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by ahepp 1y ago
Congestion pricing seems like a pretty liberal policy to me. Using supply and demand to set a price. Sure, you could crank the Friedman dial to 11 by say, privatizing the roads and letting the operators set the price based on competition. B
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by ahepp 1y ago
> The study found that producing the electricity to train this model produced an air pollution equivalent of more than 10,000 round trips by car between Los Angeles and New York City. I am totally on board with making sure data center en
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by ahepp 1y ago
I'm not sure I understand why secure boot is user-infantilizing? I think there are some legitimate concerns about where attestation could be headed, but I like the ability to force my machine to only run signed executables. It seems li
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by ahepp 1y ago
It has some cool capabilities though It can show you per socket skbuf memory usage and receive buffer drops (which netstat reports globally)
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by ahepp 1y ago
I'm working on an embedded system right now that has two CDC ethernet devices. One shows up as ethX and the other shows up as usbX. Maybe it's because one is CDC EEM and the other is CDC ECM? But I don't think this is general
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by ahepp 1y ago
Can you name the towns? Which towns do you think we should be using as examples of this economic policy?
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by ahepp 1y ago
It seems pretty difficult to legally hide useful code from a GPL upstream. But, if the argument is that the GPL is too permissive to achieve what the author wants, why on earth was the author using the MIT license?
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by ahepp 1y ago
Doesn't that bring us right back to GPL family licenses?
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by ahepp 1y ago
> So the point is that we need another license that does gives open source rights to individuals, yet does not permit corporations to take everything and give nothing. Why doesn't the AGPL fill that role?
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by ahepp 2y ago
I have a much bigger issue with "legitimate" spam these days. Every service makes you give an email address, and they all force you to check a box allowing them to email you whatever they want. Then if they even have an "opt
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by ahepp 2y ago
Do you know of any data on this? It seems like the kind of thing that could be studied and measured. I'm inclined to believe the opposite about the viability of e-stamps, but I will readily admit I have no data to back that opinion up.
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by ahepp 2y ago
we can always blame it on closed source software!
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by ahepp 2y ago
> And even when they do save, we are currently looking at a market downturn. The last 5 years have been pretty rough in terms of the stock market with returns being much lower than you might count on. VFIAX S&P500 tracking mutual fun
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by ahepp 2y ago
Rust wouldn't prevent this would it? Since the root cause is a caller violating an invariant?
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by ahepp 2y ago
I thought dash was an upstream Debian thing? But I agree in principle
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by ahepp 2y ago
I'm going to try this out later! Hopefully it works with a Unix iSCSI daemon. I have been doing this with a lot of my machines at home, and it's been awesome. Swapping what OS boots on what machine is as simple as symlinking a MAC
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by ahepp 2y ago
Yeah I suspect there may be a solution involving setsid
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by ahepp 2y ago
Some of Ubiquiti's old EdgeRouter line supports OpenWRT. I'm running it on a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X. I doubt any of their newer Unifi stuff does though.
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by ahepp 2y ago
In classic HN fashion I forgot to mention that the nice web UI must play a key role here, and make up for all the other UX issues that come with using a pi rather than just “apt-get dnsmasq”
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by ahepp 2y ago
I find pi-hole fascinating since it shows there is a sizeable market for open Linux routers in the home, but for some reason people seem fixated with running it on a raspberry pi. That’s fine, but it seems like the worst of all worlds? I wo
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by ahepp 2y ago
> Recall that compared to electronic devices, the human brain operates at ridiculously slow speeds of about 120 bits (approximately 15 bytes) per second. Listening to one person takes about 60 bits per second of brainpower, or half our a
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by ahepp 2y ago
Are you saying HN broke substack?
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by ahepp 2y ago
> It uses the kernel's `make menuconfig` system which seems like it occupies a bad place between "easy usable GUI" and "robust config file you can check in to git". Are you aware you can generate a sparse config
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by ahepp 2y ago
> Yocto AFAICT does not have a package discovery via TUI Depends what you mean by package discovery, but `oe-pkgdata-util find-path` may be helpful in determining what package would produce a certain binary. Other than searching on open
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by ahepp 2y ago
Buildroot will build the cross toolchain too unless you specify BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL, right? And likewise you can configure yocto to use an external toolchain. A lot of the byproducts are configurable. You could configure the system to no
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by ahepp 2y ago
I reckon you are already aware of this if you’re using it to generate an initramfs, but for those reading along, you can also use it as a docker image
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by ahepp 2y ago
It will spit out a rootfs, or even a block image for a disk, which might make it _look_ like a single application. You will probably update your system by flashing that entire rootfs/image to your target device as if it was one applica
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by ahepp 2y ago
I agree. I shouldn't have used the word "hallucinations" since the point of the conversation above my comment was that they are not really hallucinations by any meaningful definition of the word. My question was more about wh
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by ahepp 2y ago
I mean hallucination in the context of this conversation: probabilistic token generation without any real knowledge or understanding. Maybe if we add a lot of neurons and make it all faster, we would end up with “knowledge” as an emergent f
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by ahepp 2y ago
maybe hallucination is all cognition is, and humans are just really good at it?

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