GuB-42

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by GuB-42 11mo ago
There is a difference between a streaming platform and cable. Streaming platforms are on demand while cable is broadcast. To have an ads/no ads option with cable, you need 2 distinct channels with different programming, as you need som
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
I had the first Twingo model with that engine. Sure, reliability was exceptional, and it also felt nice to drive for a low power engine (55 HP). What wasn't exceptional however was fuel economy, which significantly increased the total
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
In my interpretation of the hacker spirit, hackers don't complain, they do stuff. What a hacker would do when faced with hostility would be to work around it, in a way that is clever and efficient. Maybe replicate the functionality of
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
I haven't tried it, but I may consider Raku (ex Perl 6). It is very expressive and loaded with features. AoC-like problems are well suited to quick and dirty languages with lots of builtin features, the code doesn't have to be mai
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
They could have made a version just for (E)AX. "general purpose" registers in x86 are not the same. AX is the accumulator, for arithmetic, BX is for indexing, CX is the loop counter and DX is for data and extending AX in divisions
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrobotics
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Probably, however, it makes me think of the Galaxy Note 7 problem. For those who don't remember, these phones had a battery problem that can cause them to catch fire, resulting in one of the most infamous smartphone recall campaign. Th
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
It smelled fishy right from the start. It is obvious that energy to weight ratio is one of the most important characteristic of power banks. Reputable manufacturers will optimize for this, and if they are particularly good at it, they can a
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Signal has always seen some controversy, usually centered around centralization. Also the MOB cryptocurrency, the use of phone numbers, contact discovery,... It has led to the promotion of alternatives such as Matrix and third party applica
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
No need to look that far. Palantir sells software for analyzing data, like Excel but on a large scale. If "Chat Control" passes, they will need software to analyze the data they collect, which is exactly what Palantir sells. It is
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Isn't it the same for every country? Of course if your organization have connections to a criminal organization, you are going to be in trouble. Same thing for refusing to cooperate with law enforcement, this is not some abstract thing
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
I wonder how much of it is just Arthur Conon Doyle hating his character. Which has was known for as the stories progressed. He even killed him, just to resurrect him later because of public demand. He accumulated character flaws along the w
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
This is the kind of stories where I would like another angle. First, to make things straight, neither Signal nor AdBlock are illegal in France, they are used by many without any problem. As in some other countries E2E encryption is sometime
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Homan cognition is more advanced than in any other animal. I think it is clear enough. Humans are not the only animals that evolved higher intelligence, but we have a combination of attributes that made it really effective: we are larger
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Source: https://www.novonordisk.com/news-and-media/news-and-ir-mater... Ongoing study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39780249/ Usual rant to news outlets: Cite your damn sources! (if they are pu
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Shouldn't we wait until Rust gets full support in GCC? This should resolve the issue with ports without a working Rust compiler. I don't have a problem with Rust, it is just a language, but it doesn't seem to play along well
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Straight from the horse's mouth! The thing is that Brotli is clearly optimized for the web (it even has a built-in dictionary), and ZStandard is more generic, being used for tar archives and the likes, I wonder how PDF would fit in her
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Brotli? Is it still relevant now that we have Zstandard? Zstandard is much faster in just about every benchmark, sometimes Brotli has a small edge when it comes to compression ratio, but if you go for compression ratio over speed, LZMA2 bea
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Same idea with the Crowdstrike bug, it seems like it didn't have much of on effect on their customers, certainly not with my company at least, and the stock quickly recovered, in fact doing very well. For me, it looks like nothing chan
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
I get the joke, but that makes me think. What is worse between writing potentially vulnerable code yourself and having too many dependencies. Finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits is costly, and hackers will most likely target popula
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One reason I can think of is with regard to confidentiality. A lot of AI services are controlled by companies in the US or China, and they may not want military research to leak to these countries. Classified project obviously have stricter
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
That, I think, is the most unintuitive part about writing fragment shaders. The idea that you take a couple of coordinates and output a color. Compared to traditional drawing, as with a pen and paper, you have to think in reverse. For examp
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
As a French, my guess is simply that the brand is not price competitive and up until now, they didn't have the right marketing to justify the higher prices. Duralex is a beloved brand, and the French wouldn't like to see it go, bu
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
The part that baffled me the most was how the decision to Brexit seem be driven mostly by immigration. But the UK was one of the few EU countries that wasn't part of Schengen. They had an actual border with the EU and could control the
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
You don't become a billionaire by having your hands clean. But what set them appart to other companies is that they go out of their way not to be hostile to their users. Loot boxes done well are not user hostile, players pay because th
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
AI GPUs suck for gaming, I have seen a video from a guy playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on a H100 at a whooping 8 FPS! That's after some hacks, because otherwise it wouldn't run at all. AI GPUs are stripped away of most things displ
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
I get the idea but it is a very one-sided argument. It sounds like "but can't they just trust us?". And no, they can't, that's the reason why regulation exists. They said they have done all sorts of research to make
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I am the first to complain about imperial units but this article is mostly metric. As long as metric/SI is there, I have no problem with what they chose to show next to it, including swimming pools, football fields and Hiroshima bombs.
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Yes, that's what I meant by companies doing this to cover their asses, but then again, why should presumably independent researchers be so scared of that to the point of not even releasing a mild working example. Furthermore, using poe
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Yes, agents. But for that, I think that the usual approaches to censor LLMs are not going to cut it. It is like making a text box smaller on a web page as a way to protect against buffer overflows, it will be enough for honest users, but no

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