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by drivebycomment 2y ago
I just tried "how to use a massage ball" and I don't see any ads, and links seem to be all legit articles, with YouTube video tutorials at the top.
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by drivebycomment 2y ago
Whoa. Comp.arch. I learned so much from that during 90s. There's nothing like debates with anecdotes thrown between experienced folks to learn from, and comp.arch back then had such a high signal-noise ratio that it was amazing.
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by drivebycomment 2y ago
Let's say you are right that there is an epidemic of careless and underskilled drivers. Is it then ok to give those people a drive assist system named "autopilot" and "full self driving" with strong wink and nudge t
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by drivebycomment 2y ago
+1. On modern hardware and software systems, performance is effectively stochastic to some degree, as small random perturbations to the input (code, data, environments, etc) can have arbitrary effects for the performance. This means you can
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by drivebycomment 2y ago
Modern systems can automatically detect bad memories and map those hardware pages out. SSDs can do it at the firmware. ECC are also self correcting. The "hack" wouldn't be necessary, or can be done natively in many modern sys
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by drivebycomment 2y ago
> On reflection, creating new developers is a lot like parenting. Indeed. This resonated with me. Quite a few similarities between parenting and training people. Sometimes you have to let them suffer a bit, suffering consequences so that
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by drivebycomment 2y ago
> On the contrary, most customers are under automated attacks, and SMS plus password leaks lets that takeover be fully automated. Are you implying there's automated SIM swap attacks in the wild ? Or, maybe you are saying SMS can be
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
First of all, the original source is better: https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-sur... And an important missing part: > companies like Dataminr continuously monitor public activity
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
> make it editable without others needing accounts This requirement brings a very difficult mix of challenges around security, privacy, regulatory compliance and business priorities. As a toy / personal project it could work, but re
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
The author has a few assumptions that I think are incorrect. Not all accounts need the same level of security or protection. SMS 2FA can be a very reasonable option depending on the accounts. No law can make that kind of a decision in a rea
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
> Likewise captcha is useless against multimodal LLM available to anybody, many of which can be run locally You have a fundamental misunderstanding of why captcha exists. If the attacker has to deploy a multimodal LLM to solve captcha, t
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
The biological effect of music on our brain has many studies. https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/why_and_how_music_moves... Given how profound the impact seems to be, I would be very surprised if there's no
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
Approximately never for non-HPC code.
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/us...
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
$300M seized means the actual money victims lost over time is likely multiple times higher - wouldn't be surprising if it's closer to 10x than 2x.
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
To be honest, I think the guy learned more than most electrical contractors actually know or care to check when it comes to the EVSE. I certainly would object if he is selling this or installing on other people's houses, but this looks
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
Lawsuit is common. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/10/noncompet...
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N shows the overall home ownership has been going up since 2016, currently around 66% though still lower than peak 69% in 2014, but higher than 63% in 1965.
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
The inconvenient truth is that people say they want more, better security but they don't want to pay for it. So to survive you need "just enough" security to get by, and that "just enough" turns out to be quite low.
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
It's not a shame. IA64 did more harm than good for the humanity and the computing industry. It was a dead-end architecture that should have died sooner than it did. Hubris and inertia kept it going much longer than it should have, and
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
I think she certainly has pounded the table, and started a bunch of actions, but I am not sure what she has actually accomplished / delivered so far. I think she hasn't yet delivered any meaningful results yet, so I will reserve m
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273018/number-of-interne... The number of users on the internet went 5x from 2005 to now. https://www.zippia.com/advice/online-shopping-statistics/ E
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
The Internet is more useful than it ever was for a lot more people. It has more information on more stuff, and you can do a lot more than you ever could, and a lot more people benefit from it in more ways than ever. Is it universally better
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
uBO readme https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md makes it clear this is not for profit; > Free. Open-source. For users by users. No donations sought. > If you ever want to contrib
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
Apple pays the majority of taxes to US. They report US income and pay taxes for that to US. Ireland is involved only so far as EU income. So if your American app is sold to European users, the income is recognized as EU, and reported to Ire
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
Chrome was noticeably faster, not just the benchmark but actual usage , in both startup time and ajax sites. It crashed less often, and when it crashed, usually it took down only a single tab instead of the entire browser. The UI was more m
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
In what ways are Apple and Google not transparent about their privacy practices ? I think both are quite clear and upfront about where the lines are, compared to pretty much everyone else. Accountable is interesting - they are as accountabl
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
I was curious about that and the linked blog post answers that: > If you choose to use the Workspace extensions, your content from Gmail, Docs and Drive is not seen by human reviewers, used by Bard to show you ads or used to train the Ba
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
Sure, Google botched some of their communication on their end for sure. But the job of a journalist is to give clarity and pass along as accurate information and valid pros and cons by doing some basic research, so that the readers end up m
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by drivebycomment 3y ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/passwordless-google-... is the article. The title is already misleading - Google doesn't support passwordless account, and there is no way to get a passkey only ac

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