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Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:33AM (#49724010)
> What even is "system one"

I definitely agree it's underexplained in type safe.ai's materials.

I have to assume it's a reference to the fast, heuristic, intuitive "system 1" process in humans, as opposed to the slow, procedural, reasoning "system 2".

This theory is recognized, among others, in Daniel Kahneman 2002 Nobel prize on Economics.

The post you replied to is a reference to Bandit saying "it's just monkeys singing songs, mate", when he goes to the movies with Bluey.
Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:41AM (#42388160)
It looks like the reporter did as much reporting as they could do before being thrown out.
Re:A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers on Sunday June 30, 2024 @08:32AM (#40836805)
FYI, from the project's Readme:

> In case you don't have a GPU available, there are software rendered releases available for Windows and macOS

Thanks!

Adding source, on Flightradar24 itself (same as the article): https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vt-alh

Re:Rust, RR, Neovim: A perfect debug combination on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:05AM (#35523393)
termdebug (used by the tool linked in the topic) basically does this for anything you can debug in GDB. It's the tightest integration of debuggers and (neo)vim I have used.

There are also DAP-based integrations, which I have put the effort into using.

Re:Galois field instructions on 2021 CPUs on Sunday November 06, 2022 @01:05PM (#33495357)
Expanding on this,a very nice property of Galois Counter Mode (GCM) for AES is that encrypting one block does not require the previous block to be encrypted, like in AES-CBC.

This means that AES-GCM can take advantage of data parallelism and there are big speedups in threaded and pipelined CPUs.

In short, you can get big latency and throughout gains by using AES-GCM over AES-CBC.

Teeth will be replaced one by one, and their mouth microbiome and habits will not be replaced wholesale.

Yeah, adult teeth erase some of the damage but it's not a fresh start.

Re:The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video] on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:51AM (#32938130)
Maybe that's why it did not make it past pilot. Why reshoot if it's going to be so similar?
Re:The Dynamics of Music Exploration on Spotify on Friday July 29, 2022 @03:23AM (#32274034)
> Exploration spikes around Christmas, for example, during which people may be influenced to seek out season-specific music.

For my case, exploration does spike around Christmas, but this is due to all the "best albums of the year" lists coming out.

I get more than my fill of Christmas music involuntarily, no need to "discover" more.

Re:Spotify to acquire Heardle on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:56PM (#32074240)
The transition is rocky. I seem to have lost my stats - more than 100 days of results...

Good for the devs, but sucks for me and the group of friends who were informally competing

Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:30AM (#31848825)
Should be tagged (2021)
Re:My 40-liter backpack travel guide on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:56PM (#31814975)
I had the exact same immediate reaction. If you're out of sync with the times, that makes two of us...
I've never been in a war zone. I could not play more than 10 minutes of that game, as I was becoming so stressed.

Having a quit button is the best part of these video game experiences.

Is that list of tech stacks complete?

Personally I am looking for such a tool but have a hard requirement for native compiled languages (C/C++/Rust).

I know that there is some transfer - a good developer that does a decent Python/Go exercise likely could also be good in other languages. But candidates might not want to do that transition.

Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:01AM (#29980146)
I've noticed :/

I'm hoping the Steam Deck will provide a more open portable console.

Re:The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013) on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:57PM (#29939512)
Portuguese (at least the one from Portugal) has 9 vowel phonemes, compared to 5 for spanish. If you count the nasals it's 14. And you can add some additional vowel richness in diphthongs.

It's very very varied phonetically when compared to the neighboring Spanish, which IIRC underwent considerable simplification at in the 16th century with unification of Spain.

I've heard many French and Spanish native speakers expressing the difficulty to understand it.

Source: Portuguese native speaker with decades-long immersion in Spanish and French-speaking communities.

Re:The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013) on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:30AM (#29935644)
Actually, I am familiar with a rolling r such as in English 'rat', used in place of the the initial R or double RR, in rural central and northern Portugal.

The linked article acknowledges this at the end

Re:Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux on Sunday January 02, 2022 @07:56AM (#29768359)
From one of the printouts in the post, it seems that Papers Please is using a bundled and statically linked SDL.

So it would be the game developer that would have to update the version of the SDL library. The binary patching done seems like a good-enough alternative in the meantime.

I have the feeling such bundling of dependencies is fairly common when porting games for Linux.

Re:Sayonara, C++, and Hello to Rust on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:37AM (#29470274)
> Btw. Who likes C++ templates?

Saying I like them is a stretch, but I prefer to write a C++ template rather than a macro (C++ or Rust) any day.

All ToF systems are active.

ToF stands for "time of flight". It works exactly by measuring how long the signal takes to go from camera to object and back [1]

Stereoscopic cameras are another type of 3R camera, they are not ToF and they are not active.

Each has pros and cons.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-flight_camera

Re:GTFOBins on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:15AM (#28849615)
There is a feature of sudo to allow only certain user/command combinations. E.g. User M can only run "apt" under sudo.

The site explains how User M can exploit such situations to bypass this restriction. User M can thus effectively run anything under sudo.

That problem is completely avoided in Belgian law, via the following rule:

When you sell your fraction, you get the corresponding share of the reserves. When you buy a fraction, you must contribute the corresponding share of the reserves.

The cynic in me suspects that this is intentionally obfuscated to the readers not already in the know.

Whereaa few of the general public are likely the target user of a CDP (customer data platform), they are likely the actual target of the product: they will have their data and interactions detailely stored and processed via this platform. However well done this may be, it is more comfortable not to be too aware about it.

Well, it's hard to compare. Those two countries don't give much opportunity to discuss transfers of political power.

Israel, on the other hand, has been giving bit of a politics show for the past what, a year or more?

Exactly, I was also befuddled by this.

From sibling comment's link, it is actually "LTSC": Long-Term Support Channel.

Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:27AM (#27221520)
That is true, but it is also true that the WordPress and PHP running on that ARM lambda will not be as stable as the x86 lambda if the vast majority of their developers only run x86 at home.
Re:Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:52AM (#26832254)
Hear hear!

Here's to hoping that inclusion in the kernel will provide the motivation for addressing this in Rust.

This is a point that may benefit from the new backing of Rust by the foundation - non-userspace was a side thing for Mozilla, but in Google and Amazon they have some core stuff depending on kernel.

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