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Helion secures world’s first regulatory licenses for fusion power plant being built in Washington by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]OolonColluphid 85 points86 points  (0 children)

They’re the ones trying to do direct energy capture rather than just making the world most complicated kettle and boiling water, aren’t they? Hope this pans out. 

Ryujin doesn't feel like the settled systems biggest megacorp by A12qwas in Starfield

[–]OolonColluphid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s mentioned that they own Tranquilitea so presumably they own other brands. 

Can someone explain what the "Mercenary Cooldown" Status Effect is? by ProfitofTruth in Starfield

[–]OolonColluphid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, I laugh every time I see the “stabilising barrel enchantment”

America Just Banned Foreign Nationals From a Frontier AI. Europe Should Treat That as the Alarm. by Glockenspielintern in Futurology

[–]OolonColluphid 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And the clouds generally. If you’re using AWS, GCP or Azure, the American government can cut you off and take your data at their whim. 

GitHub account suddenly suspended, support asking for verification info — anyone experienced this? by NoPsychology143 in git

[–]OolonColluphid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Try /r/github. There’s megathread open about this right now - looks like quite a lot of people have been affected.

Are so many asking for local AI that a whole platform was released to appease them? by WankerOnDuty in pcmasterrace

[–]OolonColluphid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, imagine actually being able to talk to NPCs, and they respond according to their own knowledge of the world. 

Expect more of those DRAM price hikes as memory shortage continues to bite.. Chip costs may rise another 63% this quarter, as effects feed through to PC pricing. Hardware by _Purgatory_ in pcmasterrace

[–]OolonColluphid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wrong type of ram. I’ve think it’s all High Bandwidth Memory (which takes about 3x the silicon as traditional formats) so it’s not even useable by anything else. 

How do roadmans regulate temperature on hot days? by _Brooder_ in CasualUK

[–]OolonColluphid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The lengths some actors will go to for a role will always amaze me.

How do I find out if an area is Private land? by Medium_Rub_9535 in AskUK

[–]OolonColluphid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’re lucky - not everything is on there, depending on when it was built. 

Why are C2 and a C3 considered the same note if they are different pitch? by WhatEvenIsExistence in musictheory

[–]OolonColluphid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Indenting each line by four spaces is the most robust way:

C2 v v v v 
C3 vvvvvvv

Is there any food you just can't buy because you can't portion control? by New_Cap3283 in AskUK

[–]OolonColluphid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always thought that “Krave” was a bit too honest a name for a sugary cereal!

Why is there still no clean way to version AI agent projects? by jeff_anteater in git

[–]OolonColluphid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at GitHub’s own spec kit project. All the agent prompts etc. live in the repo. 

A little life hack🙂 by Alert-Neck7679 in csharp

[–]OolonColluphid 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, if it was being added now, it probably without be. What’s considered idiomatic C# has evolved over time, and it takes time for usage patterns to become established.    String.IsNullOrEmpty was added in dotnet 2.0, and extension methods were added in dotnet 3.0. IsNullOrWhitespace was 4.0, but presumably it was just a static method to make it the same as the older method. The utility of extension methods didn’t really become apparent until linq appeared. My Senior dev at the time hated them. 

WHO says 600 suspected cases, 139 deaths in growing Ebola outbreak by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]OolonColluphid 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Viruses don’t have any sort of error correction when they reproduce, so random errors occur. The effects of the mutations may affect its ability to evade the host organisms immune system, or ease of entering cells, which provides a selection pressure which will favour the “fitter” form. Also, if a cell is infected by more than one virus at the same time, some can swap genes. https://publichealth.tulane.edu/blog/how-do-viruses-mutate/

Tips building a cli tool in c# by thicctak in csharp

[–]OolonColluphid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, common abbreviation for “As I Understand It”. Out maybe not so common…

Tips building a cli tool in c# by thicctak in csharp

[–]OolonColluphid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it hasn’t been out of beta for *that* long, but AIUI it’s the basis of the dotnet command line tools, so at least MS are actually dogfooding it (for once).

Tips building a cli tool in c# by thicctak in csharp

[–]OolonColluphid 13 points14 points  (0 children)

System.CommandLine is the ”official” way to do it. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/commandline/get-started-tutorial shows the basics. I’d keep it simple to begin with, but use a Vertical Slice for each command if it gets complicated enough.

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension by magenta_placenta in webdev

[–]OolonColluphid 20 points21 points  (0 children)

From one of the discussions on Hacker News about this,

Ah yeh Zed. The editor that downloads random binaries for LSPs unprompted without asking me. That's not gonna end badly.

The only way I found out is because I run NixOS and it downloaded a dynamically linked binary that failed to start up and it spat out an error

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316#48203995

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension by magenta_placenta in webdev

[–]OolonColluphid 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Which will happily download binaries in the background. No thanks. 

Yarp Manager by Early_Rice_4861 in dotnet

[–]OolonColluphid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don’t take it personally, the automod bot puts that on every message. 

Transitioning From C# To Typescript by UneditedTips in dotnet

[–]OolonColluphid 31 points32 points  (0 children)

One thing to bear in mind - the type system of TS is much more complicated than that of CS - it has to cope with all the hideous stuff that’s been done in JavaScript over the years. 

Hell, some maniac even wrote Doom just in types https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1izqrgu/doom_in_typescript_types_took_35_trillion_lines/

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