mikewarot

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by mikewarot 2mo ago
>state and local officials throughout the country were on high alert for potential problems in vulnerable computers that are commonly used to monitor and adjust water quality, including chemical-treatment levels and water pressure. You d
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
That lead to a missing video, but here is a copy from the Internet Archive (I think) https://web.archive.org/web/20240316181535/http://vurl.web.a...
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Multilevel capability based secure Operating Systems are due for a resurgence thanks to the LLMs that make it obvious that ambient authority based systems aren't suitable for the modern world, what with persistent internet and mobile c
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
It's my long standing opinion[1] that we shouldn't accept any RAM that can be subject to random bit flips. Most of the mitigations are just security through obscurity. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
The first attempt was with video, but she later switched to exactly that, a 19000 lines per second 2048 pixel line scan imager. It was augmented with 6dof acceleration/gyro sensor, gps, and microcontroller to get the data to a laptop.
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
You can thank Carl Edvard Johansson[1] for that, the inventor of the gage block.[2] He was the one who decided to make it a convenient value, according to Wikipedia[3] As a result of the definitions above, the U.S. inch was effectively
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Well, I used the 2 free questions, and it seems they both think cast strong doubt on "new physics" being hidden from the public. I'll never get my personal megawatt box. 8(
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
I did programming back in the days of MS-DOS. If you've got specific questions, I'm more than happy to follow up in replies. I thought AI safety was something we had decades to worry about. I wasn't sure it could be solved, b
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by mikewarot 2mo ago
Who hasn't handed their phone to their kid at some point? This is a bad idea. It would be far better if the user could set the age dynamically, as part of a capabilities set, and the browser could forward that data. Then a person could
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I'm hoping that I live long enough to read about and understand the new physics that's been hidden from us since before I was born. I strongly suspect it's for very practical reasons, like making it trivial to generate extrem
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
The cost of software has always been trivial, relative to the value it delivers. The real driving factor is support, and open source tends to be very extractive when it comes to support, leading to burn-out and dead projects. The reason Int
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
That's the "Cantillon Effect"[1] Cantillon suggested that inflation occurs gradually and that the new supply of money has a localised effect on inflation, effectively originating the concept of non-neutral money. Furtherm
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm Any time we fix an old radio that goes down to 60 Khz, I always have to see if WWVB is coming in loud enough to be heard.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Metamine had a amazing demo[1], which is only still with us on the Internet Archive. I've fawned over it before[2], but suffice it to say it was a normal programming language plus a magical equals which kept the left side of an assig
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I never noticed the disclaimer at the bottom until today xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blo
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
10 MHz is the usual frequency that test equipment uses for external reference. If I could get more than one cheap enough I could do some very interesting home physics experiments. For example, does time pass differently inside a can at a m
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
According to their roadmap, Genode, based on a microkernel should have the start of a capabilities based front end on their Sculpt 26.8 release next month. I'm hoping it can become my daily driver.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I too find myself going down the time-nut rabbit hole. I want a perfect 10 Mhz reference, not necessarily a time of day clock. I was tempted to go the Atomic Clock route, based on actual cesium oscillators, having found a cheapish ($999) us
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
No, it won't. The problem is that the efficiencies of analog multiplications get swamped by the need to digitize the outputs at some point. Converting back to digital with many bits of precision is a slow, energy consuming process. If
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
This reminds me of The Adolescence of P1 by Thomas J Ryan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adolescence_of_P-1
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
LLMs, in general, just output a stream of tokens that can be translated back to text. How can something that generates text, like cat be protected against? Just don't pipe it to a command prompt/shell, and you should be good. In
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Amen, any RAM that is subject to bitflips, regardless of how it's arranged, should be rejected as a defective design. It's insane that we permit this crap to happen in the first place.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
What drives me nuts is the fact that memory safety actually has little bearing on Computer Security at large. If we had multi-level secure OSs*, with capabilities based facilities available to the user, a lost pointer would just crash the p
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I was especially surprised when the other LEDs joined into the action, to allow multiple separate video streams... it took a minute for me to grok how it was done. There's nothing stopping this from being a 360 degree display, if there
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
To clarify, this article is not about the practice of Engineering [1], nor the management thereof. Words have meaning, and I strongly feel that clarity here is helpful. An engineering approach to software development would include rigorous
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
So, today I'm one of the lucky 10,000[1] who finally understands what "black pilled" actually means. (Edit: The video explains what black pilled means) As a mapper[2], that knowledge now gets subconsciously checked for matche
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I help a friend repair old radios and service equipment. He's been doing it since the 1950s. We're starting to wind down as his health curtails things.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Well, hopefully they can figure out something about 0.01% of the price to fly with AI, so we can build at least 10,000 of them. We don't need gold plated hangar queens.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I came to say the same thing. I think it's very important to show the true American spirit of telling those, who think they are out betters, to just go fuck off. We're ALL Kings here in the USA. Calling out bullshit, praising hard
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Great, so everyone in their 60s works for a decade more, as their health declines, and everyone under 60 has to deal with the increased unemployment that would cause . It would be better to just get rid of the loophole for the rentier clas

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