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by nine_k 5mo ago
Forgotten: genetically modified algae-like organisms that would float at the habitable-ish altitude due to having a gas bubble. These organisms should consume sunlight and transform gaseous substances into something more solid/liquid t
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Why would the source of the patches be less trusted than the source of (updated) kernels? I expect it to be the same, your distro. $200/year is peanuts for any commercial use worth the name. The problem, of course, is the whole non-fre
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I don't think that the highly educated people who would join the expedition would at the same time be happy to se their colony die out, and would find it too onerous to have children and pass their knowledge and fervor to the next gene
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Hasn't Carmack solved a few serious engineering problems, making Oculus more or less the most advanced VR device? (The fact that an advanced VR device does not seem to be needed by the mass market is not an engineering problem.)
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I bet the colonists would be highly (self-)selected for many traits not common in the majority of the population, likely including the willingness to have many children. I suppose that colonists on other planets, like colonists on other Ear
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by nine_k 5mo ago
(1) They will usually notify a few minutes (or hours) in advance, and (2) it would take a few minutes to spin up and set up a new VM to replace the old, without leaving your terminal.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
The interesting part is not the intro about a literary conflict inside mid-19th-century Danish literary circles, but the quotes from Kirkegaard that seem to apply to our modern situation, and to social media, which did not and could not exi
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Does Proton Pass use a wireguard tunnel? Or does Bitwarden? TLS should suffice. Yes, you want to guard the machine that hosts your passwords. You can even physically keep it at home, and only proxy its port 443 wherever you have a presence
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by nine_k 5mo ago
What is your plan when one of the machines needs to be taken offline for repairs? The probability is low, but the downside may be large.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Isn't it the "adversarial image" attack, well-known in (earlier) visual recognition models [1]? That would be a quite obvious vector. [1]: https://www.science.org/content/article/turtle-or-rifle-hack
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by nine_k 5mo ago
No more than Mac Studios. Datacenters need different hardware.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I wonder how much more expensive it is to rent the whole physical machine at all times for confidential computing purposes, compared to the losses incurred by a breach.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
It's a small language that looks familiar if you know other imperative Algol-derived languages. The point is not in that, the point is a single binary for everything, and portability. It's like busybox, which is unremarkable as Un
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by nine_k 5mo ago
While at it: How much Perl code is still running in production? I only know about two large Perl codebases, at Debain, and at booking.com.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Try the "Auto tab discard" extension. It allows me to have hundreds of tabs "open" and (in combination with Tree Style Tabs) largely blur the line between "browser sessions" and "bookmarks".
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by nine_k 5mo ago
There are always more people who might use your help, or at least your kind word. Most often they are right next to you. Maybe producing even more things is not what's worth doing. But doing more than just passively watch the world
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by nine_k 5mo ago
If an employee brings in more profit than before, you want more such employees, not less. You have to cut costs when the costs do not bring you enough profits.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Fair, but I spoke about cars, the commute / chore kind of work, not trucks, a commercial job.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
> shared, dedicated hosted hardware at full utilization I must say that the largest dedicated hosted hardware providers now, like Amazon or Google, to a large extent do not produce the software they are offering as a hosted solution (l
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by nine_k 5mo ago
> first airplane to jet engines in 27 years. Nitpick: more like 36 years, from Wright Flyer in 1903 to Heinkel 178 in 1939. Still quite impressive.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Booting into Debian with most devices fully functional is great. What I'd like to know is what software runs adequately under it in 4 GB RAM. Web browsing should definitely be possible, but I suppose it's limited to very few tabs.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
> No BSP, no kernel source, no vendor documentation — just a DTB extracted from the stock Android firmware and rebuilt from there. That's exactly how I'd write it, save for the em dash with spaces around it, which is not how
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by nine_k 5mo ago
That's why I said "part of its efficiency". Rust can do RAII, can optimize things more aggressively because of no aliasing ever in safe code, and because of known lifetimes, it can offer fearless concurrency™. Rust can also s
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I think k8s starts making sense when you have to manage more than 10-15 machines. Better yet, 50-100 machines. Especially if these 200 machines actually run 3-4 types of containers total. Usually it's rather unlike a sane dev setup. Ev
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Rust, a language with affine types, generics, lifetimes, deep static analysis, hygienic macros, etc is not low-level. It's nearly as high-level as Haskell (without HKTs though). It just does not rely on GC and allows to manage resource
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by nine_k 5mo ago
It would be funny if lead-acid batteries end up being space-grade, should the lead be able to serve as a radiation shield.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Redundancy and error correction should be built into such huge arrays anyway. Its amount just needs to be increased.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Driving a car is a chore, not a job (usually), much like washing dishes is. Dishwashers did not produce an economic collapse. OTOH replacing people with AI would indeed bring about a huge economic downturn. What would be good is augmenti
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Will this bring back the age of LAN parties, where the LAN is disconnected from the internet, and mobile connectivity is blocked?
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by nine_k 5mo ago
It's like "Forklifts outperform humans in weightlifting". The problem, of course, is that a forklift is much easier to spot among athletes than an AI among CTF players.

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