michaelt

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by michaelt 6d ago
Maybe. But how do we tell the effects of social media and smart phones apart from the multiple financial crises? The endless, incredibly costly Middle East forever wars? The huge rise in costs of houses, education and healthcare? The blatan
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by michaelt 6d ago
The ‘real author’ isn’t the only injured party. Copying from a book with a long dead author, or paying a willing confederate to write your thesis for you, is still plagiarism.
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by michaelt 8d ago
My theory is self storage is actually in competition with getting a bigger house . If your family is seriously considering moving to a bigger house, and that move is going to cost you $20,000 that makes renting a storage unit for $1000&#
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by michaelt 10d ago
> the venue hosts attempted to eject an attendee because of the way he was dressed (motorcycle leathers, jeans - honestly nothing offensive) - and "didn't look like he was supposed to be there" How were they to know he b
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by michaelt 12d ago
> All people I know who use them, just run them once before a race to try them out and after that they are like a very good suit which you only use for special events. Doing all your marathon training in one type of shoe then switching
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by michaelt 12d ago
In the modern age image decoders need to handle untrusted inputs, and the big players rarely use hardware image decoding, even when it's available, because it's so hard to rely on its memory safety. Several 'zero click exploi
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by michaelt 13d ago
> I understand the plight of the installer who's worried about being labeled as a bad guy for executing public works contracts. You do unpopular things, you gotta expect to be an unpopular person. Sophisticated, educated types mig
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by michaelt 14d ago
> I’m anti surveillance but I don’t get this take. Some people foresee a future where self-driving cars are the norm. The big prize being fewer deaths on the road (about 40k people per year in the USA) which is a pretty big prize. If t
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by michaelt 14d ago
I think the secondary fear is that the big salaries and great working conditions are a result of a scarcity that may be on its way out. Paying me $150k to do work that produces $1.5M for your business is great value - but getting the same
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by michaelt 16d ago
How are you going to download photos from your USB Nikon camera to your USB iPod Photo if you don't even have a UC-E6 to 30-pin dock connector cable?
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by michaelt 16d ago
> I wish the old cables, gear, etc. I have squirreled-away stopped saving Customers' and friends' asses because I could feel good about getting rid of it. What you've got to do is become more forgetful. Ask not what a 17
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by michaelt 16d ago
> things like color rendering, sharpness, screen door/morie, motion blur, and yup even good ole depth queues in the lens system all show up as artifacts. Pre-AI fake videos sidestep this sort of issue by lowering the video quality
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by michaelt 16d ago
I think it's fairly obvious why one would want two-way audio on a telephone :)
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by michaelt 16d ago
People have constructed video walls so high resolution they can film TV series in front of them and to an audience it's indistinguishable from a real set. It's extremely cost-effective for things like space fantasy that needs lots
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by michaelt 17d ago
CRTs were also small at any reasonable price. A 20" viewable area, 1920 x 1440 CRT in the late 1990s? $800 [1] and that was the king of monitors. A 22", 1920 x 1080 flat screen today? $65 [2] and considered the most basic, munda
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by michaelt 17d ago
> Modern bluetooth is basically transparent with 256kbps AAC, like you'd have to be an omega-expert listening in a silent room to identify it vs lossless. Sure, unless you want to do something rare and exotic like, say, have a mic
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by michaelt 17d ago
> I think all AI companies want to capture normie users too, it's a huge market. Huge revenue? Or just huge volume? If I boost the productivity of a $100k employee by 50%, a business will happily pay $1k/month and consider it
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by michaelt 17d ago
> highlighting 5m lines of code at once is unusual Speak for yourself, I often accidentally open 50MB JSON files, crashing my text editor as it tries to figure out the syntax highlighting :)
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by michaelt 18d ago
The problem is for TV manufacturers to change their ways, a lot of TVs will need to be returned. And your average Smart TV buyer is prepared to sign into Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Prime Video, Crunchyroll, Youtube etc - that's the whol
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by michaelt 18d ago
> So no responsible disclosure, I see. If I, a corporation, declare that I only accept security reports carved on clay tablets in ancient greek and hand-delivered to my office in Timbuktu during a total solar eclipse - does that stop r
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by michaelt 20d ago
> What are the CIE XYZ coordinates of each colored square? In the most expensive versions, they measure each individual patch, in case printing imperfections make the colours slightly different. And of course because you can’t get the
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by michaelt 21d ago
A lot of deterrence credibility depends on at least pretending you think you can get into a fight without it inevitably going nuclear. After all, if America’s military thinkers all believe if America fought China it would inevitably result
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by michaelt 24d ago
> They already do that, in Europe. I assume that it works, as I don’t hear about this level of stuff, over there Often it's straight up the same companies - a Brit's PII is held by Experian, Equifax and Transunion just like a
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by michaelt 24d ago
Back In The Day, if somewhere like a car hire agency wanted to record proof of identity they'd photocopy your driver's license on paper, and store it in a filing cabinet. The computer record of a customer's account would just
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by michaelt 25d ago
> if a bunch of people installed fixed GPS sensors at home Similar things already exist - although it's used for increasing GPS precision and detecting faulty satellites, moreso than detecting jamming, so the networks might not be
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by michaelt 26d ago
There are two types of GPS jamming. There's GPS jamming by the military, mostly in war zones. This seldom effects airliners because they steer clear of active war zones. Then there's GPS jamming by delivery drivers who don't
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by michaelt 27d ago
I have their print magazine right here. Inside of the cover (page 2), ad saying portugal is the smart choice for data centres and ai computing. Page 11, two NGO job ads and an ad for timeshare holiday homes. Page 75, ad for Economist Educat
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by michaelt 27d ago
> But ultimately if you're dealing with an opaque system, which most companies are, While most companies have elements that are hard to see clearly [1], I would hope 95% of what the company is doing would be transparent to the CEO
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by michaelt 27d ago
This is clearly not a winning idea if you're a spreadsheet-loving engineer that can run the numbers, and is interested enough in clean tech to do so. But that's 5% of the population, tops. To the 95% of people without the inclin
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by michaelt 27d ago
> No, unless you're arguing that the government should be barred from even making voluntary requests at all? IMHO the third-party doctrine is an area where legislators ought to be passing laws to broaden constitutional protections

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