nickorlow

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by nickorlow 8mo ago
I doubt this happens. The administration is very buddy-buddy w/ big tech & asking them to cut off their entire European stream of income is not something they'll go for. I'd imagine Europe would try to nationalize all EU
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
Which suppliers? Do they supply anything that ASML realistically can't get anywhere? There is no good alternative for ASML if EU tries to shut down US access.
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
How many US firms would fail without access to ASML/Zeiss or products derived from their work?
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
I don't think the world would come crashing down, but what's the point if it's just another thing to memorize? The total cost/effort of timestamp translation in systems is not as high as people make it out to be.
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
> It's at least to make time management in systems much less error-prone and complex, among other things. I'm sure people deal w/ more complex issues, but 90% of it is covered by storing everything as UTC and doing the con
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
My point is either way you need to memorize some info in the first couple of interactions and it really doesn't make sense to go through all of this change to just memorize a different thing. If you really need to coordinate something
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
I used to think this, but mirroring the sun position makes a lot of sense. If I wanted to meet w/ someone in Australia, I would still need to know extra information (what their equivalent 9-5 working hours are).
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
Would be interested to see how this handles creating a bunch of applications and spoofing a bunch of clients interacting with those applications, which would push other applications out of the network.
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
yegge's article does come off as complicated design for the sake of complication
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
yeah, seems like a much simpler design though (i.e. only seems like one 'special/leader' agent, and the rest are all workers vs gastown having something like 8 different roles mayor, polecat, witnesses, etc). Wonder how they
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
Even at the personal blog level, I'd argue it's worth it to run your own server (even if it's just an old PC in a closet). Gets you on the path to running a home lab.
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
A country will definitely still be able to regulate you. Also under what regulations they'd be afraid of other than local building laws
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
I don't get the point at all of these. You: - have very non-deterministic latency - are located outside of a country that can protect you (ie China could disrupt your space data center) - have to pay millions of dollars to swap out har
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by nickorlow 8mo ago
Not a technical reason, but given Cloudflare's recent business practices where they hold you hostage if you don't upgrade to an enterprise plan are a pretty good reason to avoid imo.
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
(Could have the client download the blob from where the repo is hosted on GitHub, which takes under a second for me to download: https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia/raw/refs/heads/mane/... )
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Yeah, that's fair, though I'd think you can get a CDN/someone else to host the blob this for fairly cheap/free. Having too many users is a pretty good problem to have anyway!
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
I'd think other neural-engine using apps would also have weird behavior. Would've been interesting to try a few App Store apps and see the weird behavior
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Anytime I have to do some serious amount of math, I have to go dig around and find my TI-84, everything is just burned into muscle memory
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
I believe in privacy but generally people are fine with rec algorithms running on a server if it's transparent enough/self hostable. Mastodon/DuckDuckGo/HN/etc all don't need to download a huge blob locally. (I
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Lawsuits are expensive and I'd think that name and shaming would open npp up to one
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Wonder how many packages in community package repos are compromised. Surely "Hubbleexplorer" can be trusted to provide arch users with a honest, clean version of npp.
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Especially in this case where the attackers could've proxied you to their malicious servers through npp's good/trusted servers
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
I wonder who the targets were/what the malicious binaries did. Assuming some gov related shop + sent the contents of files on the host to attackers.
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Wonder if you can do this with mobile phones by timing the time to the first ring?
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
I think most questionnaires that ask about sanction-related things use the phrasing "Mainland China," I would be unsurprised if Oracle's CLA said that
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Assuming Google has allowed Gemini to become some part of the ranking bias, and asking it how to improve will essentially tell you how to game it. I feel like search (even on non-google search engines) has gotten pretty bad. Kagi seems to b
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
His article introducing it [1] was very interesting... [1] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Stuff like this makes me feel like I'm living in a different reality than the author
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Can they not just associate your debit/credit card w/ your account?
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by nickorlow 9mo ago
Google update sucks. Not only is it slower + generally dumber, but their AI alignment has made it refuse to answer very normal questions (I got scolded by my speaker for asking about the hours of the nearest liquor store)

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