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by aeturnum 3mo ago
I often see comments like this on encryption related project. Depending on the reader you make what might be an essential point - but I also don't really know how useful it is to say it here. The author makes no claims about what adver
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by aeturnum 3mo ago
Sony is obviously the villain here (and pretty much always) but I think this points to an unsolved problem with our model of digital ownership: it's based on the media company providing a service...forever? People in this thread are sa
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by aeturnum 3mo ago
All your examples could be printed and read as books - whatever form they are consumed in. What differences are you seeking to highlight with these examples?
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by aeturnum 3mo ago
You can look at wikipedia's list of SDRs[1] to see which can do wifi ranges now. I was more thinking about the future because you're right that it's a less common capability at the moment - but if you want a popular hobbiest
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by aeturnum 3mo ago
Neat! SDRs have been available at reasonable price points for some time but the processing power to engage with wifi and other digital signals has been somewhat elusive. Assuming RAM can be purchased in the future, I think we might see a lo
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by aeturnum 3mo ago
This is a nice little write up and I kinda feel like the author (sensibly) chose centralization just on a smaller scale. I also think that the algorithm is pretty similar to the og textsecure2[1] protocol signal used (and still uses?) in te
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
If comments about how "this blog post could have been a link to this github repo" are in-bounds, so are comments about how "this could have been a link to a LLM session." HN has always tried to work out if a submission i
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
> what makes a great gaming machine? A piece of hardware that runs a basket of popular higher-end games at close to 60fps is generally what people look for. If you know you wanna run DF you can use much cheaper hardware, but if you wanna
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
Buying a gaming pc is always a bad deal compared to a PS5! Even though anyone buying a gaming PC is getting a "bad deal" - many people prefer it. You can do lots of things on a PC that you can't on a PS5 - and there are reaso
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
The mac mini is a wonder but it's not a great gaming machine[1]. You can see that these stats are about 1/2 of what the Steam Machine does, so I think the comparison is pretty apt. [1] https://www.xda-developers.com&#x2
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
This device does sit between mac-mini-esq lower power devices and compact enthusiast builds and, like the Steam Deck, it's an attempt to build a new segment. That said, if you think paying $1000 for this kind of hardware is some kind o
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
That's fair and I'll admit to using a bit of hyperbole with that number. My point is that we are designing solutions for time scales we haven't actually been able to test over and while we have every reason to believe our sol
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
This is a perfect example of what I am talking about. Yes coal power is worse! I know that and clearly you know that. What are we even talking about? So far, in the over half-century of efforts, the fact that coal is unsafe has never convin
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
I find this to be the most frustrating aspect of the nuclear discourse. The "waste problem" is technically solved (we believe, gotta wait ~10k years to know) in a way that depends on a social solution that doesn't seem to exi
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
My "oh google maps" story was that I was hanging out at a new cider bar in my neighborhood and asked the owner why I couldn't find it on google. They said they got a message that they'd been banned for listing boosting -
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
I don't think it's worth going through and providing you links about the mischaracterizations in your post - as you seem to have your own sources - but your depiction of the history of scientific consensus is not accurate. As you
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
Without counting anything out it's worth saying that artificial sweeteners are some of the most-tested food ingredients because of concern about their health impacts. It's possible that we missed something, but you have to weigh t
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
I suppose I am reacting to lines like these in the article: > Now I don't even need to blog. I just talk to Alex and I feel satisfied. > In our household, we are now doing Friday demos, just me and Alex. We're each sharin
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
Like true love, I somewhat believe this can exist, but most of the people who talk like this are in a codependent relationship. It's just extremely unlikely that a person you're seeing romantically is also interested in all the ot
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by aeturnum 4mo ago
I also think cine lenses have the budget to continue making high quality mechanical interfaces. Consumer lenses must have AF and so are incentivized to reuse that functionality if it would reduce the BoM.
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by aeturnum 5mo ago
I do think that pasting AI responses gives "reading the encyclopedia entry at someone", which is quite rude and crass, but you can't open peoples' eyes with similar levels of rudeness. Especially when it's an accura
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by aeturnum 5mo ago
Right - but you are not considering that it's possible for a police department to be so bad as to be uninsurable. Even if the police continue to do misconduct, bad departments would get into situations where no insurer will cover them,
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by aeturnum 5mo ago
Historically, Plex was the only show in town - and the only non-DLNA server you could access from most streaming devices. That's changing now, but it's not changing that fast. I believe our older google streamers still don't
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by aeturnum 5mo ago
When I was a masters student in STS[1], one of my concepts for a thesis was arguing that one of the primary uses of software was to shift or eschew agency and risk. Basically the reverse of the famous IBM "a computer can not be held re
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by aeturnum 5mo ago
I've always had an easy time talking to strangers and striking up conversations. I think this line is the key one: > But over time, I came to accept that it’s ok if they didn’t want to talk to me. That’s just one of the things you
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by aeturnum 6mo ago
Hah - yah a "new" panoramic camera. I'm glad to see we are seeing production on the kind of cameras that take full advantage of films' qualities. This both has an eye-watering price tag and it fits well into the "pa
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by aeturnum 6mo ago
This American Life had a good 2013 episode on the tricky dosing of acetaminophen [1]. It's also worth saying that capsaicin is used for pain relief[2]! Especially for things like muscle and joint pain. [1] https://www.thisam
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by aeturnum 6mo ago
It's hard to know what to make of this. It feels like it's listing stereotypes and superficial guesses. The tool accurately detected my age, my ethnicity and my location. Then it just kind of "vibed out" a bunch of thing
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by aeturnum 6mo ago
Zero emails is not low noise - it's zero noise. I agree that I sometimes want zero noise from companies whose products I am using...and also it depends on what is in the noise? Sometimes I find unexpected signal. I would say that email
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by aeturnum 7mo ago
I suppose we will have to agree to disagree. Edit: I am genuinely interested in why you think I am a bootlicker but we can't dig into it if you won't actually talk about the particulars of this situation.

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