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by ATsch 6y ago
Despite them actually mixing it into their entropy pools, the lava lamps are still entirely for show. The noise of the camera sensor itself is going to contribute orders of magnitude more entropy than the slow movement of the lamps. It&#x27
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by ATsch 6y ago
I personally find sites like https://outage.report or https://downdetector.com which tally up the number, regions and history of people saying it isn't working for them more conclusive.
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by ATsch 6y ago
QDR/QDR2 are real interfaces, although for SRAM. Afaict Micron and Cypress make them for specialialty applications.
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by ATsch 6y ago
People always mention more memory usage as a bad thing, but with Moore's Law slowing down, we are being forced to find other ways to speed up computation. One of those ways is trading memory usage for performance via look up tables, ca
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by ATsch 6y ago
Despite sounding related, QDR and DDR are mostly unrelated technologies. They are also both poorly named. The real purpose of DDR is not actually to double the data rate, but to halve your clock speed and allow you to use the same frequency
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by ATsch 6y ago
Such measures are theoretically mandated under GDPR if you have >50 employees. I'm not sure how that looks like in practice though.
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by ATsch 6y ago
To my knowledge these governments have so far all deployed their own forks with their own branding and features.
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by ATsch 6y ago
Makes sense, considering HN has plenty of people from corporations and more or less no people from marginalized groups.
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by ATsch 6y ago
Proposing the idea that people do not always make arguments in good faith or say what they actually mean is "thought crime"?
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by ATsch 6y ago
This is like a bingo chart of right-wing fearmongering rhetoric. Because it's hard to sympathize with a rich comedian who can't make some jokes without criticism anymore, you have to spin it up into this grand narrative of how thi
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by ATsch 6y ago
Last I heard, the biggest source of compile time in rustc is emitting absolutely enormous amounts of LLVM IR and leaning on aggressive low-level LLVM optimisation passes to clean things up. There are efforts to make most of these optimisati
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by ATsch 6y ago
Although graphics companies like to talk about "cores" or "processors" to make their GPUs sound powerful, they are really just counting ALUs. If you marketed this chip similarly, you'd end up with something silly li
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by ATsch 6y ago
This would be a great point if not for the heavily skewed application of this technique towards the police, as a sibling comment gives examples for.
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by ATsch 6y ago
The "Trojan" is simply the rhetorical framework chosen by German authorities. Their initial successful push for computer surveillance was in the form of the "state trojan", a piece of malware proposed to be installed on
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by ATsch 6y ago
Indeed, it presumes innocence of the police, a standard that is rarely applied to any other group, especially not protesters. That is precisely the problem.
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by ATsch 6y ago
This is not something I just came up with. The observation that the media heavily uses the passive voice when reporting on the police, a practice that the police started using to deflect blame in their reports, which the media often cites u
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by ATsch 6y ago
I think it's interesting that you're using the widely used cop-speak of "police involved shooting", a passivized framing very popular in the media, even when criticizing the police.
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by ATsch 6y ago
flash games, especially later ones, had this too.
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by ATsch 6y ago
Sure but they're using other appps with equally worrying privacy issues
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by ATsch 6y ago
You'll probably also enjoy Nvidia's Denver architecture[1] (used in the Tegra processors) which JITs ARM bytecode into their own internal instruction set inside of the processor. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by ATsch 6y ago
European police forces are not very different in practice. They are significantly less blatant about it though. But we see the same general behaviors and narratives. The average person is a lot less likely to encounter these abuses though.
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by ATsch 6y ago
This figure is rarely brought up in good faith, but if you're curious, it mainly consists of inter-gang violence, i.e. turf wars. Which is not generally something regular people are exposed to all that much. It also asumes death could
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by ATsch 6y ago
Yeah, this is a standard part of the spin at this point. If they really want to keep their means and methods secret, the way to do that would be by giving their internal complaints system enough teeth to never require leaking full documents
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by ATsch 6y ago
Especially when the people forfeiting your money are also the one criminalizing the drugs that the random criminal needs to rob your house to be able to afford, lacking any support for their conditions elsewhere because that money is put in
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by ATsch 6y ago
AGPL does much of the same thing. Many bigcorps explicitly forbid it's use, while private individuals are totally fine with it.
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by ATsch 6y ago
Especially trademark violations are very effective for this. For example the original GameBoy used it as DRM. The cartridge had to contain a Nintendo(R) logo which was displayed on boot to work, a legal deterrent for publishing unlicensed g
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by ATsch 6y ago
I wonder if the OSM Community will draw any long-term conclusions about trusting especially VC-backed companies from the fate of both Mapillary and MapZen in the last year as well as earlier back-turns such as MapQuest. In these cases, it a
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by ATsch 6y ago
Master has multiple meanings, not just slave master. As in mastery, master tape, master craftsman. In git, there are no "slave" branches, so "master" does not evoke slavery.
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by ATsch 6y ago
Embedded systems frequently have flash size limitations in the megabytes or even kilobytes.
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by ATsch 6y ago
Nobody has rioted hard enough so far and most of the victims of this law are not white.

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