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elromulous··on Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
> Could I get centimetre-level cat tracking?

Iirc from last time I used dwm3000 modules (circa 2020) the best resolution they could achieve was 10cm.

I'm unsure if adding more anchors for an overdetermined solution can improve on this limitation.

elromulous··on Goose Programming Language
The AI optimization is to put it in distribution. So... make it look like python or js?
elromulous··on Following complaints, Dyson is withdrawing its $500 toothbrush from sale
Assuming there's even a modicum of truth to this article, here a potential explanation: https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/992113/some-of-dysons-500-t...
elromulous··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
Answering my question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_(regulation)

elromulous··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
Is "tariff" here used to mean "rate"?
elromulous··on Asahi Linux on M3
Surely this is missing "/s"
elromulous··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
I don't necessarily disagree, but in practice it's never as easy. Combing ingredients for a cake is always easier than separating them back out. Getting married is easier than getting divorced. It almost feels like some kind of fundamental law.
elromulous··on Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants
I've wondered if billionaires get their jets lined with lead.

Lead is notoriously heavy, but if you buy a 737 and it only ever has to fly you and a couple other people, it might be feasible.

Or I guess they could just line one section where they spend the majority of the time.

elromulous··on MicroGPT-C in pure C hits 10M TPS on Apple M5
No dependencies, self-contained
elromulous··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Regardless of the underlying issue, I don't agree with:

> negating the entire point of using AI to begin with

I can almost certainly wash dishes faster than my dishwasher, but the dishwasher frees me up to do other things. Not to mention, you can run many agents in parallel. Resulting in your overall code production throughput (the issue you're raising) being greater.

elromulous··on France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
We have a "do not call" list in the us. It's effectively worthless.
elromulous··on Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]
(disclaimer: I haven't watched this yet)

Mathematicians / folks knowledgeable on the subject - do you think Fermat had an error in his (lost) proof? Or that there exists a solution that perhaps is more straightforward than Wiles's?

My understanding is that Wiles had to use a ton of math (and invent some new math?) that had not yet been invented in Fermat's time.

elromulous··on Who Is America's Homer?
Albeit a British show, but valid nonetheless. https://youtu.be/t1d3lIcuEMU
elromulous··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
Or on shabbos
elromulous··on Ferrari Luce
I believe Ive was tasked with designing the interior only.
elromulous··on White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems
It's totally possible to achieve synchronization better than light transmission time. For the purposes of synchronization, the speed of light delay, and any other delay are indistinguishable, and need not be distinguished.
elromulous··on Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK
Can someone describe the pros/cons vs zellij?
elromulous··on US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
Cushy white collar desk jobs were not around in the mid 90s?
elromulous··on Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Are you sure Lavazza didn't eat the cost? It's great marketing material for them.

This could be similar to the fisher space pen. There's a common urban legend that NASA spent millions developing the space pen, while the soviets simply used pencils. Fisher actually paid for the development of the space pen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_space

elromulous··on Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Is the site just slashdotted rn? Can anyone get to it?
elromulous··on Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
Did anyone else think this was Cirrus Logic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Logic

elromulous··on FAA prohibits SFO's parallel approaches
https://archive.ph/LQeqK

Adding the unpaywalled option

elromulous··on TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters
P.s. And as usual, TSA doesn't understand anything about queueing theory and doesn't implement round robin / starvation prevention. Global services and clear get absolute priority over other queues.
elromulous··on TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters
I _just_ went though the line. It wasn't too bad (5-10min, despite having bio ID), but it was by far the worst I've encountered at SFO in the decade I've been flying out of there.
elromulous··on Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
Agreed. But also why are you speaking like Yoda?
elromulous··on FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment
The audience of this website is disproportionately aware of the Therac-25 compared to the general public. For the obvious reason, engineering, but also geographically: The Therac-25 being a North American incident that affected Canada and the US. Whereas Theryc is a French company.
elromulous··on RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
There are asics for ai. They're called gpus / tpus.
elromulous··on Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]
My brain initially parsed the title as an obituary title and I was really sad for a moment.
elromulous··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
In my experience, a grad student hour is treated as free :(
elromulous··on Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU
It was ahead of its time!

When I was in grad school I tried getting my hands on a phi, it seemed impossible.

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