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by apienx 3y ago
Reminder that technology nodes (5nm, 2nm, etc.) refer to the smallest feature, not some dimension of the transistor channel. For reference, a silicon atom is 0.21nm.
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by apienx 3y ago
> The unstated cultural principle was: "products come and go“ That explains a lot! ;-)
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by apienx 3y ago
Dev Containers are cool. There’s a VSCode extension.
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by apienx 3y ago
The most likely explanation is that this is a sacrifice (from Merriam-Webster: “to suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end). Idealists will have an easier time understanding what motivat
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by apienx 3y ago
The Tesla Model Y is 2023’s top selling vehicle model in the world. Plus, the Cybertruck is the most hyped/anticipated car in history. The current market valuation may not be rational, but betting against such a disruptive company is f
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by apienx 3y ago
SMSCs have had spam filters for ages and they’re very good. The telco ecosystem doesn’t mind rejecting legitimate SMSes and marking it as spam. The main reason is that SMS is paid for as soon as it’s sent. Oligopolies and monopolies are the
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by apienx 3y ago
Reminder that Lockdown Mode helps reduce the attack surface of your iPhone. It also helps tremendously with detection. https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
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A Robotic Arm from Scratch(youtube.com)
2 points by apienx 3y ago|1 comments
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by apienx 3y ago
A hacker extraordinaire makes “the most HARDCORE[sic] birthday gift” for himself: A robotic arm.
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by apienx 3y ago
This is really cool and humans are amazing. You have to be relentlessly resourceful to engineer a material and study it like they’ve done. If you read the paper, however, you see that it’s more about chemists showing off a tour de force. Th
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The Predator/Alien spyware suite(blog.talosintelligence.com)
2 points by apienx 3y ago|0 comments
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by apienx 3y ago
"Control-seizing is a more fundamental principle from which intelligence emerges, not vice versa" (quote from a slide in Alex Wissner-Gross's A new equation for intelligence @TED)
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by apienx 3y ago
The director of the Australian Society for Medical Research has a nice TEDx talk about all aspects of learning here: https://youtu.be/kKvK2foOTJM?si=RF479ogKABAtcCUE
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by apienx 3y ago
Could you please explain the thought process that led you to settle on Fedora? Thanks!
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by apienx 3y ago
Practicing rationality literally improves the quality of our thoughts. It’s a worthy dare I say noble?) goal. “Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!” - Bertrand Russell
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by apienx 3y ago
I don’t have access to the paper. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t account for such sampling bias effects. Hope they did though (for science’s sake!).
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by apienx 3y ago
Essentially, L4S shrinks the latency feedback loop. The second half of this video explains it quite nicely: https://youtu.be/tAVwmUG21OY?si=lydbqfNL80Y8Uxvp
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by apienx 3y ago
Agreed. Could you please share your thoughts on the best current solution for isolation? Thanks in advance!
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by apienx 3y ago
The definition of private property is defined by political systems, which are shaped by cultural norms and values. It's unlikely that humanity will still treat intellectual output as private property centuries from now. The digital (an
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by apienx 3y ago
I tend to write with more intent when using paper because I know that editing is not really possible. Accessibility is also much more limited on paper. However, I think of my devices and PKM software as a second brain where I just offload
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by apienx 3y ago
Tesla is hoping that this will be settled by the EU, not Sweden. A lot of swedes are looking at this situation through a moral lens rather than a legal one (also, union membership figures are steadily declining). This will likely end up in
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by apienx 3y ago
John Mueller tweeted: “We update the documentation from time to time. Feel free to submit feedback if you feel something's missing. Robots.txt is definitely still a thing.“ Nothing to see here.
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by apienx 3y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36497-x
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by apienx 3y ago
The market for 1-click DNS sinkholes is about to get heated. ;)
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by apienx 3y ago
This is why we can’t have nice things. So-called moats are responsible for a lot of the ambient enshitification.
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by apienx 3y ago
“I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way intr
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by apienx 3y ago
Trust (societal as well as towards authorities). Freedom of speech (and negative freedoms in general).
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by apienx 3y ago
It’s hard to overstate the pace at which Sweden changed since the 00s. Swedish culture still values multiculturalism. And, during my 20 years there, I was never able to convince anyone about the dangers of tolerating intolerance. When you c
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by apienx 3y ago
There are a few fast-growing and very profitable companies building products that do nothing but “abstract” TFC. Inertia is stronger than we think. Large corps would rather pay more than move to another (cheaper) solution. The downside is a
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by apienx 3y ago
Please clarify.

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