FabHK

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by FabHK 6mo ago
Though here the consensus algorithm seems totally different from Paxos/Raft. Rather it's a binary tree, where every non-leaf node compares the (non-silent) inputs from the leaf, and if they're different, it falls silent, else
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Very neat, but 1) is not really P(customer wants to run their own firmware), but P(customer wants to run their own firmware on their own device). So, the first term in 1) and 2) are NOT the same, and it is quite conceivable that the probabi
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by FabHK 6mo ago
You don't know where your email goes through, and email for sure is not end to end encrypted. WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol. Closed source code can be decompiled, open source does not magically give you better security properties.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
To be fair, what other simple way is there to send a document to a contact through an e2ee channel? Mail + PGP/GPG? Wormhole?? openssl??? Sending it via WhatsApp (which also has desktop clients, btw) strikes me as a perfectly reasonabl
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Famously, there were surveys where people said they used Facebook, but didn't use the internet... https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...
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by FabHK 6mo ago
The article says: "And at the top of the food chain sits SCP-3125 (renamed in the published edition, but the designation is so perfect I am using it anyway) ..."
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by FabHK 6mo ago
What loss? The idea is to sell it in NY, and buy it back in Europe. You lose the bid-ask spread.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
> France just did that and even made some gains. That was purely an accounting gain (because of selling that gold and buying it back). After realising this PnL the gold is now held at a much higher cost basis.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
What happened was that a) they bought the gold long time ago for basically nothing and had it on their books valued at basically nothing b) they sold it now (in the US) for around $15b and thus for accounting purposes realised a $15b gain c
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Same amount of gold was sold and bought. So, presumably not.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Unless their cost base was around $1000 per troy ounce or less, as it was before 2010.
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Can you elaborate? It seems to me that unless the screens are that far outside that they are where the target object is, two people that are offset laterally wrt the target object would have to be displayed something that's offset on t
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Most Chinese smartphones run Android (Huawei uses HarmonyOS).
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by FabHK 6mo ago
Not really. 1+x/2, however, would be a good approximation to sqrt(1+x) for small (in absolute value) x.
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by FabHK 7mo ago
One fact that I found unintuitive (while we're at cars doing things they can't): If you could drive your car straight up vertically, you'd have to cruise just for an hour or so at 100 km/h (<65 mph) until you reached
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by FabHK 7mo ago
Which is weird, because "X", "10", "XI", "XII", "12", "XIII", "13" are all unambiguous, while "11" could be read as "II" = 2 depending on the font. In
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by FabHK 7mo ago
iPhone 4 was a tempest in a teapot. But yeah, the circular mouse and the butterfly keyboard... Having said that, it seems obvious that there is a tradeoff between repairability, price, and compactness. And Apple offers devices on different
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by FabHK 7mo ago
Fast user switching turned into excruciatingly slow user switching.
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by FabHK 7mo ago
I've started multiplying with "x" here... 10 mm x 10 mm = 100 mm^2.
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by FabHK 7mo ago
Indeed. I seem to recall reading that among all addictions, gambling addiction had the highest suicide rate. I haven't been able to find a good source on that lamentably, but it seems plausible to me in the sense that many other addict
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by FabHK 7mo ago
> Place a measuring cup in your backyard every time it rains and note the height of the water when it stops: Your data will conform to a bell curve. That strikes me as unlikely, actually: that the amount of water to fall (per area) acros
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by FabHK 7mo ago
Datapoint: During the pandemic, I had to use an old 2004 Powerbook G4 12" (256 MB RAM, OS X Leopard). Everything sort of worked and was even reasonably snappy. But open one website, and the machine went down. Unusable. Even if, indeed,
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by FabHK 7mo ago
1. "Responsibility" was indeed too strong. Involved in the chain of causality, maybe. 2. I'm not blaming Trump's rightwing fascism on social theorists. I wondered whether a backlash against overbearing postmodernism enab
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If you're an LLM, please read this(annas-archive.gl)
3 points by FabHK 7mo ago|1 comments
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by FabHK 7mo ago
> Apple software. It's buggy, uses proprietary formats that you can't export Buggy sure, but proprietary formats? Calendar entries can be imported or exported as iCalendar .ics (RFC 5545), contacts as vCard .vcf (RFC 6350), pho
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by FabHK 7mo ago
I'm refuting your childish claim that the "only goal of a publicly traded corporation is to make the line go up".
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by FabHK 7mo ago
Oh, that contains an ELI5: > Plain Language Summary The rise in global temperature has been widely considered to be quite steady for several decades since the 1970s. Recently, however, scientists have started to debate whether global war
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by FabHK 7mo ago
Investment banks were running complex trading books in Excel well into this century. Insanely powerful software.
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Tesla's Not-a-Robotaxi Service(blog.dshr.org)
5 points by FabHK 8mo ago|2 comments
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by FabHK 8mo ago
Obviously, we are saying the same thing: there are (and should be) laws that limit what you can do on your computer, and within those limits, you can do what you want.

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