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by dsign 5y ago
> As if millions of people around the world are benefiting from low cost satellite internet. Do you have any numbers? I don't, but in my country of 11 million people, the dictatorship got scared last week of popular protests and cut
902.
by dsign 5y ago
This was exactly what I was thinking. Space is big and we don't use it as much as we should. Let's fix that instead of taking the Internet from people who need it.
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by dsign 5y ago
Are these parsing exploits connected to JPEGs? I don't know for sure, but I can understand how this could be a can of worms. The JPEG core format is complicated, but JPEGs in circulation today are simply nightmarish. They can include X
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by dsign 5y ago
Thanks for the data point. Then there is a boom, good to know.
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by dsign 5y ago
The mention of "life sciences" connected with that huge amount of space caught my eye. What exactly is going on? A new super boom? Or is "life sciences" an euphemism for hydroponics now?
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by dsign 5y ago
Are they insane? We routinely share important documents in Google Drive. Boring, non-controversial stuff, but vital. We can't run the risk of a _good_ ML algorithm, the type that outputs a wrong decision 1 in 1000, deleting it. Can you
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by dsign 5y ago
Ah yes, I've been without watching TV for a good 25 years now. I got Netflix on and off a few times, but most of the shows are such a brainwash that it's not worth it. Books and people, that's it for me now.
908.
by dsign 5y ago
Ahh, I stand corrected.
909.
by dsign 5y ago
The risk Bank of England doesn't like comes with the territory, and everybody who uses public cloud is subject to it. The only difference is that smaller companies don't have a big megaphone or the clout that they have, and must e
910.
by dsign 5y ago
Reading this article reminded me of the Komogorov axioms[1], which are basically a way to define probability "by the envelope", that is, without dealing with the serious and complicated essence of it. Mitteldorf and the authors he
911.
by dsign 5y ago
It seems the only sector that can't be decarbonized radically are transport and agriculture, mostly because airplanes and freight transport. That leaves us about 30% of carbon emissions today[1]. According to those numbers, carbon capt
912.
by dsign 5y ago
It's probably non-trivial, but human time also has a high environmental impact, because we eat and use stuff (think about a parking lot full of shoppers or employee cars). If we are going to pay our environmental human cost anyway, bet
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by dsign 5y ago
This reminds me of how many places we have on the planet which are beautiful but inhospitable. Fixing the inhospitable part will come its own environmental impact, and the places will end up being less "beautiful". I vote we go to
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by dsign 5y ago
One can be the leading expert in a field and still believe weird things, sometimes to the detriment of said field. Though in this case is more likely Dr. Simard and her editor agreed this was the best language to present her subject to a wi
915.
by dsign 5y ago
Spirituality is very sweet and pleasant. This article for example is a joy to read. But for that very reason, it's very dangerous. Look at this question: “Why would the old pines trust their reproductive success to these birds and anim
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by dsign 5y ago
Humans improve technology all the time, CRISPR gene editing would be no exception. Straight from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEAPER_gene_editing I bet a dip into the specialized papers will show a multitud
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by dsign 5y ago
> Be fair - the vaccine development and distribution program is by far the fastest in history and has wildly exceeded even the most optimistic predictions at the beginning of the pandemic. Maybe so, but what would happen if bad actors ha
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by dsign 5y ago
This is such a "funny" mess! In computer security, if obscure researcher Bob discovers that a few instructions can theoretically be used to steal Joe's passwords at the random location in memory where they are by burning the
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by dsign 5y ago
> Is education no longer “a great equalizer of the conditions of men,” ... but instead a great divider? The article is very "feet on the earth", it reviews existing data and arguments, and generally advocates for a "no&q
920.
by dsign 5y ago
> Notability and Soulver and most other apps don't recognize the pencil at all. I may have misunderstood your comment, but Notability uses pen-pressure to regulate stroke width, so it must know the pen is there. Conversion from hand
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by dsign 5y ago
Now, if it were limited to browsers, or even to desktop computers... "Security by default" affects, by default, also trusted workloads. Games, desktop editing software, word processors, spreadsheets running dumb totals in big tabl
922.
by dsign 5y ago
Don't seek other founders, we are a boring bunch--for the most part--and too hectic. Also they will induce anxiety in you. Online games changed my life when I was deep in/under the valley of startup desperation. I met people I cou
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by dsign 5y ago
There is always another adventure beyond the horizon, as they say. I just wish there was more time.
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by dsign 5y ago
Beautiful! And complex from start to finish. I wonder what formalisms/representations are there to manage the complexity of metabolic pathways. For example, say that that figure is 100% accurate, and furthermore, "all metadata ne
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by dsign 5y ago
If anybody knows the crimes Mustafa was accused of, that would be interesting. I did a search but I couldn't find any details. From the article, it seems they were "thought crimes". Something of some religious significance pe
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by dsign 5y ago
As with all such ventures, the chances of success are, I daresay, one in one hundred, or even lower. But since I would very much like to see at least 10 of those ventures succeed in my lifetime, because as the author said, "Assuming it
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by dsign 5y ago
+1 to this.
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by dsign 5y ago
I've been a huge fan of Inkscape for over twenty years, and some of its tools are still unmatched by Affinity Designer. Though, I find Affinity to be way better with the features I need 98% of the time, and more responsive too. But now
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by dsign 5y ago
Not SQS, but Google PubSub: everything was working allright, until one day messages started arriving with horrible latency and vital parts of our service went down. We spent close to two weeks debugging our infrastructure, because _sure it
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by dsign 5y ago
>> before fixing the quality of life first... That sounds like whataboutism. Many people are happy with the way they live their lives, except for the aging bit. Many social problems that affect quality of life are caused by aging, i

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