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by madars 3y ago
I wonder how stable the cloud path is ... can RedHat have cloud vendors "voluntarily agree" to not spin up VMs for rebuilders? (Kinda like how subscribers "agree" that distributing GPL'd sources could put their subs
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by madars 3y ago
MIT grant overhead is definitely less than north of 70%. https://ras.mit.edu/facilities-and-administrative-fa-rates says 59%.
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by madars 3y ago
Thanks! If you have a calculations workflow already, what would the contrast ratios (even if approximate) be for old iOS? To a human eye it truly looks like SMS got way worse whereas iMessage stayed around the same.
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CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo Response to Bollettino (2018)(cftc.gov)
1 points by madars 3y ago|0 comments
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by madars 3y ago
They deliberately reduced the contrast. Compare iOS 5 when iMessage came out: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/archive/09-27... and now: https://images.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata&#x2
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by madars 3y ago
Don't forget making SMS in unreadable neon green (to the point that it violates Apple's own accessibility guidelines https://archive.is/4nSWV ) "iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle t
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by madars 3y ago
https://archive.is/H62B6
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by madars 3y ago
Combine that with the fact that many states have made direct-to-consumer sales illegal [1]. Pure rent-seeking and regulatory capture from dealerships. Similar with hospitals: certificate of need laws [2] mean that you need to go to your dir
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by madars 3y ago
That's right, Windows 95 on a 600 MHz machine would be even snappier. However, later down the thread the author demonstrates Windows 2000: >For those thinking that the comparison was unfair, here is Windows 2000 on the same 600MHz m
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Microsoft uses Bitcoin as part of MSVC validation test suite(github.com)
47 points by madars 3y ago|2 comments
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by madars 3y ago
It's pretty much a content-free statement. Prompt: Give me a single sentence technical reasoning a VPN company could use to discontinue port forwarding feature. GPT4: "Due to the increased security risks and potential for exploita
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by madars 3y ago
Small correction: Mullvad gave you 5 ports per account that you could assign (per VPN server city) to any of your 5 public keys in an arbitrary manner. E.g. 3 for one + 2 for another.
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by madars 3y ago
It is worth noting that not all implementations of multihop are the same. For example, if multihop is using a dedicated port on the entry node (e.g. connecting to any Mullvad server on port 3438 will give you a multihop through that server
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by madars 3y ago
n=1 data point -- as a practicing Catholic who cares about the discipline of sacraments, this is the first time I hear about concerns regarding sacramental wine. At the same time, the story of using invalid baptismal formula ("we bapti
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by madars 3y ago
dnscrypt is a separate protocol so you'd need a different list of servers. But those are readily available and tagged with their filter (e.g. no malware or no adult domains) and privacy (e.g. no log, no edns-client-subnet, qname minimi
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by madars 3y ago
Nice! Another alternative is to use a different protocol, i.e., instead of using DNS over 53/udp, use dnscrypt (ports 443 TCP/UDP) via something like dnscrypt-proxy. This has an additional benefit of not leaking your DNS queries t
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by madars 3y ago
Exactly. Validity is extremely important: you want to have certainty in sacraments. When you go to confession and hear "I absolve you" you want to know that it means what it means.
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by madars 3y ago
I wonder if participation rates are disparate across those apps, i.e. maybe official app is popular for lurking, but all content posted from mobile actually comes from better third-party apps. (In general, a small number of people produce o
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by madars 3y ago
Original title (too long for HN's form field): What's up with admins taking over a major subreddit (r/AdviceAnimals), re-opening it, and banning any mention of it?
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by madars 3y ago
Full title is "SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. BINANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED, BAM TRADING SERVICES INC., BAM MANAGEMENT US HOLDINGS INC., AND CHANGPENG ZHAO," but that's too long for HN
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SEC v. Binance(courtlistener.com)
4 points by madars 3y ago|1 comments
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by madars 3y ago
Archive: https://archive.is/IciUF
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by madars 3y ago
Archive: https://archive.is/e1x4l
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by madars 3y ago
Archive: https://archive.is/8Lz0b
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SEC Sues Binance and CEO Zhao for Breaking US Securities Rules(news.bloomberglaw.com)
5 points by madars 3y ago|1 comments
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by madars 3y ago
Why would fewer deaths be impossible to quantify? Insurers already lower your premiums if your car has modern safety features, like automatic emergency braking. I'd posit that if we replaced human drivers with Tesla's FSD (never m
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by madars 3y ago
Yes. For example, Z-Library accepted Amazon gift card donations using an email linked to their identities: https://torrentfreak.com/how-google-and-amazon-helped-the-fb...
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by madars 3y ago
Looks like blog is about the diff between 6.0 and 7.0; see https://zulip.com/ for screenshots. BTW, threaded conversations (called "instances" in Zephyr https://sipb.mit.edu/doc/zephyr/ ,
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by madars 3y ago
Exactly. Aside, I don't think we can predict the full scale effects of LLMs for citogenesis https://xkcd.com/978/
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by madars 3y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/oaophe/data_pri... >QCI 6 is applied to all of T-Mobile's postpaid and prepaid plans (except for Essentials) and Google Fi which also has QCI 6 as wel

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