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by bigiain 1y ago
> With such a miniature fab, one might need a few weeks to produce a batch of IC's worth maybe $1000 Maybe? Another point of view might be that in a few weeks you could produce a batch of ICs you can actually trust, that would be se
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by bigiain 1y ago
I laughed at "Having a website that is fully offgrid". I _guess_ not being connected to the electrical grid while still being connected to the internet qualifies as "offgrid", but it kinda feels wrong to me.
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by bigiain 1y ago
That's being tried: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor "The principle of evidence-based trust was at work in our decision to implement Precursor’s brain as an SoC on an FPGA, which means you
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by bigiain 1y ago
Bunny Huang has been doing a lot of work on this: Open hardware you can buy now: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor The open OS that runs on it: https://betrusted.io/xous-book/ A
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by bigiain 1y ago
But further up this thread you're responding to it says: > the school says "use an app or you won't get your kids" and then also say they will "call CPS and have your kids seized if you don't get them in tim
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by bigiain 1y ago
I'd bet way more people went MovableType -> Wordpress and are mostly still there.
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by bigiain 1y ago
> What about elevators, parking garages, basements? If Snowden was an ex-colleage of mine, I suspect I or my co workers probably combine location data with network attach/detach messages, and can filter out "known blackspots&qu
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by bigiain 1y ago
> "things that motivate the government to investigate you" Yeah, as I wrote elsewhere in this discussion: "running a global drug cartel, or criticising Saudi Royal Families, or defending the rights of Palestinian children
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by bigiain 1y ago
I think it's charge/discharge cycles more than time that gets to batteries. I've heard that a decent rule of thumb for LiPo batteries is that they'll drop to around 80% of "new capacity" in around 1000 cycles.
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by bigiain 1y ago
I'm currently using an iPhone 13 from late 2021, so almost 4 years old. It's showing 79% Maximum Capacity in Battery Health, and I only occasionally use more then 75% of battery over a days use. I still have the iPhone XR I upgrad
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by bigiain 1y ago
A long time ago, I used to work at a place that decided to stick iPads onto meeting room doorways to display who had the room booked (because people are the worst). These'd last 7 or 8 months before the battery puffed up enough to be n
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by bigiain 1y ago
I'd be surprised if my daily driver phone ran out of battery more than once or twice a year. It probably only ever reboots in exactly the same 24 hour time window as every other iPhone during iOS updates. If Alice's threat model d
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by bigiain 1y ago
If you become of enough interest to the sort of people who will interview everybody who was any a party at a bar to try and identify who someone that's left the country gave their SIM to, you're probably well beyond fucked already
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by bigiain 1y ago
> why on earth would anybody smart ever do that? Because they're leaving the country tomorrow and don't plan on ever coming back. And you offered them a round of drinks or two for them and their other friends. (Thinking about i
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by bigiain 1y ago
Normally, unless (as I mentioned in another reply) you buy your SIM at a going-away party for a foreign student or backpacker who's leaving the country and doesn't need a local mobile number any more. (Then you just need to worry
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by bigiain 1y ago
For anyone wondering how to do this (like me from a month or two back). Here's a useful tool/site: https://bgp.tools You can feed it an ip address to get an AS ("Autonomous System"), then ask it for all prefi
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by bigiain 1y ago
CORBA Shudder...
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by bigiain 1y ago
I'm not sure how many people would get any use out of a burner phone that they need to be 50 miles away from home top use? One of my hobbies is Recreational Paranoia. I used to have (probably still do in a drawer here somewhere) a 3G W
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by bigiain 1y ago
> In many countries you need a valid government ID document to activate a mobile service which means burners do not really exist in those places. Buying prepaid SIMs from tourists or foreign students returning home is a reasonable easy w
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by bigiain 1y ago
Also, never power up or down, or switch in or out of airplane mode on your burner while at home (or work). Cellular network disconnection and connection events are rare and hence notable.
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by bigiain 1y ago
"Forward Deployed Software Engineer - This role includes working in locations that include risks of getting shot and possibly killed"
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by bigiain 1y ago
> Will the cost of AI-generated code approach zero? Absolutely not. In the short term it will, while OpenAI/Anthropic/Anysphere destroy software development as a career. But they're just running the Uber playbook - right n
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by bigiain 1y ago
I kinda hate the idea of all that. But I can see it "working". At least for the values of "working" that would be "good enough" for a large portion of the production code I've written or overseen in my 30+
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by bigiain 1y ago
Exactly. As I said "With a sufficiently sociopathic point of view".
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by bigiain 1y ago
My guess? The AI companies will keep the free and $20/month plans to entice developers and their managers. They will have $200/month plans with bigger context windows to allow effective work on larger that toy codebases. But soone
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by bigiain 1y ago
This is why it's important to be experienced in a range of different SaaS and AI tools. So that when one of your employers has a SaaS related outage, you can just switch to one of your other employers and keep working. All hail the 100
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by bigiain 1y ago
I wonder how soon (or if it's already happening) that AI coding tools will behave like early career developers who claim all the existing code written by others is crap and go on to convince management that a ground up rewrite is requi
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by bigiain 1y ago
> I think the article underestimates how much intent can be grasped from code alone. That's very scale related. I rarely have any trouble reading and understanding Arduino code. But that's got a hard upper limit (at least on th
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by bigiain 1y ago
> their activity is bad for the state, illicit trade is lost revenue I wonder. With a sufficiently sociopathic point of view, every high end car theft almost certainly represents a subsequent insurance claim and new car purchase. And eve
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by bigiain 1y ago
> > Why would one task run in a drastically different architectural situation > Someone made a mistake. These things happen. Some company didn't have appropriate processes in place. For ISO27001 certification you at least need

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