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by fmajid 4mo ago
Tesco (largest U.K. supermarket chain) has a razor-thin 2.23% profit margin.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
And usually they have a dedicated checkout aisle so you don’t have to wait for the Boomers in front of you to pay in pennies or whatever it is they do to snarl a queue up.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
ASML is based in Amsterdam, and DeepMind in London.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
SpaceX is an ISP with a sideline in rocket launches, and xAI is a neocloud with delusions of grandeur.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
The general name for this category of software is imposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition I use the psbook command-line utility for this kind of thing.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
That people who I have part of their retirement invested in NASDAQ index funds will buy SpaceX's grossly overpriced stock unless they explicitly sell their fund and buy one built on a more principled index like S&P 500, but that in
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by fmajid 4mo ago
I'd recommend a Samsung S95. Great matte OLED screen, the TV works just fine even if you never set up the not-so-smart features.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Some TCL TVs will refuse to work if you don't connect them to the Internet. I'd never buy one in the first place, and if I did, I'd return it immediately as defective. Eventually retailers will get the message and stop carryi
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Some TCL TVs will refuse to work unless you connect them to a network with access to the home base. Fortunately, my Samsung S95D doesn't (lovely matte OLED screen), and is perfectly usable without a network connection or even setting u
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by fmajid 4mo ago
It does sound a bit like the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III my uncle worked on...
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by fmajid 4mo ago
It's surprising the DoD didn't require stockpiles of spares for every electronic component in these phenomenally expensive and long-lived weapon systems. This is after all the one arm of the Federal Government that is both good at
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Few bulb manufacturers even bother to report CRI, unless it is decent (CRI > 90). If CRI is not reported, you can be sure it's bad, 80 or less. Unfortunately, there isn't really a way for a consumer to know short of buying a sp
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Not to mention the Color Rendering Index (CRI) metric Ra does not weigh the R9 (deep red) so many forms of lighting don't try to render it correctly to save costs.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
> Today, on your way home, look at the “green” light on a traffic signal. It’s not green. Independently from this, the names for colors are culturally determined. The Japanese call green traffic lights as 青 "ao", blue. Russians
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by fmajid 4mo ago
As in the classic paper "Wide-area traffic: The failure of Poisson modeling" by Vern Paxson (author of GNU flex) and Sally Floyd (legend in the world of TCP/IP congestion control): https://www.osti.gov/servlet
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by fmajid 4mo ago
That's why in 2020 the FCC belatedly mandated SHAKEN/STIR to authenticate Caller ID in the US using public-key cryptography. Deployment is still work in progress, and it does not cover SMS/MMS, however. A bigger problem is Ru
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Fiber is much slimmer and takes less effort to pull.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Of course, but the real purpose for those buttons is to allow Google, Meta et al to build a marketing dossier of the websites you visit. Made a little less effective with cookie partitioning, but that's where browser fingerprinting kic
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by fmajid 4mo ago
He is also a mathematician, having invented a new algorithm for calculating the digits of pi
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Test vectors won't protect you against side-channels. This guy is a walking illustration of Dunning-Kruger, and calling it "Rust's extended standard library" as if it has any kind of official status is just deranged.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Specially if they used less memory constrained device like a RPi Zero instead of an esp32 and HDMI instead of VGA.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
So basically they built an in-house version of Mercor, the sleazy company that hires desperate people on a freelancer basis to train LLMs so they can be replaced.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
I vibe-debug 10x more than I vibe-code, but here goes: - a daemon to properly set the LEDs on my Lincstation N2 NAS (even early Claude was great at reverse-engineering): https://blog.majid.info/lincstation/ - most cons
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Lee not only turned Singapore from a country poorer than India into one of the richest in the world, but he was also the one who convinced Deng Xiaoping to adopt market reforms, thereby pulling hundreds of millions of Chinese out of abject
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Exactly, "Entry of Crusaders in Constantinople" is very milquetoast and does not begin the describe the horrendous massacres committed then.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
That's in countries that have a constitution, a Bill of Rights that can't be revoked by a simple vote of the legislature, separation of powers and the rule of law. None of which applies to the UK.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
The original French title "La Prise de Constantinople par les croisés" is harsher, "The taking/capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders"
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by fmajid 5mo ago
You’d be much better off getting a Saleae Logic 8 (or one of the many knockoffs).
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Yes, the TV show had massive departures from the books, but I was actually referring to the acting skill or lack thereof of most of the cast.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
If their model was trained purely on properly licensed data, the reduced legal liability could be a selling point

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