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FartyMcFarter commented on Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers   techcrunch.com/2025/03/16... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
krisoft · 5 months ago
Had a friend who came to me with the same idea. In challenge of the idea I sent a picture of some chopped cucumbers and tomatoes, and an other picture with the same chopped vegetables drizzled with a copious amount of olive oil. I asked if they can tell which one is which. The difference was hundreds of calories and you could not tell which one is which (least of all how much oil there is on the one with the oil.)

That of course feels like a "weird" edge case, but it illustrates the general problem that butter/oil/sugars can pack a lot of calories and have no or almost no visual signature.

FartyMcFarter · 5 months ago
That's not a weird edge case at all. Adding oil to food is one of the most common ways to add calories (intentionally or not).

A salad wouldn't even be the hardest case to detect, since raw vegetables don't soak up as much oil as other kinds of food.

FartyMcFarter commented on London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage   cnn.com/2025/03/20/travel... · Posted by u/dfine
belter · 5 months ago
An Helicopter, has been running multiple 360 degrees rounds, around the whole perimeter of Heathrow for the last two hours or three hours.

I wonder if they are looking for something or somebody and there is more to this story. (click on the helicopter icon to see previous runs): https://www.flightradar24.com/GINTV/3990e5fc

FartyMcFarter · 5 months ago
If it was a police helicopter you wouldn't see it on flightradar24.
FartyMcFarter commented on London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage   cnn.com/2025/03/20/travel... · Posted by u/dfine
traceroute66 · 5 months ago
> So I'm not sure it was relevant.

It is.

If you read the text on the link it very much describes the situation, e.g. talking about the substation.

Second, the start time and other data (e.g. number of properties affected) correlates with that stated by the London Fire Brigade on their website[1]

[1] https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2025/march/fire-at-...

FartyMcFarter · 5 months ago
Oh, I see. My apologies, for some reason I thought the fire started in the early morning hours.
FartyMcFarter commented on London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage   cnn.com/2025/03/20/travel... · Posted by u/dfine
traceroute66 · 5 months ago
> What will be telling here is how quickly things adapt to the disruption.

Most people won't have to. The substation area covers 62,000 properties, but only 4,800 are actually without power as a result of the incident. In addition they are expecting restoration of power by 15:00 same-day.[1]

[1] https://powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack#QQ0573

FartyMcFarter · 5 months ago
That link isn't working currently, and when I checked it earlier it was referring to an outage which started late yesterday night. So I'm not sure it was relevant.

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FartyMcFarter commented on London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage   cnn.com/2025/03/20/travel... · Posted by u/dfine
maest · 5 months ago
Is there going to be a replacement bus service for the flights?
FartyMcFarter · 5 months ago
Yes, Airbus to be specific.
FartyMcFarter commented on Powers of 2 with all even digits   oeis.org/A068994... · Posted by u/Hbruz0
nneonneo · 5 months ago
Fun fact: 2^133477987019 is the smallest power of two that ends with 40 even digits. In fact, it ends with 46 even digits - which is surprising, given that it is significantly smaller than 2^(2^46). The last 50 digits of this number are ...32070644226208822284248862288402404246620406284288. This number has over 40 billion digits, though, so it seems kind of unlikely that we will ever find another number where all the digits are even. The relevant OEIS sequence is here: https://oeis.org/A096549

Context: I wrote a search program that is substantially faster - it takes just a few minutes to get up to 2^(10^13), although my laptop's limited memory is starting to be a problem (my intermediate result file is already nearly 1GB in size). Unfortunately, it seems there are no results up to 2^15258789062500, which is a 4.5-trillion digit number.

FartyMcFarter · 5 months ago
I think you can calculate "2^X mod (10^N)" where N is the number of digits using a modular exponentiation algorithm.

This would avoid using a lot of memory, and it would also be faster.

FartyMcFarter commented on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update   us.community.samsung.com/... · Posted by u/ftufek
FartyMcFarter · 5 months ago
Reading this makes me glad that I didn't give my TV the WiFi credentials.
FartyMcFarter commented on Why fastDOOM is fast   fabiensanglard.net/fastdo... · Posted by u/wicket
hinkley · 6 months ago
So what does one do with a faster Doom, besides bragging, larger maps and more simultaneous players?
FartyMcFarter · 6 months ago
People enjoy learning about old software. Fabien Slangard who wrote this article built a whole website and wrote several books based on that.

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