cyanmagenta

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by cyanmagenta 1mo ago
> unless you encrypt it And to clarify, this means encrypt it before it gets to the VPS. Just having full-disk encryption is not enough because cloud providers can dump RAM. There are tools that easily extract encryption keys from RAM.
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by cyanmagenta 1mo ago
Justin Bieber is a utilitarian rather than Kantian. From a UChicago economics view, he is behaving rationally.
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by cyanmagenta 3mo ago
Right. Everyone agrees that real ECC is more robust, and production servers of course run it. But it seems to me that if most RAM bitflips are in the module itself (rather than in transmission to CPU), then on-die ECC could in theory make
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by cyanmagenta 3mo ago
The problem I have with ECC discussions is that it’s always anecdotal. There is one Google study finding memory flips with some probability in their datacenters, but it was awhile ago. Everyone repeats the statement DDR5 on-die ECC isn’t
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by cyanmagenta 5mo ago
You make some good points, but here are some counterpoints: There is an existing infrastructure for ticketing by license plate, payment processing, collection, etc. You’re describing changes to the law, which require a bunch of procedural h
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by cyanmagenta 5mo ago
The answer to all of these should be moving a stick over the equality sign to change it to an inequality sign.
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by cyanmagenta 6mo ago
According to Google Translate: “A man who loves text files and wears a peculiar hat announces a plan to have sex with the weather.” Hope this helps.
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by cyanmagenta 6mo ago
Forgive the naivety, but what graphical Linux apps are people trying to run that don’t have native MacOS builds? In my experience, Linux GUIs are generally written in Qt or GTK, both of which are multi-platform. I don’t doubt that they exi
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by cyanmagenta 8mo ago
Yes, that is why I said “local database (sqlite, or a traditional database over a unix socket on the same machine).” This isn’t an sqlite-specific point, although sqlite often runs faster on a single machine because local sockets have some
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by cyanmagenta 8mo ago
There is some risk that, if you design your website to use a local database (sqlite, or a traditional database over a unix socket on the same machine), then switching later to a networked database is harder. In other words, once you design
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by cyanmagenta 10mo ago
I view stuff like this kind of like code that fits into a bootloader or whatever. It’s really more of the technical challenge than to actually solve a problem. The result is much better if you just run a script on your hand-coded file to
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by cyanmagenta 10mo ago
> water rights per acre Is that actually taken into account in a taking? I haven’t thought about this stuff in decades, and I know there is some weirdness with regulatory takings. Another way to frame the question: if the government jus
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by cyanmagenta 10mo ago
There is a network effect with programming languages. Once you get popular, more people write libraries and guides for that language, which in turn makes it even more popular. If you were czar of the universe and could start from scratch,
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by cyanmagenta 10mo ago
Reminds me of that Wu-Tang album [1] that only sold one copy (to Martin Shkreli). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin
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by cyanmagenta 10mo ago
Monetary damages generally accumulate during the pendency of litigation. Also, it seems unlikely that this would take 5 years to resolve—Apple would presumably just reactivate the account and argue the case is moot now. I mean, maybe they
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by cyanmagenta 10mo ago
I am having trouble understanding the distinction you’re trying to make here. The computer has the same pixel information that humans do and can spend its time analyzing it in any way it wants. My four-year-old can count the legs of the d
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by cyanmagenta 10mo ago
> I've never experienced a slow down You didn’t experience a slowdown at the height of the recession circa 2008?
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by cyanmagenta 11mo ago
I love all the unexpected twists in this. And it’s very beautifully written and sobering. > the most important thing was to find xin fu in life, not to live your life in accordance to the expectations of anyone else That is why I write
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by cyanmagenta 11mo ago
If we want to make the math analogy, C++ seems more like the language of math (basic algebra, the notion of proofs, etc.) that everyone uses, and the compartmentalization comes when you start to apply it to specific fields (number theory, e
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by cyanmagenta 11mo ago
Took me a sec to understand you meant comma as “decimal point” :)
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
Right, but you aren’t limited to one DNS call. You could have the javascript resolve multiple text records, then combine them together. You could even do this over UDP if you really wanted, just merging a bunch of 1200-byte records togethe
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
The cap for record size is 64KB, but you can have an arbitrary number of records, so larger images should be possible by combining multiple TXT record responses into one.
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
> once you have children, owning your home is a very welcome level of stability I think this is the biggest factor if it applies. If we want to be utilitarian about it, the benefit to your kids of having the same school to attend, same
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
Fairly sure it requires you to have your own copy of Windows; it doesn’t provide one for you. Otherwise it would be a massive licensing violation / piracy. If you look at similar projects like WinApps, that’s how they work.
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
It always feels weird when Linux distro articles brag about new releases that are mostly just updated versions of third-party software. The stuff in the article (GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, python 3.13, etc.) have cool new features for sure,
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
The context here is suing the government for unconstitutional executive orders, so wouldn’t be an issue. But yeah, ever since the Supreme Court blessed those provisions in National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc (2018), compan
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
That was a concern noted by the dissent. That said, the procedure here is to just use class action lawsuits to get nationwide injunctions. The opinion explicitly notes that it is an option. And today there was a big flurry of people amend
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
The distinction will be whether those online posts were obtained legally, analogous to whether the books in this case were pirated. It’s not as simple as it sounds, since I’m sure scraping is against Reddit’s terms and conditions, but if th
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
Let me preface this by saying that civil procedure and criminal procedure are separate bodies of law with their own rules on these issues. I’m not a criminal attorney and thus not comfortable speaking out of field. That said, I know there
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by cyanmagenta 1y ago
Lawyer here. There isn’t attorney-client privilege with AI itself because AI is neither your attorney nor your client. However, there is something called the work product doctrine that shields things like your activities with legal resear

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