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by bmenrigh 1y ago
I like Ian but he’s rapidly losing credibility by postings so much sponsored content. Many of his videos and articles now are basically just press releases.
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by bmenrigh 1y ago
“Internet: Use library” says all you need to hear about this wonderful bargain of a location.
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by bmenrigh 1y ago
No, they just assume drives last 5 years so they divide the carbon by 5.
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by bmenrigh 1y ago
Yeah “manufacturing carbon per TB” has got to be one of the most creative units I’ve seen used in corporate marketing bullshit.
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by bmenrigh 1y ago
Semiconductor manufacturing, especially using EUV, is a staggeringly power-hungry process. The EUV light production requires more than a megawatt by itself because of all the losses involved. No doubt this is why they only report on embodie
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by bmenrigh 1y ago
They only estimated “embodied carbon” which is all the carbon used to make the thing. They conveniently ignore the “operational carbon” to use them which is going to be way higher than SSD / NVME. They’re way slower which keeps the res
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
Possibly because of xor with 0xc0 which, for lowercase ascii, has the same effect as adding 64. Probably seeing xor-encoded input is common in the training data.
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
I feel like using the example key isn’t really the big failure here. They didn’t need a keyed hash at all, they needed a collision resistant hash. SHA256 would have eliminated this vuln and it has a hardcoded “key” built into it. Using a se
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
There are no good governments.
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
I’ve thought I’d found a compiler but maybe 5 times in my life and it has never actually been a compiler bug. When I reflect on the ~25 years I’ve been programming C, all of the times I thought I’d found a compiler bug were in the first ~8
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
Yeah but they usually require RSA to be used in some rather unusual and bad way. For example, encrypting one message with many different public keys can be broken with chinese remainder theorem and Nth roots. This reveals the message withou
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
ChatGPT and similar tools have made getting started programming way more accessible. My girlfriend just learned to program starting a few months ago and I’m constantly impressed what she’s able to do with the help of AI tools.
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
If you search for "90,0" and then use the change orientation button to put the south pole on the bottom of the screen you can recover the more familiar distorted map. Other choices really do put into perspective how distorted this
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
Oh excellent. I didn't realize rfc6376 had been superseded.
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
DKIM is not an encryption algorithm. It is a standard for embedding and validating signatures in email headers. Unfortunately DKIM only supports rsa-sha1 and rsa-sha256 signatures ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html&
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
CADO-NFS makes this surprisingly easy to do. A few weeks back I factored a 512bit RSA DKIM key for work using my desktop computer in only 28 hours. Specifically, an AMD Zen 5 9900X. Unfortunately 1024 bit keys are still out of reach of a ho
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Training is much more memory-intensive so the usual low memory of consumer GPUs is a big issue. But with 128GB of unified memory the Digits machine seems promising. I bet there are some other limitations that
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
I think we can go even further than that? If a single element generates the whole group, doesn't that mean the group is cyclic?
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
I don’t get the “action at a distance” leading to synchronization. Quantum entanglement doesn’t transmit information. Is there some mechanism for synchronization without information transfer?
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by bmenrigh 2y ago
5 GHz WiFi has a wavelength around 6cm so it can’t “see” anything smaller than approximately that. The things you want to see in your walls are below the diffraction limit for WiFi.