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by macksd 3y ago
I have a System76 Serval and I highly recommend it, especially for your use case.
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by macksd 3y ago
Let's hope that, like irresponsible nuclear weapons tests, we also experience a societal change that eventually returns things back to a better way.
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by macksd 3y ago
I've seen good QA teams who own and develop common infrastructure, and can pursue testing initiatives that just don't fit with engineering teams. When developing a new feature, the team developing it will write new tests to cover
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by macksd 3y ago
As I understand it, the law is that they're not allowed to trade while in possession of material, non-public information, but beyond that most of the practices are there to just entirely avoid the suspicion or appearance of foul play.
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by macksd 3y ago
Same here! But I'm gonna bookmark this and try it another day. Kudos for sharing this - love to see younger folks hacking. This is a cool idea.
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by macksd 3y ago
I think sidelining the lead researcher and giving the project to another group is accurately described at "gutting a team". No, they didn't end the project, but the series of events described seems to be insinuating that she
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by macksd 3y ago
I don't think a 12-year-old should be eating deep fried French fries as a regular part of a school lunch either... Nothing wrong with a sandwich.
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by macksd 3y ago
I have no idea what the process was for gathering the signatures, but one way to solve this problem is a mutual confidentiality pact that goes away with enough momentum. Ask people if they're willing to sign, but if you can't get
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by macksd 3y ago
That gets tough with transitive dependencies and the frequent CVEs.
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by macksd 3y ago
Where else is this approach being used?
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by macksd 3y ago
How would you propose using generative AI to detect ETI, exactly?
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by macksd 3y ago
If you were given $200M and SETI's goal, what would you be investing in?
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by macksd 3y ago
What's your argument here? That corrupt police who run protection rackets are worth it because they will, in the end, actually protect your family from gangs of 100+ people?
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by macksd 3y ago
"Session" is a good way to think of it. If it's inactive for too long, it can be closed and forgotten, etc. But "connection" is the correct terminology. You just sometimes need to be clear that you're talking a
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by macksd 3y ago
I actually remember being a bit confused by this too. Hopefully I can help: These refer to 2 different protocols at the same layer: UDP, and TCP. Below these protocols there are layers that route little messages around local networks (like
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by macksd 3y ago
No, it's based on a statistical model that incorporates biases, like many statistical models.
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by macksd 3y ago
That's because they are actually struggling to admit deeper problems with the company culture and processes that they don't know how to solve, and so they're trying RTO to see if it fixes things.
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by macksd 3y ago
Are you perhaps confusing ClickHouse, with ClickHouse Keeper (one of ClickHouse's components?) Sounds to me like ClickHouse is the database, and ClickHouse Keeper is the ZK drop-in replacement. A bit like HBase being a database, and Zo
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by macksd 3y ago
If they could just pay the dollar and never have to worry about it again, sure. But the point is for them to have confidence that the math is unimpeachable and identical to whatever auditor or tax official would compute at every step of the
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by macksd 3y ago
When you're doing floating point arithmetic on a computer, it will approximate and round certain values in ways that don't match the way humans do it when they're, e.g. doing accounting. So you need to run a massive physics s
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by macksd 3y ago
The top comment here is very reasonable, but I still think the application of HIPAA has been a giant mess, reflecting a disdain toward patients similar to everything else in the US healthcare system. I've ranted on here plenty about ho
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by macksd 3y ago
I don't think so either. But I also know people who still think Trump is playing some 4D chess game and has the corrupt politicians and media right where he wants them. Any day now he's gonna win.
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by macksd 3y ago
I don't think so. Isotopes can influence mass and other nuclear characteristics, but it's really the electron configuration that determines the molecular possibilities.
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by macksd 3y ago
The funny thing is that in most ham radio usage, the "high frequency bands" are actually about as low a frequency as most people will ever use. I don't think I've come across anything about low and medium frequencies exc
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by macksd 3y ago
There isn't even a law preventing direct military usage of that library as far as I understand, because they're not violating copyright law by just downloading something, which by the way is hosted using federal funds. But the abs
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by macksd 3y ago
Interesting - do you mean because of the "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed" clause? I wonder.
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by macksd 3y ago
Yes my question was, itself, tongue-in-cheek. I've been told that a customer insisted the packages in question be removed because although they did nothing military-related, they did happen to have a customer that is well-known for bei
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by macksd 3y ago
There's nothing compelling the author, no, except for in the situation outlined above they're really doing nothing to prevent military use, but they are hampering adoption among companies scrupulous or careful enough to not run af
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by macksd 3y ago
While this is funny, it does highlight that you should probably have an actual legal opinion if you decide to write your own license. A less tongue-in-cheek example that I've run into is https://dst.lbl.gov/ACSSoftware&
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by macksd 3y ago
You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh explores this idea a lot. To the extent you consider Buddhist philosophy religious, it is still religious, but it is not the Bible. However the philisophy is similar enough that the author actually references

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