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by bbatsell 2y ago
RealPage works by collating private competition data from all of their clients, running models to determine the highest possible vacancy rate for an area that will lead to the highest possible market rate, then telling their clients to set
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by bbatsell 2y ago
They say user data remains in the Secure Enclave at all times, which Nvidia GPUs would not be able to access. I am quite certain that their private cloud inference runs only Apple silicon chips. (The pre-WWDC rumors were that they built cus
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by bbatsell 2y ago
They are reducing the number of media items a single person can have on hold, not the total number of holds on a single item.
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by bbatsell 3y ago
Due to industrialization and cars, stormwater runoff, especially what’s called the first flush, is very polluted. If we had unlimited resources, treating both wastewater and stormwater runoff + strict impervious cover restrictions and on-si
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by bbatsell 3y ago
They do. But since most miners would just ignore the license, they implemented LHR (low hashrate) beginning on GeForce 3000-series that detects the types of ops used for mining and artificially slows the GPU to about 25% of its actual speed
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by bbatsell 3y ago
It’s just an unfortunate fact pattern. Compensatory damages are by design supposed to be a quantifiable number that you can directly point to on a ledger somewhere. Mann claims to have lost grants, and indisputably lost reputation, but has
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by bbatsell 3y ago
The entire article is discussing annualized numbers, so $50/month, a fairly middling Hetzner server.
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by bbatsell 3y ago
Popehat’s nuanced response that is well worth reading: https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportuni...
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by bbatsell 3y ago
Except that Genshin will not be subject to it. Genshin Impact is made by Mihoyo, a Chinese company. In order to sell Unity licenses to Chinese customers, Unity Technologies created a joint venture called Unity China, and, as is standard Chi
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by bbatsell 3y ago
That is something oft-repeated in conservative circles without a shred of basis in law. In fact, Section 230(c)(2) of the CDA does the exact opposite. It was written to explicitly _grant_ immunity when companies moderate in good faith. htt
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by bbatsell 3y ago
No, the scammer stole someone’s credentials and the bank clawed back the payment. The bank can always reverse it at any point in the future. The consumer never, ever can.
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by bbatsell 3y ago
They are jokingly referring to macOS, which is descendant from a fork of BSD with the Mach kernel.
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by bbatsell 3y ago
There were people complaining in earlier threads that bigger publications haven't been reporting on LK-99 — this article is a perfect distillation of why. It is already significantly outdated, missing out on multiple interesting findin
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by bbatsell 3y ago
Since you kept the same phone, that was probably DeviceCheck, which gives you 2 bits to store “fraud” related flags. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/access...
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by bbatsell 3y ago
No, you can scope it to an App Group shared across all apps in one account (Team ID). Google uses this to aggressively fingerprint — if you’re signed in to Google Voice, your actions in Google Maps will still be associated to your account e
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by bbatsell 3y ago
No, ex parte means not requiring a party that would normally be required. It is _also_ used in emergencies because the process of pleadings, answers, and replies would be too slow, so you are asking the court to temporarily ignore the rule
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by bbatsell 3y ago
The benchmarks towards the bottom are of ChatGPT-4, according to the footnotes.
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by bbatsell 3y ago
Could you elaborate on what you’re referring to? I’m certainly not an expert, but my understanding was that the vast, vast majority of TSMC’s revenue comes from production of completely custom wafers on newer nodes, and I’m hard pressed to
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by bbatsell 3y ago
One of the three main authors of JXL works for Google. But in the Google Research Zurich office, so he might as well not exist to the Chrome team, I guess.
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by bbatsell 3y ago
No, it's entirely the engines — there are a lot of moving pieces of metal that have to safely expand and contract in understood cycles. The brakes and wheels are fine with tight turns (assuming you don't have to use max braking).
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by bbatsell 3y ago
Delta and Hawaiian are the two US operators. Hawaiian loves it, and is struggling to replace it. They use them for island-hopping. Modern airliners don't do well in this use case — modern engines have been engineered to tight tolerance
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by bbatsell 3y ago
To elaborate a bit, "City of London" is not the city of London as one would normally imagine. It is a district only about a square mile large that contains the central business and financial district. It has very little resident
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by bbatsell 3y ago
If #1 were true, literally _anyone_ in spez's position would shut up and get on with things. The fact is that he initially did that — and then as the week has gone on, he has begun giving more and more unhinged interviews with the pres
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by bbatsell 3y ago
> Important note: currently, our rate limit response headers indicate counts by client id/user id combination. These headers will update to reflect this new policy based on client id only on July 1. https://reddit.com&#x2
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by bbatsell 3y ago
> That is I see no deliberate "lying" coming from the reddit CEO. Days afterward, spez got on a conference call and falsely claimed that Christian was blackmailing him. An employee of Reddit itself affirmed that he said it in a
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by bbatsell 3y ago
The “free” limits are per-app, not per-user. Any API call using Apollo’s OAuth client_id and client_secret is attributed to Apollo’s limits and then API usage, whether it comes directly from a user’s device or through another server. Reddit
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by bbatsell 3y ago
Nearly every element of your comment is blatantly wrong, some directly addressed by the post this comment thread is discussing. - Reddit is charging the equivalent of 20x its published revenue per user for the API. - The new API agreements
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by bbatsell 5y ago
I haven't tested it, but Lima purports to support it: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/multi-arch....
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by bbatsell 5y ago
No, the threshold encryption only allows for the 30+ cryptographic “vouchers” to be unlocked, which contain details about the hash matching as well as a “visual derivative” of the image. We don’t know any details about the visual derivative
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by bbatsell 5y ago
> There has to be some incentive somewhere for Apple to do this. They know it's wrong, they know it will be abused. The most positive spin I can put on it is that it has become clear behind the scenes that NCMEC and partners have pu

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