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by Pelam 5y ago
I mostly use playlists generated by this service https://everynoise.com/ (you can get to them with desktop client by pasting playlist links from the site to the spotify client search box.) From the site: "Every Noise a
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by Pelam 5y ago
Obligatory XKCD Horse Battery Stapler reference. https://xkcd.com/936/ MS AD and many others certainly did a lot to prevent this sane password future. - arbitrary and low max password lengths - weak unsalted hashes - m
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by Pelam 5y ago
I love the list and optimism is a breath of fresh air, but climate change is the elephant hiding between the lines. It is linked in many ways to many of those improvements. It also threatens to wipe away many of those, especially if societi
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by Pelam 5y ago
What will the vegetation and animal life look after such a heat wave? Mad Max desert? Or are they so much better adapted that it won’t be a problem (I don’t think so)
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by Pelam 5y ago
Or Mad Max and Waterworld.
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by Pelam 5y ago
I have more trouble with parsec. I have a rough idea of how big our galaxy is in light years and some idea about nearby stars. Age of the universe helps anchor things in billions of light years. Then suddenly something is measured in parsec
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by Pelam 5y ago
9. Buying and controlling media for desired political outcomes. 10. Astroturfing As different sectors of business have different structures of material costs, labor costs, profit and investing. Maybe having at least some kind of equal cor
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by Pelam 5y ago
Seems that most comments here are negative on the prospects of this. Almost as if they want things like this to fail, but of course it can also be seen as valid and informed critical thinking. Regardless, in my book this is at least a mild
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by Pelam 6y ago
Hmm.. found this from 2016: https://www.anandtech.com/show/10470/the-evolution-of-hdds-i... It seems that shingled recording (SMR) could still be the future, although the original article does not seem to mention
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by Pelam 6y ago
Will all this be shingled or will that remain optional?
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by Pelam 6y ago
I’d like to hear more about the situation with integration. Like you know if you take a look at the innards of a 80s pc (say 286) it will be chock full of discrete ICs. Caches, bus controllers. Now its just a handful of chips plus tons of f
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by Pelam 6y ago
Maybe this will somehow stop the insanity of premature obsolesence. A 6 year old Android tablet is hardware wise in great condition. Some games that happen to install work great. However, the last software update was about 4 years ago. The
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by Pelam 6y ago
A friend had an idea about using some kind if strong mechanism of identity for combating spam, seo, information warfare, etc. All of those rely on the low cost of pretending to be unique and something else than the actuality combined with m
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by Pelam 6y ago
Technically AFAIK, the revocation list could be turned into a Bloom filter (or one of its alternatives) and updated from the servers periodically. edit: on 2nd thought just a list of hashed cert ids could suffice because it is hard to imagi
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by Pelam 6y ago
This is very typical in functional programming languages. You add functionality through compiler assisted ”pattern matching” instead of method polymorphism. Its benefits are more apparent if the feature is not so obviously inherent to the c
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by Pelam 7y ago
The table on Wikipedia Influenza page gives <0.1% for fatality rate of seasonal influenza. So perhaps just 20x as deadly as the seasonal flu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza
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by Pelam 7y ago
"The Known World" By Edward P. Jones, Historical fiction about former slaves who own slaves, https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/edward-p-jones "Your Brain At work" - Practical insight into how emotion
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by Pelam 7y ago
You may well be hitting a deeper point here. Many of the strongest AND weakest consumer technology experiences are influenced by standards in some way. Positive Examples: pluging in an usb headset, electrical sockets, sms. Negative examples
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by Pelam 7y ago
"Keywords: ... anomalous object, impossible object, ..." Will somebody please call SCP already ;)
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by Pelam 7y ago
Not the original commenter, but he got me thinking. (I’d like to know what he soecifically meant too.) However, I find that nuggets are often embedded in subsections of larger documents. Perhaps the search could rank higher a document with
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by Pelam 7y ago
I would like to have an explanation why "going after the unions" is a thing and what it means in this context? I can understand for example limiting striking by law or similar ordnances to uphold order and democracy. Is this all t
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by Pelam 8y ago
Interesting fact, jet powered short haul flights are worse per distance due to the fact that most energy is used in takeoff and landing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati... I also read somew
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by Pelam 8y ago
I'm not disputing that the sheer massive number of people on the planet is a major factor in the climate change. However, the contribution of children in the chart we are referring is dubious. The number is so high that I once googled
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by Pelam 8y ago
After reading the article, the title seems clickbaity. My reason for me saying that is this; having an "excuse" for irrationality (limited brain resources) is still different from rationality . There was something about different
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by Pelam 8y ago
I dread to imagine the hacks with the new generations of controllers and DRAM deploying clever technologies like these. Rowhammer could look like a kids toy. I hope any new specs will require mandatory software tuned throttles for accessing
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by Pelam 9y ago
Captain obvious here again! There could be a danger of false dichotomy here. It needs to be kept in mind that generally there are more options than A) lots of people using ride sharing services or B) lots of people mainly using personal car
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by Pelam 9y ago
Luckily he mentions ongoing multithreading work in the calc :)
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by Pelam 9y ago
Something like the portal calls and "turfs" described in there could help.
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by Pelam 9y ago
I thought about that too... AFAIK currently paging system is not generally accessible to userland programs like browsers. They would need some way to setup different contexts for untrusted javascript code and the internal services that the
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by Pelam 9y ago
Maybe some future architecture will allow software to tell CPU which regions it considers to be secret from the point of view of each other region. Something like that could allow the CPU to speculate agressively while preventing informatio

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