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- on Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court in c/technology@beehaw.org · 4d ago
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on ICantBelieveItCanSort Sort in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 2 Sep 2026
it would sort odd and even lists in opposite orders
not sure why you see different behaviour based on parity, but it does sort in descending order. that is why the inequality operator in
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on ICantBelieveItCanSort Sort in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 2 Sep 2026
Sort of a “two wrongs that accidentally make a right” maneuver.
not exactly (if i understand it correctly). the first swap of a pair, where
i < j, basically does not matter, since the same pair will be revisited one more time later with switched values (i = 8, j = 9does not matter.i = 9, j = 8does) and that is when the actual sorting happens. that is why the condition isif a[i] < a[j] then swap, which may seem countreintuitive, but we are comparing the values in the reversed order compared to most of the sorting algorithms.the
i < jpart can be seen as the part that is handled in bubble sort by making the inner loop progressively smaller as the array is partially sorted (not the same elements, but the same amount of work, sort of). it is just ignored here, which is obviously bad for any kind of efficiency, but it allows for that super simple code. -
on ICantBelieveItCanSort Sort in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026
That is just a bubble sort, except the comparisons are done in different order than conventional bubble sort…
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on End of Bliss in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 26 Aug 2026
I often wonder if Charles knew at the moment, when looking upon the bucolic scenery, that one day the image would become synonymous to many with the advent of the digital age.
he was successful national geographic photographer, so he knew what he was doing when he took the photo, but of course, he had no idea what would happen…
there is nice write-up on wiki
Microsoft said they wanted not just to license the image for use as Windows XP’s default wallpaper, but to buy all the rights to it.[9]: 3:37 [24] They offered O’Rear what he says is the second-largest payment ever made to a photographer for a single image; however, he signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose the exact amount.[6][11][25] It has been reported to be “in the low six figures.”[4] O’Rear needed to send Microsoft the original film and sign the paperwork; however, when couriers and delivery services became aware of the value of the shipment, they declined since it was higher than their insurance would cover. Instead, Microsoft bought O’Rear a plane ticket and he personally delivered it to their offices in Seattle.[4][9]: 3:57 “I don’t think the engineers or anybody at Microsoft had any idea it would have the success it had,” he said.
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on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@beehaw.org · 26 Aug 2026
what is dolly parton related layoff?
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on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@beehaw.org · 23 Aug 2026
well my skoda detects the obstacle and brakes aggressively to increase that gap as fast as possible. if i do it manually, i see our speeds and how much of that distance i can sacrifice to make the breaking smoother, but the computer just brakes hard. it is probably better from the safety standpoint, but it is very uncomfortable - esp. if you have passengers who don’t follow the traffic so they don’t understand what is happening.
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on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@beehaw.org · 23 Aug 2026
Why? Lack of knowledge? With mine, I use it regularly on the highway outside of heavy traffic. It’s very nice, actually.
unusable in city, highly situational outside. very annoying when someone merges just in front of you.
Mine, I keep on for the most part. Theres an easy access button to turn it off when it becomes annoying though, which is only really when dealing with lanes merging.
sooner or later it will stop working, because it will have trouble reading the lines. people are terrible at monitoring automatic system, that is the lesson we learned from airline cockpits, and i will rather drive my car, than anxiously wait for the moment what the half-assed system stops working. on top of that, my car start obnoxious alarm once it decides i am not holding the steering wheel tight enough, which is about 20 seconds after activation of this function.
which is only really when dealing with lanes merging.
ehm, are you using your turn indicators?
21.3 percent disable automatic emergency braking outright
false positives
Voice assistants go unused by 17.8 percent.
it actually surprises me that 82% of people uses it.
I’m sorry, what? Having the current speed and relevant traffic signs in the windshield is amazing
windshield is for looking out of the car. if someone cannot tell speed of their car without checking, or is unable to glance at the dashboard when needed, they have no business to operate potential murder weapon in public. (i admittedly don’t have personal experience with such system)
At least in the US, every new car has them. So are people going out of their way to ignore them? Or only that many people have cars with these cameras?
i guess not everyone drives new car, and it depends on the situation a lot. the camera is great for estimating the distance to the bumper of the car behind you, but for evaluation situation around the car when parking or reversing on street, mirrors are much better.
which is only really when dealing with lanes merging.
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on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@beehaw.org · 23 Aug 2026
Mine, I keep on for the most part. Theres an easy access button to turn it off when it becomes annoying though, which is only really when dealing with lanes merging.
it is highly impractical every time some moron decides that the gap between you and the car in front of you is there waiting for him… if you are in control of your speed, you will react much more smoothly that the automatic (may depend on the car)
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 20 Aug 2026
I think his logic is flawed. But he does technically use logic to infer the existence of God
using CORRECT logic is kinda unspoken assumption when you talk about logic, otherwise it is pointless to talk about logic at all.
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 19 Aug 2026
interesting, did not know that.
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 19 Aug 2026
that’s not how science works. The default claim is not by default true.
it is generally (lets ignore math) impossible to prove non-existence, you can only do it the other way around. so non-existence is the default claim, until you prove otherwise.
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 19 Aug 2026
Without a rigorous effort, the default claim is less strong and has not stood up to scrutiny.
no. the default claim is true unless proven otherwise, that is why it is default. it does not have to stand to any scrutiny. it is the claim that there is an invisible man in the sky, who is allmighty, sociopathic, sadistic asshole, has been torturing people since he created the world and in spite of being allmighty needs you to go to church every sunday and bring him money, that needs to stand up to scrutiny.
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
i am using the word brainwashing to express my disdain for people who force religion on kids who can’t make free choice, it is not meant to be taken in the strictest literal sense. otherwise i agree with your comment.
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
well no, we know it because non-existence is the default status quo. if you want to claim there is a spaghetti monster running the world, the burden of proof is on your side, no one has a responsibility to prove you it is nonsense.
so the effort of all these very smart people trying to find god would only be of interest if they had actually find him… in which case he should be handcuffed and brought to hague.
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
starting with axioms “not aligned with reality” is not fault of logic 😂
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
oh my sweet summer child… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
believe in their religion for logical reasons
lol. there is literally no way to use logic to infer existence of god.
people believe in religion because they were brainwashed to it, usually at young age when they lacked the rational apparatus to resist such brainwashing.
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on Divine tech support in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 17 Aug 2026
he has a BS in math. not something you usually associate with the pope 🤷♂️
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on LMAO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
it will be up to opinion in the end.
no, it will not.
open data format is a format that has publicly available specification and anyone can use it, as opposed to formats whose specification is not publicly available, the only way to use them is to reverse engineer them, which is something their author (for example, but not only, microsoft) actively tries to prevent by constantly making undocumented changes, in an attempt to lock the users into some private software ecosystem.
purpose of open data format is that anyone can share and exchange data, no matter what apps they decide to use, so trying to prevent anyone to use it would be directly counterproductive.
so for example i use libreoffice, you use ms word, and we can exchange the data files and they look as intended on the other person’s computer, because microsoft is free to read and write .odt files, their documentation is publicly available and no one asks microsoft to start giving out ms word for free or sod off. which was not the case when people had to reverse engineer structure of the .doc file.
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on LMAO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
and microsoft can do that, because odt is open data format. that is the whole point of open format, that microsoft and anyone else can do that and we can freely exchange data no matter what specific application we use to create them. you know what is not open data format? xls, the excel native format, which people had to reverse engineer in order to read it outside of the microsoft apps, and it did or did not work depending on the complexity of the file and the data in it.
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on LMAO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Again, that would really beat the purpose of open data format.
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on LMAO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
That would be the opposite of open.
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on OS Tier List in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
mint is based on ubuntu (except for the mint debian edition) which is probably why it is there
They already sent the data somewhere, so yes, even after you are done with them.