You can dedicate your life to the problem and will not make progress. Similar for more worldly problems like new treatments. Or societal problems. You are the cow.
Re:Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:58PM (#49635032)
It's not that simple, road damage is famously non-linear in axle load: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
That is possible while openly stating your products price.
Re:The room the economy can't see on Friday June 19, 2026 @10:35AM (#48599106)
On your start page, under all posts (which seem to be chronological), it sits below "The room the economy can’t see", so I did not associate it with the follow up.
I wish people would gamble with something other than a proof-of-work coin. There are very similar alternatives now. When bitcoin rises, more money is spent on mining. Whoever holds bitcoin is in part responsible for this waste of energy.
Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician on Sunday June 29, 2025 @08:41AM (#44412642)
"Strip club visit to onlyfans" is more apt
What is missing for you in Alovoa? Can you maybe contribute it?
Orange oil works wonders. It's explicitly not food safe, but you get that stuff on your hand every time you peel an orange and it's also present in juice. Just rinse them afterwards and wear gloves.
Re:Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR on Monday September 23, 2024 @03:47AM (#41623438)
Sure if you are already airing every hour you don't need it. Then for me it was surprising how often I have to air and for how long (also depends on draft and temperature difference). Once you take into account the more harmful particulate matter coming in from outside, it's about finding a compromise, and without measuring you are tapping in the dark. But in the end people get old without all that stuff.
Re:The Nigerian professor who makes more money welding on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @01:14AM (#39200581)
The professors I know are experts in their small domain (and most of them are really smart, but this is not my point here). They know all the nitty details, I am always amazed by their wide knowledge in discussions. I think for a society it is easily worth it to pay people to dig so deep into their field of interest and the market is not the right mechanism to enable that. I also think Youtube is nice to get started, but I found it insufficient for graduate level material.
Re:Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:52AM (#38300714)
Yeah, you only ever hear the naysayers. So second voice to combat that: I like the integration and use it with (admittedly few) selected friends to split bills. And I think it fits signals mission.
Would you expand a bit on the shortcomings? I'm under the impression artificial life was an attempt in the 90s and after some disappointments fizzled away. Why is simple copying with mutation not sufficient for real evolution? In my naivety I hoped it would lead to digital evolution finding exploits to proliferate across the internet.
Re:Learning Zig on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @09:10AM (#37480611)
"70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues" (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...)
Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @04:27AM (#37402609)
In Germany, there is an account people can donate money to, to reduce state debt ("Schuldentilgungskonto"), without any personal benefit. It's not even tax deductible. I think that would qualify to refute your last paragraph. It's not used a lot, though. 1.33M in 16 years.
Re:PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years on Sunday February 12, 2023 @03:48PM (#34766781)
If it comes to that, I expect manufacturers to design processors in a way that electromigration limits their lifetime.
Maybe take a look at evcxr, it runs in a terminal and is REPL like. When I'm dabbling in rust, I use it e.g. to quickly try out library functions and how to work with the result. But I'm just getting started.
Is it just about a REPL? There is the evcxr hack, though I'm not sure how far you can take it.
The paper packaging of Wasa has a thin plastic liner, which you can see stretching by slowly tearing the paper. It is probably better that the thicker FinnCrisp plastic, but Wasa paper does not belong in the paper bin for recycling.
Re:The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:27AM (#33448382)
I learned something, thanks. One of Chen's arguments is, that C allows better memory control compared to C++. For example, it's easy to place the vtable in pageable memory instead of non-pageable memory. Do you know if rust has this problem too, since it also uses vtables?
Doing it with 'clap = "4.0"' gives me 46MB. Still surprisingly large.
Re:Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:25AM (#32895334)
From your source: "The proposal [to open Northstream 2] is rejected by a majority (53 per cent), but just over a third would be in favour."
To quote their FAQs:

>Is it firesafe?

>WikiHouse is not really any different from most kinds of 1-3 storey buildings with timber roof, floors, or internal walls, in that the building needs to be designed with adequate means of escape, and the chassis needs to be reasonably protected from catching fire. This can usually be achieved either with a plasterboard internal lining, by using a non-toxic fire protection coating, or by installing a basic sprinkler system.

>If you are building several adjacent houses, located close together in a row, you will usually need to use an external fire barrier material to prevent fire spreading from one building to the next.

From their FAQs:

>Which material is better, ply or OSB?

>Ply is lighter and generally better structurally but more expensive. OSB is cheaper but heavier. With the recent research on WikiHouse Skylark we did test both materials, but in terms of the full spanning floor beams it’s clear ply offers advantages in terms of strength but also because it’s lighter it’s easier to move and carry. A hybrid approach is also a possibility.

Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @05:50PM (#31842305)
If the phone is rooted, you can use Advanced Charging Controller to cycle it between min/max values. That would only prolong it, of course.
I think he is right. One of the places google servers are used is captive portal checks [1]. Here is a, albeit not very deep, thread discussing how to disable it and you can easily find reports of losing internet access on lineage if you block google addresses on your network. Otherwise a connection to google servers is made every hour or so.

I remember reading, that this is not the only place in LOS, that google servers are used, but I never looked into it.

1: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-how-to-avoid-the-ca...

Not the one you asked. But I just install lunarvim when I want a fat IDE. It has many of the bells and whistles like lsp and linter preconfigured. It's started with a different command, lvim, so I can still fire up normal vim on a rust file if I just want to read it or whatever. I used to use coc.nvim, but lunarvim has easy integration for several languages and it's very painless to set up. I'm not customising the normal vim anymore, the linux distribution's defaults are fine. There are other vim 'distributions' with IDE like features besides lunarvim.
I think Öffi/Offi does that. I install one app and get three icons with different functionalities. I think it's a bit annoying, because I cannot hide them individually.
I agree with bitcoin specifically. When it started it was useful to me for cheap cross border value transfer and timestamping. Now we have alternatives. I still would prefer if a more efficient payment mechanism was widespread, that hides my transaction details from the payment processor.

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