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by michaelt 7mo ago
> Reading your description I pictured a comically tiny room with only one opening for incoming requests and another one for outgoing responses. I pictured the normal work from home slack experience. But I suppose your picture and mine
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by michaelt 7mo ago
> To bypass the deadlocked congress, obama used executive orders in new and expansive ways. That ratcheted things up. While I agree - this has been an issue long before Obama. Any reasonable country should be able to decide on the lega
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by michaelt 7mo ago
The thing is, Facebook/Meta wasn't trying to make a product with 80k concurrent users, or even with 800k concurrent users. Facebook has 3 billion MAU, and they literally renamed the entire company to Meta - they were expecting i
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> The idea that AI enforcement won't be just as corrupt and capricious as any other form of government run extortion is bonkers. [...] Private, unaccountable companies with effectively no oversight In the specific case this thread
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> One 'answer' to this concern is to have a 'leap hour' or something in the future We've had 27 leapseconds in the last 54 years [1] - an average of 0.5 seconds per year. At that rate, solar time will drift by
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> you'd obviously pick standard time and not randomly offset everything by an hour Isn't Pacific Daylight Time = Mountain Standard Time? You can offset everything by an hour and still have 'standard' in the name of
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Because someone decided to write all the software in javascript and python, which don't benefit from the added cores.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Is China often moved by western ire?
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by michaelt 8mo ago
The point of saying and writing things is to be understood by your audience. If I know a given wording is widely misunderstood, to the point I'm planning to immediately follow it with a clarification - often that's a sign it'
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by michaelt 8mo ago
The solution is "don't apply untested upgrades to critical servers at 3am" :) If you must do such upgrades, solutions include hot standby hardware, IPMI, an on-site tech with a screen and keyboard, or moving everything to the
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by michaelt 8mo ago
The hope with the TPM is that the system boots to a standard login screen, and the thief doesn't know any user's password. Much like someone snatching a laptop that's in 'suspend' mode. Of course, a thief could tr
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> To be more critical my primary concern will be how deployment of this hardware is joined by significantly less benign design choices like locked bootloaders, removal of sideloads. To be very clear that's a quite distinct design c
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> Why does their air con take 1kW to run? The author is in the UK, so they probably looked at a product like [1] which is "ideal for rooms 16-26m²" and has cooling power consumption of 1005W. Residential air conditioning in t
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> I've seen numbers like 250W mechanical power for an average trained cyclist, so either my setup is rather inefficient, my measurements are off, or I'm going to find out that I'm nowhere near as strong as a real cyclist.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> I wanted something BEEFFY! Specs wise but 13 inch at most. One thing to bear in mind is bezels are a lot thinner than they were a few years ago. ~7 years ago, my daily driver was a Latitude E7270 - a 12.5 inch ultrabook with dimensio
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> I was pondering last night for which services I, personally, would actually be willing to verify my age or identity. > And… the answer is “none”. > At least, none that I can think of at the moment. Think back to the recent
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Hasn’t the UK had CAMRA supporting small breweries, opposing monoculture, and running beer festivals with hundreds of different beers for like 50 years?
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by michaelt 8mo ago
The thing about DST is it makes every scheduled event move, all at the same time. It shifts my contracted start time at work, my first meeting, when places start serving lunch, when my kid needs to get to ballet class, when my sportsball
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> Who has been distracted from Facebook’s shenanigans? Who are they talking about? Is it me? Because I can tell you I have certainly not been distracted on that front. On September 11th 2001 a UK government department's press chie
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by michaelt 8mo ago
To me, that sounds like a task for your country’s lawmakers, rather than “Just don't call them ebikes” Motorbikes need training, a license, insurance, registration, a minimum age, etc - and you’re competing with small petrol motorcycle
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> why does the operating system need to be involved in this? Well, the politicians probably meant to say “Apple, Google, Microsoft, plus maybe Sony and Nintendo” i.e. the companies that already have biometrics, nigh-mandatory user acco
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> I always wonder having worked in a lot of startups with 10-50ppl, what on earth a business does with 10000. If a small business needs to send a replacement widget to a customer in a foreign country, they label it "$0 value"
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by michaelt 8mo ago
The extension 'sponsorblock' automatically jumps over ad reads in the video, with user-submitted start/end data.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Keys could have certain restrictions [1] such as HTTP Referer, which meant you couldn't just embed a map on your website and charge a different website for the views. Not perfect protection of course - an attacker could spam requests w
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> Maybe sovereign AI was always going to look like this. I hope not. I worry we'll soon realise that modern AI is trapped in an inescapable web of politics, and the tech industry is sleepwalking into it. We're living in an ag
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> Now, I see $20, $50, $100 dispensing machines regularly. There's also been a lot of inflation. If you held a $50 bill in 1997, or a $20 bill in 1978, then you held a note worth more than a $100 bill today.
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by michaelt 8mo ago
Interestingly, there have been people in the LIDAR industry predicting costs like this for many years. I heard numbers like $250 per vehicle back in 2012 [1] Of course, ambitious pricing like this is all about economies of scale - sensors t
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> Cheap LIDAR units could open up weird DIY uses and not just cars. Interestingly, there are already some comparatively cheap LIDAR units on the market. In the automotive market, ideally you need a 200m+ range (or whatever the stoppi
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by michaelt 8mo ago
IMHO a better approach would be two-layered tagging to indicate traffic from children. Firstly traffic can be tagged by ISPs/cell phone companies, at the bill payer's behest (whose name and age has already been verified). Secondly
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by michaelt 8mo ago
> I’m also largely cynical to the idea that anyone’s doing any free speeching on meta or Twitter in the first place. If counter culture gets driven back to IRC, or gasp meatspace, then all the better. The thing is, any speech controls

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