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by apienx 3y ago
Please use secure channels for authentication. SMS is antiquatedly insecure (Any way it's sent: SS7, SMPP, etc.). More traffic benefits the industry (since some sucker pays for it). There's no incentive for any of the entities tha
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by apienx 3y ago
Biometrics (as a way to identify people) are used by plenty of governments around the world. There are plenty of people who don't care about privacy (as evidenced by the rise of social media). Why wouldn't such people be allowed t
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by apienx 3y ago
The industry's currently shipping chips based on the 3nm process. I understand that it's mostly a marketing term (i.e. non-standardized), but I assume the actual transistor channel is within that order of magnitude. Knowing that a
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by apienx 3y ago
Recommended video on the matter: https://youtu.be/d2Tm3Yx4HWI
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by apienx 3y ago
An awesome and courageous organization gives an award to an awesome and courageous person. Congrats Alexandra!
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by apienx 3y ago
I've personally embraced the slow progress and just add a few seconds to my "plank timer" every week. Best of luck!
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by apienx 3y ago
Wall squats _and planks_. And gentle reminder that the world record for a plank is over 9 hours. Humans are awesome! ;)
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by apienx 3y ago
> Not everyone views astrology’s rising prominence as a positive development. What bs journalism is this? Would she phrases it thia way of it was about flat earth theory? Racism? Etc.?
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by apienx 3y ago
I haven't read the paper because I consider Frontiers Media a shit-tier publisher. Their acceptance rate is 90%. A few institutions don't consider their papers when judging the performance of researchers. The National Publication
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by apienx 3y ago
Agent forwarding is discouraged by the OpenSSH crew. Yet, it's commonly used because of the convenience it affords. "Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote
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by apienx 3y ago
I personally made similar devices in the lab over a decade ago (and yes, with Nafion and benzoquinones). They're very unstable. I'd file this under gimmick rather than novel tech.
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by apienx 3y ago
Second window (the large ones on the left).
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by apienx 3y ago
The average "half-life of knowledge" in psychology is already a dismal 7 years (and has been measured as low as 3.3 years). And that's excluding outright fraud... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life
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by apienx 3y ago
Irregardless is a word.[74][75] Nonstandard, slang, or colloquial terms used by English speakers are sometimes alleged not to be real words, despite appearing in numerous dictionaries. All words in English became accepted by being commonly
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by apienx 3y ago
Given enough time and energy, everything can be brute forced.
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by apienx 3y ago
Silicon's atomic size is about 0.2 nanometers. What's the plans once single-atom transistors hit the shelves? Anything we can do to keep "Moore's Law" going?
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by apienx 3y ago
Thanks for your work! Awk is a rabbit hole. "Dark corners are basically fractal - no matter how much you illuminate, there is always a smaller but darker one." - - Brian Kernighan (quoted in the GNU Awk book)
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by apienx 3y ago
"When the facts change" is another way of saying "When your interpretation of reality is wrong and it gets corrected".
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by apienx 3y ago
Does it work with SELinux? Asking for a friend. ;-)
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by apienx 3y ago
Most of the current inflation is probably a delayed effect of the recent money printing craze. If that's the case, then the corrosion to investing is overstated.
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by apienx 3y ago
Rocky Linux listing the following (funny) options: - Buy a farm in Nebraska or Montana. Raise cattle Stack suggests goats instead, as they may be easier (plus milk, cheese, gyro's, and they will eat poison ivy!) - Utilize RH subscripti
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by apienx 3y ago
I think most normative ethicists would take issue with this proposition. Our values dictate our choices. Compromises (and limited-choice situations) test our values. From a deontological perspective, compromise destroys values. From a conse
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by apienx 3y ago
This is a well known technique. Law enforcement and mobile operators routinely use silent SMS to triangulate phone location. Smartphones now make it easier to capture a lot more than just location. We know of several groups that sell turnke
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by apienx 3y ago
> But Laughlin hit on a topic that was far more taboo than any of the above. He had the idea that most of the scientists were doing no work at all. They were actually stealing money from the government, just creating all these fraudulent
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by apienx 3y ago
> But I would not be surprised if this is still off by a couple of tens of percents. They're predicting a 200% increase in 5 years. Being only a couple of tens of percents off would be quite remarkable IMHO.
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by apienx 3y ago
First Principles Thinking, by definition, only assumes the most well-stablished axioms. If your assumptions get broken by a paradigm shift, then you simply failed at proper First Principles Thinking IMHO. The issue with First Principles Thi
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Derek's (AKA Veritasium) doctoral thesis is in YouTube science communication. Cool video.
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by apienx 3y ago
Wonderful review! You can feel John's passion for his craft.
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by apienx 3y ago
From the description: "Application to comfortably monitor your network traffic". I think the keyword here is "comfortably".
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The title of the paper is: "Evidence of near-ambient superconductivity in a N-doped lutetium hydride". The Nature editors (and perhaps the authors themselves) covered their backs. They previously had to retract a related paper (fr

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