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by danielvf 1y ago
There's a very relevant XKCD on this, where someone discovers a clever "bug" in an insurance contract, and is then disappointed. https://xkcd.com/1494/
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by danielvf 1y ago
The physical universe advances from state to state, but we define still can call certain behaviors illegal. https://xkcd.com/1494/
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by danielvf 1y ago
My favorite is one of the text files on the attacker's computer: A file labeled "Decisions and Mistakes," in which he wrote, "Going On the run / Yes / Chance of getting caught<Payoff for not getting caught &
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by danielvf 1y ago
The camera shows night in the Wild West. A masked man creeps through the shadows of a sleeping town. He looks both ways, then uses a knife to unlatch a door from the outside. He slips into near pitch blackness. He moves confidently in the d
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by danielvf 1y ago
To some extent I think this comes down to a preference, like many things in dithering. If the black and white results look good, that may be the right answer! I've played with dithering tools that provide both options, and I prefer the
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by danielvf 1y ago
A normal ballistic missile submarine has one pressure hull, with a large section of ballistic missiles taking up the middle of it. This submarine has two pressure hulls, on either side containing no missiles, but sandwiching the missiles be
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by danielvf 1y ago
Maybe it's just semantics, but to me hacks and rug pulls are different things. Team backdoors in code to steal funds tend to be obfuscated, and access to run them locked down. This is quite different than a hack that exploits "wel
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by danielvf 1y ago
Tornado Cash was essentially irrelevant to the attack. Just a way the attacker worked to hide themselves. The attack was able to happen as a result of two separate bugs. First, a user was able to use something as collateral with a price tha
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by danielvf 2y ago
There was even more color correction happening then - cameras were worse and more analog! It just was not being controlled from offsite, instead there was a dedicated room and engineer in the broadcast truck doing camera configuration + col
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by danielvf 2y ago
Note that this was from a failed launch - this debris was not from old starlink satellites falling out of operating orbits.
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by danielvf 2y ago
One warning, this scam, with it's fast timeline and request for funds to be sent to the girlfriend is a classic, but modern scams can be quite different than this. "pig butchering" scams can run for months of contact with no
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by danielvf 2y ago
Going out and starting fights is already a self-defense disqualificaiton in Californa. To quote the current official California jury instructions and legal commentary: "No Defense for Initial Aggressor: An aggressor whose victim fights
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by danielvf 2y ago
Ukraine announced a two weeks ago that they built 2.5 million drones last year. Maybe that number got garbled somewhere?
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by danielvf 2y ago
A meme coin is a subset of crypto currency stripped down to remove everything but belief or lulz. There is no "utility" (the coin is not used to run some crypto system). It's not attached to something that earns profits. It&#
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by danielvf 2y ago
The headline currently shown here "SEC Declares Memecoins Are Not Subject to Oversight" is wrong, which is throwing discussions off here. The actual decision is that memecoins are not "Securities", and therefor not subje
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by danielvf 2y ago
I don't think they are aiming to be lighting things up at night, just twilight. It's a day extender.
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by danielvf 2y ago
I did a bunch of my own math on this a while back related to this. 1. On of the big tradeoffs is the sun sync orbit altitude chosen. The higher up you are, the slower you have to tilt to track, the longer time possible on a given customer,
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by danielvf 2y ago
Here's an excerpt of McNamara's famous speech in San Francisco, 1967. > The cornerstone of our strategic policy continues to be to deter nuclear attack upon the United States or its allies. We do this by maintaining a highly re
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by danielvf 2y ago
I found this a remarkably well written take. It's quite a different level of commitment to truth than one usually runs across these days. Instead of a world of meme and vibes, a costly commitment to only say things that are true.
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by danielvf 2y ago
Note that they were staying roughly 2 miles within the actual track, while having the bulk of the work being done by a combo of officers and newbs that they had just trained. That's high accuracy standards for celestial nav, not even c
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by danielvf 2y ago
Given that we have open weights on it, the costs to run it relative to other open source models are fairly transparent.
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by danielvf 2y ago
Just going to second this. Good code reviews (not just typo nitpicking) can be a great way to simplify down code, and spread knowledge horizontally across the org. Not to mention catching bugs. Unit test aren't a substitute because uni
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by danielvf 2y ago
It was a bad disaster. I was scheduled to be there, but took a look at the NOAA rainfall map the night before and canceled my trip. Calling it unthinkable is really overselling it though. Mountain towns and roads flood when it rains a lot.
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by danielvf 2y ago
Monads are just function chaining worshiped in the holy language of category theory. You have an array of state, and you can call a method on it that returns a new array of state, that you can call a method on, that returns a new array of s
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by danielvf 2y ago
Just a few months ago, Hezbollah exploded a rocket in soccer field with children playing, killing 12 children. Doesn't get much more "exploding devices in public spaces" than that. https://www.timesofisrael.com&#x2
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by danielvf 2y ago
Cancer (outside behavior related cancer like lung cancer) is on the rise. In spite of better treatments, a twenty year old today is more likely from cancer while in their twenties than at any time before. Each younger age cohort has an incr
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by danielvf 2y ago
I agree that practice can be tremendously valuable in knowledge work, but at some point in the skill curve, once you have built up a the ability to accurately self-evaluate the value of practice goes down because the work itself is the prac
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by danielvf 2y ago
Programming is a fractal of tasks. There's big stuff like how you architect a program, then down to how you write functions, and then down even further into grit below that. And one of the joys of programing is that at each level, ther
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by danielvf 2y ago
Agreed - this is very clearly someone wanting less workload, and the company wanting to keep them around. It's also not a rush. This gives four months for a smooth transition.
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Thermal infrared directs host-seeking behaviour in mosquitoes(nature.com)
3 points by danielvf 2y ago|1 comments

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