ThePhysicist

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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Lots of folks use Golang on the client side, even on mobile (for which Go has really great support with go-mobile). Of course it adds around 10-20 MB to your binary and memory footprint but in todays world that's almost nothing. I thin
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
They're also (or were, a couple of years ago) handling all Lenovo sales in Germany, so if it's true that would be a big deal.
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
That's the most hilariously British thing I've seen in a long time. Their expert is even wearing a melon hat with a string of chestnuts to the live interview.
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Nice to see that Tresorit didn't have any serious issues in this analysis, I've been using that for a long time and it works really great, also one of the few players that have a really good Linux client. The two vulnerabilities t
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Demis Hasabis has a really interesting and unusual CV for a nobel laureate [1], he started his career in AI game programming (he worked e.g. on Popoulous II, Syndicate, Theme Park for Bullfrog, and later for Lionhead Studios on Black &
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Well, is there actual urgency? Do people feel that it actually makes a difference if they keep pushing harder? Fear seems like a bad motivator in the long run. In most companies it's simply that getting promoted is quite hard, so why p
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Reminds me of my physics PhD, where I would solder SMA microwave connectors to PCBs under the microscope. It was really satisfying to apply the solder, put the connector and watch it bond on the hot plate. Bonding chips was similarly satisf
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
I'd love to switch everything to IPv6, but reachability is not yet there, I estimate it will be another 10 years with the current rate of adoption.
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
But the smallest range you can announce is /48, that's still way too vast to scan completely.
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
It's crazy how fast people start attacking your infrastructure on the Internet these days. I recently started announcing one of my /23 subnets (512 addresses) over BGP for an anycast setup, once the route was announced and traffic
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
I'm excited that they push Iced [1], a Rust-based cross-platform UI framework. Probably not the Rust framework which I would've betted on as the most promising one, but with the broad support and larger adoption I hope it will cat
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Even though it's discouraged I want to say thanks for these excellent points, that's very helpful!
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Anyone here running a domain registrar business?
3 points by ThePhysicist 2y ago|4 comments
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
HPKE has many modes but essentially you don't encrypt a symmetric key with a public key, you combine a public and a private key to derive a symmetric key instead. There's more to it like mixing in a secret or another key to authen
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
They used to be based on Skia but now they have their own renderer (Impeller). That said rendering is only a small part of a UI toolkit, there's a ton of other stuff e.g. how to interact with system libraries, integrate with UI paradig
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Phonons aren't particles, they are quasi-particles i.e. excitations of the crystal lattice that behave a lot like particles. Weird for an MIT article to get that so wrong, they aren't subatomic either as they are "made"
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
I also found that paragraph super weird. Kid played around with the software and found out a new Pokemon was in there but not released, lawyer guy gets his personal information, calls their house and threatens them with computer hacking cha
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
If it's true that a bad patch was the reason for this I assume someone, or multiple people, will have a really bad day today. Makes me wonder what kind of testing they have in place for patches like this, normally I wouldn't expec
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
ChatGPT is so smart for some questions, e.g. it can literally do probability calculations or advanced math equations and get them right most of the time. But ask it about creative ideas and try to spar with it a bit and it will just regurgi
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Has making a passable 3D engine become easier or harder?
1 points by ThePhysicist 2y ago|2 comments
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
This is very interesting when thinking about the known link to higher Parkinsons/Alzheimers risk for people that are exposed to fungicides / biocides. Gut bacteria synthesize plenty of vitamins for the body, so it's not far-f
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Ask HN: SMTP server for incoming mails, outgoing mails through big provider?
4 points by ThePhysicist 2y ago|1 comments
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Yeah it seems so, though most of these systems (e.g. Intel SGX, AMD SEV, NVIDIAs new tech) use the same basic building blocks (Apple itself isn't member of the confidential computing consortium but ARM is), for me it's the quality
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Apple hardware with Linux software would be the sweetspot for me. Asahi exists but I think it still has many gaps (e.g. no external displays), I would prefer it over MacOS. Linux over Parallels is also quite usable though, and I still use a
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Anyone got an estimate for when we might see new Thinkpads with these chips? End of this year? I'm not unhappy with my current gen 3 T14 but if I could have a device that's closer to my Macbook Pro M1 in performance and efficiency
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Sure, it's great! You don't have to self-host, you just need to set a few DNS entries depending on your provider. And you can always change providers without losing access to your e-mails, which is invaluable. Also, if you set up
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
Driving with an error-prone automated system in such conditions while knowing the system already failed once at the exact same spot before is absolutely reckless, in my opinion. Marketing doesn't absolve you from using your brain. I re
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
I don't say the FSD is working well, I just find it absurd how people use this technology in practice. This person knew the system had malfunctioned at the same spot before, yet they choose to enable it again under such bad conditions
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
It seems owners often post these videos to create Internet outrage in the hope Tesla will cave and pay for their totaled car. Enabling FSD in such bad weather conditions and then not being able to hit the brakes on time is mainly the fault
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by ThePhysicist 2y ago
You should read review papers. There are journals that either only publish such papers (e.g. Review of Modern Physics) or some of the larger journals sometimes publish such papers (e.g. Science or Nature). They are usually written by one or

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