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by londons_explore 2mo ago
I assume the politicians are kept in a very carefully managed microcosm so that they actually think they're making the best choices for their nation, because all other options have been hidden from them or misrepresented.
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
I get frustrated with a poor quality model leaving my codebase littered with wrong comments, which then later trip up smarter models.
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
This isn't true for most lithium ion chemistries. The liquid electrolyte is the thing that releases most energy when the battery burns, more than the anode and cathode. Some also have a very low self ignition temperature.
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
For the individual employees, having your name on a peer reviewed paper in a prestigious journal makes you far more employable elsewhere. Moreso if your current employer is a stealth AI startup which hasn't yet produced much notable. I
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
Some urban subways have 30 second headways.
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
If that were true, it wouldn't have a password at all.
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
Who exactly wrote this spec? How sure are we that it was an accident to share password hashes with the world?
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
Trains are expensive because the track is 99.9% empty. If you could fill a train track as much as a road is filled, it would be very cheap
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by londons_explore 2mo ago
The notation looks complex, but underneath it's all just adding and multiplying. Nothing complex
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
It doesn't matter. However much intelligence you can squeeze into 1 GB, people will always want more. Standard Def TV was plenty for 50 years. But when more was on offer, everyone went for it, and now you can't even buy a 4
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
If you root it, you can put all writable storage on the SD card, and the phones internal memory becomes readonly
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
It does nest geohashes... It could do with a UI tweak though so that by default it shows you the most 'zoomed in' geohash with any activity.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
They should add long range WiFi. For example the Espressif long range WiFi protocol (esp-now lr) should get around 2km of range. With effort, various exploitable WiFi chipsets could probably have support added too. 2km of range makes
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
Replace micro SIM with micro SD, and it can be done on android.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
If there is a hole in the street and you fall down it, you wouldn't expect a refund just for the 1 second it would have taken you to drive over that hole. Instead you should be compensated for your losses - the time and money it took y
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
If I pay anything for a service, I expect a refund if that service doesn't work. Best would be a free week/month for anyone who sent a request during the downtime.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
It's fairly easy to open up a phone and probe inner circuitry. I suspect that'll be the next step for malicious actors. I doubt very much the phone is fully resistant to having malicious data injected onto various busses.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
There are 2 cent microcontrollers. Used in the cheapest devices you wouldn't even imagine to contain any software - eg. To control a touch sensitive on-off switch.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
If they don't want to spend the $ for redundancy, they definitely don't want to spend the $$$ for a war-proof datacenter.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
It is probably far cheaper to simply have global redundancy for the data and compute than to put the datacenter in a bunker. Tell everyone that you have global redundancy and they won't even bother to damage it because it won't he
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
It isn't being done behind-the-back of proxy operators. It's one more revenue stream to be able to remote control real android phones to pass device attestation checks etc. It's marketed to users with phrases like "earn
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
Yes, but users are told to allow it if they want to get free coins etc.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
No, but I do have other reasons for doing it beyond just false accusations.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
Just a little DIY android app that keeps an audio recorder always going and uploads recordings to cloud storage every 10 mins. It also attempts to transcribe the recordings and make a full text index, although the word error rate on that bi
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
Incompetence in the justice system is a good reason to keep all trackers on and privacy features off. That gives you enough data to robustly say "look, I couldn't have been in this chat conversation, because here is my data from t
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
Steal info from 10 different companies, and combine it to make a product better than any of the 10 individual products copied. It's basically the patent problem.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
It is going away for non tech companies though. Imagine you are a company that sells concrete. You have a web dev contractor you use to build and maintain your website. It has tools on it to get delivery quotes and a few internal tools
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
I wonder what their cost-per-launch will end up being? Can they compete with reusable American rockets for $/kg by just building disposable but very cheap rockets? After all, plenty of other disposable things have outcompeted non dispo
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
Except you pay the weight for the nozzles on each stage. That makes there be a mathematically optimal number.
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by londons_explore 3mo ago
Don't you need at least a little thrust ~40 mins later to circularize the orbit? Obviously solid rockets can't be relit. Could that be the use of the 4th stage?

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