LorenPechtel

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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Recording into the recent past is quite common. You implement it by storing the data *to memory only* until the trigger event happens, then you write out what's currently in memory. It's a common feature in better dashcams--you g
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
That's where I stand, also. You're a party to the conversation, it's not something that would implicitly be expected to be private (thus no bedroom recordings etc), it should be legal to record. I can see no justification f
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
They are impossible. You can't make a system that can force bad actors off the system that can't also be used to force politically undesirable actors off the system.
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
And some AI will probably come along and scrape that. I didn't see the specifics of the problems but I had a very strong feeling that there's no planning for safe failure.
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Why do people keep making this same mistake about longevity?! > Readers have a 20% reduction in the risk of dying before their time. > Readers are 2.5 times less likely to contract Alzheimers. As usual, mixing up cause and effect. Re
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Under US law my understanding is that your password is something you know and thus can't be compelled. (Although border control can say that showing them your phone is a condition of entry, but that's only meaningful for a non-ci
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
There has always been a difference between physical presence and actually being considered in a country, this is not unique to the US by any means. From a practical standpoint it's impossible to not physically enter a country before b
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by LorenPechtel 2mo ago
Yeah, long ago I tackled a variant on this--given a directory of files, which ones are already somewhere? I persisted data on what was already there--and found I didn't want to do a good job on the table of what was there. The fastes
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Lots of prosecutors killed there. Why should we think this one wasn't another internal one?
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Stock price does not need to match company value *in the short run*. But company value exerts a tug on the share price, it won't succeed in pulling the share price to the correct value but it will in time correct the swings. Think of
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Yeah, I consider the bike lanes around here basically completely useless. You can't actually get much of anywhere. And there are too many drivers who harass bikes. We just saw that recently with the boxer who got killed that way. Th
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Waymo certainly can't as currently designed. Their system must have a very detailed mapping of the situation and it has a fallback of showing a human operator somewhere the situation and asking for the right course of action. (This d
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Why in the world wouldn't they? It's always how vehicle safety data is calculated. With human drivers it matters--high mileage drivers are more likely to be driving tired or in poor conditions, low mileage drivers often are losing
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Most drives are bigger. I have some around that size--but they're old.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Power use is not deterministic unless it's in a known state. The power hungry circuit is the erase and that's mostly a background thing.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Simply dismounting it won't prevent the stored write. You would have to dismount and then quickly power down. The safe-to-remove indication on Windows takes at least that long.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
This isn't stand-up-to-state-actors security. This is keep-state-actors-from-noticing security. They know you're guilty, they'll get it. The XKCD version of password cracking works no matter how secure your hardware. But w
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
That's just pushing the problem around. You aren't doing anything about the actual cause.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Implicit in this is the assumption that the person is capable of being a productive worker. An awful lot of the homeless are psychiatric cases.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Fundamentally, this is the police not understanding statistics as usual. It provides a flood of data, and the more data you have the more likely you are to see an error.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Doesn't need to be significant injury from every incident. My wife had an MRI, incidental find on it caused a PET CT scan.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Note how the data gets contaminated here. CPR is simply buying time, at best it can delay death in the hope the doctors can do something about whatever caused the heart to quit. Usually they can't. AED is different. Despite what Holl
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
A big increase in a small number can still be a small number.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Why do you think this was basically a form of suicide? Pancreatic cancer still has a dismal "survival" rate, and I hesitate to even call it "survival" as it's more a matter of not having died yet. He's seen wh
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
But does that mean dazzle doesn't work at all, or does it mean a successful counter existed?
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
I am not in any way implying the diseases are related! I'm saying that it's "like" AIDS in that we are seeing only the top layer, we don't understand what connects them. With AIDS we in time found a common failure
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
You can start your car. Without relativistic effects a lead acid battery would put out about .2V rather than 2V.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Think of AIDS before the immune system dysfunction was found. That's where we are with Long Covid. One cause, a myriad of apparently unrelated effects--that's not how biology tends to work. Rather, there's something deeper
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Dazzle isn't meant to hide. Dazzle is meant to confuse a human trying to estimate course and speed in order to send an unguided torpedo at it. You need to look at hit rates to judge effectiveness.
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by LorenPechtel 3mo ago
Pre-programmed evasion. Give the drone a flight path, it's expected to position itself randomly within a certain distance of that flight path. At longer ranges it's feasible to dodge a bullet that way (which is why soldiers do a

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