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de_watcher commented on Ask HN: Why are documentation only showing 1 example if any    · Posted by u/julienreszka
de_watcher · 5 years ago
We just have automatic tests that use the thing in every possible way. We have them because that's how we've developed and debugged the function. Best documentation ever.
de_watcher commented on Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age   news.mit.edu/2020/why-lea... · Posted by u/hhs
saiya-jin · 5 years ago
This is kind of my experience too, maybe disguised differently. I am finding new topics that take my interest and dig deeper and deeper. Topics I hated in school like geography, biology etc. are fascinating now, can't read enough. But there are also some weird ones - looking into how guns work, details of systems like ar-15 (I know some people judge me as next crazy shooter, for me its just curiosity). Learning how to repair various things at home (variable light switch disassembly is the latest one). Little things. Previously, couldn't care less.

Picked up psychology, trying to understand why many folks behave so weirdly and differently. Again, addicted to no end (Jordan Peterson's videos are a treasure trove for me now).

But still struggling with learning french, so not everything is so shiny.

Or maybe its a common story for my age group, don't know. But I know plenty of folks who are so deep in their comfort zone they don't care about new stuff anymore.

Maybe its normal

de_watcher · 5 years ago
History subject is actually making proper sense now. At school it was kinda tedious in some parts. (never had anything against biology, it's all technical stuff that we here like)

Yea, "looking into how guns work" isn't weird. It's just addictive: relative to other problems they're simple and physically intuitive, so for every new mechanism you get a kick from learning another easy thing you didn't need to know.

de_watcher commented on Qt 6 will provide additional libraries via Conan package manager   qt.io/blog/qt-6-additiona... · Posted by u/alaenix
de_watcher · 5 years ago
CMake and qmake is not enough. Adding Ninja...
de_watcher commented on Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground   old.reddit.com/r/Justroll... · Posted by u/a5withtrrs
sandworm101 · 5 years ago
Those are full-sized spots. People with oversized vehicles and who rent spots normally park astrive the line, not across at 45. That is done by someone who doesn't want anyone near his car. And even if this guy has rented two spots, that is still being a jerk to all the other people who want to rent/use spots.

Do that around my town and you will find motorcycles parked in the triangles you have left behind. I saw a porsche guy call the cops about this while at starbucks. The cop, on a motorcycle, decided to believe that the motorcycles had arrived first and that the porsche must have sneaked in between the bikes. The porsche was ticketed.

de_watcher · 5 years ago
Motorcyclists are mostly jerks too because of the noise they make tho.
de_watcher commented on The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel   phoronix.com/scan.php?pag... · Posted by u/akvadrako
gridlockd · 5 years ago
> It was generated by the hardware division. These are the registers that are authorized for disclosure in the open-source driver by the AMD employed open-source driver developers.

...which is arguably not compatible with the GPL:

"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."

de_watcher · 5 years ago
We can say that it's generated from the "hardware schematics". AMD hardware isn't an opensource hardware.
de_watcher commented on The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel   phoronix.com/scan.php?pag... · Posted by u/akvadrako
m463 · 5 years ago
I would also mention that gpus are a GIANT abstraction, and since they are rev'd faster than arguably any hardware in a sytem, there are abstractions layered on top of that for the families and models of gpus too.

Another way of looking at it is -- I started playing with openwrt for a relatively small router, with 5 ports plus wifi.

I was amazed at not only the amount of openwrt code required to support the different router families and the different router models, but at the sheer amount of stuff turned on by default in the kernel just in case I might need to load a module for some obscure feature or package. I assume the same goes for a gpu driver both at the source level and in the kernel.

de_watcher · 5 years ago
Are there still workarounds for specific games/programs inside the driver?
de_watcher commented on Faith in government declines when mobile internet arrives   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/noir-york
Super_Jambo · 5 years ago
Can you expand upon point 3? I do not really follow sports.
de_watcher · 5 years ago
Point 3 is also relevant to opensource/FOSS.
de_watcher commented on Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears   sciencemag.org/news/2020/... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
de_watcher · 5 years ago
But then you get electric shocks to the tongue...
de_watcher commented on Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries   newatlas.com/energy/nawa-... · Posted by u/bornelsewhere
pbhjpbhj · 5 years ago
>Or, more likely, a slight improvement in your phone and much thinner phones. On laptops, we might see the return of more ports. //

Please, no. I don't understand the utility of making something so expensive be so fragile and hard to hold. My phone is 5mm thick, that's already too thin for me.

Does anyone want thinner phones or is it just a marketing thing?

de_watcher · 5 years ago
A phone with a wide screen is hard to hold. I'll begin having issue with thickness only if it starts cutting fingers.
de_watcher commented on Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes triple the density of lithium batteries   newatlas.com/energy/nawa-... · Posted by u/bornelsewhere
dTal · 5 years ago
What exactly is an "electric rocket"?
de_watcher · 5 years ago
Not counting turbopumps for chemical engines there is also an electric propulsion when in space.

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