The kernel didn't know to use the proper driver for my usb wireless dongle. Adding a few lines of code telling the kernel this usb device id requires this driver was the only change needed.
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The main AI assistance was in determining why my mouse's battery level was easy to see, but not my keyboard's battery level. Having assistance identifying the information pipeline (kernel -> UPower -> xfce4-power-manager) and then identifying which step was broken was vital for me starting the project. The patch itself was trivial, so no coding assistance was needed.
> there are many fungal infections that occur more frequently in tropical zones or are restricted to certain regions within the tropics [0]
I worry that one of the large variety of fungal species not resistant to high temperature will evolve to be resistant and cause great harm to our society. Similar to the way animal spillover events, like covid-19, are so devastating. A novel pathogen introduced to a naive population.
My question, is if "the children" are worth protecting, why not adults? I would like to opt into not having to deal with dark patterns. Why not a age independent system, which a user can opt into and which "children" are automatically optd into.
> this has nothing to do with open source or software; it's just common sense when dealing with people
Common sense is very different than entitlement. Back to the open source software point of view, your entitlement is described by the license. Basic courtesy, or even the opportunity to interact with anyone, is not included as a part of any open source license I remember. It isn't even a consideration for most [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so...
Source? People take risk in their day to day life and should expect to take risk. Why would they expect their microwave to be completely free of risk?
The first imperative is a company must survive past its employees. A company is an explicit legal structure designed to survive past the initial people in the company. A company is _not_ the employees, it is what survives past the employees' employment.
The second imperative is the diffusion of responsibility. A company becomes the responsible party for actions taken, not individual employees. This is part of the reason we allow companies to survive past employees, because their obligations survive as well.
This leads to individual employees taking actions for the company against their own moral code for the good of the company.
See also The Corporation (2003 film) and Meditations On Moloch (2014)[0].
[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
https://github.com/iszak/jpeg2000
I wanted to learn about wavelet transforms. I also wanted to use Rust in a non-trivial capacity. Since jpeg2000 uses discrete wavelet transforms[1] and doesn't have a Rust implementation it caught my interest.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_wavelet_transform
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I am more concerned about heat dissipation, which should scale with surface area, but heat generation scales with compute volume.
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shell thickness, t
compute radius, r
shell volume is (r+t)^3 - r^3 = 3 r^2 t + 3 r t^2 + t^3 = O(r^2)
shielding/compute is O(r^2)/O(r^3) = O(1/r), ie their linear decrease
I can help explain why. On earth, we are surrounded by stuff. Radiative cooling relies on thermal radiation leaving an object. Crucially, it also requires the object to absorb less thermal radiation than it emits. On earth we are surrounded by stuff, including air, that emits thermal radiation. There is a window of wavelengths, called the atmospheric window[0], that will allow parts of the thermal radiation out into space, rather than returned back. Imagine shining a flashlight on tinted glass, the light will get through depending on the color. If the light gets through, it has escaped. If not, the light is returned and heats up your surroundings again.
Also on earth the other methods (conduction, convection, and phase changes) are more effective. The earth can be used as a very big heat sink. On a spaceship or satellite, you don't have the extra mass to store the energy, so radiative is the only option.
Radiative cooling works by exploiting the fact that hot objects emit electromagnetic radiation (glow), and hot means everything above absolute zero. The glow carries away energy which cools down the object. One complication is that each glowy object is also going to be absorbing glow from other objects. While the sun, earth, and moon all emit large amounts of glow (again, heat radiation), empty space is around 2.7 Kelvin, which is very cold and has little glow. So the radiative coolers typically need to have line of sight to empty space, which allows them to emit more energy than they absorb.
Correct link to "Rodent-proof vinyl adhesive tape No. 347":
https://www.teraokatape.co.jp/english/products/rodent-proof-...
https://gitlab.com/rosie-pattern-language/rosie/-/blob/maste...
> So if you find a doctor with bad bedside manner, they're likely to have better medical aptitude otherwise they would've been filtered out.
I propose the opposite, a doctor with bad bedside manner likely has lower medical aptitude. I believe there is training for doctors to improve their bedside manner. Then "trainability" may be a latent factor which correlates the quality of a doctor's bedside manner and medical aptitude.
"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64SWl9bfvk
Concurrent capacity might not be the best metric.
I have enjoyed reading "The Mind Illuminated" by John Yates. The book is a meditation guide and includes descriptions of experiences like yours.
For all his problems, my example of this would be Elon Musk and SpaceX. He learned about the space industry and identified the constraint keeping the space industry down. Every launch provider was trying to maximize the performance of their rockets. To maximize performance each rocket was basically a bespoke work of art, this made rockets expensive, which lead to high costs, which reduced the number of customers. Musk chose to make a rocket that did NOT maximize performance, instead focused on reducing the cost of each launch. The most expensive part of a rocket are the engines, so SpaceX focused on making Merlin engines at low cost. Rockets are expensive, why are they thrown away? To maximize performance. Since SpaceX had already abandoned maximizing performance at all costs, the opportunity to reuse rockets became clear. Use leftover fuel margin to attempt to land and reuse the rockets.
Once Musk believed SpaceX's reuse was going to work. He moved onto a new major constraint, customers. SpaceX did not and does not have enough customers for the launch volume they are able to support. They looked at the opportunities and decided that a large constellation of satellites providing fast internet access in LEO would be profitable if launches were now cheaper. So SpaceX created Starlink to take up launch volume.
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> "it cannot be shown that the EAI [Engine Anti-Ice] system meets the probability requirements applicable to this regulation."
In my understanding, Boeing is asking for to be excluded from the risk assessment entirely. They know there is a possibility that the structure could be weakened enough to fail during normal flight.
> "the nacelle inlet structural temperatures during EAI operation may cause the inner barrel to lose sufficient strength such that capability to carry limit and ultimate loads may not be maintained."
> "analysis and engineering flight testing showed there is a potential for structural damage."
Their entire justification for why the risk is acceptable is that no one has had parts fly off yet and surely pilots will follow the flight rules to turn off the deicer:
> "737 MAX has been in service since 2017 and has accumulated over 6.5 million flight hours. In that time, there have been no reported cases of parts departing aircraft (PDA) due to overheating of the engine nacelle inlet structure".
> "Operators [Pilots] must adhere to the mandatory AD [Airworthiness Directive], mitigating the potentially unsafe condition."
Oh, and they petition relief from some of the human factors requirements as well. Which indicates they don't want to be judged based on the probability that pilots will not turn off the EAI.