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sheepshear··on WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
> So, I wondered how bad it was for actual raw photos encoded straight in darktable. Meaning just one step of encoding.
sheepshear··on An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (2012)
Maybe this? https://youtu.be/iP4fckfDNK8

It shows how the FT is a 2D slice of the 3D LT in the s-domain.

sheepshear··on Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs
I'm saying it's very likely that the business has exactly zero tolerance for the detector missing those signs while there are known, unresolved issues. They can't have something happen when they "knew it could happen".

After "resolving" the issue, then they can resume tolerating the normal probabilities.

In the US, it might be more of a precaution. In Europe, it could be more of a legal obligation. Either way, I doubt engineering has a say in the matter.

sheepshear··on Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs
If the list is of objects they can't yet reliably detect, then how would they implement your suggestion to detect those objects? I'm sure they have a lower tolerance for false negatives, so of course the known problems must be hard-coded.
sheepshear··on Stop Hiding the Sharp Knives: The WebAssembly Linux Interface
Papers are for resumes and funding. Novelty is something the journal or investor could define and require, if they wanted it.
sheepshear··on Oldest Fortresses in the World Discovered
It should be obvious what "evolutionist" means considering that it's explained in the sentence you quoted starting immediately after the word. If anything, it seems like you might actually want creationists to own the word. Crazy warning, indeed.
sheepshear··on Low-frequency sound can reveal that a tornado is on its way
Even though the article used a trope as a line to set up the story, it doesn't propagate that trope.
sheepshear··on Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors
What you think that will accomplish? We already schedule industrial loads for times of low demand from residential and commercial. Rescheduling those loads to coincide with high intermittent generation usually requires more transmission and distribution capacity.

Debating total cost depends almost entirely on the particular grid in question. For all we know, those "nuclear fans'" estimates could be spot-on but completely irrelevant to you.

sheepshear··on NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech
All of the Falcon 1 payloads were expendable (which includes low-priority). It was a test vehicle conducting test flights in all but name. Had they continued developing it instead of pivoting to Falcon 9, it would have been its own test vehicle.

Suppose that the eventual production vehicle has a fairly different design, a different name, and it succeeds on its first flight. Would it then have used the same methodology that resulted in Falcon 9?

I'm only asking rhetorically. The Ship of Theseus is an interesting philosophical question, but the way you define "methodology" shouldn't depend on your answer.

sheepshear··on Fitbit fined $11M for misleading consumers about their rights under consumer law
The cheapest one with GPS. If you choose a model with a small watch face but you don't have dainty wrists, make sure you can find a longer after-market band first.
sheepshear··on Transparent wood could soon find uses in smartphone screens, insulated windows
Yeah, that part wouldn't change.
sheepshear··on JEDEDC publishes new CAMM2 memory module standard
I guess they could make a horizontal DIMM socket.
sheepshear··on Transparent wood could soon find uses in smartphone screens, insulated windows
It would be determined mostly by the dimensional stability of the polymer they're injecting.
sheepshear··on You are never taught how to build quality software
> Probably the more compelling answer is that the industry doesn't' really want them to for the most part.

This is it. Everyone is making money hand over fist despite not doing it. You might want it, but you don't need it.

sheepshear··on Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking
Speaking from experience in vehicle firmware, the controller component belongs to a separate profession.
sheepshear··on Vowels and diphthongs in sperm whales
They gave a list of characteristics that differentiate one human vowel sound from another, and showed that the whale clicks have all of the same types of differentiators.
sheepshear··on Fake chips, I got stung
They're being silly. A, D, and M are as recognizable as FAANG.
sheepshear··on White House warns it might break patents of high-priced drugs
Doing nothing (stasis) has resulted in lower affordability (decline). Your framing is equally valid and incomplete because it's not a binary choice.
sheepshear··on Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers
ELV is not a fundamental definition of "safe". The limits of what's safe depends on the application and your risk tolerance, and ELV is just a name for a couple of definitions out of many.

Also, those numbers are for ripple-free DC, which you're not going to find in a car. They're cut roughly in half for ripple peaks.

sheepshear··on Study of ancient British oral microbiomes reveals shift following Black Death
Legally, I can destructively analyze your ancestor's genetics, use it to get rich selling you skinny pills instead of an inexpensive one-time therapy, and unknowingly destroy the genetic information that would have unlocked a remedy for a birth defect that runs in your family. The law is very underdeveloped in this area, so ethics stand in for now.
sheepshear··on Rivian already has a patent on Tesla's Cybertruck 'range extender'
So many patents these days are old ideas described with very specific qualifiers to circumvent the prior art disqualifier.
sheepshear··on My First PCB (2019)
Does scripting get the job done for you? You're at the point where everyone has different objectives and methods, so it's no surprise that you have to make your own solution.
sheepshear··on My First PCB (2019)
Maybe a better way of phrasing what I'm trying to say is it sounds like you're relying too much on metadata search for what you're trying to accomplish. I agree that the search is bad for the way you're using it.
sheepshear··on My First PCB (2019)
Optimizing Digikey prices is a bit of an oxymoron, isn't it? They're expensive because they're fast.

Also, specs aren't well standardized between manufacturers. TI has some good videos explaining what their power MOSFET specs mean and how those definitions vary across the industry.

Automatic optimization can only get you so far.

sheepshear··on Fortran 2023
The Metcalf books, collectively.
sheepshear··on Fortran 2023
I've used Fortran for commercial engineering codes. Numerical computing is moving towards layered intermediate representations (IR) in the compiler and runtime to better specialize on the inputs and target hardware. The compiler passes are becoming the focal point and the languages are becoming clients. Fortran's future is probably as a domain-specific language alongside other languages (eg Julia) targeting a common IR (eg MLIR). I don't think we'll see any big changes in the language until it's adapted to fit into the emerging ecosystem.
sheepshear··on Ancient Tree Inventory
I've donated information to a few nature databases. I care a lot about which organizations are behind them. They each have their own legitimate reasons for usually light restrictions, which I fully support.
sheepshear··on Ask HN: How many people on Hacker News live in rural areas?
I don't see why I would bring that up in a post about electric bicycles and walkable cities. No idea how I would "support" it.
sheepshear··on The big TDD misunderstanding (2022)
The tips are not contradictory if you follow the advice to start at a higher level.

Let's say you had to invent that wire protocol. You would write a test for a client that doesn't care which wire protocol is used.

sheepshear··on Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
Probably the same. Even with an abort system, aborting isn't an option throughout the whole flight.
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