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by avidiax 9mo ago
Quite an interesting story, and it makes me wonder what modern stories are covers for intelligence capabilities. I feel there must be more of them, since computers and modern communication have created so many opportunities to spy.
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by avidiax 9mo ago
I am surprised how terse this prompt is. > [phi fractal euler tao pi mu] | [Δ λ ∞/0 | ε/φ Σ/μ c/h] | OODA > Human ⊗ AI Is this some kind of priming incantation?
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by avidiax 9mo ago
Heuristics often work well enough that an AI/ML approach isn't needed. If it is needed, you still need the heuristics. If you were writing a chess engine, you wouldn't just pass the board state and history to a model. You&#x2
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by avidiax 9mo ago
> Snap guns break pins They are a kinetic attack on the pins, but they don't shear or shatter them.
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by avidiax 9mo ago
By 2080, it will be fully sentient, and derive pleasure when you use it, and suffer loneliness if you don't, and do its best to convince you. Basically the weapons from "High on Life" or the butter robot from Rick and Morty,
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by avidiax 9mo ago
If you believe Lumafield, 8% of low-quality lithium ion batteries have a mechanical defect that can sometimes lead to a short circuit. Is this person really brave, or just unaware of the risks? https://www.lumafield.com/arti
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by avidiax 10mo ago
To call it a stress "test" is dismissive. A stress test on a bank doesn't actually erase the revenue and financially jeopardize the bank. Implementing layoffs is not a stress test.
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by avidiax 10mo ago
The tire pollution is true, but the brakes hardly get used on an EV. They are almost for emergency use only. Mine has a special mode to disable regeneration for a while so you can use the brake pads to clean the rotors.
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by avidiax 10mo ago
The officers may be filming for their own protection, but obviously, if they do something illegal, they can also just delete the data. So the cameras are not providing accountability, except where the agents are either honest or mistakenly
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by avidiax 10mo ago
If you look at the ICE agents, they all seem to have a variety of random gear. People have found their patches on Amazon. My impression is that they are on a hiring frenzy, and are incredibly disorganized. An AXON body camera is $800, usual
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by avidiax 10mo ago
My suspicion as someone with lifelong weight struggles and having tried GLP-1 medication: overweight people require more willpower to lose or maintain weight relative to those of normal weight. So the advise or admonishment of the normally
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by avidiax 10mo ago
Having lots of lower powered routers is actually better for interference. MacOS won't roam properly unless the signal from the connected AP drops below -75db, so cranking the power on all your APs will give you worse performance if you
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by avidiax 10mo ago
I feel like it's easier to just have Ethernet and a strict HW firewall with the admin interfaces totally disabled (have to full reset to get back in). You can either just block packets in one direction, or you can add a small amount of
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by avidiax 10mo ago
It won't change the economics of the current class of aircraft. They will still need to have business class seats to pay for the economy cabin. You will probably end up with 5 or 6 tiers of service instead: Supersonic: Business + First
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by avidiax 10mo ago
So the only way to know that this has been done is to read the OBD2 VIN or check all the resaleable parts for VINs? It sounds like this scam would only get discovered when you go to the dealer for service, perhaps.
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by avidiax 10mo ago
Wondering how theives can sell a stolen car. Do they have fake paperwork?
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by avidiax 10mo ago
> Humans need to remain 100% accountable for their own actions People undergoing psychotic delusions are definitionally not 100% culpable. If you say that people are 100% culpable despite mental state outside their control, I'd like
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by avidiax 10mo ago
I worked at Uber. The UX designers were pretty obsessed with the iPhone app, making sure it was pixel perfect and the little cars in the city view moved smoothly and every transition was crisp and so on. The vast majority of new users at th
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by avidiax 10mo ago
I think he has a point. These power structures exist for some good reasons as well. The opposite thing (engineers engaging directly with customers) can eventually lead to customer capture of your engineering org. You shouldn't have a s
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by avidiax 10mo ago
Every previous job I've had has a similar pattern. The engineer is not supposed to engage directly with the customer. I think there are multiple reasons for this, but they are mostly overlapping with preserving internal power structure
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by avidiax 10mo ago
The proposal is that IPv4+ would be interpretable as an IPv4 packet. Either the IP header is extended, or we add another protocol layer for the IPv4+ bits (IPv4+ is another envelope for the user payload). DNS is like today: A and AAAA recor
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by avidiax 10mo ago
It also prevents "contempt of business model". Makes a SW or HW bypass for ink cartridge pairing or game piracy or monthly widget subscription difficult or impossible. May also make any vulnerability patchable. If you depend on yo
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by avidiax 10mo ago
You can also bury the fuse array inside the chip. So in addition to the microscope, you will also have to non-destructively etch or mill the chip to expose the fuses. This also renders the chip non-functional, so if the secret is unique per
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by avidiax 10mo ago
Depends on the length of the antenna. I'd bet you can get a length close enough to be a quarter-wave 5Ghz and 1/2-wave 2.4ghz antenna. Just buy a 2.4/5Ghz combo antenna and slap the diodes across it.
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by avidiax 10mo ago
> If your friend experiences noticeable degradation regardless of the distance within the room, it might be worrisome. Probably not. I recall calculating it once, and the legal requirements for microwave oven shielding still allow it to
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by avidiax 10mo ago
Faster diode, like HSMS-2850 [1], and different leg lengths (tune for 5Ghz). [1] https://datasheet4u.com/pdf-down/H/S/M/HSMS-2862_AgilentTech...
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by avidiax 10mo ago
Maduro isn't a good leader. He's been very repressive, very likely stole the 2024 election from his opponent. Venezuela has terrible economic problems and food and medicine shortages. They have been assisting Russia, operating a s
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by avidiax 10mo ago
Some of the Eastern European anti-Soviet revolutions probably qualify. I suppose it depends on whether the U.S.S.R. "wanted" to crush the protests violently but couldn't. It certainly did conduct violent reprisals in several
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by avidiax 10mo ago
We don't need to manufacture consent anymore. The days of protest ending a war that the US is engaged in are long gone, if they were ever here. Even the ballot box isn't enough. We don't have an anti-war party in the US. Our
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by avidiax 10mo ago
That's quite true, but in this counterfactual, IPv4+ doesn't pretend that 6to4 is just a transition mechanism to an all-IPv6 future. That is, IPv4+ is as-if 6to4 was the default, preferred, or only mechanism, and core routers were

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