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by nickcw 4mo ago
Link local addresses are exactly that. They don't route and they are for low level stuff like adding stuff to the routing table or BGP. If you want to do this properly then you configure a Unique Local Addresses (ULA) out of the range
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by nickcw 4mo ago
That brings back fond memories of my first employer in the early 90s. They used to rent a single scan line (VBI) of the TV broadcast to use as a data transmission method encoded the same way Teletext was. IIRC you could fit 45 bytes in a si
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by nickcw 4mo ago
I found a similar vulnerability in the Zeus Web Server ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_Web_Server ) in January 2000. Zeus had a great feature where you could set up virtual servers just by creating directories. So
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by nickcw 4mo ago
If you read the advisory and are wondering what starlette is, from it's web page: starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building async web services in Python. It's used a lot in the data heavy
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by nickcw 4mo ago
Go doesn't have colored functions due to its nice fat runtime hiding all the async magic away for us. That makes it a pleasure to code concurrent stuff for IMHO. It does have its own similar problems though - does a function return an
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by nickcw 5mo ago
LLMs are very prone to priming in my experience. That is the human psychology name for what you are describing; whether it should be applied to LLMs I don't know, but it describes the phenomenon perfectly.
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by nickcw 5mo ago
I just merged a commit for exactly this in rclone https://github.com/rclone/rclone/commit/ad8a108453f3ce983fb6... It is interesting to dig into why. There was a security vulnerability in golang.org/x&#x
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The Maintainer's Dilemma(spf13.com)
4 points by nickcw 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nickcw 5mo ago
Great demo! Very interesting to see that if you wiggle the hunter (1) back and forth the accuracy improves. I think this is expected but interesting to see as you see humans and animals doing exactly this to better gauge how far away someth
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First look at Googlebook: A premium Chromebook alternative for Android users(zdnet.com)
2 points by nickcw 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nickcw 5mo ago
The Z80 spawned the 64180 which was a Z80 with loads of stuff built in (from Wikipedia) Execution and bus access clock rates up to 10 MHz Memory Management Unit supporting 512K bytes of memory (one megabyte for the HD64180 packaged in a PLC
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by nickcw 5mo ago
Ha. When I was a teenager I used to build 555s into timers for the same purpose using a no PCB rats nest construction. Though surprising the family at dinner with a small explosion was a much more innocent purpose.
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by nickcw 5mo ago
I love photorec and dd rescue. I have recovered many many disks and memory cards with it. I even recovered a card that had been off to professional recovery and deemed unrecoverable. I think half the memory chips in the card were fried so I
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by nickcw 5mo ago
1.4 GW power, 6 GWh capacity 6 GWh is approximately 5 kilotons of TNT equivalent. Would make a big bang should it go off.
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by nickcw 6mo ago
In physics, whenever you make a measurement it has a precision. Usually you represent this as a normal distribution, but for calculations it can be easier to represent this as an interval. The police measure the distance my car travelled [
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by nickcw 6mo ago
> Her 3.5 foot by 3.5 foot solar panel weighs about 25 pounds and is a half-inch thick. It can harvest about 220 watts of energy from the sun each day. Grrrr. Watts is not a unit of energy. As a holder of a physics degree this annoys me
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by nickcw 6mo ago
Sadly as in "Oh dear, I better start debugging this" I think.
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by nickcw 6mo ago
I think it is conceptually the same but multiple PRs gives you the tools to manage the commits properly which GitHub is missing. You can't do the equivalent of `git rebase -i` in the GitHub UI to squash a fixup into a previous commit.
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by nickcw 6mo ago
Something I learnt was when learning new juggling tricks, make sure to practice them both ways round. For example if you are learning to shower 3 (round in a circle juggling) make sure you practice the high throws with your right and left h
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by nickcw 6mo ago
I always felt that 4 wasn't a huge step up from 3 for most people, especially given the right tips. If you learn 3 in a day or two then 4 is a week or two. That kind of thing. A good trick to practice 4 is to throw 4 throws in the midd
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by nickcw 6mo ago
Sure! Juggle two in dominant hand. Then two in weak hand. Then two plus one both ways round, then 4. That's how I used to teach people anyway. Balls go up on the inside and down on the outside. For most people two really well in non do
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by nickcw 6mo ago
Learn to juggle two balls with the other hand and you are half way to 4 (which is two in each hand out of sync)
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by nickcw 6mo ago
My favourite technique is after the initial two ball crosses was for me to stand in for their left (or non dominant) hand. You stand slightly behind your pupil and get them to put their left hand behind their back and you put your left hand
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by nickcw 6mo ago
I love Taylor Tries https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGV8mtb7t-4PuziHauottOfqp... Great teaching style and a fantastic juggler
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Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows(theregister.com)
4 points by nickcw 6mo ago|2 comments
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by nickcw 7mo ago
The first thing I do when I make a new repo is star it myself ;-)
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by nickcw 7mo ago
Wow - beautiful. I've mended a lot of porcelain and earthenware but I use the modern art of epoxy resin. The tricky bit is letting it set just enough so you can cut the excess off cleanly without smearing but not too much so you can&#x
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by nickcw 7mo ago
I was looking at the Standby plan a few months ago. There was some talk as to needing to activate it to full speed and price at least once per year or pay an extra fee which makes it a lot less attractive.
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by nickcw 7mo ago
> bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (e.g., BitNet b1.58). It offers a suite of optimized kernels, that support fast and lossless inference of 1.58-bit models on CPU and GPU (NPU support will coming next). One
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by nickcw 7mo ago
> So, assuming the source material is correct and electrons indeed have mass, SSDs do get heavier with more data. That is definitely wrong! No way the source material has more electrons. The only way it could do that is by being charged.

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