Slartie

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by Slartie 7y ago
His argument is self-defeating. If you have rapid exponential growth and would have to publish hundreds of megabytes of keys per day, this approach of contact tracing is useless and you must instead get the entire population under lockdown.
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by Slartie 7y ago
The even bigger obstacle was apps not being able to broadcast beacon signals while they are in background. You could devise workarounds for the scanning problems, but this particular problem of having to be able to continuously advertise yo
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by Slartie 7y ago
No, I see it exactly the same way. Especially heap analyzers - you are uploading the entire content of your memory up there, including even the entire application (because classes are in the heap as well, and it's trivial to decompile
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by Slartie 7y ago
Oh yeah, I was phantom-hearing every single note of that jazz in my mind just now while reading these comments.
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by Slartie 7y ago
With IPv6, I can assign myself a gazillion perfectly routable unique public IPs.
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by Slartie 7y ago
AFAIK the T2 is also the SSD controller in Apple's architecture, meaning it speaks directly to the NAND. So it should not be necessary for data to first go to the CPU, then to the T2 for decryption - the T2 can transparently decrypt an
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by Slartie 7y ago
This looks awfully much like back in the days when OOP really took off and people started to brag about how many thousands of classes they have in their systems. They even drew dependency diagrams awfully similar to those in that presentati
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by Slartie 7y ago
My thought was this: If the CPU decrypts, it touches every byte being read to RAM, and it touches the data again later when it does actual work on it. If it doesn't decrypt, but a chip next to the NAND does the job, the CPU can DMA-tra
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by Slartie 7y ago
Thanks for the JS link, I didn't know about that. Though I would hardly call that "Javascript acceleration in hardware". They added a slightly weird float-to-int conversion command that handles overflows a bit different than
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by Slartie 7y ago
> the 4k exports from iMovie or other video/image editor has been proven to be vastly faster on iPad Pro than the fastest Macbook Pro. I'd only be impressed if both used the exact same high-quality software encoder. Most likely
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by Slartie 7y ago
Yes, this happens, mostly between private landlords (of which Germany has a lot) and tenants of (seemingly or actually) limited legal competence (because private tenants are in fact relatively well-protected by law except for some gaping lo
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by Slartie 7y ago
They don't really need to "abuse" these relief regulations (I'm not sure they are even doing it, because I'm not sure if the protective regulations actually cover commercial rentals, which are generally much less p
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by Slartie 7y ago
I would probably qualify for that group, since I have about 80% of my net worth in stocks. Or, to be more correct: I had. Now it's 20% stocks, 80% cash. I sold a good part in December and January, because I considered that heavy upward
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by Slartie 7y ago
> The government cannot solve this problem. The government is precisely the only instance that is able to solve this problem, with "solution" not being "make it go away instantly", but "navigating through the tim
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by Slartie 7y ago
How do you expect to "motivate" people to just go to work, spend money in restaurants, fly around, take cruises...as if there was nothing going on, while at the same time millions of people are dying? Everyone is going to have som
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by Slartie 7y ago
Well, the antibody tests are coming in a matter of weeks - multiple approaches have already been developed and they are currently being validated, that is, checked if they trigger reliably on the Coronavirus antibodies and ONLY on those and
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by Slartie 7y ago
This does make sense. Every company that normally doesn't produce ventilators but wants to make lots of them fast must repurpose as much of its existing tech (production lines, parts etc.) as possible. This requires intimate knowledge
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by Slartie 7y ago
That's where it came from. Before discord, gamers set up actual servers with Teamspeak or Mumble and handed the IPs and ports to their guildmates. The "Teamspeak server" was where you met for voice chatting, and since Discord
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by Slartie 7y ago
I've observed significant changes. Can't say much about parks (haven't been in one during the last days, for obvious reasons) but at stores and supermarkets people were trying to keep their distance. My regular supermarket ha
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by Slartie 7y ago
Actually the measures in Germany started on Monday, six days ago. That's when all the schools and kindergartens closed down, many stores closed, and those interventions also triggered the first significant changes in people's beha
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by Slartie 7y ago
This is the jet-set version of ordinary people buying big-packs of face masks. Despicable, but entirely expectable. I hope the manufacturers keep their stance of not selling to individuals. Though it would surprise me if some billionaires
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by Slartie 7y ago
I am really wondering whether this means they have to re-encode all the streams at 25% less bitrate, or whether they already have them available at that exact bitrate and can thus just change a default. Because what I usually observe when N
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by Slartie 7y ago
You will still get 4k resolution. Just at 25% less bitrate. But since the thing that's necessary to fulfill your contract is the number of pixels, which have not changed, you are out of luck, unless you find some clause in your contrac
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by Slartie 7y ago
Sorry, but there's no government on earth, including China's, that's able to do reliable contact tracing of people potentially going to massive gatherings. Heck, they don't even need to do that - have you ever been in th
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by Slartie 7y ago
I'm still looking for a rational explanation in your comment why the virus should just have "vanished" in China and NOT resume spreading when life gets back to normal.
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by Slartie 7y ago
The virus did not "pass" in China. China managed to get the spread to slow down to a crawl, by implementing a severe total shutdown of everything and keeping that up for some weeks. They are still in the process of removing those
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by Slartie 7y ago
Thanks for the tip, will keep an eye on them. Though I wonder why they shot up 50-60% while Moderna keeps trading normally. It does appear from the outside as if both of them were comparable from a liquidity standpoint and also with regard
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by Slartie 7y ago
That is probably the best approach: start manufacturing at scale as soon as the risk profile of a vaccine candidate offers a minimum of confidence for it to be working. And doing that with as many companies in the field as possible in paral
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by Slartie 7y ago
What they don't say there is how long it takes to scale up and produce those "billions" of doses. I found documented claims of 10 million doses until this summer ( https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/rna-v
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by Slartie 7y ago
As far as I understand it, both companies use the same basic approach and are roughly comparable. But the issue, as soon as a valid working vaccine is found, will be production capacity: you cannot produce vaccine for 330mil people overnigh

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