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meow_catrix··on Tesla Robotaxi
Many plants and trees spread rotating ”helicopter seeds”. Many vines roto-grow themselves around vertical supports. Day flowers rotate to follow the sun.

Apples and oranges fall on the ground and can roll far and wide. Walnuts too.

Partial rotation is still rotation, of course: see animal joints in walk, trot and gallop.

And then there’s the belly-up pig drunk on brewery grain rolling down the hill. That mash packs a wallop!

meow_catrix··on Tesla Robotaxi
Those rotating things still produce their thrust by pushing a wing-shaped structure through air, producing a high-pressure zone on one side, and a low-pressure zone on another. That is what I was getting at. It is the same principle.
meow_catrix··on PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One
The modern way is to sidestep the issue altogether and use Kubernetes with a database designed to run on Kubernetes. You can get sharding, replication and leader election essentially for free - you can concentrate on using the database instead of running the database.

Compute is really cheap compared to engineering man-hours.

meow_catrix··on Tesla Robotaxi
Planes do ”flap their wings”, just not the ones protruding from the fuselage.
meow_catrix··on WASM Is the New CGI
Rust frontend dev is not going to become mainstream, no matter what.
meow_catrix··on Internet Archive: Security breach alert
Bet it’s just a stored XSS alert from a poisoned cache.
meow_catrix··on Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava
”Analysts noticed that CCTV cameras in Taiwan and South Korea were digitally talking to crucial parts of the Indian power grid – for no apparent reason. On closer investigation, the strange conversation was the deliberately indirect route by which Chinese spies were interacting with malware they had previously buried deep inside the Indian power grid.”
meow_catrix··on Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava
Maybe don’t buy surveillance hardware from those brands
meow_catrix··on AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted
The Amiga manual suggests normalizing to a conjunctive normal form.
meow_catrix··on Lost 1983 programming language resurrected by retro computing YouTube channel
Watching YouTube is essentially running a proof-of-work algorithm for someone else
meow_catrix··on TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$
That’s React without the JSX sugar.
meow_catrix··on TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$
Not if you want to map or reduce it.
meow_catrix··on AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world
Poor on-call guys
meow_catrix··on Ask HN: Why is ChatGPT so bad at electronics?
It is, if you’re in the visual advertising industry.
meow_catrix··on FDA Approves Drug with New Mechanism of Action for Treatment of Schizophrenia
It would be a lot cheaper to do as the slavic shamans do: collect amanita muscaria caps, dry them by your campfire to denature the poisons, and … well, you can figure out the rest.
meow_catrix··on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI
Yada yada dump at ath
meow_catrix··on 45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
Cheap alibi
meow_catrix··on What commercial flight route needs the most (min poss.) stops from A to B?
Shows it’s been a while… :)
meow_catrix··on What commercial flight route needs the most (min poss.) stops from A to B?
Make a connectedness matrix of airports x airports with 1 marking a connection and 0 marking no connection. You can now iterate over legs by multiplying the matrix with itself. Do this until all values in the matrix are zero. The previous iteration shows a 1 where the longest routes are.