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by ajb 6mo ago
Although his details are likely correct, this is not an analysis from physical laws (and other hard requirements, eg usability requirements) which is what you need to show optimality, it's an exploration of the known options. He makes
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by ajb 6mo ago
That's why GP wrote MITM, not just network blocking. MITM implies the middlebox is trusted by the browser in which it has installed a certificate, so can see and modify content.
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by ajb 6mo ago
Hah, so many science fiction books with this premise. Another one: "Drunkards walk" by Frederick Pohl, 1961.
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by ajb 6mo ago
The US Veteran's Affairs agency makes a free app to help with insomnia; it has all the usual advice that would apply to anyone - plus advising veterans not to keep a loaded gun by the bed, even if it makes them feel safer going to sle
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by ajb 6mo ago
Would be more convincing if you enumerated the assumptions. For example, 128b cache lines. Presumably, that is a speed assumption but not a soundness assumption.
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by ajb 6mo ago
There also seems to be a plan to add uefi support to u-boot[1]. Many of these kinds of boards have u-boot implementations, so could then boot uefi kernel. However many of these ARM chips have their own sub-architecture in the Linux source t
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by ajb 6mo ago
That sounds worth knowing; however when I looked MERV up, it seems that it's a rating system, not a type of filter. Could you be more specific abot the kind of filter you mean?
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by ajb 6mo ago
One demining expert claims that the rats are actually no good, but the charity persists with them anyway: https://nolandmines.com/APOPO%20rats.html I have no expertise. His arguments sound very plausible though.
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by ajb 6mo ago
Depends on your jurisdiction, of course. (I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, merely my impressions). In the UK this would likely be worth it if the injury is a specified financial amount. So for people who have paid for somethi
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by ajb 6mo ago
Check your local law. In some jurisdictions, you can charge interest, or penalties. You can be gentle about it - give fair warning, reminder that intrest is starting to accrue, etc. But customers don't generally want liabilities to inc
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by ajb 6mo ago
Suppose you are a building contractor. You have given start dates for future jobs, but your current job is going to run over the expected time. You can choose between: 1 slip every job, annoying all of the customers whose jobs are queued up
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by ajb 6mo ago
Not the OP, but Fyi you know that to some extent anyway, because the termination condition is that confidence is above a specified value. This is one of the advantages over just doing git bisect with some finger-in-air test repeat factor. B
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by ajb 6mo ago
The general requirement for this approach to be optimal, is called "dynamical consistency". A good description is in [1]. It is the situation where, suppose you have a budget B , and you search until your budget is exhausted. Then
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by ajb 6mo ago
It's worth noting that the analysis (although not this specific algorithm) applies in cases where there is a deterministic approach, but a nondeterministic algorithm is faster. For example, suppose you have some piece of hardware which
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by ajb 6mo ago
At a guess, you can reuse the entropy part, but you'd need to plug in a new probability distribution.
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by ajb 6mo ago
In theory, the algorithm could deal with that by choosing the commit at each step, which gives the best expected information gain; divided by expected test time. In most cases it would be more efficient just to cache the compiled output tho
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by ajb 6mo ago
Nice! I implemented a similar thing a while back: https://github.com/Ealdwulf/BBChop I'm going to have to check out how you got linear time with Shannon entropy, because I used Renyi entropy to do that, to make th
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by ajb 6mo ago
The UK regs update[1] mentions a battery, but you have to pay for it so I don't have the details. It appears your could legally install one of these panels on the 15th of this month, but there presumably won't be any certified to
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by ajb 7mo ago
Not the OP, but probably this: https://tonyg.github.io/revctrl.org/GenerationCounting.html (That seems to be an archive of the old revctrl.org pages from a while back; most likely Bram Cohen has a blog somewhere explai
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by ajb 7mo ago
Interesting observations. The design of cat flaps does seem suboptimal. I had not thought about the shape- it seems a good call that tall and thin would be better - but also the hinge at the top allows the flap to fall on the tail.
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by ajb 7mo ago
Okay, so when you, BobbyJo, become too old or unwell to work; other people should just shoot you in the head and take your stuff, right? It would only be efficient. Or does this 'harsh reality" only apply to other people?
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by ajb 7mo ago
Politicians in democracies need a fallback career for when they lose office. Before capital controls were lifted in the 80's, economies were a lot more local: UK politicians would take positions in UK companies or institutions, French
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by ajb 7mo ago
This is presumably why vertical freezers have drawers. Theoretically if all the space is taken by drawers, there is no cold air that can immediately fall out. I guess the movement of the drawer would at least disrupt the air in that drawer
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by ajb 7mo ago
Well, but do you never have to open the fridge to get an ingredient, half way through cooking?
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by ajb 7mo ago
It inherently takes more usable space, there's no design that won't lose space, which makes them impractical in smaller homes. To visualise it, for those living in more spacious areas, imagine a "galley" kitchen: 8 space
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by ajb 7mo ago
You may not need to read it, but you still need to test it. Code that has not been thoroughly tested is a greater liability, not a lesser one.l, the faster you can write it.
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by ajb 7mo ago
The choice is not between "individuals are on their own against scammers" and "users are locked into Google vetting their phone". Users should be able to choose another organisation to do the vetting. They bought a phone
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by ajb 7mo ago
There's a question about the right units here. Your CPU performs more operations in its first millisecond* than most mechanical devices do in their entire lifetime. So in per operation units, they are staggeringly reliable. Actual oper
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by ajb 7mo ago
Agents are new, but dumb coding practices are not. Despite what it may seem, the knowledge of how to manage development has increased. One practice I haven't seen for a while is managing by limiting the number of lines changed. (This w
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by ajb 7mo ago
Buffer size is the product of bandwidth and delay, so if communicating with something close, it can still go fast. Had an illustration of this once when my then-employers IT dept set up the desktop IP phones to update from a TFTP server on

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