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by gary_0 2y ago
Someone should edit the Wikipedia article to clarify that some sort of physical modification is required to turn a Li-powered device into a high-lethality bomb. Li batteries can be fire hazards if they are defective or shorted-out, but they
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/QVqzn
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by gary_0 2y ago
Then the next set of cranes you buy hides the modems better. It's the same fundamental truth that allows the Thompson hack: You can't trust what you can't trust.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Tao mentions grad students; I wonder how they feel reading this? As LLMs continue to improve I feel like anyone making a living doing the "99% perspiration" part of intellectual labor is about to enter a world of hurt.
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by gary_0 2y ago
> If i look at military power id say Russia is #2 Russia, that just tried to take over a country with 1/14th of the economy and 1/4th of the population, failed, and is at this very moment having its own territory invaded in tur
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by gary_0 2y ago
Note that I said second most powerful. And yes, the size of a country's economy is one of the major factors when considering its geopolitical influence (though obviously not the only factor). If you disagree, which country is #2 if
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by gary_0 2y ago
> It's no surprise capital goes elsewhere. Is it, though? China isn't immune from bad economic policy, but its per capita GDP growth still remains globally impressive[0]. In spite of recent difficulties they're still on an
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by gary_0 2y ago
> because systems were getting larger than the load we could push onto them ... surely we fucked up somewhere? Clearly the answer is to run everything bare-metal on a rackful of Raspberry Pis. ;)
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by gary_0 2y ago
> 6-7us in .NET 8 and 3-4us in upcoming .NET 9 That's still roughly 7000-3000 times slower than a plain return. I'm not convinced the extra overhead of an entirely separate control flow mechanism will ever be worth it in any l
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by gary_0 2y ago
> C++ code ... Now show a benchmark where the error rate is 50% or more. C++'s policy of "exceptions should be exceptional" isn't a good answer to this either, and it introduces a lot of ugly edge cases when writing c
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by gary_0 2y ago
I don't mean in the judicial sense, I mean in terms of how they are treated by law enforcement.
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by gary_0 2y ago
My point was that running any kind of software should not come with a presumption of guilt. But in the eyes of the establishment, it often does; see: Aaron Swartz, or how pressing F12 might be illegal[0], or many other such cases. A "h
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by gary_0 2y ago
I can think of very few cases where the possibility of your home being raided by heavily armed police officers, and your property seized, is appropriate if it's clear all you're doing is running software . (Side note: I'm su
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by gary_0 2y ago
Yes, but they should be able to investigate without placing an undue burden on exit node operators (or regular people with a compromised device that was used as a proxy). Unfortunately it's hard not to be cynical and assume that these
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by gary_0 2y ago
The title might be clearer with a hyphen: "Why-Not Comments".
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by gary_0 2y ago
Is GitHub a core service of Microsoft?
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by gary_0 2y ago
The point is a philosophical argument about what constitutes a powerful non-human agent. Nobody is arguing that corporations are literal thinking computers. > arguing that AIs can't be a problem ... because companies already are sup
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by gary_0 2y ago
Or corporations: https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/06/our-ai-overlords-are-al...
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by gary_0 2y ago
It's been a while since I read the books, but I think there were quite a few instances of a human going "can we do [crazy thing]?" and a ship going "fuck it, why not?" The Sleeper Service comes to mind...
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by gary_0 2y ago
Trying to improve HTTP and Web performance strikes me as pretty pointless when I have enough bandwidth to stream 1080p video, low enough latency to play real-time games, and a CPU 1000x more powerful than the one I first went online with. T
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China's binge-buying of chipmaking equipment could yield overcapacity problem(cnbc.com)
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by gary_0 2y ago
> compile without MSVC, using mingw I believe there are a few open source projects (such as Inkscape[0]) that provide Windows builds this way rather than having to deal with Microsoft's toolchain and runtime. But given its heavy rel
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by gary_0 2y ago
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by gary_0 2y ago
Yeah. The whole point of busybox is to provide the POSIX commands in one compact executable. Making things work any other way defeats the entire purpose of busybox.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Weird. What kind of notification? SMS, email, Web Push notification?
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by gary_0 2y ago
One possible answer: if the phone app is a native app, it could be listening on a HTTP port and sending the phone's network information to the webserver, which then tells the webapp to ping the phone app, and then the phone uses revers
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by gary_0 2y ago
The telecom situation in Canada is ridiculous. Even in Greater Vancouver, the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Canada and the 34th in North America, there are dead zones everywhere with major providers. I'm in a suburban development th
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by gary_0 2y ago
pub fn read(path: Path) -> Result<Bytes> { File::open(path)?.read_to_end() } isn't so bad either.
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by gary_0 2y ago
True, now that I think back, all it had was a blit function, and nowadays that's not a graphics system. (But back in the old days, I was impressed that it handled alpha blending for me! Fancy!)
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by gary_0 2y ago
That's an interesting thought. Although that might say more about geopolitical dynamics (US/Brazil, and in general) than the power of the billionaire class.

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