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by michaelt 9mo ago
Apparently, this: https://interconnected.blog/jack-ma-bund-finance-summit-spee... To my western ears, the speech doesn't seem all that shocking. Over here it's normal for the CEOs of financial services companies t
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by michaelt 9mo ago
In the USA, data centres consume about 164 billion gallons of water annually [1] Irrigation consumes 118 billion gallons per day [1] and thermoelectric power plants a further 133 billion gallons per day . There's enormous amounts, a
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by michaelt 9mo ago
Excessive alarms aren't just a problem at sea. There have also been fatal aviation accidents where there's a problem with a common system (a dip in the power supply or hydraulic pressure, or a problem with a critical sensor) and d
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by michaelt 9mo ago
Eh, somehow The Pirate Bay, Fitgirl Repacks, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub etc seem to manage it. The real challenge is delivering good enough performance that your site is better than waiting through 30 seconds of ads; and making it worth y
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> I’m surprised to see these comments in conjunction, 90% is pretty good, and much higher than i expected. What standard of proof is appropriate to expel someone from college? After they've taken on, say, $40,000 of debt to attend
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> Well, for a consumer notebook or mobile device, the threat model typically envisions a thief grabbing it from a coffeehouse or hotel room. ...in which case having a cloud backup of the full disk encryption key is pointless, because y
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by michaelt 9mo ago
For a long time, if you used full disk encryption, the encryption key never left your machine. If you forgot your password, the data was gone - tough luck, should have made a backup. That's still how it works on Linux. Pretty surprisin
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by michaelt 9mo ago
The title of the article: "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"
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by michaelt 9mo ago
UK landlords also don't tend to invest anything in their properties. But in the UK case, that means the old phone cables are stapled to the skirting boards and painted over with gloss paint, and the sockets were wallpapered around in t
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by michaelt 9mo ago
Honestly, most UK houses start out with a single ISP-provided wifi router, situated somewhere close to where the data cable enters the building. For a lot of homes, that's enough to provide good-enough internet throughout the building.
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> If your company has data that the police want and they can get a warrant, you have no choice but to give it to them. Yes. The thing is: Microsoft made the design decision to copy the keys to the cloud, in plaintext. And they made thi
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> Research is supposed to be new ideas. If much of your research paper can be written by AI, I call into question whether or not it represents actual research. One would hope the authors are forming a hypothesis, performing an experime
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> For somebody to leave the Eurozone for the Dollar zone there has to be somebody coming in the opposite direction to exchange with. Does that mean trade imbalances don’t exist?
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by michaelt 9mo ago
"What, precisely, does your employee handbook say about sexual harassment?" "Well you see, your honour, we have 1000 slightly different employee handbooks, but they all say employees may not, must not, should not, can not, ar
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by michaelt 9mo ago
While I'm sympathetic to bereaved families, I find it difficult to assign much blame to AI providers for this sort of thing. Developed countries have a suicide rate around 11 suicides per 100,000 people, per year [1]. So if an AI provi
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by michaelt 9mo ago
Taking advantage of hardware decoding is generally like pulling teeth. For video you can't avoid it, as people expect several hours of laptop battery life while playing video. But for static images - I'd avoid the pain.
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by michaelt 9mo ago
In many countries, taxi licensing requires an ID/criminal background check, to ensure people with rape convictions don’t end up alone with drunk vulnerable people. It may not require fingerprinting, but it’s certainly stricter than man
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by michaelt 9mo ago
Is this a deep philosophical reflection on the nature of work and organisational behaviour? Or does it simply reflect the fact a good sabotage technique is something you can get away with - and therefore it has to be something that happen
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> I pay Slack $50k/year. They have no reason to shut me off. They don't have to shut you off - but they've got every reason to raise the price. If they can bully you onto a $15/user/month 'Business Plus&#x
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by michaelt 9mo ago
Perhaps he has a very narrow definition of "the MS cloud productivity stack" Windows? Office? Not cloud, in its roots. Active Directory? Entra? Azure? Not productivity. Github? Not MS. Copilot? Not sticky.
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by michaelt 9mo ago
Well duh, he’s got the peace prize ticked off already, thanks to FIFA. Now he’s aiming for the war prize.
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by michaelt 9mo ago
A photo journalist can ‘manipulate’ such images into being without manipulating anything. You just go to the huge mural with your camera and wait for someone to walk by.
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> But t-shirts saying “Working Hard . . . Or Hardly Working?” no longer hit as hard as they once did. Contra the usual story, Millennials are too earnest to tolerate the pleasant contradiction of saying they hate their job and then goin
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by michaelt 9mo ago
About 99.99% of people and organisations are neither CAs nor Browsers. Hence they have no representation in the CAB Forum. Hardly 'by definition niche' IMHO.
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by michaelt 9mo ago
No, they will only give out certificates if you can prove ownership of the IP, which means it being publicly routable.
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> Am I missing something obvious? Considering reports like "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela" [1] one risk is poorly written small print, meaning you might not actually be betting on t
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> The few times I have been swarmed by bots on Reddit was when I touched on a topic where, say, Russia had a strategic interest The thing is, bot operators know they can’t just post on Russia-related topics - they need a smokescreen of
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by michaelt 9mo ago
Why should it be short term, though? If it takes 4 years to build a new fab and Apple is willing to commit to paying pay the price of an entire fab, for chips to be delivered in 4 years time - why not take the order and build the capacity?
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> thinking that contractors couldn’t possibly appreciate (or deserve?) a nice interior for what is basically their mobile office is pretty out of touch I'm not familiar with the USA. What do contractors over there do in terms of c
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by michaelt 9mo ago
> I still love it, but can't play it any more since people rarely have attention to detuct the hidden rules. I have a theory you can only induct a new player 'properly' (i.e. without them getting out their phone and cons

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