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by acdha 3mo ago
That was the low-key surprise for me in the Epstein files: so many rich, powerful people wrote at an early grade-school level even in professional contexts. I know that’s not a universal sample but it made me wonder how many unsung admin as
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by acdha 3mo ago
Yes, that’s why I wrote the second sentence. However, it’s quite an exaggeration that it’s super hard to configure a kernel - distributions can do that for you (e.g. Amazon Linux disabled a bunch of drivers for hardware you’ll never have in
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by acdha 3mo ago
Hence the second sentence.
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by acdha 3mo ago
I’ve heard a couple people say that Microsoft has patched a record number of bugs internally this year so it might be the case that it’s simply more opaque because it’s initiated internally and doesn’t involve a public Git repo or a third-p
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by acdha 3mo ago
Linux also has a ton of extra functionality so I think you’d also have to do some adjustment for “as a user would I be at risk?” versus “can I be a user because it supports my needs?” Some of that would be unfavorable for many users (e.g. a
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by acdha 3mo ago
> Of course, the fact that all of your AI code usage is being monitored by the company that provides you the model/harness is also still means they can just steal your product whenever they want Also anything which isn’t kept privat
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by acdha 3mo ago
They didn’t get MLKEM deployed by saying “I’m a professor of computer science at $UNI, do it!” but by working within the community for many years and going through an elaborate review and standardization process with extensive peer review a
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by acdha 3mo ago
You’re being rude, which wouldn’t be good even if you weren’t wrong on all three counts. This is not contriving positively. (Consider the difference between extensive peer-review and “appeal to authority”, not to mention the IETF’s dual rol
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by acdha 3mo ago
I think that’ll rebalance over time but one of the biggest questions I’d have is how to use all of the batteries people are driving around. A buddy shifted his car charging to work because they have a convenient setup with a bunch of solar
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by acdha 3mo ago
It’s pure gold for contractors trying to snow clients. The people who used to struggle to produce a good looking document can now quickly produce something without visible tells that they have no idea what they’re talking about, even though
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by acdha 3mo ago
Yeah, I can understand putting solar on things when it lets them become standalone off-the-grid setups but for something like railroad track it’s just not that much space and the costs are so much higher. Except on the tightest urban lines,
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by acdha 3mo ago
> Thus the idea that Iranian missile and drone tech changed the game would seem to be falsified, which is what this discussion is about. The U.S. lost billions of dollars in expensive military hardware, proved incapable of defending Gulf
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by acdha 3mo ago
Yes, the correct way to approach this is to make good versions of both and respect the user’s preference. Font size is similar: you’ll never make everyone happy with a single choice so you should respect the user’s ability to know what they
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by acdha 3mo ago
My pet theory is that the best thing any city could do is having a strict vacancy tax in the downtown core, especially on retail space. Nothing makes a place feel dead like seeing boarded up restaurants or shops, and since the pandemic thos
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by acdha 3mo ago
Does it? My understanding was that it’s less helpful for anything which isn’t in low-earth orbit because the commercial launch engineers are optimizing for the lucrative satellite business, not larger and higher payloads.
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by acdha 3mo ago
I just went through this yesterday. My wife and I both have Apple Watches with LTE and I was rolling them over: both phones and my watch ported easily but the second watch wouldn’t show up on the account at all with no explanation. The firs
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by acdha 3mo ago
> 30% of New Yorkers spend > 50% of their income on rent. My point was that’s a bit less than the median suburbanite here spends on housing and cars combined. That doesn’t mean either option can’t be improved but that these comparison
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by acdha 3mo ago
Totally, but it’s interesting how basically everyone I know who moved to the suburbs to save money pays roughly as much for housing (things like lawn care services add up) plus an order of magnitude more on cars.
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by acdha 3mo ago
This is complicated, though, by the question of how you get there: suburbs may have lower land prices but everyone buys more of it and needs the expense of having a private car (usually one per adult). In the region where I live, 20-35% of
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by acdha 3mo ago
It’s not just performance but also quality. There are a ton of things which you get out of a native app which Electron developers who aren’t the VSC team never do. It’s almost always obvious who cared about UX more than portability, but the
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by acdha 3mo ago
You’re confusing free to the user with free to the government. Those are all great examples of things which make huge differences in the lives of the people who need them while having no meaningful impact on taxpayers (forget Jeff Bezos, no
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by acdha 3mo ago
I would talk about threat models. There’s a bunch of detail to cover but the short of it is “you’re protected when you resell the device or replace a drive” or “you’re safe from a laptop thief in a coffeeshop but not the Mossad”. How you ge
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by acdha 3mo ago
The difference is that previous technology like the internet or later the web had benefits which were obvious much faster. The average person is hearing about AI from their boss saying anyone who doesn’t use it will be laid-off sooner, not
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by acdha 3mo ago
You’re being downvoted because you’re taking a narrow edge case and saying it invalidates all usage. Disk encryption is not “technically useless” when it works for 99.999+% of the people using it who aren’t targeted by professional attacker
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by acdha 3mo ago
Anyone with physical access, significant tools, and experience. The FBI has people who can pull data out of memory after freezing the RAM but the average laptop thief doesn’t so how serious this is depends significantly on your threat model
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by acdha 3mo ago
The asymmetry is striking: when feminists talk about incels, it’s about how to improve their lives and help them out of the cognitive trap they’ve fallen or been lured into. I’ve never seen the equivalent of the pervasive casual, often glee
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by acdha 3mo ago
Thanks for adding some balance to this. I find it especially unlikely that any manufacturer is going to risk losing sales in California over something as clearly beneficial to car owners as this, not to mention the number of women who buy c
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by acdha 3mo ago
> But I not for a single second trusted "buying" digital goods, and I was quickly proved right. The first digital purchases getting yanked story must have been close to 20 years ago at this point. More like 30 years but your te
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by acdha 3mo ago
I think it’d be helpful as a price anchoring tool: people think rentals are worth less and accept greater restrictions because they’re paying less. I don’t think you’d see nearly as many people paying $40 for a time-limited rental and that
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by acdha 3mo ago
I’d go with a simple proposal: if you use the word “buy” the seller is required to refund buyers if the seller’s action removes access (unlike, say, losing access to a CD or DVD after the disc is scratched). The most likely outcome is that

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