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Re:Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease on Saturday November 08, 2025 @12:14PM (#45858245)
Promoting good habits is good but this is health advice from an unlicensed commenter to say rice and beans is better than taking a statin. Consult your doctor if you’re curious what to do.
You should consider finding a career coach, professional therapist. This level of pessimism can't be healthy.
Every day I am shocked that books in the public domain on Kindle don't have X-Ray enabled. I am unable to find a copy of War and Peace for instance with X-Ray so I can keep track of all the characters and places. I'm not saying the world isn't going to shit but AI can help fill in feature gaps that the big-box developers have not bothered with.
I saw the ToC request as a demo of the capabilities, not a statement on the full value proposition. There are a LOT of valuable features in here that are not offered in Kindle or other ebook readers.
That is _really_ big. It will likely crack the top 8 ever recorded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes
Re:Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon [video] on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:28PM (#42965078)
Aaaaaand it’s gone from YouTube.
Most factory chisels are not laminations like hand made Japanese ones are. They are just a single alloy.
Selection of metal, lamination, presence of a ura (裏), handle material, the ability to make a new handle and attach it to the original metal. A metal chosen for an extreme sharpness may be terribly difficult to sharpen, a metal easy to sharpen may not hold an edge for long.
You are directionally correct but the top of the line chisels are in fact hand made in Japan and I suspect the same for knives. Lee Valley and some other higher end manufacturers make some damn fine chisels but chisels are hand tools and I would guess 9/10 woodworkers who use chisels will choose hand made Japanese chisels over any factory manufactured tools.
Re:Tesla Robotaxi on Thursday October 10, 2024 @11:34PM (#41805767)
Without a doubt speculators will flood this comment either way.
Re:The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @06:35PM (#41641695)
If you don't see the contradiction in JPL having an active research project to put a radio telescope on the moon and your original statement then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
Re:The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @04:44PM (#41640724)
You didn't read the article, it _specifically_ mentions JPL's proposal for the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope concept "nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (J.P.L.) is also exploring the idea of a radio-wave detector, the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (L.C.R.T.), inside a 1.3-kilometre-wide moon crater."

https://www.nasa.gov/general/lunar-crater-radio-telescope-lc...

Re:Tutorial on Diffusion Models for Imaging and Vision on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @05:58PM (#41506033)
> see tutorial on diffusion > get excited > it's all math in latex > despair
Re:Zig's Memcpy, CopyForwards and CopyBackwards on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @12:17AM (#41441853)
Thank you again, I'm not able to determine if any of this is contrived but it's turned into a great teaching opportunity. I am highly impressed with Rust. The compile error looks extremely expressive of the core issue. I'm also new to zig if you can tell but this has helped me position the two languages and their goals better.
Re:Zig's Memcpy, CopyForwards and CopyBackwards on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @09:52PM (#41441114)
Thank you for that explanation. In the original blog post an example is shared of reusing a buffer, and I was curious how Rust would handle that scenario. Perplexity suggested the following:

// Use a mutable slice to represent the buffer:

let mut buffer = [0u8; 16];

// Read into the buffer:

let n = socket.read(&mut buffer)?;

// To move the partial second row to the beginning, you'd use safe operations like:

let second_row_start = 7; // Index where second row starts

buffer.copy_within(second_row_start.., 0);

// Then read more data into the remaining space:

let remaining_space = &mut buffer[9..];

let additional_bytes = socket.read(remaining_space)?;

Is this idiomatic for Rust?

Re:Zig's Memcpy, CopyForwards and CopyBackwards on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @08:28PM (#41440655)
Is it possible for the rust compiler to statically determine if two memory regions will overlap at compile-time, especially with complex pointer arithmetic or when pointers are passed as function arguments? It would be super impressive if so.
To save anyone else a Google search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luneburg_lens
I predict it will be difficult for people to reason about this without their biases around COVID, one way or another. Personally EEE sounds terrifying.
How do you identify posts written by grok and what is the chance you’re completely wrong?
Re:Code review antipatterns on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @03:20PM (#41313312)
The author and the reviewer universally want "good code" but how often is that defined for any project? Clear definitions of what is important to your team and your code base would alleviate a lot of these antipatterns.
Re:No Salt on Monday August 05, 2024 @11:44PM (#41167603)
If life is a river and your heart is a boat

And just like a water baby, baby born to float

And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high

Then your heart is Amelia dying to fly

Heaven knows no frontiers

And I've seen heaven in your eyes - Mary Black

First comment on the linked article mentions an assumed exponential increase in consumption so the whole thing is moot.
That’s been built and operating for a while off the regular old grid. The customer for this power seems to be California for residential power.
Hardware is always a leading winner in tech super cycles followed by larger wins by software. NVIDIA was always going to lead market gains with AI before software catches up. It’s been this way with the personal computer, internet, and mobile super cycles.
Re:Llama 3.1 Official Launch on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @11:07AM (#41046758)
The race to the bottom for pricing continues.
Re:I am starting an AI+Education company on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @02:29PM (#40979010)
For those without an X account: Website: https://eurekalabs.ai GitHub: https://github.com/EurekaLabsAI
Re:From the Tensor to Stable Diffusion on Sunday July 07, 2024 @05:19PM (#40900519)
I’m a simple man. I see a geohot quote in a repo and I star it.
This made me curious how much smokeless tobacco products like vapes and Zyn offset the losses they talked about in combustible tobacco products.
Greeks were cooking with gas (from the paper): “However, we note that the degree of manufacturing precision is remarkable, with standard errors in hole positions of only 0.028mm radially, and 0.129mm azimuthally. Budiselic et al. quote a standard deviation for their individual position measurements of 0.037 mm, so a good deal of the radial error may come from the measurements of the X-ray images themselves.”
Re:Spudguns; the Definitive Potato Cannon Guide on Friday June 28, 2024 @12:52AM (#40817834)
I know this isn’t HN decorum but it just makes comments like these even funnier. Thanks for saying it lol

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