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by buran77 2y ago
> Their [n.b Apple's] victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops So nearly all of the (relatively) very few peo
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by buran77 2y ago
I answered to the hypothetical from OP's comment as I understood it, and quoted. > regulation to help ensure the solvency of insurers The only way to ensure solvency is for the state/people to bail them out as needed. That&#x
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by buran77 2y ago
> regulation to help ensure the solvency of insurers seems like a good thing Seems like a good thing for the insurers if the state takes only the risks. It means operating the business at the very limit of how much profit you can extract
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by buran77 2y ago
> Precisely what americans state you should not do: regulate. Everyone thinks the same until they're screwed over and then they want someone to do something about that. The big misunderstanding is that "regulation" is just
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by buran77 2y ago
> there’s an _incredible_ amount of “dunno who that belongs to but don’t touch it because it might be important” Right, so not an oversight, but a decision not to touch the obscure system. Decisions with bad outcome aren't oversig
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by buran77 2y ago
> With Worlds Part II, we added billions of new star systems and trillions of new planets to the universe I played the game at launch for a few days and coincidentally just last week again. So assume basic knowledge of the gameplay. Can
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by buran77 2y ago
WD mixed both CMR and SMR for the WD Purple, an a few other models too. The CMR wouldn't see any write amplification. But the SMR will suffer from all of the usual SMR limitations. Most importantly that it's only really useful wit
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by buran77 2y ago
Well, anyone who will flex their spine in every (im)possible position as required of them, just to get even more money and power. I could understand that from someone with an empty stomach. But so many people doing it when their pockets are
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by buran77 2y ago
> there’s a random server that nobody knows who maintains it offhand, including the person who maintains it It makes no sense that you'd keep an insecure service because you forgot someone needs it. You turn it off and the reminder
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by buran77 2y ago
Because of that one cobbled together system, or old network MFP that sends to mail, that's needed for a whole bunch of stuff, can't authenticate, and someone decided it's too expensive to replace for such a small attack surfa
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by buran77 2y ago
Success should be measured against the stated objectives, the promises made to investors, or general positive influence on society. In this case the objective was " supersonic flight in our lifetime. Not just as a private jet, but some
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by buran77 2y ago
That was the implication indeed. Money is like gravity, the more you have the more you can pull in. This will give a person the power to do anything to make more money (change the laws as desired, or break them if needed) but also the per
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by buran77 2y ago
Repaying student loans makes a lot of people a little richer. The current initiative makes a few people a lot richer. If you ask some people, the former is a very communist/socialist way of thinking (bad), while the latter is pure, una
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by buran77 2y ago
Transmeta also has 130nm CPUs [0] but they were all meant to be low power. The 130nm TM5800/5900 were ~9W at their highest 1GHz rating including the integrated northbridge. Clock it down to 800MHz and it was a measly 5-6W. That wasn&#x
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by buran77 2y ago
I think so but then again so is a bank card. The card itself your property. And the money it gives access to are with the bank which means the concept of civil forfeiture no longer works (the police can't just frisk the bank and take t
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by buran77 2y ago
As safe as you can be with a million dollar necklace around your neck... But you're safe from legal civil forfeiture. Abusive forfeiture is a whole other matter entirely and (IANAL) I'm willing to bet the ones committing the a
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by buran77 2y ago
> nothing to brag about Maybe some things shouldn't be about bragging but about getting the job done, and cutting edge isn't the only way to do it. If anything, the problem here isn't that it's "just" 16nm b
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by buran77 2y ago
> but only accusing an inanimate object (the money itself), constitutional protections don't apply. The loophole is that money, unlike most other inanimate objects, isn't considered "property". Any fine should have th
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by buran77 2y ago
The "memories" part can be trivially done locally and probably is, it's really just reading the picture's "date taken", so it's conceptually as easy as a "sort by date". My old Android with whate
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Elon Musk could be China's pick to buy TikTok, report says(arstechnica.com)
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by buran77 2y ago
According to Nvidia [0], DLSS4 with Multi Frame Generation means "15 out of 16 pixels are generated by AI". Even that "original" first out of four frames is rendered in 1080p and AI upscaled. So it's not just 3 extr
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by buran77 2y ago
I went that route for my account which I wasn't using anyway but only because I realized it's not "my account" and my control over it is way too limited. I logged in after many years of inactivity only to realize that de
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by buran77 2y ago
> Google's advertising product should enforce how the individual websites work "Google's advertising product" should do no such thing, the websites can go right ahead implementing whatever they dream of. Google "
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by buran77 2y ago
> if the ICO actually just went after the companies doing fingerprinting directly, instead of being angry at Google for not enforcing things for them Google isn't just a hapless bystander here, they are enabling and profiting from
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by buran77 2y ago
> from the evidence, you need to be a highly skilled photographer with expensive equipment and perfect photos to get responses on those apps I don't know, I'm not in the market... But if you want to learn what it takes to &quot
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by buran77 2y ago
> the people going to such lengths to ward off an attacker and the people who’d want to rely on fTPM with Bitlocker over FOSS full disk encryption with a dedicated passphrase are two entirely separate circles. Bitlocker + PIN/passw
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by buran77 2y ago
The attacker must be able to fake any pre-boot drive unlock screen and OS login screen to look exactly as the user's real screens but accept any password. Legend goes that security oriented people will visually customize their machines
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by buran77 2y ago
Politics, nepotism, ass-kissing, or incompetence exist everywhere and at every level. Just the byproduct of not living in a utopia. But beyond that there's way more to building than writing code or laying bricks. These aren't th
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by buran77 2y ago
Pirate sites obtain the high quality material as soon as it's launched anyway, so this kind of "protection" just adds friction for the paying user.
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by buran77 2y ago
A door can be kicked in, a safe can be drilled, a password can be reset. But these keys (whether a phone or a Yubikey) to your digital life are irreplaceable if they're all lost. We've never been in this situation before. The pr

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