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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Technically correct, yes, but muonic atoms have a lifetime on the order of microseconds. They aren't really relevant to the everyday-scale physics I was discussing. There is however Lattice Confinement Fusion [1] which claims to overco
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The difference is that waste from neutron activation is "just" an engineering problem which might have an engineering solution (we hope). Waste in the form of long-lived nuclear fission products is fundamentally an unsolvable issu
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
No, this has absolutely nothing to do with so-called "cold" fusion. Cold fusion was a hypothetical type of room-temperature nuclear fusion. It was reported in 1989 but not successfully replicated. It can't possibly work becau
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The rugpull on Optane was incredibly frustrating. Intel developed a technology which made really meaningful improvements to workloads in an industry that is full of sticky late adopters (RDBMSes). They kept investing until the point where t
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
>The sine, cosine, and tangent functions are still just black boxes to me, I have no idea what they actually do They are functions which tell you how to relate different parameters of a triangle. Concepts in mathematics are often interco
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Scanning the Spanish Grid Outage(driftnet.io)
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The side effect of this process is that if [security firm] is doing their job then the systems do actually get hardened and the number of breaches is reduced as a result. In other words, this machine works as intended. A common challenge
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Dear System Owners, I'm sorry that the security industry is a cesspool. We all know it's a cesspool. We can't pump it out. However, please do not let the absolute state of things cause you to give up on security. Don't
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Exactly this. When I open a post like this I get excited because I think I'm either about to learn something interesting about data analysis, or I'm about to see a neat application of a technique that I already know about and it&#
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
I don't see nearly enough complexity in this analysis to justify the claim of having found any insurance fraud. Firstly, there's no account for correlation between the features identified. The article mentions VINs which have se
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
I couldn't disagree more! I think the housing cost issue is pure supply and demand, we have a country which doesn't like to permit building and an increasing population due to (legal) immigration. I will bash Maggie all day, for h
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
What has actually changed is that thirty years ago, the ratio between house prices and average earnings was about 4. By twenty years ago it had doubled and, most importantly, it has been at that level ever since with no real sign of dropp
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
There's a map of ANSI vs ISO paper size usage around the world which crops up on Reddit occasionally: https://reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/19dswr4 I can guess why the Philippines uses ANSI sizes. But Ch
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Exactly. Pixels are indivisible quanta, not units of any kind of distance. Saying pixel^2 makes as much sense as counting the number of atoms on the surface of a metal and calling it atoms^2.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
# NOTE: doubled this to 0.2s because of some weird test failures.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
> I couldn't find one. A parliamentary publication from 2018 estimated the uplift factor to be 93x outside London and 287x inside [1]. Found via ChatGPT. I would think that the north-south variation has flattened a little bit by now
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
CNAs [1] are assigned blocks of CVEs and then assign from within that block, but the system only works if there is overall administration of the CVE Program [2]. My concern is that a capture of the administration would become a capture of t
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
This kind of a consortium needs to explicitly avoid being captured by both the product vendors (who could be incentivised to manipulate the CVE issuance process to support their own remediation timescales), and by security companies (who co
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I'm only familiar with UK rules on the topic, and of course the UK is no longer in the EU, but here at least the standard for determining employment status is quite complicated. The ability to work for multiple clients is one of the
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Well, sure, but unless the US company is willing to set up an EU subsidiary and employ you via that then you'll be working as an independent contractor. That status gives you zero employment rights, because you're explicitly not a
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Your tongue is in your cheek, I think, but go and read any discussion forum populated by "big 4" consultants and you'll see a high degree of worry that they are being replaced by AI. So yes, LLMs are indeed great at "aut
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I'm in my mid-forties and I think the LLM revolution is amazing. It reminds me of the dotcom era in many ways: a genuinely transformative technology which is currently no more than maybe 20% of the way into realising its potential; a t
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
> To me this feels like an entirely different argument than the "expectation of privacy" one, and I still do not really find it persuasive. If nothing else, we've at least understood where we disagree! I don't think i
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
> So we're talking about tracking plate numbers, in public. No expectations of privacy. Correct. > So we're talking about monitoring prisoners, in prison cells. No expectations of privacy. Correct. > > I was suggesting
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I was drawing a contrast between the prisoner in the panopticon (does not have privacy) and the citizen in their home (has privacy). Because of that contrast, I was suggesting that panopticon is an inappropriate term for surveillance that h
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
You can survive quite happily without a car, and thus without car insurance, in the vast majority of the UK. Vehicle ownership is not mandatory either in principle or practice.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
That's part of my point, though: these cameras are basically never reviewed by a person. So you are reliably watched constantly, but never by a human. This does lead to the problem that the post I replied to was pointing out, namely
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
I'm not sure that panopticon is the right word for this. Bentham's panopticon extended into the prisoners' cells, and with the intent that they would never know if they were being surveilled or not. ANPR in the UK doesn&#x2
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Has there been much work on reversing binaries into an AST form? It seems like something that somebody would have thought of researching, but I've not come across any efforts. Is it something you can do generically, or do you need to k
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
It's trying to say "you can plug lots of things into this in a standardized way." https://norahsakal.com/blog/mcp-vs-api-model-context-protoco...

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