jkilpatr

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by jkilpatr 4y ago
EV are explicitly treated differently. Telsa insisted on it's direct sales model and it was more politically expedient for regulators in many states to carve out an exception to the dealership requirement only for car companies that se
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by jkilpatr 5y ago
> A key tradeoff is that Bronze does not guarantee thread safety Data races are currently prevented by the borrow checker. Any GC in order to provide equivalent correctness would need to do so as well.
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by jkilpatr 5y ago
While I strongly agree this doesn't seem to match the sentiment of the paper. Which is prioritizing a lower barrier to entry for new programmers at the cost of safety checks that help prevent humans from making mistakes at runtime. It
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by jkilpatr 5y ago
The power consumption is a fundamental part of how phased array antennas work. You have hundreds of tiny antennas using constructive and destructive interference to steer the signal in software. This digital aiming is awesome for targeting
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by jkilpatr 5y ago
What defines cryptocurrency then? Not saying your wrong, but I'm curious.
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by jkilpatr 5y ago
This is new since the last time I took a deep dive into things. This does seem more straightforward, at the cost of essentially all of ETH2's advertised scalability and other features. It still does not eliminate the challenge of actua
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by jkilpatr 5y ago
Proof of stake Ethereum is very similar to 5G, yes there is real technology, yes it's 'working' in some capacity now. But you really shouldn't plan on it reaching you any time soon. The ETH2 'beacon chain' is a
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by jkilpatr 5y ago
We're hiring. https://twitter.com/AltheaNetwork/status/1357794950843305984 https://althea.net/careers
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by jkilpatr 5y ago
It's not a matter of 'more' or 'less' rather than 'easier to deal with'. LEO sats will probably produce more space junk by mass but junk in LEO will be gone in a few years, no matter how much or little of
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by jkilpatr 6y ago
There are bridges to and from Ethereum right now. I use them every day because I need a fast sidechain for my application. Choosing ETH2 is predicated on the assumption that ETH1 will be bridged more cheaply and easily than existing bridges
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by jkilpatr 6y ago
> and choosing to use ETH2 as their mainnet substrate chain instead. But why exactly? Until ETH1 is in the ETH2 chain ecosystem ETH2 is just another blockchain platform, providing no network effects. ETH2's big selling point was hig
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by jkilpatr 6y ago
The ETH2 'beacon chain' is a meta-chain that's supposed to checkpoint a bunch of 'sub chains' for scalability. But they have launched it with many big questions unanswered. What does a 'sub chain' actually
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by jkilpatr 6y ago
don't forget peer to peer viruses! with access to microphones, smart power sockets, smart water meters, and smart sprinklers!
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by jkilpatr 6y ago
This has been announced very quietly today via email and it's the most stunningly ambitious IoT project I've ever seen. Considering the existing scale of Amazon smart device deployment and the number of devices supported here we&#
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Amazon will deploy an IoT cell network by updating existing smart devices(amazon.com)
3 points by jkilpatr 6y ago|2 comments
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by jkilpatr 6y ago
> It's a war crime to attack hospitals and the risks of escalation for nation state actors are not aligned with their incentives. The primary point of nation-state cybercrime is that individual citizens have not yet established at a
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
The interesting problem with decentralized messaging is not technical but with spam, moderation,and user acquisition
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How Althea is using crypto to bring Internet to rural communities(decrypt.co)
4 points by jkilpatr 7y ago|0 comments
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
That's why lots of options are shipping with 5ghz failover. Still not the best case to reduce bandwidth during heavy rain but at least it still works.
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
> Regardless, they are not controlling what creators make or view. Are you claiming recommendations do not affect views and views do not affect what content people create? This is obviously false. > For instance, not knowing what was
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
Laws (especially tax laws) are useless because. > You're basically giving people a playbook for how to game your system. You aren't wrong, but accepting secrecy for this reason is a flawed premise. As it assumes that giving You
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
It's a Malthusian trap if you don't advertise 100 some other dude advertises 100 and customers think you need 100mbps to browse facebook because the 100 connection they got from that dude wasn't so good. So they won't ev
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
With modern congestion control oversubscribed connections can run smooth as butter for most users. Despite this essentially no ISPs use them. I have coworkers, friends, and family members who can't reliably video-call on their '30
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
> is in fact quite far ahead of them This is like saying that AWS doesn't matter because people have been hosting servers for decades. It's technically correct but misses the entire point. SpaceX and RocketLab do print parts, b
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
In every other field people are reasonably held responsible for their failures. As a service tech if I fill a car with tomato sauce instead of oil I pay for the car. As a programmer I can sell all the users data, leak it to hacks, then laug
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
I use mobile firefox exclusively because I can run an ad blocker. Otherwise I'd be stuck in apps that have at least some vested interest in keeping ads reasonable.
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
5G (at least the high speed kind) has really really bad penetration, T-mobiles 1.9Ghz has trouble working indoors 5G's 30, 40, and 70Ghz frequencies are much worse. You will need direct line of sight to a tower optimistically a mile aw
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
5G will work differently, if you can get a signal at all it will be pretty fast. But considering leaves are enough to totally block a 5G signal, good luck getting it.
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
> "upgrading our network" They actually where not doing this before because it's probably a bad idea. Modern cable networks look like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_fiber-coaxial#/medi
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by jkilpatr 7y ago
I'm not sure how to parse this question. So I'll answer both interpretations. WireGuard itself is open source, our firmware and software is open source. So if the question is about encryption/software integrity go take a look

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