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by mrb 1y ago
Nitpick: " resolution of 3 arc-seconds (~100m²) " This resolution is equivalent to tiles of 8500 m² not 100 m². I think the author confused tile edge length (92 meters exactly) with tile area.
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by mrb 1y ago
Oh that project is right up my alley, as I did the same! Back in 2021, for fun, I wrote an algorithm to find the longest sightline on earth. And I did find a previously undiscovered sightline. My code was relatively unoptimized, it ran for
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by mrb 1y ago
font-family: System UI; That's incorrect. It should be: font-family: system-ui; Author has it right in some CSS examples, but not the first one.
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by mrb 1y ago
He does use it (I verified it from curl on a recent Linux distro). But he probably blocked only some fingerprints. And the fingerprint depends on the exact OpenSSL and curl versions, as different version combinations will send different TLS
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by mrb 1y ago
" There’s ways to get around TLS signatures but it’s much harder and requires a lot more legwork to get working " I wouldn't call it "much harder". All you need to bypass the signature is to choose random ciphers (l
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by mrb 1y ago
They do this so they are harder to track & block. If they were sending over Wifi then they have to hide the IP, so they have to use VPNs, which are often blocked, etc. But with their solution they have a standard SIM on the standard cel
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by mrb 1y ago
Bitcoin mining consumes about 25 GW: https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci so this single deal amounts to about 40% of that. To be clear, I am comparing power consumption only. In terms of mining power, all these GPUs could only
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by mrb 1y ago
They used cool hardware to do this research: the sysmoEUICC1 ( https://shop.sysmocom.de/sysmoEUICC1-eUICC-for-consumer-eSIM... ) which is a physical SIM card onto which one can load an eSIM, and they put it in a SIMtrace 2 de
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by mrb 1y ago
Oh, this reminds me of a Chrome extension I wrote to distribute Web content (images, html, js, anything) over DNS: https://blog.zorinaq.com/cdn53-a-super-distributed-cdn/ It implements the fake TLD .cdn53: when visiti
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by mrb 1y ago
I think this is a terrible idea from a usability standpoint. Why reinvent windows in CSS? Desktop browsers can already open multiple pages in multiple windows. And it's all neatly integrated in my OS where I can use keyboard shortcut
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by mrb 1y ago
Real assets like precious metals, commodities, real estate should do well during stagflation. I think crypto (mainstream ones, not fringe) should be doing well too IMHO, despite the skeptics.
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by mrb 1y ago
For the last 20+ years I have always built my own home NAS. 6 to 8 drives. ZFS. Initially OpenSolaris, then FreeBSD, and nowadays Debian. I would hate to use a proprietary solution like Synology. I'm generally very happy with my builds
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by mrb 1y ago
In my experience, in China as of 2016, "ssh -D" vasn't reliable at all, I wrote more details at https://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewa... (see "idea 1")
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by mrb 1y ago
You are correct. In fact these guys measured a maximum socket power consumption of 240 watt using a 9950X at stock settings, running prime95. So far above the "170 watt" TDP: https://hwbusters.com/cpu/amd-ryze
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by mrb 1y ago
This must be a glitch particular to Samsung phones. I use flagship Google Pixel phones and have NEVER witnessed such a lag. I tap on an input field with my left thumb, immediately the keyboard shows up, and I immediately smash any letter wi
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by mrb 1y ago
Easier clue that it's AI-generated: the store names are gibberish.
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by mrb 1y ago
SPA = single page app
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by mrb 1y ago
I know and acknowledged it: GH100 gates are 100nm wide despite the "5nm" process. We all know about this discrepancy. "Moore's Law is already dead" That's clearly false, have a quick look at this chart: http
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by mrb 1y ago
Exactly! So many ways to make PM2.5 spike. I didn't even know about shampoo and sunblock. I assume for sunblock it's the spray kind?
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by mrb 1y ago
"The smallest gate was built with an AFM out ~7 atoms; that's about 8 orders of magnitude smaller than a transistor" I was thrown off by your statement, so here are some numbers: a modern chip like Nvidia's GH100 manuf
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by mrb 1y ago
Given that this image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/653a9fbd1075088b6c8f8bd3/... shows PM2.5 and CO2(ppm) it may imply they monitor particles and CO2 levels. My guess is it also monitors humidity, and temperature
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by mrb 1y ago
This is the scariest part: “That will cause interest rates to rise. Within a decade, interest is going to be one third of all of your taxes, and in a couple decades, interest could be 80% of your taxes.” So I was curious and looked up the e
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by mrb 1y ago
In metric units: 4805 meters, 271°C The average drilling speed over 16 days is: 1 cm every ~3 seconds, or 1 inch every ~7 seconds. The press release quotes a maximum average rate of penetration (ROP) of 95 feet/hour which is: 1 cm ever
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by mrb 1y ago
Yeah, my take away is more "yet another example of a lousy firewall causing dumb issues".
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by mrb 1y ago
"what makes Japan's transit card system (IC cards) so unique compared to the West" Actually other western transit system cards are similar to Japan's. For example in Paris the transit passes (Navigo cards) are stored-v
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by mrb 1y ago
Did you observe a drop in H1B visa applications since the 2024 presidential election?
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by mrb 2y ago
I see, thanks.
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by mrb 2y ago
Some fun math: according to some estimates there is 175 zettabytes of data worldwide. Assuming 20-terabyte harddrives, this could be stored on 8.8 billion drives. Assuming 10 drives per rack unit, 42 RU per rack cabinet, 16 square feet per
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by mrb 2y ago
I see, but the "to it" is what's grammatically incorrect. It is correct to write: there is a "there" there. It would also be correct to write: there is a "there" to it. But it is grammatically incorrect to
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by mrb 2y ago
"That there’s a ‘there’ there to it." WTF does this mean? This sentence is grammatically incorrect.

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