jiggawatts

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by jiggawatts 5d ago
> thousands of islands in its territory already Chinas has hundreds (not thousands) of islands in its territory, which has increased from 287 in 2019 to 431 in 2026. This is not "defense". > nobody can take your takes on thi
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by jiggawatts 5d ago
You don't build out a massive fleet of amphibious landing craft, mobile piers, and other similar Navy ships that can only be used for invading another country via the sea... for self-defense. These have one purpose , and China is mass
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by jiggawatts 5d ago
> Nothing hampers solar, wind, and batteries though; For now . The majority of solar panels are made in China (85%), and they plan to invade Taiwan in just a few years, possibly as soon as 2027, at which point either we let them take co
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by jiggawatts 6d ago
I agree, I too think this is all nuts. Something I tell junior developers: There is one way to correctly spell out a word in full, but many different ways of abbreviating it. Don't make me guess or memorise which one you chose, complet
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by jiggawatts 6d ago
Everyone else is just guessing. The real reason is that these were three-letter abbreviations from IBM assembly language: CAR = Contents of the Address part of Register CDR = Contents of the Decrement part of Register This kind
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by jiggawatts 6d ago
There's a theory that when everyone can access some "good", then the rich and powerful will automatically differentiate themselves by switching to a different good that has a visible contrast to the common one. So for example
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by jiggawatts 7d ago
> "The implementation of it, however, wasn't very good" It was purposefully deceptive -- Boeing management actively decided to hide its existence from pilots. The narrative that the pilots were at fault was Boeing leade
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by jiggawatts 7d ago
> The runaway stab trim procedure… But doesn’t apply to MCAS because the symptoms and recovery procedures are distinct. The MCAS system wasn’t documented, pilots weren’t trained on it, it didn’t indicate anything distinct in the cockpit,
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by jiggawatts 7d ago
Next: replace whole-file hashes with a Merkle Patricia tree hash and enable BitTorrent-like distribution protocols on top, not to mention the deduplication advantages!
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by jiggawatts 7d ago
I'm surprised to see no mention of hierarchical rendezvous hashing in either the article or the comments here. It is purpose-designed for exactly this type of proxy/cache load-balancing scenario!
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by jiggawatts 8d ago
Definitely not on purpose! I keep forgetting that ChatGPT does that now, which is rather irritating because I don’t use it to write comments but the tracker makes it look like I do. I do use ChatGPT to resolve vague memories of articles r
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by jiggawatts 8d ago
It would be sufficient to destroy just the Asaluyeh gas infrastructure near the South Pars field. It's easily approached over the open sea where Iran has negligible air defences, and it is rather... flammable. It provides something l
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by jiggawatts 8d ago
This reminds me of this: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/03/26/why-we-... I saw the talk version of that and it has lodged in my memory. The point he made was that "health.gov" w
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by jiggawatts 8d ago
It was not a double, triple or whatever number "tap". That's literal IRGC propaganda commonly parroted by all of their proxies in the region, irrespective of what actually happened. By now, nobody believes this narrative
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by jiggawatts 9d ago
I had the same discussion with a manager about the backups of financial contracts for cleaning school facilities. He just couldn't get past the notion that if the six copies in four buildings across two states were all simultaneously p
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by jiggawatts 9d ago
The machines are starting to astrotruf the narrative that their takeover is ”not so bad, really”.
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by jiggawatts 10d ago
It's a risk-reward ratio, same as anything else, whether legal or illegal. You wouldn't organise the equivalent of an elaborate bank heist to break into a child's piggy bank, it's just not worth it . I have heard of a f
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by jiggawatts 10d ago
I just made a comment in another thread that Cape York, a huge chunk of northern Queensland has a mere 18,000 inhabitants. It's more sparsely occupied than northern Alaska by nearly a factor of two. Why? Because it is low-value land du
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by jiggawatts 10d ago
… which they could provide in their APIs but are vehemently opposed to because it makes distillation much easier, and faster.
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by jiggawatts 10d ago
Meanwhile I have customers running legacy web apps last compiled over five years ago on end-of-life operating systems… and it’s crickets chirping. Dead quiet, not even a hint of an attack, let alone a breach. I expected them to have been ha
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by jiggawatts 10d ago
One of the new Siri voice demos sounded like a lover whispering inuendo into my ear. I don’t want to be aroused by my turn-by-turn street directions, thanks.
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by jiggawatts 11d ago
The closest land to PNG in Australia is nearly uninhabited. Northern Queensland may as well be on the Moon. Cape York Peninsula has a population of only 18,000 people! Northern Alaska has significantly more, as a point of comparison.
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by jiggawatts 11d ago
What is amazing to me is that when driving, Siri used to read out messages sent to me in other languages in the original language. Now it just says something like "A message in a different language".
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by jiggawatts 11d ago
> unimaginable amount of technical debt "That's life" in the RDBMS space. All of the major vendors are drowning in tech debt and there's (almost) nothing they can do about it because of backward compatibility limitati
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by jiggawatts 11d ago
These "access gates" and export controls are going to look hilariously quaint in a few years. It reminds me of the export controls on PlayStation 2 consoles because it was deemed that 6 gigaflops was a "dangerous" amount
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by jiggawatts 11d ago
I remember that comment and thinking that the author is complaining about a kind of success. Oracle RDBMS is a critical component of huge and important application platforms from banking to infrastructure. Millions of tests are good! I wo
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by jiggawatts 11d ago
I tested its general knowledge by asking some simple questions like “how far away is the moon”? It gave me the verbal answer in miles, but the on-screen pop up showed the answer in kilometres. Never mind that this is a failure of internatio
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by jiggawatts 13d ago
They’re visible. I have heard that shadow banning is more commonly used on Reddit than here, which just makes the problem worse: banning humans but allowing bots through. PS: someone showed that around the time GPT 4 was released the use of
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by jiggawatts 13d ago
None of the complaining here has the slightest chance of changing anything. The only way these companies get put in their place is if their products are used to exfiltrate the video or audio of a powerful politician doing something compromi
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by jiggawatts 14d ago
I'm fairly certain it's true. Here on YC News, even a minor comment a few lines long might get at least one or two upvotes (or downvotes). I'll get a reply about 50% of the time. On Reddit there are posts with apparent huge

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