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Comment · 1 year ago
Not exactly related to Ruby on Rails, but why doesn’t there exist a way to run a Python TKinter app in the browser using WASM?

I have a medium sized dependency-free TKinter program written in Python, and AFAIK there is no way to run it in the browser.

Comment · 2 years ago
In a society where the abuse of human labour was factored into the cost of the product, the 8-inch fab line would have been shut down, since the cost of the 8-inch wafers would now be prohibitive and not be competitive with the wafers from the 12-inch line. This in-turn would mean that customers would have to switch over to the 12-inch wafers.

We are not supposed to compete on who can abuse their workers the most to improve efficiency and to cut costs. Thankfully, knowledge work does not seem to scale the same way as manual labour, meaning that more abuse of the workers does not mean more output over the long-term.

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GPGPU programming seems to be in a really good spot with the widespread adoption of C++17 parallel algorithms by GPU vendors.

Now, I can just program against this API using standard C++ code, that interacts with CPU heap allocated memory, and get really performant computation on it using standard map-filter-reduce semantics.

Comment · 2 years ago
Which begs the question, if attractiveness is such a big predictor of success, why hasn’t everyone evolved to become very attractive? The evolutionary pressure for increased attractiveness should be very high, since it affects so many areas of your life, from career success, to getting partners etc.

Is it that the speed at which we evolve to become more attractive is superseeded by our ability to become better at discriminating for attractiveness?

Comment · 2 years ago
That was why OP suggested to have 2 motors on each joint, going in opposite direction. The problem with this is that you now have twice the amount of motors.
Comment · 2 years ago
Just use bsdtar, which will convert a tar archive to cpio: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/581014

I have used it to convert docker images to Linux bootable initramfs archives for Rpi4.

Comment · 2 years ago
If you are already using gRPC in your codebase, then you can define your enums with Protobuf, which does much of the same as the tool shown in this article.
Comment · 2 years ago
Looks like great changes overall. Sadly they haven’t added columns to Dolphin, which is my only complaint from switching to KDE from macOS.
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Well, if I found an unpatchable zero-click RCE exploit on an iPhone, then that would have a major effect on the stockprice when the news is announced. It definitely seems like it would be insider trading if i used that knowledge to do options trading.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, but regular package binaries get nuked pretty quickly to make space for new ones, especially on mirrors.

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