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by goalieca 2y ago
Star Trek TNG did an episode on hollodeck addiction featuring Reginald Barkley. They revisited the idea in voyageur too. It seems more and more people are sitting in smaller and smaller condos with fewer friends and relationships outside of
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by goalieca 2y ago
So you’re saying stay home when you have a cold and especially when you have a fever?
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by goalieca 2y ago
I had a Fusion Drive on my iMac and it failed after 6 years. Instead of ripping that hard to repair beast open, I ended up switching to external storage. I first tried SD card since there was a handy slot in the back but those wear poorly t
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by goalieca 2y ago
Apple solves the problem in hardware by streaming the persistent storage data through dedicated silicon. Not only is this extremely fast, it guards the key. For the Intel versions of Mac, this was done in the T2 coprocessor.
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by goalieca 2y ago
I don’t know about nextstep but macOS had all this stuff when I first used it 20+ years ago. It featured compositing rendering, had the apps, supported ppc/x64 in an app image, had a microkernel. I even remember it got an emulator for
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by goalieca 3y ago
How hard would it be to pop the hood and disconnect the antennas?
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by goalieca 3y ago
Diversity in experience, thought, skills make for an excellent team. I think it matters not what political views are but I do think diverse home lives can lead to a balanced work approach (some can pickup pager at 2am or work extra shifts,
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by goalieca 3y ago
I find this hilariously ironic considering Gemini was supposed to be all about equity and inclusion and that. This is a perfect example of an inclusive policy that supports 40 year single mothers and other people with different needs /
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by goalieca 3y ago
Personal Vehicles are just a fraction of all the uses of oil.
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by goalieca 3y ago
How long does the explosion last? My impression is days at least.
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by goalieca 3y ago
This is fantastic. Great work actually triggering the bug!
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by goalieca 3y ago
Well they can learn to use tor but most likely they’ll get sucked into shady free VPN services and suffer worse.
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by goalieca 3y ago
You had me until the end. This is of great interest!
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by goalieca 3y ago
One of Jia’s followers on GitHub is form Eastern Europe. Edit: it’s a meme. Apparently. I feel like an old man. > illia-git This user is suspected to be a part of an online ransomware organization. Please report any suspicious activity
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by goalieca 3y ago
Government organizations have many different teams. One might develop vulnerabilities while another runs operations with oversight for approving use of exploits and picking targets. Think bureaucracy with different project teams and some mu
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by goalieca 3y ago
Undoubtedly they do. This is an example of why defence in depth is important. Things fail all the time for intentional and non-intentional reasons. A single point of failure can’t be allowed.
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by goalieca 3y ago
The timeline suggests this is a patient hacker. The most patient of which are nation-states because they're not worried about cashflow and think in terms of years.
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by goalieca 3y ago
I find having kids in my late 30s hits really hard because of this. Biologically, I can see it being best having kids in your early 20s when you're made of rubber and can bounce back after lack of sleep.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Traceable digital cash with cards.
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by goalieca 3y ago
I wonder how far into the future the EU will ban paying with cash.
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by goalieca 3y ago
> Social policies to improve birth rates such as enhanced parental leave, free childcare, financial incentives, and extra employment rights, may provide a small boost to fertility rates, but most countries will remain below replacement l
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by goalieca 3y ago
In Canada we’re trying that and now we have major media dependant on a government paycheque and specifically depending on a certain political party because the other wants to get rid of it. Now you should evaluate our freedom of press and p
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by goalieca 3y ago
Cooked food, including meat, is hypothesized as the reason for a smaller digestive track. Of course, this needs fire.
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by goalieca 3y ago
For a brief period i did work on audio, video, and image processing along with signal processing.
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by goalieca 3y ago
Electrical engineering basically boils down to the fourier transform, discrete transforms (eg cosine), and their cousins the laplace transform and Z transform.
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by goalieca 3y ago
> what attitudes software engineers supposedly have I don’t think I’ve ever seen a company take performance seriously. No one scoffs when a simple API service for frontend has 500ms response time! How many engineers even know or care how
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by goalieca 3y ago
> For example, a user with a data plan with a monthly limit in the single-digit GBs, and a RAM/CPU profile resembling a decade-old US flagship I’m in Canada and have a single digit plan and I just upgraded from an almost decade old
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by goalieca 3y ago
Charging is going to be a big challenge. The cities are moving to medium density which still requires cars but also means street parking and appartement blocks with large parking lots. Higher density areas like downtown condos also don’t ma
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by goalieca 3y ago
Writing critical utilities in memory safe languages is probably a great idea. These are already fairly hardened and extremely complex code bases where the economics of developing a clever memory exploits is still rewarding. For the rest of
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by goalieca 3y ago
I would like to say that I’ve known and worked with PhDs that were good and some that were totally useless. I wouldn’t trust it as a very useful signal for a job interview. Programming is more of a trade and academic institutions barely tea

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