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fla··on The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)
Fascinating.

I totally see the CheY as an intermediary layer that learned how the changes in attractant must affect mechanical activation.

fla··on Gemini 4 Argon
The difficult part is not the training, it’s acquiring the data. Google started that a long time ago :)
fla··on Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS
Technically RTOS’s can also be cooperatively multithreaded, to some degree at least (see FreeRTOS). The comparison is valid IMO as threading with fixed yield points is an abstraction that isn’t exclusive to async Rust.
fla··on The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0
My main one is: distribution & access. If major browsers implement the WASI runtime then using and distributing a WASI app will be way simpler than the Java equivalent ever was.
fla··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
This exactly. I think this is why Anthropic simply don’t want 3rd party businesses to max out the subscription plans by sharing them across their own clients.
fla··on Rust for Filesystems
I like the idea of using:

  trusted { … }
fla··on The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge
The advantage of the soft slope is that it can be used with a wheelchair.

Edit: …and of course bikes etc

fla··on Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
The VW Multivan Hybrid is great! The electric range is quite small (60km I think?) compared to a full EV but still sufficient for some daily trips. And smaller batteries charges fast.
fla··on Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands
I usually solve this by commiting my fixup in a dummy commit, then do a rebase -i HEAD~n where n is the number of commits I want to look back at. Then during the rebase I just move my commit below the one that seem the most appropriate and mark it for squash. Execute the rebase. Done
fla··on Testing a 1,000 player Minecraft server with Folia
EVE Online
fla··on Swarm M138 Modem
bits != bytes. There’s room for 8 times that ;)
fla··on Hello, PNG
Can’t answer as to why it is mandatory but it is known to improve compression.
fla··on The Rune Programming Language
When you say “Modern western mind”, who exactly are you referring to ?
fla··on Stable Diffusion based image compression
Is there a general name for this kind of latent space round-trip compression ? If not, I think a good name could be “interpretive compression”
fla··on Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery
Swiss here. Not an expert on the project but AFAIK the idea is to reduce the impact of transportation on the surface.

With globalization and population increase, the need for point to point logistic is going to go through the roof in urban areas in the next years.

Currently this translates to having more trucks on the highways and roads, as our rail wail system is close to saturation already. Not to mention our road are really small compared to US (ie: highways are two-lanes per direction). This creates a ton of air and noise pollution and traffic jams.

This new transportation system should absorb some of the goods traffic and hopefully scale country-wide in the future while sparing the environnement at the surface as much as possible.

fla··on Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API
It can generate some funny C code with very opinionated comments too!

Prompt: int add_numbers(int a, int b)

Result: int add_numbers(int a, int b) { int nums[3] = {a,b,a+b}; return nums[2]; }

A:

A more C-like way of doing this would be: int add_numbers(int a, int b) { int nums[2]; nums[0] = a; nums[1] = b; return nums[1] + nums[0]; }

Also, in this case, it is safer to return a single int, since that is more self-documenting. If there is any possibility of an error in one of the numbers, then it is less clear what the expected return value should be. This is similar to how you would code a simple + operator: int operator+(const int &a, const int &b

fla··on Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies
Switzerland is not part of Scandinavia
fla··on FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
Have a look at onshape.com. It's a web-based cad tool and I found that it was easy enough to learn in a couple hours using video tutorials. I now use it to make all my 3d printed parts. I mainly work on Linux so the web interface is a big plus for me.
fla··on Lossless compression of English messages using GPT-2
Try swapping a few characters in the compressed string before decompressing and get a totally unrelated, but somewhat plausible, sentence.
fla··on Let SOcket CAT Be Thy Glue over Serial
There's a very nice write up about the socat command line interface here [1] in case anyone is interested.

[1] https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/socat-29453e9fc8a6

fla··on Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions
Is the project you mentioned SWG:ANH by any chance ?
fla··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
Build an ARM CorteM0+ emulator and open-source it.
fla··on 0xF Rules
"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
fla··on How Carlos Ghosn Was Smuggled Out of Japan
The big difference AFAIK is that in USA, most of the cases end up with a deal between parties. In Japan the notion of deal doesn't exist.
fla··on Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust
I don’t think this statement is correct.For example Qt has been doing declarative with QML for years.
fla··on Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s?
You can, but that’ll cost you one extra branch, for nothing ;)
fla··on Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s?
256 entries
fla··on Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers
Not true, there's a ton of sun in the mountains above the clouds.
fla··on Why are there no animals with three legs?
Or a tail
fla··on Switzerland Tried Negative Rates in the 1970s
Because doing this inflates the price of everything, including the exchange rate.

Imagine the following (simplified) situation:

Before inflation, a beer costs 10CHF, Euro is at parity: 10EUR = 10CHF = 1 beer

After inflation of 10x, beer now costs 100CHF: 10EUR = 100CHF = 1 beer

In the end, if you pay in EUR, a beer always costs 10EUR. The value of the CHF has not really weaken (only numerically)

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