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by michaelt 6mo ago
> I am surprised we consider TSMC like a natural resource: isn't it really a combination of know-how and build-out according to that know-how? Have you seen how many states and countries look enviously at Silicon Valley’s tech com
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by michaelt 6mo ago
Honestly C and JavaScript could hardly be more different, as languages. About the only thing they share is curly braces.
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by michaelt 6mo ago
The censorship is dual purpose. They want to make it so Iran doesn’t know if they successfully hit that Oracle data centre. But they also want to make it so foreign investors don’t get scared off by the prospect of their data centre getti
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by michaelt 6mo ago
The thing is, when colleges don't test students' ability properly before issuing a credential, employers start testing job applicants' ability after they've received it. And they'll do it with all the 'unne
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by michaelt 6mo ago
This is a subject that has been studied quite a bit, as there are a bunch of jobs where people have to monitor for rare emergencies, and react fast if an emergency should arise. Things like pilots on flights with autopilot; lifeguards watch
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by michaelt 6mo ago
> I'm always curious about the companies that require vendors to report all instances where patches to CVSS 9.x vulnerabilities are not applied to all endpoints within 24 hours. That sounds like a nigh-impossible requirement, as y
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by michaelt 6mo ago
The LeRobot / SO-ARM101 uses $9 motors [1] has 5 degrees of freedom and is available with all parts for $300 [2] fully assembled. They don't quote a payload, reach, speed or repeatability. Their target market is people who want to
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by michaelt 6mo ago
They actually describe it as "6+1 degrees of freedom" [1] with the gripper being the "+1" - so it's got base, shoulder, elbow, wrist1, wrist2, wrist3, and gripper. This is a conventional way of describing things. Tr
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by michaelt 6mo ago
Unfortunately, a lot of people keep their backups in the same cloud account as their primary data. Thinking that multiple copies and multiple availability zones are sufficient. For these users, the article’s €54k bill would be replaced with
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by michaelt 6mo ago
If I budget enough to store 1TB of data for 1 month, then on the first day of the month I store 2TB of data - what should the behaviour be after 15 days?
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by michaelt 6mo ago
If people with more information profit at the expense of people with less information, isn't that exactly how things are supposed to work? If you're approaching a market with hard facts, detailed comparisons and solid evidence; wh
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by michaelt 6mo ago
In the movies, you hide the bullets in a pen or something, and it bypasses the metal detector along with the keys, phones and watches.
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by michaelt 6mo ago
The football league would rather not have pirates livestream their ~90 minute games. Pirates would rather not be blocked, so they create a new, disposable website for every game. Any blocking must happen fast. Cloudflare would rather not bl
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by michaelt 6mo ago
> People who are wealthy enough to move anywhere in the world (including to a military-grade bunker somewhere remote like New Zealand) if their current domicile is negatively affected don't have as strong of an incentive to maintai
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by michaelt 6mo ago
Given that the worlds biggest browser is made by the worlds biggest ad company, the chances it’ll ever bake in a working ad blocker are approximately zero.
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by michaelt 6mo ago
If you really want to know, see the 215 page report commissioned by the UK governments Independent Pornography Review https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/creating-a-safer-...
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by michaelt 6mo ago
Back in the 1990s, there was a tool called ‘tripwire’ that checked key files against expected checksums. As I recall, they recommended putting the expected values on a floppy disk and setting the ‘write protect’ tab, so the checksums couldn
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by michaelt 6mo ago
€7/month is both too much and too little. The cheapest USB KVM-over-IP costs about €50 - that's 8 months of colo fees gone. Colo 'remote hands' in western countries can cost €120/hour, once all expenses and overhe
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by michaelt 6mo ago
Vehicles include low-utility features for market positioning all the time. Do buyers need a motorised hood ornament? A tiny vase built into the dashboard? A built-in champagne chiller? Gull wing doors? A spoiler and a 300-horsepower engin
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by michaelt 6mo ago
> it's also highly relevant Polymarket has $5 million of wagers on "Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by end of April?" The toll Iran charges for safe passage is $2 million per ship, and at current prices such a
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by michaelt 6mo ago
I don't know anything about Trusted Signing verification, but I do know from reports on 'mini umbrella company fraud' that if you're a fraudster, there are people in the Philippines who will happily sign their name to
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by michaelt 6mo ago
> Also, the passive surveillance has resulted in several high profile killers like LISK and Bryan Kohberger being caught. So as much bad as you think it does, there are clear cases where its helped crack decades old serial killings and
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by michaelt 6mo ago
You can run all the major CLI tools without a browser. When they try to open a browser, they also print the URL to the console. Open that in your browser and go through an authentication flow; it'll end forwarding you to a localhost UR
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by michaelt 7mo ago
Have your office's PAT test guys flagged those exposed mains cables yet? :)
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by michaelt 7mo ago
I used to have an uncle who did emergency oil well repair. He'd get a call from his boss, then he'd be on the next flight to whatever remote offshore drilling platform or exotic dictatorship had need of his services. Apparently do
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by michaelt 7mo ago
For sure you can ID everyone. Nightclubs, music festivals and even airports do this sort of thing all the time. You just need good organisation, plenty of security stations, and an atmosphere that rewards people who arrive early - checkin
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by michaelt 7mo ago
> Maybe it's not about the money. Maybe he does not want the negative consequences that come along with having a smartphone. In my country right now there's a lot of hand-wringing about the impact of social media and smartpho
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by michaelt 7mo ago
It can't be solved, but you can choose different loopholes and privacy trade-offs. Untraceable-but-single-use proof-of-age tokens? Good for privacy, but now that 14-year-old can get tokens from an 18-year-old friend for cash. Proof tok
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by michaelt 7mo ago
> In the meantime a FOSS maintainer who is just trying to put the pieces in place to comply with the law (as written) got doxxed and harassed. In my experience, when a country like Britain passes a censorship law, people in other count
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by michaelt 7mo ago
I want America to go back to being as it was in precisely 1998. When there'd be UN resolutions before the armed intervention, a casus belli with (non-fake) evidence of genocide, a peacekeeping force with troops from 39 countries, and

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