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New comment by mattsan in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

mattsan — Tue, 21 May 2024 12:41:59 +0000

You can keep it in the same orbit but spread the mass out along the orbit to the other side and that changes the combined CoG to be closer to Sun's CoG in turn changing Earth's orbit, albeit probably slightly

New comment by mattsan in "CVE-2024-4367 – Arbitrary JavaScript execution in PDF.js"

mattsan — Mon, 20 May 2024 13:22:22 +0000

Haven't tested but I'm almost certain the Electron app they're talking about is VS Code. Wouldn't make sense for a code editor to sandbox extensions

New comment by mattsan in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

mattsan — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:24:01 +0000

Was a joke :)

New comment by mattsan in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

mattsan — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:15:58 +0000

Funny thought - want to solve global warming? Disassemble Mercury! Earth's orbit in theory would space a bit further out

New comment by mattsan in "Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)"

mattsan — Mon, 06 May 2024 00:07:50 +0000

To be fair all critical systems can be controlled by hardware buttons below the displays so they don't need a 100% guarantee, worst case rebooting would be fine

New comment by mattsan in "Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard"

mattsan — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:28:54 +0000

They're definitely marketing this as if they were Apple. If this takes off I'm betting on Apple buying them out.

New comment by mattsan in "RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo"

mattsan — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:17:38 +0000

yep this is what I meant. hallucinating, justifying or missing bad stuff.

additionally, similar to how large PRs are more likely to just be skimmed and replied with a "LGTM!", an LLM missing some bad stuff but still producing a seemingly thorough review would increase the chance of the bad stuff making its way in.

allowing LLMs to write code would be fine if its truly verified by a human, but let another LLM hallucinate and cloud a persons judgement and you've got a problem

New comment by mattsan in "RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo"

mattsan — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:41:56 +0000

It should just be banning the use of AI in code reviews

New comment by mattsan in "Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier"

mattsan — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:06:34 +0000

Cloudflare is profitable. Whales subsidise retail.

New comment by mattsan in "Building a Compiler in 25 Days [video]"

mattsan — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:14:19 +0000

To be clear, that's a problem with your attention span, and not with the creator.

New comment by mattsan in "DBRX: A new open LLM"

mattsan — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:55:28 +0000

can't wait for LLMs to dispatch field agent robots who search for answers in the real world thats not online /s

New comment by mattsan in "Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file"

mattsan — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 01:50:10 +0000

This is addressed in the README and a comparison is given

New comment by mattsan in "PSChess – A chess engine in PostScript"

mattsan — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:09:42 +0000

x coord, y coord, command that consumes the arguments from what we can infer is pushed onto a stack beforehand

New comment by mattsan in "Creating an autopilot in X-Plane using Python"

mattsan — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:53:37 +0000

To be fair, theres also the kIPC mod that bridges and connects both kOS and kRPC together. I personally like the kerbal-y equivalent of Ada with kOS though ahaha

New comment by mattsan in "Creating an autopilot in X-Plane using Python"

mattsan — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:19:49 +0000

If you want a simpler intro into learning the math/logic behind rocket guidance systems, kOS is an alternative mod.

The main difference is that it has a pretty good base autopilot, such that you can give it a direction vector to point to.

The downside is that you have to learn a specific language for it, but you can also make your own language that transpiles as a fun project :)

Example of what's possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szsIL_0m2Qo

New comment by mattsan in "Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)"

mattsan — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 02:17:41 +0000

And in the UK student loans are adjusted over time based on inflation lol. Inflation don't be helping people with student loans here

New comment by mattsan in "Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years"

mattsan — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 21:47:55 +0000

I haven't done the math but I would think it's possible due to interactions from other solar systems. Similar to how satellites oscillate around Lagrange points

New comment by mattsan in "Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch"

mattsan — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 20:47:39 +0000

Yeah, thats the main engine site, the link submitted here is for a specific port. Not the same.

New comment by mattsan in "Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch"

mattsan — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:10:02 +0000

The website says this: https://arc.net/l/quote/btugrszz

New comment by mattsan in "The Case for Rust in the base system"

mattsan — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 19:54:41 +0000

Other than LLVM portability concerns, I think Rust can for sure replace C/C++ libraries (I'm talking DLLs etc).

Sure, there will be a small C ABI shim but the developer experience writing in Rust I think is worth it.

Also, nowadays whenever I want to write a fast Python extension, I don't think twice before using pyo3, super simple to write and build.