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by michaelt 1y ago
I think you might be under-estimating the importance of not hitting things. If you look at the statistics on fatal car accidents, 85%+ involve collisions with stationary objects or other road users. Nobody's suggesting getting rid of m
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> I would like to see a honest discussion about the impact of porn on kids, I cannot really imagine that it doesn't distort the view and expectations on sex. It's extremely difficult to get solid evidence of this stuff, as it
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> when I asked why they use a VPN I got non-specific answers like "you need it for security", "to prevent identity theft" I always assumed that was like head shops selling water pipes for "tobacco smoking"
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by michaelt 1y ago
Your better websites use "HSTS Preloading" to ensure users always get sent to the https version of the site - in which case even if the attacker redirected the DNS resolution, you'd just get an SSL error as the attacker would
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by michaelt 1y ago
You can see a guy following Dave Gingery's instructions to make a lathe bed here [1] And as you say, a granite surface plate is needed. Of course, Gingery's books only claimed to set up a metalworking shop starting "from scra
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by michaelt 1y ago
If I'm running a living museum of computer history, to let the youth of today experience 15" CRTs and learn the difference between ISA, PCI and AGP slots - I'm probably not connecting my exhibits to the internet.
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by michaelt 1y ago
According to Wikipedia, Google has 187,103 employees, Amazon has 1,556,000, and OpenAI has a mere 3,000 employees. So essentially a lifestyle business - but some people do think they have growth potential.
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by michaelt 1y ago
> That said, it's unlikely that the entity currently managing .io (a hedge fund if I'm not mistaken) has the legal muscle to force ICANN to keep it in the list ICANN periodically lets anyone with $1 million create random new
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by michaelt 1y ago
I suspect the industry's culture of job-hopping doesn't help accountability either. Facebook kicked off a bunch of 'metaverse' projects in 2020 (even literally renaming the company) and 5 years later, if their employee t
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> I've seen valid issued Google Trust certs floating around that were not authorized by the owner of the SAN being visited Did you confirm with the owner that they were unauthorized? And can you point to the certificates in the Ce
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by michaelt 1y ago
Do you have a citation for this? It sounds pretty unlikely to me. I'm pretty sure if I asked a group of people to invent their own questions I'd get a load of general knowledge questions about music, sports, and popular culture.
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> Resume spray-and-pray is unlikely to get you good results, but that's not what the OP described. Gotta disagree with you there, given the post says: > My advice to other engineers on the job market: > 1) Spray and pray.
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Less words maybe good if useless filler gone. But what if need more words for complicated idea? Short message easy if just 'orange man good' or 'orange man bad' but what if want to explain reason also? Dumb down? What if
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> Could anybody explain how this isn't easily circumvented by using a competitor's model? If the problem is "kids are using AI to cheat on their schoolwork and it's bad PR / politicians want us to do something&
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> the majority of those in power will never ask to limit their own power Surprisingly, many politicians love campaign spending limits, much like tobacco companies quite like tobacco advertising bans. After all, unlimited spending mea
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by michaelt 1y ago
Requiring a user to MFA once per day per device is normal for a work account - but that's already a lot compared to services like gmail. After all, workers are mostly working in an access-controlled office or their private home; and
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by michaelt 1y ago
> It's so weird that SIG didn't just mandate a recall on this issue and dealt with it. I wouldn't be surprised if gun companies get a constant stream of fake complaints. I didn't have access to guns when I was a 17-
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> how scalable is it to do each connection peer to peer? I can tell you roughly how it works for webrtc video calls. If you're in a 5-person peer-to-peer webrtc video call where you receive 4 streams of video, you also need to
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by michaelt 1y ago
Ah, in the UK the NIMBYs don't just have property rights on their side, to stop things getting built. There are also 'green belt' laws (which ban construction on land in a ring around many cities) and there are 'enviro
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Many large organisations inadvertently, with reasonable intentions create a structure with a powerful bias towards inaction. It's reasonable, when a company is looking into buying a new SaaS product, that the legal team review the co
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In certain types of company, it's workers without management responsibilities who do the work that brings in the money. Think of a delivery company, for example, where drivers make deliveries, which is what the company gets paid for. T
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I'd be interested in knowing how many of y'all are being taught about this sort of thing in college ethics/safety/reliability classes. I was taught about this in engineering school, as part of a general engineering cours
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> And I see he was 16. Why were his parents letting him operate so unsupervised given his state of mind? Normally 16-year-olds are a good few steps into the path towards adulthood. At 16 I was cycling to my part time job alone, visitin
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The thing is, society doesn't have to worry that the guy selling crutches is going to reinvent the definition of a broken leg to increase crutch sales.
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From one perspective, if they don't create many jobs and don't pay any taxes, I can see why communities don't welcome them. From another perspective, compared to a coal mine or a paint factory or a steelworks or an airport or
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A pilot doesn't just fly the plane. But can you be a pilot if you don't fly the plane?
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As you might imagine, a two-hour-long podcast in a series named "Tech Won't Save Us" has time to explore many avenues of criticism. Obviously, to summarise I have to remove the supporting examples, and the dozens of different
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by michaelt 1y ago
Sometimes alternative markets have lower margins, as they need different products and lower prices. America's average net salary is $53,000 and Portugal's is US$19,000. If your TV factory can't ship to America for the time be
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You want to reboot your device any time you need to, say, approve a credit card payment? No thanks.
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My impression is a lot of modern data centres are total-power-constrained, but not really space-constrained. At least, if you look at them on streetview a lot of them seem to be in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by miles of undeveloped s

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