ericbarrett

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by ericbarrett 3y ago
I really like Rust's answer in this space. Check out all the useful methods on the u64 type that can make this kind of code explicit: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u64.html
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
No. One example of many: https://www.nps.gov/jotr/learn/nature/cryptocrusts.htm
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
This is really not true in natural Southwestern US desert, because the worst thing you can do is trample the biotic crust, which takes years (even decades) to regenerate. It is an established biosystem, with its own birds and insects and ar
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
You could back in the early days (I did it), not sure today.
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
True, it’s nicely stateless, but it does allow precomputation. E.g. you could spend a few weeks doing PoW for a future date and submit when you reach it. Whether that’s a problem is a matter of taste!
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
Agreed. I have another suggestion, which would require continuous investment of compute and (hopefully) not make things too much more complex: Every N seconds, publish a "generation" string, randomly generated. This string must
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
Wow this really fun. Nice web client too. Makes me want to relearn CUDA...
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
Thanks, this is great info!
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
Thanks for linking the actual post—it was a great read. I'm not an ML expert, but the author really made it easy to follow their experiment's method and results.
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
Nope.
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
It's only been a couple times a week on random days and times; I'd basically have to camp on my roof to catch them. And they're going full tilt (at least 90 knots) so there's only 5-10 seconds of opportunity. I do have a
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
They aren't visible on these sites, first thing I checked. Maybe they've requested delisting but I think they're just not broadcasting—specifically to avoid consequences of their reckless flying.
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
There's some yahoo who buzzes my house twice a week in a Cessna (coming and going). He's often under 500' AGL. No ADS-B and haven't gotten a tail number yet. I think it should be illegal to not have it enabled, for exact
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
My sense is that storage server prices have had to come down to compete with both cloud (like S3 archival tiers) and roll-your-own solutions. The former are relatively recent and the latter have become more feasible as companies—Backblaze a
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
He makes a great point, but I think writing in an authentic, un-augmented voice will very quickly become the only way to be noticed. Which is a shame for otherwise benign uses of the tool.
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
GNU yes will actually repeat any string—the default is of course "y". So it's very handy for scripting, and not really as single-purpose as you'd think.
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
Same thing a $100 microwave does, just really stylishly: https://www.subzero-wolf.com/wolf/microwave-ovens/30-inch-m-... (Ok, fair, that's only $2,500)
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
They are probably all made with the same guts from one or two manufacturers. Same with microwaves, nearly every model from $100 to $5000 is made by Midea. (Source: Wirecutter)
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
The comparison I'd make is not to cars from the 20th century, but the early 21st, about the last your grandfather experienced. There's a vast difference in the quality of a car from 2005 or 2010 and the equivalent from 2023, and
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
While I agree with other commenters that 100/hour doesn't rise to the level of "attack," I'm also curious, because with a forged peer address these are certainly not probes—the true sender would not get a response e
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
> How come there isn’t a predator collar that releases pepper spray when wolves go in for the throat kill? The wolf collar was invented for this and dates back to Ancient Greece: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
As a grizzled old storage admin who somehow made a career out of database backups, I wholeheartedly agree with all of this. Especially having someone else do a test restore. They don't have to be junior, just not intimately familiar
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
Do the workloads need to share their state simultaneously? If not then you probably want SAN (exported block devices) instead of NAS (exported file systems).
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
You’re right about satellites but I think you’re underestimating how long a monolith could last on the Moon. For something big and built to last, it could be many many millions of years https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter has mapped the lunar surface to, best as I can tell from a quick search, about 1m resolution. So I think a reasonably sized stele or 2001-style monolith would probably have been discoverable at our current
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
I found the PDF much more readable than the epub. The fonts or something. Finished it on my iPad using the stock PDF viewer, it’s pretty good in iOS (except it forgets your page sometimes).
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
OP mentioned meeting notes (like otter.ai) and other ephemera. I think that really changes the risk profile.
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
I think being able to steal a language model that can instruct you on things like the notes of every meeting, employee relationships, back-channel drama, security discussions, etc. and how these things relate to corporate and technical as
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
Such an oracle would be a devastating thing to lose to industrial espionage.
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by ericbarrett 3y ago
What's stopping banks from increasing this charge to $10 or $50 or a percentage, on top of the Fed charge? Because if they can, I'm sure they will.

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