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Sleep Is Good(twitter.com)
5 points by korethr 5y ago|4 comments
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by korethr 5y ago
This is a post written by a person who's been at this a while, and has spent at least a portion of that time as Cassandra.
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by korethr 5y ago
Two thoughts. The first: For the past several months, I've been feeling the effects of supply chain disruptions in my normal purchases of consumer goods. Employment and production fell through the floor while demand in various things w
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by korethr 5y ago
Sure, but is it not possible that a hardware acceleration, if not also proven correct, could subtly undermine an otherwise valid software implementation? I do not assert that this is the case generally, nor particularly here -- I would be q
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by korethr 5y ago
This is neat. The ever-present admonition against rolling one's own crypto lurks in the back of my mind, though. It is not my intent here to impugn Bunnie's competence, though I do wonder if he's run the design or implementat
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by korethr 5y ago
Some ideas, based on some of the ideas kicked around in this thread: What about something like compulsory licensing? Copyright has something like this[1]. One can acquire a license to distribute a copyrighted song in some circumstances if y
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by korethr 5y ago
You're right that creative accounting games could be played to try to keep money made on the patent from being considered profit. While harder, I suspect creative accounting could be used to done to make it look like there was no reven
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by korethr 5y ago
No, we'll tell you there's a mass exodus out of Texas and California, because that's the majority of out-of-state plates on the road in the metro area. And also the majority of out-of-state plates on vehicles that have gone i
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by korethr 5y ago
A Nintendo Entertainment System has been mounted in the chassis of a toaster for the deliciously absurd aesthetic thereof.
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by korethr 5y ago
Okay, that's just neat. The wannabe electronic engineer in me cringes at all those wires connecting the 72-pin edge connector on the NES mobo to the 72-pin slot connector that receives the cartridge. At the signal speeds involved, any
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by korethr 5y ago
This sounds great from a tenant's perspective, too. I can't speak for all renters, but speaking for myself, I have have been frustrated by all the little points of friction named in this article. However, I should not have had to
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by korethr 5y ago
A thought occurs to me just now: Why not also use that 40-60% waste heat to drive district cooling during the hot season? There's the absorption refrigeration cycle[1], which requires only a a heat input to drive the cycle to pump heat
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by korethr 5y ago
I can't upvote this enough. I have worked IT long enough to see some impressive creativity by users to defeat security policies getting in the way of doing their jobs. I have argued that the raison d'etre of security policy is to
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by korethr 5y ago
Why not try to combine it with some right-to-repair-friendly stuff? If, after the cessation of support, you release any and all source code and documentation needed for any person competent in the relevant sciences and arts to maintain the
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by korethr 5y ago
Snail mail can be a hassle, but on the flip side, with snail mail, you can send in the request via certified mail with a requested return receipt. This creates a legal record of when they received your request. Thus, if they don't act
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by korethr 5y ago
Just reading that, my skin crawls and I can feel the nucleation of an icy fear in the back of my mind. Not just no, but Hell Fucking No. I argue that those genuinely arguing for such a system fail to realize just how quickly it can and will
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by korethr 5y ago
> https://twitter.com/yorecomputer/status/1408482184089026567 Ahh, the contrast between the box art and what's implied by the marketing copy, and the actual gameplay screenshots. ISTR that in the mid-90s,
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by korethr 5y ago
> The CPU and RAM in those machines were just incredibly slow by today's standards. I have a few questions, interspersed with my musings on them. Based on an initial misreading of the above as the RAM being slow, I mistook your stat
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by korethr 5y ago
One can get cycle-accurate hardware emulations of 2nd (Atari), 3rd (NES) and 4th Generations (Genesis) video game consoles for FPGAs now days. I assume this is because the systems are quite simple by today's standards, even in their gr
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Heat, humidity and UV rays linked to Covid-19 spread, YSPH finds(news.yale.edu)
6 points by korethr 5y ago|1 comments
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by korethr 5y ago
I'm mildly surprised cookie consent banners are only at 20%, given how often I come across banners who's only option is "Yes, I consent"
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by korethr 5y ago
> I am seeing this, too. Oftentimes, ostensibly in the interest of protecting children from harm, we try to control their behavior with increasingly disproportionate ultimatums, to the point where the authority's response is vastly
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by korethr 5y ago
I don't think the phrase you quote is intended as a dismissal of the data. It comes across as an acknowledgement of the data's limitations, and a caution about what kind of conclusions can be drawn. During my statistics course in
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by korethr 5y ago
Oh absolutely. The collapse in the market for office real-estate would have to get particularly bad for the owners of those properties go for that option. The owners of these properties are in the business to make money. If nobody wants the
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by korethr 5y ago
If there is a collapse in the market for office real estate, given the shortage of housing in various US markets, I would not be sad if some of these large office buildings were converted to mixed residential & commercial use. Yeah, bei
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by korethr 5y ago
> On the oscilloscope, I assume the front and back porch is clearly visible on the left and right hand side. Not quite. The front porch is actually the black level on the right hand side (I know, this confused me at first, too), at the
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by korethr 5y ago
Somewhat off topic from the main thread of the article, but I have always wondered about the multiple privilege levels. What's the expected/intended use for them? The only thing I think of is separating out hardware drivers (assum
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by korethr 5y ago
I'd guess it's because the majority of corporate IT actually is not as secure as most companies think. In my own professional experience, and conversing with peers and friends who work infosec, the security profile of most compani
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by korethr 5y ago
This is a phenomenon that happens in real-world analog signals, too. In this Xiph.org video in which Monty explains various bit about analog and digital signals[1], in a section starting at 17:20, he demonstrates how the Gibbs phenomenon ha
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by korethr 5y ago
> You definitely do not warp around willy-nilly unless you want a planet full of photon missiles and quasar cannons dropped on your head. Oh, god. Don't remind me. I'm there, happily minding my own business, trading between po

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