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811.
by avidiax 3y ago
I think there's a risk in this kind of article. It's not that the article is wrong. It's probably accurate that there can be pathological degrees of psychological safety, where there is simply no accountability. But the propo
812.
by avidiax 3y ago
15 nanowatts received at the dish. https://www.quora.com/How-much-power-does-a-Starlink-satelli...
813.
by avidiax 3y ago
I do wonder if this could be done by true teleoperation. There are many cues in cooking like sound, smell, texture, taste that aren't possible to transmit well.
814.
by avidiax 3y ago
Your employer being properly disincentivized from illegally mistreating you would be better.
815.
by avidiax 3y ago
Bluetooth HFP (hands free profile) v1.6+ optionally supports wide band recording. That's 16kHZ mSBC codec. It's not clear how you'd find a headset that supports this, but this is the terminology to look for. https:/&#x2
816.
by avidiax 3y ago
Was Shakespeare originally a high-end affair with the utmost decorum? Or was it more like community theater, where some amount of misbehavior was expected?
817.
by avidiax 3y ago
ATC uses AM radio since it behaves well. Two AM broadcasts on the same frequency add in proportion to their strength. Two FM broadcasts tend to cut into each other randomly. It's a case of AM being the long-term standard, and also bein
818.
by avidiax 3y ago
The best part of Bernie Madoff's grift, in my opinion, is that it follows the notion that "you can't cheat an honest man". No one had any legitimate idea for how Bernie could beat the market by such an amount and so cons
819.
by avidiax 3y ago
https://archive.ph/CtpVe
820.
by avidiax 3y ago
Put Tailscale on their machines and use a normal remote desktop application (probably the built-in RDP). Or put a RaspberryPi with Tailscale on their network. Just make sure you set the key for those clients to not expire.
821.
by avidiax 3y ago
I think what the industry needs is a fixed royalties regime like recorded music has. Spotify has the whole catalog, and the rights holders can't stop them. But Spotify does have to pay a certain industry fixed royalty per play. The tri
822.
by avidiax 3y ago
A question is whether the new model still intrinsically embeds the source text, but this is later filtered in the output, or if it no longer embeds the text at all. The latter is more defensible.
823.
by avidiax 3y ago
Beeper is the user's choice. And Apple is preventing other companies from providing a more secure iMessage alternative, e.g. one that doesn't even parse messages from people not in the contact list, or doesn't even parse anyt
824.
by avidiax 3y ago
We already have a 700mph metal tube in a partial vacuum transport solution: passenger jets. Arguably, the main inefficiency there is that airports are located far from city centers and involve large amounts of time and financial friction. S
825.
by avidiax 3y ago
> And no manufacturer has been able to achieve the technology to meet that level. Urea-injection seems to work (that's what Mercedes does). But it requires another tank and special equipment. And VW could meet the emissions requir
826.
by avidiax 3y ago
There are hackers that sell a service to unlock locked iPhones/iPads/MacBooks. The typical technique is to phish victims, contact their lost phone contacts, impersonate police. This assumes that the thief didn't simply observ
827.
by avidiax 3y ago
In recognition of your email retention policy, I shall be resending this complaint at 5 month intervals, along with a running history of the previous complaints.
828.
by avidiax 3y ago
Fuzz tests are most useful if they are run continuously/concurrently with development. Doing it that way, a change or decision that causes a fuzz test failure hasn't been built upon yet. Imagine building an earthquake resistant ho
829.
by avidiax 3y ago
I doubt there's publicly available evidence. Assuming incompetence before malice, I'd say that Qualcomm and the other 5G baseband manufacturers have such a moat around cellular modems that it doesn't need to be secure. It&#x2
830.
by avidiax 3y ago
Unless I misunderstand, they are codifying their patents into open standards like 5G. So you can't implement 5G without their patents. Add that to encouraging complexity (10,000+ pages of spec to do something outwardly similar to WiFi)
831.
by avidiax 3y ago
> you'll wish you had wired their tv's. Unfortunately, many TVs only have 100Mbps ethernet, and sometimes that ethernet port doesn't even achieve 50Mbps because of software issues. People workaround that by using a USB Gig
832.
by avidiax 3y ago
I would guess that Bezos has never read this letter. An underling of his would never present this letter to him unless Bezos has specifically asked to be presented such letters, and the fallout from this letter will never be sufficient to w
833.
by avidiax 3y ago
The Cybertruck is actually rather low for a truck. The edge of the hood would hit a typical person in the gut, not the neck or face as with many other trucks (especially lifted trucks). https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/f
834.
by avidiax 3y ago
I can imagine that AI might imperil junior software engineering jobs. At that level, you are expected to be told explicitly what to do, and bridge some small ambiguities at most. That's roughly where ChatGPT is right now. To go beyond
835.
by avidiax 3y ago
Android -- a cost center. No viable business model. Maybe Samsung would fork AOSP for their phones. Cloud -- has to run at a loss in the immediate future to capture marketshare Email -- nobody pays for email. Get ready for a much smaller ma
836.
by avidiax 3y ago
This assumes you want the 5.03 item, and it's just a way to consolidate change instead of having a change jar.
837.
by avidiax 3y ago
So you take your tiny coins and use them to get bigger coins. You buy something and it's 4.53, and you give 5.03 to get 0.50 in change.
838.
by avidiax 3y ago
I would like to have a maximum value $100 offline capable smart card issued by the government. It's, of course, not physically possible to prevent double spending of an offline smart card (just as it's not physically possible to p
839.
by avidiax 3y ago
Related: What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece[1] [1] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/change2.pdf
840.
by avidiax 3y ago
Apple and Google are totally fine with gambling just as long as it's not regulated.

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