He wrote about tolower(), not towlower()/wcslwr().
C tolower() is locale aware and handles utf-8 as well as many other encodings
Readit NewsBrananarchy commented on FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days techcrunch.com/2024/06/27... · Posted by u/rntn
Phones only started being unlocked in Canada starting in 2017, so the US isn’t so unique. Though Canada carriers are probably not the standard to hold yourself to.
2017 is quite a long time ago, especially in terms of how long smartphones have been around (and arguably even in terms of how long cell phones have been mainstream).
The US is way behind here.
Brananarchy commented on US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication dropbox.com/scl/fo/312oqv... · Posted by u/shakna
My brother works in a oil refinery lab…
One of the test samples he opened (unexpectedly) had a flourine compound in it that strips calcium from bones… he jumped in the lab shower which sets of an alarm when activated, which leads to lab evacuations and an emergency team in hazmat gear arriving
Hydrofluoric acid. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Brananarchy commented on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate dronedj.com/2024/06/14/dj... · Posted by u/huerne
Ahaha, as opposed to the US where... 3-letter agencies don't bring evidence to a judge, they just go to google/meta to get it.
This is absolutely a false equivalence.
Google and Meta choose to give the government all sorts of data that they're not required by law to give, because they don't see it as worthwhile to go to bat for their users. You can choose to use a vendor who will protect your privacy and demand full due process on the part of government requestors.
In China there is no due process and no choice of vendors who would demand it, even if they could.
Brananarchy commented on Lamini Memory Tuning: 10x Fewer Hallucinations lamini.ai/blog/lamini-mem... · Posted by u/galeos
Doesn't this make the "AI" even less creative and more like full-text-search instead? What makes some data a "fact"? If everything is written in the training data, in the end, won't everything be treated like a fact? So the LLM will have 100% accuracy and 0% creativity.
Most advertised commercial uses of "AI" are glorified search. This seems like an improvement in that space?
Brananarchy commented on Own a weather station? We want your data weather.gov/iln/cwop... · Posted by u/dylan604
I would like to see historical high and low data for every day and location on Earth for the past 100 years. Does anyone have a dataset containing this information?
You greatly overestimate how long systematic weather data collection has occurred across even first-world countries, nevermind the rest of the globe. There are certainly many, many places _right now_ where daily weather info isn't logged
It’s not obvious to me that 25 feet distance from an officer conducting an arrest isn’t reasonable assuming the wording of the law and its interpretation are not putting innocent bystanders who blunder into a situation at additional risk. The article indicates there are ostensibly protections for this but I would not want to be the person testing that in practice and there may be any number of edge cases that could make the law unreasonable like when an arrest occurs on private property etc.
You can still film an officer from 25 feet away.
25 feet is actually pretty far. You could be on top of a two story building or across the street and still be "too close". Obviously neither of those cases would interfere with an officer's duties.
To me this law is clearly overreaching, and seems intended to scare people off from trying to see what their "officers of the law" are doing.
In water? Doesn't seem like an issue.
In pure water it's not an issue. In drinking water which has all sorts of "stuff", getting very to that level of precision isn't easy.
I guess the bigger problem is jury trial. Jury trial exists when there is a lack of evidence and the prosecutor wants to charge based on his feelings/agenda or whatever. It's a corrupt system and the public is entertaining the whole ordeal.
What is your alternative which is better than a jury trial?
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