Accujack

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by Accujack 3y ago
I no longer trust them at all. Fusion360 had a lot of promise for being next gen collaborative software, but the pricing Autodesk slapped on to it and the tiered feature set put paid to that. Sadly, there are few alternatives to it, and I
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by Accujack 3y ago
Speaking as a subscriber to Fusion: Do-it-all software is nearly always inferior to special purpose software. I don't use the built-in Eagle functionality in Fusion even though I've paid for it.
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by Accujack 3y ago
Snowden's documents specifically included information about FVEY members spying on each others' citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
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by Accujack 3y ago
I have refused to develop any software for Apple's OS or hardware for about 30 years now, because Apple has always routinely stomped on anyone who disagreed with their corporate ambitions - clone makers, reverse engineers who figured o
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by Accujack 3y ago
What happens is that the US has other five eyes members spy on Americans, and then they get the data from them. Also, Snowden reported that the data of Americans WAS being collected, and that was the thing he warned everyone about. Preten
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by Accujack 3y ago
It's not a "craving". Some people need the tiny doses of the stuff (compared to addicts) that they take each day just to function.
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by Accujack 3y ago
I'm annoyed because I'm being forced to pay for the inflated energy prices caused by the Texas outage. My incumbent utilities got permission from the PUC to charge us.
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by Accujack 3y ago
Actually, it's not that simple. Read my response above. You can't really say indistinguishability makes one cryptosystem better than another because it prevents distinguishing attacks because for some applications it's both
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by Accujack 3y ago
The encryption used by e.g. IBM tape drives is two layered - strong/slow and weak/fast. The Asymmetric key encryption used is the "strong" encryption, but it's far too slow to be used to encrypt the whole tape.
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by Accujack 3y ago
At present it's usually sent to the tape drive which does hardware data compression, hardware encryption, and then writes to the tape so it can be sent off site.
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by Accujack 3y ago
No, it won't. Just because it's encrypted doesn't mean it's totally random.
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by Accujack 3y ago
Tape drives like LTOs use some fairly good hardware compression... believe it or not, it's significantly better than the average zip program. Depending on the data sent to the tape, it can achieve 50-60% reduction in size.
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by Accujack 3y ago
Not necessarily. You can turn off vPro and don't use Intel based network chips, so the management engine is disabled on the hardware level.
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by Accujack 3y ago
The original Linux kernel used the task switching primitives included in the 80386 machine language. The tasks in the OS were directly mapped to 80386 tasks and task table entries, so the kernel was heavily tied to the 386 architecture. L
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by Accujack 3y ago
Not even close. Even if Minix had been installed on every single management card on every computer Intel made from then to now, that number is utterly dwarfed by the number of systems with an installed Linux kernel. That's because in
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by Accujack 3y ago
>Tech is no longer a force for good and we long for the time when this illusion was available. I disagree. Tech was never a "force for good". It's always been a tool, a physical manifestation of the science we pursue a
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by Accujack 3y ago
I've always thought of the practice of salespeople selling software that "does everything" and "makes everything visible to management" as selling the metaprogram. The metaprogram is an all in one piece of software
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by Accujack 3y ago
It's not biological. It's social, and learned behavior.
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by Accujack 3y ago
They should expand the use of the AM band to include low speed digital transmissions, and make it a standard for data interchange between vehicles and for warning of road conditions, local alerts, accidents, etc.
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by Accujack 3y ago
Sadly, this is true of many things these days.
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by Accujack 3y ago
As soon as I read about the programmable I/O setup, it reminded me of the Propeller series chips from Parallax. The "cogs" that are the main processors of those chips aren't as general use as something like the STM32 co
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by Accujack 3y ago
Check out the Xilinx "Zynq" series of FPGAs. They have a lot of uses.
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by Accujack 3y ago
Sort of. Part of the training for a model includes telling it which parts of a sentence are important... a human points and clicks.
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by Accujack 3y ago
I stopped buying Google Pixel when my Pixel XL randomly stopped working... something to do with the flash chip. Google said basically "Oh, well, buy a new one".
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by Accujack 3y ago
Addressing economic and social inequality. Plus it's a good PR move.
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by Accujack 3y ago
Doing this with books is a good stepping stone. I can't wait until someone builds an AI that does this for bills under discussion in the US legislature. Can you imagine no one being able to hide anything deep in ten thousand page bills
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by Accujack 3y ago
"Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin' Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin' They just use your mind and they never give you credit It's enough to drive you crazy i
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by Accujack 3y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/us-to-clean-up...
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by Accujack 3y ago
Agreed. The idea of "medicare for all" was a half step that was attempted because it was deemed to be more politically saleable than "socialist" health care to very partisan voters. Expanding the present medicare syste
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by Accujack 3y ago
Extending the current medicare system to simply cover everyone would be a stupid thing to do. Anyone involved with the problem knows that more changes are needed than to simply open the floodgates, and assumes that it will take a lot of w

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