foobiekr

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by foobiekr 3y ago
Why is this being downvoted?
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Can we agree that legacy admission should be completely done away with? The only people I think would be opposed would be the managers of the endowments and fundraising (and legacy beneficiaries, who are smaller in number). None of that cha
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I feel this way about most of the standardized tests. I took the LSAT on a whim which no prep and scored 95th percentile. The whole thing was completely reasonable and mostly tested basic logical reasoning and vocabulary/reading compre
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Indeed. Ada killed itself, partially because it was one of the DoD approved languages and so the vendors got on board with raping and pillaging everything they could, killing the whole thing in the process.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
You would be pleased to know that Whiptail exceeded whatever low bar you might have had. I like to see people achieve the things they set out to do, and I am assuming that was their goal. Rare to see a product completely canceled and remove
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by foobiekr 3y ago
The original oculus rift cv1 was just so comfortable. I wish someone would get there again.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
A lot of inspecting transparent TLS firewalls look for high entropy blocks, the idea being to sniff out encrypted exfiltration. Making them low entropy is straightforward, as you say.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Smells like Igneous or TinTri. Story shows too much competence for Springpath or Whiptail. Storage is particularly rife with stuff like this for some reason.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Ada is such a lost opportunity honestly. As powerful as C, performant and clean.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
There's a kind of naive thing going on on HN where peopel see a bug and ask whether or assert Rust will fix it. The problem is they are homing in on just the bugs Rust addresses - this is fine, I've had this conversation at work (
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It's not the lack of a fine grained permissions model, it's the total lack of a real threat model and any consideration at all for what happens as extensions change over time.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Forget all that. 1. They increase the attack surface of the browser 2. They have routinely been transferred to (for money) or taken over by malicious entities 3. Often they subtly break things in ways that are fine for expert users but whic
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It’s not 1%, more like 0.005%.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
In a shallow way, and ignoring the degree, yes, they are similar.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
This. Basically this is the new civic projects spending.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
smuggling things past firewalls is trivial. base48 or some other nonsandard scheme or encrypt a zip file and use a bananaphone scheme to make the content look low entropy. No firewall will flag that.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Not everything has to stay the way it always was.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It's not really true though. Incremental expansion doesn't actually require more heads if the compute is uniform. I should really have mentioned storage. Networking is a vendor-imposed shitshow, but storage, storage is next level
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Honest, I have literally never heard anyone ever say "junta" with a hard /j/ sound. Is this really a thing?
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Cloud was actually the answer to "how do I give more virtualized compute to people without hiring more expert server and networking admins." The rest is noise. Startups aside, most enterprise teams match the following: apps don&#x
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by foobiekr 3y ago
From a timing perspective would that not have been during the FOGBANK debacle? A lot of military contractors temporarily got very interested in data preservation...
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Nobody needs DPUs. It’s a fake market. The stuff you’re listing, other than CPUs, which I explicitly called out as going to Intel and AMD, is ultra low margin.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Apple will never build cars. Each dollar of car revenue will hurt their margins. It doesn't matter how lux the car is or the target market, it isn't going to happen. Tesla isn't going to be able to hold their margins, either.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Audio processing is a bit light sight processing - once you miss the critical development period, which is not directly related to the "critical period" for language learning, you will never actually develop them. People can deve
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by foobiekr 3y ago
They certainly have this. A lot of embedded boot loaders run entirely from cache until they can bring main memory up and check it.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
People are happier having a place to live and food to eat. No argument that the rich are con artists, in a way, but not to the extent you mean. Most jobs are terrible - raw sewage? Handing drywall? Meat processing? etc. They are awful. Rob
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by foobiekr 3y ago
A global hash-based index is literally an undergraduate project to do well. You could even ride atop bittorrent if you really had to.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
This is basically not true. Low end automobiles and solutions like ebikes, etc have the volume to sustain production at crazy low margins. Despite tech fantasies, delivery bots, drones, etc. aren't even close.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Every now and then you notice one stuck in Mountain View on Castro Street through Covid period. The whole idea always struck me as absurd and an example of how VC malinvestment was being driven by ZIRP and outright lies about autonomy by a
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Humans are too stupid to collectively govern themselves. Just look at the US election cycle that is starting. There is a genuine messianistic cult at work.

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