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by 827a 8mo ago
Is there an implication here that they could get into an iPhone with lower security settings enabled? There's Advanced Data Protection, which E2EEs more of your data in iCloud. There's the FaceID unlock state, which US law enfor
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Bro: China literally has not fought a war in over 50 years. Taiwan is rich; lots of urban combat; lots of jungle & mountains; a resistant population; motivated & rich allies; China doesn’t remotely have the naval capability to fully
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Oh right, I forgot, "native" just means "good". So if an app is bad, it can't be native, and if an electron app is actually good its because they're doing crazy optimizations that aren't feasible for morta
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It's baffling to me that people still throw around the word "native" like it means anything. Go use VSCode or Obsidian, then go use Apple Music. Electron can be so much better than anything native. The problem isn't that
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The only platform where I consume podcasts anymore is YouTube, because some (but not all) podcast creators will remove their embedding advertising on the YouTube release of their show, but not Spotify/Apple/etc. And, YouTube Premi
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This is not an "obvious in hindsight" thing, and its also something that was discussed in the physical penetration testing community long before 2019 when this happened. Everyone makes mistakes, and they were legally in the right,
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But afaik this wasn't a state courthouse; it's a county courthouse. Legally, obviously, the state has authority and they were in the right, but functionally this is really good advice: if you're doing a penetration test of a
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My favorite conspiracy theory I've heard gain surprising traction in some circles is that the world population is closer to 5B, not 8B. I think the theory goes that there's so much miscounting in third-world countries, combined wi
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Ignoring the reality that the higher fee has only been in play for four months; have you considered that there are likely H1-B employees in the 16,000 that Amazon laid off?
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Conceptually, the training process is like building a massive and highly compressed index of all known results. You can't outright ignore the power usage to build this index, but at the very least once you have it, in theory traversing
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IMO: Its going to. But, organizations which frame this replacement as "we're going to fire you and replace you with AI" are going to crash and burn. Instead, we're just seeing per-engineer and per-team productivity incre
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The decline has been steady since ~2000. The US dollar being used less across the world has both negative and positive consequences for the US and USG. This is the Triffin Dilemma, and dates back to the 1960s; the USD's dominance over-
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I think you're critically misunderstanding a lot of this conversation, likely because you're thinking with emotion. I am not arguing that the current US administration is pursuing a coherent policy toward these ends. I am arguing
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Prediction markets have an alluring quality that they become a pulse-check on what humanity believes is going to happen, putting your money where your mouth is, and when they work like this they work pretty well and are an interesting instr
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I never once said that this is what the US administration is aiming for; stop making assumptions. There are individuals in the administration who understand this, and there are individuals who only care about deporting immigrants or disrupt
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If the EU is good at one thing, its definitely putting out statements.
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You shouldn't wait for the bright future, because its unlikely one is coming for anyone, unless we (the west) thread the needle through one of very few green paths. The endgame we're in now is the sunset of the anthropocene. We&#x
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Not 3%; 7% of 3%: 0.2%. And, even less than that, because we're not talking about 100% of US agricultural export to the EU disappearing. Nor are we talking about anything happening on any immediate timeline. But sure, there's poli
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I don't feel that an "agricultural export powerhouse" is all that desirable a title to own on the global stage, but yes; it is within reach for the Mercosur block. Possibly the only thing within their reach at this point. Agr
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I don't believe Trump has much of any idea of the larger stakes. But, he's surrounded by people who do, and Trump has a pattern of being a voicebox for whatever was said by the last person who talked to him.
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Important to remember that the entire Mercosur block has a lower GDP than just California, and around the same GDP as Texas and New York, separately.
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There is no secondary reserve currency the world can look to. The world is becoming increasingly hostile and unstable, and no one is in this position, or seems fit to serve this position, in the next twenty years. Its also the case that the
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You're right, but only half-way to the most realistic conclusion. Canada is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The US is increasingly hostile, because the US wants control over the warming arctic naval routes and higher border secu
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I think the game is a lot bigger than even Trump recognizes, but some individuals in his circle see it. The only other country that matters is China, and the timeline is decades.
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Can you buy and independently test a Snapdragon X2 Elite? You can go buy M5 today.
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Astro is my favorite way to build websites (at least, of the kind its great at) and I'm happy for the team; Cloudflare is a super cool place to work. Excited to see in what directions this will develop. They have a real shot at being t
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The 9950X3D has a TDP of 170 watts. M5 has an estimated TDP of around 20 watts. The comparison point was for single core performance, which certainly makes the TDP comparison unfair if interpreted together. The numbers are ballpark-correct.
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The scale Apple operates at is sometimes hard for people to grasp. To present a small window into it: Apple did $73B in hardware revenue in the most recent quarter; Nvidia did $57B in total revenue. Now, consider that most of nvidia’s reven
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Yup; or potentially just purchasing a fab from them, given that Intel has signaled they want to leverage TSMC more, and much of Intel's remaining value is wrapped up in server-grade chips that Apple wouldn't be interested in. But
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I would also bet significant money that Apple's unique market position will give them the confidence to invest in in-house fabrication before 2030.

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