KirinDave

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by KirinDave 6y ago
We might want new nucelar power plants for industrial centers. But what we certainly shouldn't be doing is using them as an excuse to propagate the idea of a centralized grid of power authorities distributing power nationally or glob
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I read hundreds of pages of such writing a week and I can assure you that if this is a practice, it is not well observed by academics or engineers in the field.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I don't understand why you think that writing on a very technical subject needs to build you a ladder to climb on as a prerequisite. There is a link to a very high quality talk right at the top of the article for folks who wanted to di
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by KirinDave 6y ago
What's inappropriate about the behavior here, I wonder? The interviewer got exactly what they asked for, and an awful lot more signal than they probably were expecting.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I guess my question is: as an amateur radio enthusiast, why should I tolerate a special exception for THESE people to broadcast data if I can't even do something as simple as coordinate club meeting addresses in private over the airw
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by KirinDave 6y ago
The bloom filter wouldn't stop you from confirming folks gathered around any specific page that has content, and would have a fixed probability of leaking data even if there was no data there. And that ignores the problem that you&#x27
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Because you'd still know everyone who went to a specific site because they'd be sending you unique hash. Even if you ignore that, you'd know what clusters of people all use the same sites, how often and when.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Well, you don't see me make fun of Parler as much because they're honest about their intentions. Gab originally claimed they were about "freedom" so it seems pretty fair to me to call them out on moderation that is clear
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by KirinDave 6y ago
This wouldn't address a lot of metadata-related privacy concerns.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Haha, as a certified fan of the Wrecker call-out of Chapo I doubt I'll last long there.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Sure, but anyone who talks about that there is a punching bag. It's all awful people. They don't need to do that work, the users do it for them.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Gab bans people openly and credulously discussing marxism. I have experimented with and experienced this directly. So, it fails my litmus test for "an uncensored platform." And it's a bit comical, because Gab as a community e
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I guess Tusky's decision to ban a blocklist a bunch of instances citing that policy is looking pretty prescient, now.
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Commiserations, skepticism, and antirealism about genomics and Truth(kevinabird.github.io)
1 points by KirinDave 6y ago|0 comments
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I think maybe folks got the model number confused. There are strips where the entire signal is passed verbatim without being reformed to every package on the line, but everyone stopped using them because they're awful. In my experience
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by KirinDave 6y ago
The pricing for Google Cloud CDN doesn't look outrageous to me.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
If all you're doing is hosting and CDNing static content, the US cloud providers can do this very, very cheaply.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Sure, but all 3 cloud providers have free tiers for this stuff, don't they?
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by KirinDave 6y ago
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud all offer competitive alternatives for the small business sector. Personally, I find the actual cost of CloudFlare very difficult to reason about in advance of actual use. This is in part because it's easy t
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Doubly ironic since in doing this, they created a system where a protocol is the SPoF; namely nonsensical or false BGP advertisements can quickly kill the internet as a whole if done correctly.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
That's not actually a contradiction. When an individual website is considered as a system, it will have multiple points where the failure of a component inhibits the system. It's possible to have both cloudflare and your database
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Isn't that my point? That we shouldn't be afraid of cultural change if it brings about more of the values we want and less of the values we don't? "Cancel Culture" is much feared by many, as an example, but in pract
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Panels and strips using more than 24V are extremely rare, with 12V being common and 5V existing for the hobbyist crowd. I've never seen a 24V rig for hobbyist uses (although some Ikea strips run there). You don't wire them in seri
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by KirinDave 6y ago
At that point I'd just grab a heavy resistor of the appropriate value and wire the controller down rather than accept a dead pixel in my line. Usually this is a problem for 12V LED lines with 3V3 microcontroller like the ESP32.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Well then allow me to extend a hand from the other side of the aisle and point out that articles like this off and read like love letters to a much more authoritarian era. Often containing words like "value" and "culture&quot
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by KirinDave 6y ago
> it's the rise of a new type of Totalitarian Fascism which is supplanting Totalitarian Communism If the argument is "putting capitalism in a box and using it to motivate government hegemony" is "the rise of a new ty
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by KirinDave 6y ago
This seems like a very, very sketchy definition of "progress." The later 1/3rd of Rome was not exactly full of memorable technological and intellectual progress, especially compared to its neighbors. Roman's are sorta
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by KirinDave 6y ago
If you came here hoping for good resources on how to set up and control LED strips, angry that the article linked was bad and devoid of any good details, here are some useful resources. #1: AdaFruit loves you and has a guide: https:&#x2F
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I believe the word you're searching for here is "clickbait." Controlling LED strips is not a boring project and it's a wonderful entry into the hobby since it often works with very safe voltages and is happy with cheap c
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by KirinDave 6y ago
It's not at all clear to me why we should be concerned with the decline of a proposed "west." Many of the traits folks laud the "West" for were in fact the products of a series of influences from many other cultures

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