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by blip54321 4y ago
A professor in college had two terms: microprogramming and macroprogramming. Microprogramming was the kind of thing where you're trying to, for example, cut down an assembly loop to run in 6 cycles rather than 8, design a numerical alg
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by blip54321 4y ago
I hate installing and uninstalling apps. And overly permissive apps are a good sign they're not my friend in the first place.
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by blip54321 4y ago
The term for this is transfer learning. https://learningcurrents.weebly.com/visible-learning-surface... It takes a minimum of about 3 semesters to be able to get linear algebra to the stage of transfer learning. There are s
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by blip54321 4y ago
Since finishing school, I've used very little of the math I learned in school. I've used a lot of math. Most of it built on high school algebra and geometry. Does that mean that's all I needed to learn? No. The key thing I do
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by blip54321 4y ago
After 9/11, a clever MIT undergrad grabbed some form of alqaeda.net. Any email sent to the address went to the corresponding @mit.edu email address. You could email professor_alice@alqaeda.net, and it'd arrive at professor_alice@m
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by blip54321 4y ago
I think this would be a better state than we have now... ... but I feel like it isn't the ideal solution. I don't think we should make the perfect the enemy of the good, but what I'd really like to see is that people own thei
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by blip54321 4y ago
Indeed. It's an arms race. Search engines versus SEO.
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by blip54321 4y ago
This isn't uncommon. For example, when MIT/Harvard took over edX from the original researcher who built it, they found they didn't know how to build software. The new team introduced this same issue: passwords in log files. I
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by blip54321 4y ago
Reasonable people cannot disagree about the framing of GDPR as a human rights law. The second sentence is "This Regulation protects fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons and in particular their right to the protection of p
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by blip54321 4y ago
Jurisdiction issues are complex. In this case, the jurisdiction is defined by the location of the customer, not the business. If your business ignores EU courts, that might not have an immediate impact, but in the longer-term, you have a li
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by blip54321 4y ago
V3 is, unfortunately, nowhere near usable. It'd be as if Microsoft had discontinued the Windows 95 user interface in favor of Microsoft Bob, in 1995. It's that not-done. I'd be opposed to the transition if it were done, but V
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by blip54321 4y ago
I feel like the materials are whatever is found on site. That may mean that a machine may need to be able to sort, smelt, sinter, form, ram, engrave, or otherwise process whatever it found on-site. That's definitely non-trivial, but in
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by blip54321 4y ago
I'm really not sold on the costs of digging down being all that high, long-term. I'm 100% sold on it being expensive today, but I can come up with ways to drive them /way/ down with automation. The critical thing is: 1)
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by blip54321 4y ago
CFAA has actually narrowed quite a lot. The law isn't crazy as written; it's crazy as misinterpreted. Van Buren v. United States is the Supreme Court case that tossed out most of the batshit crazy interpretations. Today, MIT would
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by blip54321 4y ago
The intent is very much territorial. I don't think your interpretation is 100% correct, but I think it's 95% correct. Jurisdiction is clearly defined as territorial: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/ However,
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by blip54321 4y ago
I wouldn't quite go so far, but I don't think piecewise enterprise SaaS makes sense. The whole model of having dozens of interacting SaaS pieces, any of which make change APIs, have a bug, or go under any day has peaked. I'm
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by blip54321 4y ago
Proof is not required. In the US, for example, you file taxes on an honor system. If you've lied, there are periodic audits, and you might get thrown in prison. I assume you can lie going to China. If you do and get caught, you'll
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by blip54321 4y ago
Personally, I feel like there are too many dollars and startups in this space now. I feel like the risk profile is such that I'd never buy most of the products being built. I don't want core business infrastructure sitting in the
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by blip54321 4y ago
This is incorrect. There are complex laws governing residency which vary country-by-country. It's not atypical that, for example, if you spend 183 days in a year somewhere else, you're no longer a resident. You're generally o
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by blip54321 4y ago
GDPR is very clear -- EU citizens living outside the EU are NOT covered. US citizens living in EU are covered. That's not uncommon for laws; I don't get a ticket for breaking US traffic laws in the EU, or vice-versa. Very few laws
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by blip54321 4y ago
GDPR applies to residents of Europe. That said, I've never had a problem using it from the US.
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by blip54321 4y ago
I think that's a good starting point. Any good references? I'm looking up the one already given in thread. I have a lot of experience with medical biohazards, high voltages (>2kV), welding, dangerous tools, handling dangerous l
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by blip54321 4y ago
I'd like to mess with them at home, but not at "the necessary volumes" to go through a foot of steel as in the video. You know those little bang snaps you throw at the ground and they make a popping sound? For DIY, ideally, I
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by blip54321 4y ago
Question: Is there a way to play with these things at home? Any pointers to DIY stuff?
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by blip54321 4y ago
I think the line is when your troops shoot their troops. Providing weapons has been a US-Soviet past time for the whole Cold War. In this case, I think the US could have even moved in troops without being at war, early in the invasion. It j
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by blip54321 4y ago
For the most part, because you'd be IO-bound, and you'd be limited by single-threaded speed. A better architecture is to have the same, but as a co-processor for highly multithreaded tasks. That's basically a GPU. You get a f
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by blip54321 4y ago
The trick isn't to shop for /most/ Chromebooks. The trick is to shop for /decent, expired/ Chromebooks. Chromebooks are designed around planned obsolescence, and all come with a use-by date, after which they stop up
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by blip54321 4y ago
Expired Chromebooks are cheap, and great for installing Linux. For my purposes, a $100 used Chromebook is perfectly adequate, and is the sort of device I can take on a hike, kayak, or bike ride, and not worry if it's lost, stolen, or d
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by blip54321 4y ago
Cores are basically free. Interconnect is expensive. Seriously. A Pentium IV was 40M transistors. A Ryzen V 2000 has around 5 billion transistors. It could fit 100 Pentium IV cores if desired. That's not desired -- those transistors ar
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by blip54321 4y ago
Thank you!

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