Syonyk

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by Syonyk 2y ago
> It will have human intelligence, superhuman knowledge, superhuman stamina, and complete devotion to the task at hand. Orrrr... , as an alternative, it might discover the game 2048 and be totally useless for days on end. Reality is u
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by Syonyk 2y ago
There are some carrier unlocked versions available. Or at least used to be. They seem pretty universal - I'm running a T-Mobile one on an AT&T MVNO right now, and it wasn't too big a hassle to set up. Unfortunately, I think
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> ... just magic AI bullshit... Given how many have grown up with the phrase, "Computer, enhance!" - I expect a lot of people treat it exactly like that!
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Yeah, look at the Sonim XP3+/XP5+ (depending if you want a flip phone or candybar). Rugged, Android-Go powered "Call/SMS/MMS" devices, week and a half on battery if you leave it on constantly, hotspot, and you can
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Why is that particularly surprising? If the planes were certified with a particular landing light, it's an awful lot of paperwork and STCs to change things out. Plus, you wouldn't just be swapping out the bulb - you'd have
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I don't get nearly enough benefit from a smartphone to bother with any of that sort of deep aggressive reverse engineering and patching. It's not worth the time. I don't have a spare "few days every few months"
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by Syonyk 2y ago
That's quite reasonable. You might consider the Open Street Maps clients - OrganicMaps is one I've played with on tablet. That gets you navigational data, but works purely offline and isn't trying to stream your data out.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> It’s a widely acknowledged but often underappreciated fact that in less than two decades, smartphones have revolutionized most aspects of everyday human life. Not all revolutions are good... but, yes, this is an entirely fair stateme
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I forgot about that book. I'd seen a copy years ago. I didn't have anywhere near the money to buy it at that point. ... and looking at used copies, I'm still not going to drop that coin on the book. But thank you, I didn&#
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by Syonyk 2y ago
... thank you. I didn't know those were floating around. I'd heard of them before, just hadn't had a chance to see them.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
If you like reading about this sort of stuff, the book "Command & Control" is a fascinating read on the US nuclear weapons history, close calls, etc. It's dense, but well worth the read for a view into nuclear weapons
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I'll go to one of their physical locations if I want something that plugs into the wall. It's likely to be actually what it says on the box, if I do that.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Sure, this is literally the core of Qubes security model. They run a massively stripped down Xen that eliminates a lot of the complex interfaces, the old legacy hardware emulation models, etc. If you can pivot through Xen, you own Qubes e
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Thanks for responding! Welcome to HN! I write long form text posts as well, so I appreciate the format. It just had a number of things that didn't seem quite right to me, being in similar deep technical weeds. Now try the attack on Q
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by Syonyk 2y ago
There shouldn't have to be any political reasons at all to enforce safety testing listings, and I would actively discourage anyone from taking that path regardless of their views on any given administration. Far too many Chinese vendor
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by Syonyk 2y ago
They don't have to add regulations. They just have to suggest that Amazon actually enforce the regulations on the books, instead of allowing fake UL/ETL listings to be accepted as seems Amazon's common practice.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
But they never expand on that in the article. They just drop the Xeon reference there, and carry on as though they'd never said a thing about a Xeon. I agree, that's probably what they're referring to, but it was neither nee
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by Syonyk 2y ago
Yeah, there were a few words early on that struck me as "This is a non-native English speaker" sort of translation issues, which don't bother me in technical writing like this. But when they started doing INB/OUTB examp
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by Syonyk 2y ago
That's a solid writeup on the history of external DMA attacks! Very nicely done, and well worth a read. This sort of thing is why QubesOS tends to put hardware controllers in isolated VMs and only pass access through. With a working
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by Syonyk 2y ago
So I hear. I would love to tour it, some day.
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I haven't been to Notre Dame, but there are certainly what I'd term "thin places" in the world, where the spiritual is {closer, more accessible, more present}. I would expect a long-lived active cathedral to be one such
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by Syonyk 2y ago
It does. Can you find any independent confirmation of those claims? I generally regard battery spec sheets as "wishful thinking," based on having done a lot of work with lithium chemistries in the past. Some of them are countin
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by Syonyk 2y ago
They seem (both the article and the press release) to conspicuously avoid mentioning any details about important open problem with sodium-ion: Cycle life/longevity. > On November 22, China’s Huawei announced a new patent for sodium
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has been noticing this. The piercing white of high mounted LEDs lately makes driving at night very difficult, and there have been times when I literally cannot see the side of the road next to me
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Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars(theringer.com)
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by Syonyk 2y ago
> Sure, we could use physical boxes. But those will go to procurement. The budget will have to be approved. Orders are sent to suppliers. Hardware arrives, it is a colo is not so bad, but it will be installed according to the colo timel
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I'm familiar with the arguments for cloud. I'm also old enough to have been heavily involved in the operation of companies that did all this sort of stuff, on physical hardware, for rather less money than today's cloud offer
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by Syonyk 2y ago
They've already long since done it. Cloud is staggeringly expensive compared to your own physical servers. Has been for all but trivial (almost toy) workloads since day 1. And that's before you pay for bandwidth. I was spendin
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by Syonyk 2y ago
That appears to only work on Windows as the host OS - I was running Windows as a guest, for some GM specific software. I normally use KVM and the RedHat VirtIO drivers for running Windows, but for some reason the VCX Nano doesn't seem
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by Syonyk 2y ago
I'm sure, according to their models (which may not have existed outside the head of some MBA sorts), this was the most profitable move, because, of course nobody would be able to move off VMWare! It's a vital infrastructure pro

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