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xentripetal··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
They meant PS2. Japan was worried the processor was powerful enough to control missiles and put restrictions on how many can be sold to a single person and banned certain countries.
xentripetal··on Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C
Somewhat similar language, https://vlang.io

It’s a mix of go and rust syntax that translates to C

xentripetal··on Accidentally exponential behavior in Spark
I don't have much insight into spark but I've been using Dataflow/beam for ETL. Been a pretty good experience. follows the style of spinning up compute to process as needed then shutdown.
xentripetal··on Job descriptions should show a salary or salary range
yeah, 72k (+15k bonus) is what I make as entry level data engineer in Arkansas. It's underpaid for the industry but twice the median pay in my city.
xentripetal··on Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz
Maybe the pins got so hot they melted into the board?
xentripetal··on The plot thickens for a hypothetical “X17” particle
I might be mistaken but from my college chemistry I believe this is referring to VSEPR theory. Where electron pairs around a nucleus will push against each other to maximize the distance between other pairs in spherical space. So two electron pairs would be separated by 180° (line) and 3 by 120° (3 lines on same plane), 4 by 120° (tetrahedron) and so on.

So if it's 140° then something else is pushing against them as it should never be 140°.

Someone more knowledgeable correct me if I'm mistaken.

xentripetal··on Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code
Enjoying it so far, small bug report:

Loadout weapon drag window can get permanently stuck on the screen, requiring a refresh. See here https://i.imgur.com/cL4x2Vk.png

Steps to reproduce: Go to Edit Blueprint Window. Start dragging a window. Press backspace to go back to the game field. The window is now permanently stuck.

xentripetal··on The Sketchy Database: Learning to Retrieve Badly Drawn Bunnies
I believe one came out recently, I saw it on GitHub a few days ago. It mainly did landscape and searched for similar images then combined them to form a new one. It also supported image manipulation, eg turning a brown square purse into a green rounded one. I'll see if I can find it and edit the link in.

EDIT: https://github.com/junyanz/iGAN

Heres a good video showing it off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c4z6YsBGQ0&feature=youtu.be