PumpkinSpice

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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
> I know so many poorly educated homeschoolers whose lives have been destroyed with no hope of recovery by the complete lack of skills their hyper religious parents imparted them with, in jail, broke, unable to hack it in college and too
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
I'm not here to defend SolarWinds, and it's entirely possible that they were a "bad investment pretending to be a good one", but I have some issues with this framing. First, contrary to your assertion, there is no doubt
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
"Directors and officers" are a special legal category, basically the highest-ranking people making material decisions about the business day-to-day. They are subject to special reporting requirements, such as having to file paperw
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
The password example feels egregious, but keep in mind that the investigators spent months if not years combing through corporate records and are now showcasing the most embarrassing finds in the framing of their choice. I bet there's
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
No, the bulk of security and privacy work at Apple happens elsewhere.
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
In most public companies, CISOs are not "real" C-level positions. They're not considered "directors and officers" of the company in the sense of the securities law, they don't have special contracts, they don&#
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Most of pop culture is derivative, and the benchmarks we use reveal more about our age than about true originality. That said, the references to Control in this game definitely feel a bit hamfisted. You even encounter a familiar character f
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
I don't think it's realistic as a fuel for cars, but "worldwide transportation" means more than that. I suspect they're talking about container ships, tankers, and such. Ammonia is easier to liquify than hydrogen, a
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Diesel engines operate at higher pressures and must be considerably heavier to achieve the same performance & efficiency. Not a huge issue for ships, trains, or cars. Huge issue for flying stuff.
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
What you're basically saying is "the model as trained can't do well at this task, so let's use our own cognitive skills to help it." That's a problem for comparative benchmarking, right? You're no longer t
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
I don't find this argument persuasive. If you need to engineer the prompt in order for the model to give you the answer you want, and if it's performing poorly without that kind of assistance from a human who understands the task
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Acetaminophen has a narrow therapeutic index and can cause severe and irreversible liver injury in doses around 10 g. A single tablet usually contains 500 mg, but because it's a component of so many other "combo" cold meds, i
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
In theory, no. But in theory, we weren't supposed to have the first Fukushima to begin with. A bunch of things went precisely the wrong way. That said, Fukushima ultimately wasn't bad, especially in terms of atmospheric releases &
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
This is being done across the US. For example: https://www.wapa.gov/newsroom/NewsFeatures/2020/Pages/New-ca...
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
This is how you do advertising on HN... The page is a very explicit plug (pun intended?) for their industrial CT products, and it was clearly done for marketing purposes, not because it reveals anything interesting. It is an apples-to-orang
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
It started as a program where you had to pay the state a pile of cash to have them carry out a number of tests, like repeatedly dropping the gun to see if it goes off on its own. They kept adding stuff, culminating in microstamping requirem
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
No, I read that part, but they're still small gripes. He has no objections to the idea itself, and no reservations about the overall design. He gripes about syntax. Let me be clear: I think the crux of his feedback is solid and is a
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
It strikes me as a weird argument. This is your work. You presumably did your best. If another person calls that work "complete nonsense" or "totally illogical", they are implicitly saying that you failed at basic cogn
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
My favorite part is that California has a roster of handguns approved for sale. The pretext for its existence is consumer safety (it is entirely separate from bans on stuff like assault weapons or large magazines), but the actual effect is
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
The issue isn't directness. The issue is repeatedly taking needless swipes at the author's competency or intent ("worthless", "complete nonsense", "totally illogical"), when Linus' criticisms are
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
It's really hard to meaningfully compare. They're designed for other things. Most desktop or server CPUs prioritize massive parallelism, which is useful for OSes and multithreaded apps. In contrast, most MCUs have just one single-
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
As others are saying, "8-bit" doesn't mean 8-bit address space. It refers to the ALU "word" size instead - i.e., how many bits you can add, subtract, multiply, or divide in a single step. (Larger types are possible,
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
It's a pretty interesting question, even if a bit tangential to the article! Their main advantage is the comparatively low transistor count. The chips can be made cheaply and don't need cutting-edge fabs. This also makes them exce
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
It's this slow not because of the MCU, though, but because the author is emulating another architecture in software. It would be fairly sluggish on a PC too. This is both very impressive in terms of the sheer amount of work that went i
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Contrary to what this press release implies, radiation treatments are focused too. The basic idea is that you use a rotating beam source with a center of rotation at the exact spot you want to treat. The beam delivers only a fairly modest d
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Many folks here describe this as a solution to what they see as inadequate traffic enforcement, especially post-COVID. But does this mean we're going to claw back the traffic enforcement headcount from police departments? If they'
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
The US is vast and many of the attractive rural lands effectively have no law enforcement presence of any sort. That said, the parent is being a bit too pessimistic. There's plenty of negligibly-policed and freely-accessible BLM land i
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
I'm surprised that you draw a sharp distinction between C and Pascal syntax. They have a shared lineage and are really very close to each other. Yeah, curly braces won over "begin" and "end", but that's not a m
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
The relative scarcity of castle sieges doesn't mean they weren't a major concern. It's quite likely that castles served as an effective "siege deterrent". That is, sieges weren't common specifically because the
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by PumpkinSpice 3y ago
Isn't this a bit of a no-op for Lenovo specifically? I've been using Lenovo-made laptops for years, and never had trouble with DIY repairs - replacing keyboards, screens, batteries, adding RAM, etc. Their devices are pretty modula

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