derrickoswald

joined 2 years ago

You've obviously never opened a document (with tabs) where your IDE setting doesn't match what the author used. It looks like shit. Spaces are never, ever, misinterpreted. Tabs are. If your experience in viewing a document depends on a setting that the author had in their IDE, then it is a failure. This is why .PDF files are so ubiquitous, it doesn't matter if you created it in Microsoft Word with a uniform tab setting, or TEX in a console, it looks the same to the reader. If you cannot guarantee that the reader sees your source files as you see them, then you have failed. Full stop. Tabs should be cast into the dust bin as an archaic pre-optimization that failed in the real world.

[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Code indentation should never use tabs, only spaces.

[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My concern is that this will prolong the life of fossil fuel generation in Minnesota (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Minnesota) which is twice as much as all other generation sources combined (8662MW vs. 4453.3MW). So, it's hurting the environment to assert sovereignty - which is probably not what the average Canadian wants.

 

Power will be used within Canada instead, with first 50MW to Nunavut, and opening negotiations for an east-west power corridor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5xxi-MqWFA

 

Just so you know. Maybe I'm late to the party.

I take pictures of letters that I write in longhand (yeah, I do that, I'm old, and weird) just so I don't repeat myself in subsequent letters.

Yesterday, I searched in Google Photos on a word in the text of a letter, and it worked!.

So, I surmise that Google is using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to index pictures of handwritten text and using that in it's search algorithm(s). I assume it has been going on a while since it found something I wrote months ago.

Don't assume that using an image protects your content from our tech overlords.

Image credit https://unsplash.com/@jbcalligraphy52.

[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

OK, it's really a mathematics equivalence, rather than a scientific fact, but Euler's Identity:

e^iπ^ + 1 = 0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity

it shows a profound connection between the most fundamental numbers in mathematics.

[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Here is a relatively short presentation: https://www.youtube.com/live/3us83qvzopM and the slides.

 

Research results on reverse engineering of the LoRa protocol and an implementation in GNU Radio. An open source LoRa PHY layer project provides access to the LoRa protocol for researchers and hobbyists.

[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Disheveled hair. If you have long(ish) hair and you're going out in public, at least drag a comb through it so you don't look like a bed-head.

[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

By the time Sergei had assembled a plywood board and a broom with a wooden handle, Dmitriy was turned into a human Melba Toast.

[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

This is 100% a China and US problem - nowhere else in the world would these Wankpanzers be a status symbol. What's required is a re-education of the Nouveau Riche to make a better choice.

Yes, living well. Happy mostly. Embodying values and dreams - as much as possible since some dreams would have needed to be started years ago to be realized - like my vineyard and my orchard. Mostly it was reinventing myself every five or seven years to follow the lucre (in software development world look for the bright and shiny new thing).

I was self employed for most of the time, and I can recommend that for those who have a pretty good work ethic. Having a goal in high school was also a key factor, since it led to a useful degree. I was also doing constant internal evaluation - like the feeling where you're going over your desired job description for a job interview - via a journal or a self help program like "The Red Bucket Strategy". So, in answer to how did this happen question: it was pretty methodical in using the steering gear you have to make course corrections all the time.

There's this back story about the "LoongArch instruction system, a RISC ISA that blends ideas from MIPS and RISC-V". The article says it is MIPS-compatible and even runs the same Linux code [Loongson's] old MIPS-based CPUs did. Why not just use RISC-V? MIPS is licensed from the USA. I guess they have a lot of legacy people at Loongson.

[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A little saddened because I sold Bitcoin way too early. I wanted to get out, but if I had set the bar a little higher... Of course, if you had a crystal ball you could make a lot of money.

TL;DR; Three points:

  • my selected communities seem to provide adequate interesting topics - there's always one or two rabbit holes to go down
  • I have a voice - commenting here is transparent and not censored as much as Reddit
  • I think the average age of contributors here is greater than the sex and shit joke fixated twelve year olds on Reddit which is a good thing
 

From an evaluation by Roy Longbottom, this interesting observation:

In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1.

 

BNEF journalist Colin McKerracher summarizes trends in China predicting a peak in fossil transport fuel: electric vehicle car sales, two and three wheeled electric kilometers traveled, electric trucks reaching the tipping point and ride hailing legislation.

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