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Comment · 1 year ago
Right. Because compute power and/or a physics based model is the limiting factor for accurately predicting when a seismic event happens. Training on historic data is hardly the problem that need's solving.

It's the leading indicators that are actually measurable that are missing. You know the ones that allow for evacuations and other protective measures.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Trust me 1-Star-Drive-By Reviews by "customers" without any merit are just as bad for businesses.

So, congrats. You've basically discovered that online review systems suck. Look at app stores. Look at Amazon product reviews. It's all being gamed and manipulated and abused. Google obviously won't moderate any of this because there's no substantial business value.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm of the opinion that this is bad design because it makes it very hard to reason about the consequences when refactoring a large codebase. It's kind of like reactive global variables. There are legitimate reasons when to use them. But not as a general design principle.

That being said: If you're dead set on this paradigm you can implement this easily yourself. Create a bootstrapping function that modifies a prototype or class in order to provide functions to register signals and slots and use them wherever you need them.

If you use TypeScript you could even use Decorators (e.g. "@Signal" or "@Slot") which are just higher order functions to have some syntactic sugar like the QT macros.

Comment · 1 year ago
> The irony is that, since you are splitting the problem in a way that requires synchronization between cores, you are actually introducing more work to be executed in the same CPU-time budget. So you are spending more time on overhead due to synchronization, which does the opposite of what you probably hoped for — it makes your code even slower, not faster.

That is certainly not universally true for every scenario and if you need to sync state between cpu cores very often then your tasks simply don't lend themselves to parallelization. That doesn't mean that multi-threading is inheritely the wrong design choice. Of course it will always be a trade-off between performance gains and the code complexity of your job control.

Comment · 1 year ago
> [...] when I learned later down that you can add CAs to the certificate store of an Apple TV.

Same. I would not have guessed that that's possible but I guess I never tried to access a resource without a valid certificate chain on Apple TV.

Comment · 1 year ago
The AI slop images on this website are honestly such a turn off. Especially considering that BBSs are all about text.
Comment · 1 year ago
John has reiterated multiple times on his podcast that he doesn't want to deal with thousands of support requests when making his apps open source and free. All his apps are personal itches he scratched and he sells them not to make a profit but to make the barrier of entry high enough to make user feedback manageable.
Comment · 1 year ago
> [...] if the nation is destined for maritime irrelevance and the laying of its prosperity at the whims of autocrats a world away.

Considering what happened in the last two weeks alone this lack of self-awareness is simply brilliant.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think this is in reference to OpenOffice but the wording is rather confusing.
Comment · 1 year ago
For what it's worth: they do honor the robots.txt file. I had the same problem with a client's CMS and denying all AI crawler user agents did the trick.

It's clear they've all gone mad. The traffic spiked 400% overnight and made the CMS unresponsive a few times a day.

Comment · 1 year ago
> AI Agent RequirementsDescriptionSemantic MarkupUse of HTML5 semantic elements to define web page structureConsistent CodingConsistent use of coding practices throughout the web pageWeb StandardsAdherence to established web standards and best practices

Right. Let’s ask AI how to make websites easier to navigate. Because that’s the top priority on the internet.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
That's an interesting stack choice. A desktop client that uses Django as a backend. I kept wondering how this is rendered client side. TIL about NW.js.
Comment · 2 years ago
Right?! What a Fad! Arm SOCs only run billions of devices today. What do they know.

Old trusty hasn’t failed me yet! slaps the enormous heat pipe leading to the dust-filled fan

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