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circuit10··on Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
I feel like this could be a good system for rural areas etc. (and "demand responsive transport" is already a thing for those cases), but in populated areas it's not going to help much over fixed routes which are much simpler to use and don't require pre-booking your journey
circuit10··on Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
Fixed routes provide certainty, if on some days your bus randomly doesn't come because there weren't enough other people near you who wanted to go that way then you can't rely on it and will need to have access to another mode of transport such as a car, which defeats the point
circuit10··on F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS
From what I understand if you take certain precautions like not doing piracy, installing anything to the homescreen or cheating in multiplayer games you can use homebrew online without being banned, I've been used it occasionally and not been banned at least
circuit10··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
My dog did this too for a while, he saw a cat behind a neighbor's hedge and made a hole in it and then he would poke his head through the hole every time
circuit10··on Siri is so bad at everything
For me I only use them to do things (turn light on and off, play background noise, set alarm, check time) when I'm in bed and don't want to open my eyes and use my phone
circuit10··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
I've also seen them described as ICE cars (internal combustion engine)
circuit10··on Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
I think they mean save money on hardware based on the previous part of the sentence
circuit10··on What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s
I think when people say non-deterministic what they mean is closer to chaotic, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory as in very small changes in conditions can produce completely different output making predictions difficult
circuit10··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
I guess it depends on the culture but I would think it's a good thing to show interest and passion for this stuff by talking about things you do in your free time like setting up Minecraft servers, whoever you're talking to will probably have similar things like that
circuit10··on Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
Being available to the public if they bought the game doesn't mean it's in the public domain and you're allowed to upload a copy of it (or a derivative work) onto GitHub, though

(I like these projects but I really don't think they could defend themselves legally if you company went after them)

circuit10··on Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
My approach is generally just to put the destination into Google Maps and select public transport, it works on the same data source as this and has live tracking
circuit10··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
It is confirmed and the algorithm has been reverse engineered, though not by looking at firmware

https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/

Seems like the algorithm is simple enough that they did it just by looking at some prints

circuit10··on Spaghettifying DRAM
I struggled to understand the article, it doesn't properly explain what the exploit is in a way I could immediately understand, after staring at it for a bit and reading comments here I think it's a hardware register that's exposed to user software that shouldn't be but I really didn't understand that at first glance ("Poke the DRAM controller" made me think a hardware exploit) and I'm still not sure if I'm right about that (if it is, just start by explaining that instead of all the unnecessary filler and diagrams and animations of the Mona Lisa being scrambled and talk of bath salts which I still don't understand the relevance of)
circuit10··on Python string literals are kinda funny
This is still significantly more clunky than f-strings, especially when you're writing them a lot for debugging purposes
circuit10··on I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?"
Generally, people have to make an active decision to spread false information, or be misinformed themselves in the first place, and that's not actually particularly common, whereas for LLMs it's just the default due to how they work and it's difficult to filter out due to how they present everything with such confidence and authority
circuit10··on I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?"
I think it matters because AI can hallucinate so it makes me doubt the truthfulness

It's also somewhat dishonest to present unedited AI-written content as your own work

circuit10··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Not by the definition on Wikipedia at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#Source_code_...
circuit10··on Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29
Could you not develop the same sense by just looking in front of you without the viewfinder? I don’t see how a frame that doesn’t actually have any relation to what the camera is capturing helps you at all
circuit10··on Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29
But if it’s giving you no information about what will actually be in frame you might as well just look in front of you and guess
circuit10··on StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
It would be nice if they made a web app, that would make it work on iOS but also desktop and every other platform with a web browser at the same time
circuit10··on StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
A web app would also make it work on iOS (and other non-Android platforms) at the same time
circuit10··on Printing Gaussian Splats
Trying a bunch of sizes in their studio tool (all cubes to make it easier):

5mm x 5mm x 5mm (smallest I can select): $32.58

10mm x 10mm x 10mm: $36.58

20mm x 20mm x 20mm: $82.86

30mm x 30mm x 30mm: $143.60

50mm x 50mm x 50mm: $509.14

100mm x 100mm x 100mm: $3,028.58

150mm x 150mm x 150mm: $9,618.86

195mm x 195mm x 195mm: $20,641.32

(it says it's an estimate excluding tax and shipping)

circuit10··on Google Flight Simulator
It’s only new for the web version (but this seems way worse than the one in the desktop version, sadly)
circuit10··on Google Flight Simulator
This is new for the web version
circuit10··on German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
I think they should just have to properly explain how AI tends to make things up when it doesn’t know, and that it’s good for coming up with ideas or suggesting directions for research but that you shouldn’t rely on it, because currently their advertising makes you think you can rely on it

The “AI can make mistakes” kind of disclaimers they hide in the corner don’t really cut it

circuit10··on As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger
If there are charge points in the street or there’s a way to run a cable there then I don’t see why that has to be an issue
circuit10··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
Do you not ever want to show someone something on your screen? For a bug report or to demonstrate a project you’re working on? Or do a screen share to ask for help with setting something up (which is admittedly a bit different from a recording but only in that it’s live)?

I can see a lot of non-techy people not knowing how to do this but among people who know how to do it I bet it’s above 50% who use it

circuit10··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
I think virtually everyone who works an office job uses Teams/Zoom very often nowadays, I can’t think of anyone I know who wouldn’t
circuit10··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
Screen recording is not niche, anyone who works remotely probably does video calls daily and the others are somewhat more niche but I'd guess that at least 50-70% of people do at least one of these things
circuit10··on The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)
Use cases for hardware encoders in PCs:

- Video calls

- Screen/webcam recording

- Live streaming

- Real-time transcoding for media servers (don’t know much about this but I’ve heard it’s a thing)

- Game streaming

- Video editing (making exporting less frustrating)

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