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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I'm personally more worried about flaws in the quantum-safe crypto schemes than in RSA, which is based on the age-old factorization problem of prime numbers. They can harvest all they want, but if no one ever invents a usable, practica
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I too am convinced that RSA-4096 will remain secure for the foreseeable future. Why everyone's mental about quantum-safe encryption is beyond me.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
If national governments can launch their own payloads without having to go through ESA or ArianeSpace it'll undermine the latter's position. They may even become competitors. Italy accused the French-based ArianeSpace of deliberat
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Mechanical watches are a luxury item where the intricate craftsmanship is highly valued, even though they're completely obsolete compared to even the simplest quartz movement. That analogy doesn't hold for natural diamonds and the
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
The market for natural diamonds will cease to exist when you can buy lab-grown versions for a couple bucks. They wanted to differentiate between natural and lab-grown versions with the former being much more expensive. But that train has le
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Like most "small rocket companies" they'll come to the conclusion that they need bigger rockets to launch bigger payloads. Rockets that compete directly with Ariane 6. With some luck these will be reusable to, making Ariane 6
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Multiple European nations gaining their own independent launch capabilities will merely result in the sinking of ESA and ArianeSpace. Look forward to lots of infighting in the near future.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I do believe PCB routing is something that could be performed successfully by A.I. but new designs from scratch? Only if it was in the training material.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Nintendo will be around for some time, because they focus on gameplay, not hardware specs and trillions of triangles per second. However, there's only so many sequels of Mario Kart and Mario World you can come up with. I mean, there ha
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
EU regulations already mandate that the batteries should be user-replaceable and other parts easily replaceable. The difference between Fairphone and the competition will narrow in the future. Except for the fact that Samsung is the 800 pou
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Safe for BASIC I believe it's very difficult to make a programming language which is easy-to-learn like the creators of Julia proclaim. It may be somewhat easier to implement specific scientific functionality in the language but does t
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Concerned about what exactly? It was pretty obvious to me that we'd end up with some kind of introspection of thought through "looping" or feedback. But what should be afraid of? That we've created a self-conscious digit
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Let's wait for the PS6 release and we'll see who's right.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I think the Japanese built a "software factory" in the 1980's, but it was staffed with humans, not LLMs (which obviously didn't exist back then). So to say that no one has built a software factory is a strong statement..
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
This statement could do Sony in. Gamers will refuse to buy a PS6 if there's not an ironclad guarantee that they own the games they purchase, be it digital or disc form. And since gaming is the only profit center that's holding S
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Are you talking about cutting on an I-frame? Can't an I-frame be converted into a P-frame and then inserted into the stream?
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
The frustrating part is that we all know what the problem is (management) but we're powerless to do anything about it since they're holding all the cards. This frustration leads to hate which leads to many people turning away from
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Without ad blocking YouTube is simply unwatchable / unbearable.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
The world is much larger than the U.S. you know. And Kindle's market share is probably dropping like a brick. I mean, if Kobo's sales are surging then Kindle sales are probably lagging.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Why are European citizens unable to put this to rest? Why aren't there mass protests against these totalitarian plans? I believe it has to do with the influx of Muslim migrants and the instability it brings in European societies which
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
What part of "we define it so" did you not understand?!
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
A torrential rain once a year doesn't really make much difference. There's no life on Earth that can survive on one downpour for a year.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
We could simply define Pluto as the edge of our Solar System and everything beyond its orbit a Kuiper Belt Object. There's nothing wrong with that. Why bother coming up with a pseudo-scientific requirements list for planets when thes
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
They saw a problem with the discovery of other Kuiper Belt Objects and came up with a pseudo-scientific definition to "solve" the discrepancy.
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
It's basically a question of definition: we define Pluto as a planet and the others as Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO) As human beings we're allowed to make these kind of decisions. We define ourselves to be outside of the animal king
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I'm in the same camp. I believe the classification of Pluto as a dwarf planet was arbitrary and inconsistent. I mean, it's been known as a planet for almost 80 years and suddenly we demote it? I believe someone was trying to make
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Amazon wiping people's e-books they had already bought was probably the straw that broke the camel's back. Yeah, they swore to never do it again but what's that worth? I've been steering clear from Kindle even though the
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
It's free but not open-source?
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
I've supported OpenShot financially in the past, but I'm currently leaning towards LosslessCut and Shortcut. Most people want a video editor to splice and concatenate video files without any loss or transcoding. I believe this beh
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by hn_submit 1mo ago
Trump will be gone in two years and may even become a lame duck in two months. I'd be more worried about European democracies which don't put a limit on the tenure of a president or prime minister. It was a close call in Hungary a

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