A little off on the lines of code… it’s only around 20 million. I’d be a little worried if there was billions of lines of code, it would be unmaintainable slop.

The exact quote is

“the propulsion force generated was less than the motor would have generated if it had been connected to a standard marine propeller.”

Based on that, the input power is a constant because they are comparing against the same motor. I would assume the power consumption is constant rather than bursty for either propulsion system, so there isn’t any peak-vs-avg power to be concerned about either.

One of the first things that page says is that it generates less force than a standard marine propeller. That seems like it’d be less efficient and use more fuel to me.

*fridge left open reminder beep*

I guess you must live in that part of Alaska where it’s night time for half the year and don’t have daylight.

I actually did buy a Sony mirrorless camera several years ago when I was getting unhappy with the quality of my phone camera, right around the time the aggressive denoising tech was introduced. It made all the leaves in my forest photos turn into a smeary mess, not much different from an AI image.

These photos were 6 years apart, but I bought the nice camera shortly after the first photo. Galaxy S10 vs Sony A9 straight off the camera, similar shutter speeds, but different weather.

This was a whole thing with Samsung phones replacing the moon with a fake one in their telephoto images… I hate how much processing is going into phone images now.

Wow, that’s like 1000x more practical than putting them in space

I’m sure you could do it with a standalone runtime, but it will just be overhead compared to compiling directly to x86, at least for the purposes of this competition. I’m a fan of WASM for a lot of other applications tho

This is more of a “Not In Anyone’s Back Yard” kind of situation.

It seems they’re including the runtime in the size, and have prohibited web based games for this reason (unless you can find a browser that fits in 1.44MB). Submissions must be a native executable (I’m assuming for x86)

I think the fact it’s a checkbox is irrelevant here. From what I understand, these yes/no questions have very real consequences for the patients they’re about. If entering the wrong thing can have negative consequences, an AI shouldn’t be filling that out. Not to mention, if the data in the medical file is wrong, a nurse who’s actually spoken with the patient will actually have opportunities to correct things that an AI will never see.

Honestly, every platform has the same problem, including real life countries. There’s always the possibility that whatever power is enforcing the rules is corrupted and doesn’t listen to anyone else. The mechanisms for fairly determining both what the rules should be and how to enforce them are always evolving as people find new ways to do bad things.

The fediverse is a nice system because it allows people to leave and make their own communities if the admins become toxic, incentivizing them to actually listen to users. I can only hope we don’t get overrun my AI slop like the rest of the internet.

I think the only safeguard against that is to do your own moderation. The only tool I can think of that would even come close to detecting “power tripping” would be AI, and we all know that would end terribly. The best you can do is remove incentives (somehow, idk) so mods aren’t rewarded for a bad ban.

I had a Samsung smart watch, and it was honestly hard to use without an account. Half the features are locked behind signing in. I stopped using it when weather updates stopped working without logging in.
Now I have a dumb mechanical watch, and it’s glorious.

I’ve been on EndeavourOS for the last year or so, and I have to say it’s been rock solid. The only issues I’ve had have been around display scaling, since different programs and games handle it differently. Some things work better in X11 mode, and others better in Wayland. It’s weird some games report a weird 1706x960 resolution with 225% scaling on my 4K TV.

HDR and variable refresh rate just worked out of the box though!

I’m curious what kinds of projects you’ve seen firmware written for. The YouTube projects I’ve seen usually don’t require more than a handfull of if-statements on an Arduino to accomplish what they need.

In my experience, LLMs are capable of solving the kinds of problems you could have copy-pasted from StackOverflow, but as soon as you try and do something too complicated or unique, it falls apart.

The trap is that it seems capable at a surface level in areas people aren’t personally an expert in and then assume it can accomplish real tasks on its own like an expert. It can be great as a tool for getting started, or for otherwise throwaway code, but I’ve yet to see any model produce code that’s complex yet maintainable in the long term.

Historically, there’s been a bit of a whiskey trade on the Denmark-Canada land border.

Well, it looks to be plugged in and charging via a cable. Possibly connected to Android Auto / CarPlay. From the photo they could probably argue it’s a battery bank or something like that.

I’m 50/50 on if they really don’t have a place to rest their phone vs they were previously using the phone and just put it down between messages. This fine seems a little excessive, but it’s consistent with the law there, so /shrug

An interpreter is significantly easier to sandbox than native execution, and it means they can make guarantees the host system won’t crash no matter what the program running is.

I could see it being useful for allowing third parties to run experiments on their hardware in space without having to manually verify the code safety.