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by Sanzig 10mo ago
sigh I know it's against HN rules to ask if people have read the article, but you clearly didn't read the article. The "non-sexual nudity" example is at the bottom of the article. It's a stylized cartoon drawing o
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by Sanzig 10mo ago
I have Copilot at work, it feels so useless sometimes. As an example, I had a report which I needed to make some batch edits to. I figured why not let the robot take a crack at it, so I clicked the Copilot button and spent a couple minute
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by Sanzig 10mo ago
Tailscale is a bit more than a VPN. It operates in a mesh configuration rather than a traditional VPN concentrator setup. Tailscale's control plane orchestrates NAT traversal for devices on the Tailnet (through techniques like UDP hole
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by Sanzig 10mo ago
You can have full control over your keys if you want: https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock
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by Sanzig 10mo ago
Even if you are self hosting in the cloud or on a rented box, Tailscale is still really nice from a security perspective. No need to expose anything to the internet, and you can easily mix and match remotely hosted and home servers since th
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by Sanzig 10mo ago
They want to charge you $600 for it, plus a $7/mo subscription.
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by Sanzig 10mo ago
Well, this waste analyzing piece of e-waste costs $600, so you could probably cram a lot of inference horsepower in there if you wanted to.
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by Sanzig 10mo ago
IIRC, Dyson proposed using a thin layer of oil on the surface of the pusher plate that would get vaporized with each shot, but would prevent the plate from ablating away. This effect was discovered by accident during nuclear testing when oi
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
I thought I was pretty clear that I don't see this happening for hundreds of years at least. The engineering problem is insurmountable today. But there doesn't seem to be any reason it couldn't be done eventually , given our
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
It's 2025. The first heavier than air flight was barely more than a century ago. The first human in space was less than 70 years ago. These enabling technologies are very, very hard. No doubt about it. That's why we can't do
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
Provided we don't wipe ourselves out, there's no technical reason why we can't go interstellar. It's just way harder and more energy intensive than most people imagine, so I doubt it's happening any time in the ne
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
I don't think they array between different DSN sites (getting the baselines sorted out would be a nightmare), but the DSN can array up to four of the 34 meter beam waveguide antennas co-located at any individual site. The three sites w
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
I managed to get a fully working XBMC+Samba setup back when I was probably 13 or 14 in the mid-2000s. Echoing the sentiment that it really was far ahead of its time. I'd torrent a movie or show, it'd appear on the network share,
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
Let's not forget the shock image spam issue. Public Matrix channels are plagued with horrendous shock images (including CSAM). The development team seems to not care, they have a proposal for "policy servers" which is still i
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
Indeed. The most important benchmark is accuracy and how well it stacks up against existing physics-based models like GFS or ECMWF. Sure, those big physics-based models are very computationally intensive (national weather bureaus run them o
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
Torque rods do work in MEO/GEO, but you need significantly more magnetic moment to get the same torque (ie: larger rods and more current). It's more a question of how much momentum you need to dump that determines if they are prac
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
I am highly skeptical. A reactionless thruster is the holy grail of propulsion systems, but there are no known physics which permit it to work. A photon rocket would allow momentum exchange without mass consumption, but a quick look at th
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
And here I was hoping someone had a Proxmox node running at McMurdo and was renting out VMs for the novelty factor.
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
I agree, if anything spending money on high technology risk is Silicon Valley going back to its roots. Nobody had a way to do silicon transistor manufacturing at scale until the traitorous eight flipped Shockley the bird and took a $1.4M se
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
I really wanted to like Quad9, and used it for a while, but there have been constant issues in the northeast with random SERVFAILs for months now. I had to switch back to Cloudflare.
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
The owner did not hack the vacuum, he blocked the IP address on his network for the telemetry server. Same thing tons of people do with Pi-Hole DNS blocking, for example. There's no sane world where it is defensible to remotely brick
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
I mean, I'm not sure what you expect the GrapheneOS project to do about that. I'm sure they'd love to provide hardware if they could, but they are a small nonprofit. They are currently working with an undisclosed OEM to to pr
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
I'm not talking about installation. I'm talking about using the OS once it's installed.
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by Sanzig 11mo ago
How so? Graphene is perfectly useable for a non-technical user. And once you install Play Store, it's almost indistinguishable UX-wise from any other Android phone.
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by Sanzig 1y ago
I think there's two reasons: one, it makes them gobs of money. Two, it discourages customers from building architectures which integrate non-AWS services, because you have to pay the data transfer tax. This locks everyone in. And yes,
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by Sanzig 1y ago
Mean Time Between Failures.
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by Sanzig 1y ago
If you are a Canadian entity, I would go OVH rather than Vultr. OVH US is a completely distinct legal entity from their Canada and EU offerings, specifically so that the rest of OVH is immune to the CLOUD Act. Vultr is an American company,
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by Sanzig 1y ago
Cs-137 is commonly extracted from fuel used as a source for radiation therapy, although less so these days, due in part to incidents with misplaced sources. The poster child for Cs-137 incidents is the Goiânia accident where four people die
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by Sanzig 1y ago
My guess is it'll eventually be traced back to improperly disposed of Cs-137 source. This wouldn't be the first time [1] [2]. There was also a famous case in the 80s where a scrapyard in Mexico sent some steel contaminated with Co
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by Sanzig 1y ago
I'm currently using Restic + Backblaze, but I'm building a new NAS with OpenZFS. My plan for it is to use ZFS send to backup whole datasets automatically. I was thinking of giving zfsbackup-go [1] a try, since it allows using ZFS

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