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by michaelt 11mo ago
Let's quote the godfather of British ID cards, Tony Blair:- > Why is TikTok so successful? Because its algorithms establish your personal preferences so quickly and satisfy them with their content. How do they do that? By accumulat
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by michaelt 11mo ago
If I was a fingerprinting company, I'd be cross-referencing signals between browsers for sure. If the browser header says windows but the fonts available says linux, that's a very distinctive signal. And if the UA says Chrome but
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by michaelt 11mo ago
Let's say I want a 5000mAh power bank supporting 12v USB PD output and trickle charging. And it's got to be available in my country. To find such a thing I basically have to open loads of product pages cross-reference retailers&#x
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by michaelt 11mo ago
Certainly, nobody would buy an Apple hoping to run triple-A PC games. But among people running LLMs outside of the data centre, Apple's unified memory together with a good-enough GPU has attracted quite a bit of attention. If you'
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by michaelt 11mo ago
> the buildings are all built during the rapid expansion of the country so are now old enough to need expensive maintenance What kind of maintenance do you think is expensive compared to a budget of $560k per room, per year?
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by michaelt 11mo ago
With a budget of $28k per student, and 21 students per classroom, that’s $588k per classroom. Now, granted, some of that goes on building upkeep, cleaning, supplies, heating, pensions, managers etc - but if $588k per classroom doesn’t let y
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by michaelt 11mo ago
The card in the bottom slot can overhang the board, if you only need to add a single multi-slot card. Beyond that point you're probably looking at getting a server. Boards like the X9DRG-OF have eight dual-width slots, and you can get
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by michaelt 11mo ago
> I haven’t looked, but I’m assuming this ban already applies to YouTube, right? Apparently someone from the government looks at the site and assesses how 'core' the online social interaction is to the site. Banned: Facebook,
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by michaelt 11mo ago
Given that you've said 'workstation', if you've got a spare $5000, a Threadripper Pro comes with 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes. This means you can get a motherboard like the "Asus Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE" which dedicates 10
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by michaelt 11mo ago
> Microsoft can do hostile things or develop their API in ways Valve/Proton neither need nor want, forcing them to spend dev time keeping up. If they decide to do this in the gaming market, they don't need to mess up their AP
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by michaelt 11mo ago
My university didn't take attendance either, but some in my country do. As I understand it, the reasons are: 1. Some students think they can skip class and catch up through self-study, but actually they can't. The same I'd-ra
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by michaelt 11mo ago
> Why did they think this was a cyberattack Isn’t getting cyberattacked their core business?
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by michaelt 1y ago
> With money you can always buy popularity easily I don’t know if Elon Musk is an example or a counter-example. Maybe both?
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I don't think it will ever again beat solar+wind+battery for grid scale carbon-free power pricing. The problem the UK has is their climate: Northerly enough that solar makes 5x as much power in the summer as it does in the winte
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by michaelt 1y ago
Maybe in 2019, but I find it hard to believe nvidia looks at google’s TPU business model enviously these days.
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by michaelt 1y ago
If you've had Silicon Valley techies book all your rooms for several years, and it's their logo on the side of the building, and all your customers have booked with them? You don't have a reputation.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Sure, chargebacks cost money. You know what else costs money? When someone wants to give you money, and you misidentify them as a bot and refuse their money.
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by michaelt 1y ago
It's a good quality bug report. But it's also a bug report about the decoder for "SANM ANIM v0" - a format so obscure almost all the search results are the bug report itself. Possibly a format exclusive to mid-1990s Luca
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by michaelt 1y ago
I think it would generally be a good thing for cops kicking down doors to have working body cameras; the state's monopoly on violence is easily abused, and should be carefully monitored. But if the cops get the wrong address for their
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by michaelt 1y ago
Of course, if you have 3rd party cookies disabled, Google would never link your recaptcha activity to your Google account. They just link it to your IP address, browser, operating system, screen resolution, set of fonts, plugins, timezone,
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by michaelt 1y ago
I think "Nukes might fly overhead and end the world [...] but other than that we were safe" agrees that Canada would not thrive during a global thermonuclear war.
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by michaelt 1y ago
> - Poor quality management. [...] So the best and the brightest were not interested in manufacturing. There's also the challenge of the Baumol effect. When hiring engineers in the UK, manufacturing companies are competing for sma
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by michaelt 1y ago
Seizing a domain name via ICANN has to be global, as I understand it, while a website might have only broken some nations laws. If the UK government wants to ban porn but loves gambling, while the US wants to ban gambling but loves porn,
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by michaelt 1y ago
If shipbuilding is a strategic national industry, doesn't that also make all the inputs to a shipyard strategic industries? After all, if a war broke out and our normal trading partners weren't willing to sell us ships, presumab
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by michaelt 1y ago
Eh, traditional newspapers will always contain fluff, because the factual current affairs reporting is always so relentlessly negative. Ain’t nobody reporting on a road that doesn’t have a pothole. Nothing unusual about putting in some co
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by michaelt 1y ago
> they’re still earning ten percent more than women in the same age bracket. Both things can be true. To use an exaggerated example, if you pay the top 20% of people six figures and leave the bottom 80% to starve, the average earnings
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by michaelt 1y ago
Imagine a total newbie trying to fine-tune an image classifier, reusing some open source example code, about a decade ago. If their folder of 10,000 labelled images contains one image that's a different size to the others, the training
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by michaelt 1y ago
> 3. There is no mechanism for a cloud service provider employee to access customer content stored on instance storage and encrypted EBS volumes. Are you telling me customer services can't reset a customer's forgotten console
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I came to understand that basically there's no HW that actually considers physical attacks in scope for their threat model? xbox, playstation, and some smartphone activation locks. Of course, you may note those products have cer
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Complaining about regulation, [...] is also dumbfounding. Regulation is often necessary, but it has a cost even though it's necessary. If my country's regulations require nurseries to have one staff member for every three

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