fbdab103 (u/fbdab103)

fbdab103 commented on Injuries with Electric vs. Conventional Scooters and Bicycles jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/rntn

fbdab103 · a year ago

It is not obvious to me that this is correcting for the differences in bicycle vs escooter users? Or the total number of users over time.

By and large I expect someone riding a bicycle to be fitter than the average bear. In contrast, someone using an escooter could have any possible composition: slim/obese, young/old, safe/reckless. The increasing popularity of scooters also means that the absolute number of people has likely risen from a decade ago.

fbdab103 commented on Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool github.com/arunsupe/seman... · Posted by u/arunsupe

fbdab103 · a year ago

I might have a work use case for which this would be perfect.

Having no experience with word2vec, some reference performance numbers would be great. If I have one million PDF pages, how long is that going to take to encode? How long will it take to search? Is it CPU only or will I get a huge performance benefit if I have a GPU?

fbdab103 commented on Texas woman gets 15 years for stealing $109M from Army to buy mansions, cars usatoday.com/story/news/n... · Posted by u/paulpauper

trompetenaccoun · a year ago

We'll never know because there is no transparency. Public funds should not be distributed in cash or with checks like in the 19th century. The technology to make stealing our taxes impossible exists, but interestingly politicians of all people have been fighting against recognizing and properly regulating it.

Food for thought.

fbdab103 · a year ago

Fraud against private companies happens all the time as well. There was an infamous case about a guy who sent fake $100+ million total invoices to Facebook, Google, etc[0]. If they had just stopped after a single interaction, probably would have gotten away with it free and clear.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-t...

fbdab103 commented on Managarm: Pragmatic microkernel-based OS with asynchronous I/O github.com/managarm/manag... · Posted by u/ksp-atlas

jcelerier · a year ago

people always say that C++ is not a good fit for kernels, but so far this is the only language I know where small teams or individuals are regularly able to create non-trivial hobby OSes from scratch that go from zero to GUI:

- Serenity (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity) - not really a small team, but it managed to get to GUI as pretty much a one-man-show

- Skift (https://github.com/skift-org/skift)

- hhu: https://github.com/hhuOS/hhuOS

- MaxOS: https://github.com/maxtyson123/MaxOS

- MorphiOS: https://github.com/syedtaqi95/morphiOS

- Macaron: https://github.com/MacaronOS/Macaron

- Ghost: https://github.com/maxdev1/ghost

most big ones in C don't manage to get to the GUI level, except toaruos: https://github.com/klange/toaruos

fbdab103 · a year ago

Is the kernel really the differentiator there? seL4 is a Proven microkernel that is some 9000 lines of C. This ancient SO post[0] claims Linux is 140k lines. The kernel is just a tiny component of the many things required to get an OS up and running. I suspect most projects just peter out as the enormity of the complexity becomes apparent.

[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223746/why-is-the-l...

fbdab103 commented on The secret of Minecraft (2014) medium.com/message/the-se... · Posted by u/prawn

vbezhenar · a year ago

I never understood the appeal of having game knowledge on a separate websites.

I can understand this situation happening because of lack of development resources. Like - yeah, it's easier to just let the community to write the documentation and concentrate on the game, if you're small company.

But why would it appeal to the actual players? It's not really secret knowledge, there are wiki websites with all the recipes.

fbdab103 · a year ago

Especially when the goto gaming wiki site host is straight-up internet cancer.

fbdab103 commented on The secret of Minecraft (2014) medium.com/message/the-se... · Posted by u/prawn

Version467 · a year ago

Nah. Microsoft did a great job handling Minecraft imo. I thought they were out of their mind paying that much money for something that I didn't think had many opportunities left to grow.

But now I think it was the perfect time for Persson and his team to give it to someone with the resources and the reach to make those opportunities. Yes, Microsoft changed some things about Minecraft the game, but overall they didn't touch the core gameplay loop. Instead they focused on expanding the minecraft universe with genre crossing spinoff games and cooperations that the old Mojang could've never done. And kids loved most of it. Stuff like Minecraft: Story Mode added a richness to the franchise that you could completely ignore if you wanted to, or dive into if it appealed to you.

Microsoft grew Minecraft because it still had a lot of growth in it. It might clash with your nostalgia, but it evolved such that it still broadly appealed to its growing core audience. And that is and always has been children. And children still love Minecraft.

fbdab103 · a year ago

  Nah. Microsoft did a great job handling Minecraft imo.

I am still peeved that my lifetime license "mysteriously" broke during Microsoft's account transitions. Trillion dollar company lacks the manpower and technical capability to handle it? Or someone cannot be arsed to maintain "freeloader" customers.

fbdab103 commented on Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to 'heroin' theverge.com/2024/7/25/24... · Posted by u/indus

echelon · a year ago

Who actually buys Oracle? Apart from Java, don't tech companies avoid Oracle like the plague?

Are they selling the MBAs at Fortune 500s? And is that how IBM stays afloat as well?

fbdab103 · a year ago

Every F500 company with historical Oracle installations built before the open source offerings were actually competitive. Even if every one of those decided today they were going to ditch Oracle, you are talking about multi-year initiatives.

fbdab103 commented on Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient newatlas.com/medical/magl... · Posted by u/thunderbong

fbdab103 · a year ago

Why does the article not say how much that thing weighs? It looks hefty, though I suppose a human heart is also probably dense.

fbdab103 commented on Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border reason.com/2024/07/26/cou... · Posted by u/mhb

fbdab103 · a year ago

Is this then a done deal? Or can the Supreme Court somehow decide there was a half-sentence in a Federalist Paper which argued the opposite and invalidate the ruling?

fbdab103 commented on US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

_heimdall · a year ago

I got them from Battry Hookup[1] late last year. I wasn't ready to do the full build yet, I've since built a "shed" that is way overbuilt and more of an kff-grid tiny house to store all of our solar equipment.

That site is pretty hit or miss with stock since it is all repurposed equipment, but if you happen to catch the right equipment going by you can get a really good deal for anything DIY.

[1] https://batteryhookup.com/

fbdab103 · a year ago

You were not kidding. On the front page of this moment is "14,000 3v Lithium CR2032 Coin Batteries" held in two barrels with a weight of 200 pounds. A tremendous bargain, if you can snatch it at the current bid of $20.