[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

As per the article, knowing when the tool is reading totally unrelated files allows devs to cancel the workflow early before it churns thousands of tokens on output that is based on totally incorrect information

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 78 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

> want to compile 50kb C++ console app on windows

> 6 GB MSVC installation

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 101 points 9 months ago

New data tells us that mining a single Bitcoin or one BTC costs the largest public mining companies over $82,000 USD, which is nearly double the figure it did the previous quarter. Estimates for smaller organisations say you need to spend about $137,000 to get that single BTC in return. BTC is currently only valued at $94,703 USD, which seems to be a problem in the math department.

Bitcoin mining will always be profitable for the people with the cheapest electricity and largest economies of scale. There is a difficulty adjustment algorithm in the protocol that ensures this. When the price tanks people turn off thier miners, difficulty adjusts downwards, and then it takes less electricity to find a block.

tl;dr title is wrong

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 167 points 1 year ago

I collect these like pokemon 🙃

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 78 points 2 years ago

lol. Did this in my old building - the dryer was on an improperly rated circuit and the breaker would trip half the time, eating my money and leaving wet clothes.

It was one of the old, "insert coin, push metal chute in" types. Turns out you could bend a coat hanger and fish it through a hole in the back to engage the lever that the push-mechanism was supposed to engage. Showed everyone in the building.

The landlord came by the building a month later and asked why there was no money in the machines, I told him "we all started going to the laundromat down the street because it was cheaper"

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 73 points 2 years ago

And then when you are finally hyped that season 2 is going to be packed with surfing, they announce its cancelled

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 104 points 2 years ago

10 days without food hits differently when you are hiking through mountains 16 hours a day vs sitting on your couch

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 years ago

Literally every library with any traction in any field is MIT licensed.

If the scientific python stack was GPL, then industry would have just kept paying for Matlab licenses

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 years ago

For every 1 person who knows how to use the windows command line, there are 50 people struggling because they didn't embed their video into their PowerPoint, or worse, their USB stick only contains a shortcut to their actual .ppt file

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 years ago

English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming."

It means they aren't developing software anymore because they are growing vegetables instead

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 64 points 2 years ago

The plastic liners in and on tins and cans - referred to as lacquer in the industry - don't impact recycling. When the tins are heated to thousands of degrees for recycling, what is left of the plastic liner, the inks and UV materials; is separated and basically skimmed off, leaving the metal.

https://ekko.world/plastic-lining-on-beverage-food-cans/226751

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For us, probably 1 in 10-15ish say they never signed up. We also have a double opt in, meaning every single one of them opened an email and clicked a link to confirm they wanted to keep getting marketing emails

About 0.2% of people unsubscribe every time we send something out

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