nickwitha_k

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shhh! You'll scare him off!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

SHARP thinkers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Porque no los dos? Allowing major corps to put even more downward pressure on workers doesn't help anyone but the rich. LLMs aren't going to save the world or become sentient.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

What is making my excited is the potential to use this for indoor position tracking for placing persistent virtual displays.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm on an extended hiatus from riding motorcycles, after getting sideswiped on the highway by an SUV. My minimal injuries and likely survival, I owe to my gear.

My criteria for selection started with looking at available standards for protective gear. In the case of motorcycle PPE, the EU generally has the best safety requirements, so, I'd generally select gear certified to the highest CE standards. My gear pieces were:

  • HJC modular helmet (performed very well in independent studies). This saved my face, which I used as part of an unconventional breaking technique.
  • Revit ADV-style jacket with CE level 2 armor inserts at joints and spine. This resulted in my only apparent external injury being a small abrasion on my arm, treated with ointment and a bandaid.
  • Dainese short cuff gloves with CE Categoy II EN 13594 Level 2 rating (highest standard at the time). These literally saved my life. The steel sliders allowed me to halt my tumble and steer myself away from traffic.
  • Motoport kevlar mesh overpants. Armor was upgraded as much as possible, exceeding CE standards and including coccyx protection.
  • TCX Infinity boots rated at the highest CE standards at the time. These were heavily worn and near replacement. They did do their job well, resulting in only a sprain or hairline fracture of my ankle (suspect the latter with how much it bugs me these days). If I had been able to replace them with a new pair, my ankle may have been better protected.

Things that I think would have helped more:

  • New boots
  • Abdomen protection/armor (my worst injury was a minor hemorrhage of an adrenal gland from hitting my handlebars but needed no medical intervention).

For your case, I would recommend looking into dirt bike or ADV PPE. The sort of protection that you're looking for should be somewhat similar. An extra bonus is that you can likely wear body armor under your normal horseback gear (might need to size up). The technological advancements for impact armor this century are just amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This isn't technically correct. CRT, LCD, and OLED displays are generally constantly refreshing the image. There are some niche exceptions like memory-in-pixel displays but they are few and far between. eInk displays are very different in this aspect because the display itself acts as a physical memory of the image because its mechanism of creating an image involves physical changes (pigmented particles moving closer or further away from the visible plane).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

(with lasers): "How about now?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

They can believe all they want. Legitimate medicine requires evidence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My German professor even mentioned the archaic apfelsine for the citrus orange.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I suspect that it works better when it is applied after saying "It's morphin' time!".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
 

Hey folks! I think this request is right up this comm's alley. I'm sure that we all know bogo sort but, what other terrible/terribly inefficient algorithms, software architecture, or design choices have you been horrified/amused by?

I, sadly, lost a great page of competing terrible sorting algorithms, but I'll lead with JDSL as a terrible (and terribly inefficient) software architecture and design. The TL;DR is that a fresh CS guy got an internship at a company that based its software offering around a custom, DSL based on JSON that used a svn repo to store all functions in different commits. The poor intern had a bad time due to attempting to add comments to the code, resulting in customer data loss.

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