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by nvy 3y ago
OpenBSD isn't materially more secure than Linux, these days. They've shipped several RCEs over the years, in software included in base, but because the software is not enabled by default they don't update their security sloga
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by nvy 3y ago
Usually when people parody Canadians they get the "eh" completely wrong.
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There are lots of ways, none of them practical, especially with passengers on board.
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by nvy 3y ago
I'm currently using GitHub Projects for the Kannan view that integrates with Issues. Does Redmine have that feature?
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> I'll never understand the undeserved hate that blockchain tech gets. I understand that some people automatically associate blockchain with crypto scams, but fundamentally the tech is inspiring. Is it? From where I sit it's a
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by nvy 3y ago
Maybe I was wrong on that point, and maybe I wasn't. Are you suggesting it invalidates the entire premise? Or is this just classic HN pedantry? Do you have anything useful to add to the discussion?
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by nvy 3y ago
I think it's two sides of the same coin. Demand for medical imaging is not necessarily the same as demand for human radiologists. One radiologist can service 2 or 3 hospitals thanks to the internet, and "AI" is getting bett
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by nvy 3y ago
>Assuming LLM improve productivity why do you think the market will shrink instead of getting even more stuff done? Because this is what always happens when tools cause productivity gains. Budgets aren't infinite. - Computerized av
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by nvy 3y ago
Perusing the comments here, it's interesting how short-sighted HN can be when it comes to LLMs. Generative "AI" is only going to get better, and the question of whether or not ChatGPT can write FizzBuzz, or avionics firmware
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by nvy 3y ago
>any question Do you mean "every question"? Because ChatGPT has already answered some of my questions correctly, so if you mean "any" as in "any one of the infinite set of questions" I'll take that bet
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by nvy 3y ago
Jumping through all these hoops just to, what? Avoid the garbage collector? It's okay to admit C has shortcomings.
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by nvy 3y ago
While I highly doubt the anecdote about knowing soil chemistry from smell, farmers have more knowledge and skill than you give them credit for.
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by nvy 3y ago
To varying degrees, one could say the same of studying philosophy, ethics, music, history, economics, etc. Knowledge doesn't have to be directly applicable to have value.
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The mounts we used went through an airworthiness and crash survivability review. The ones I'm familiar with had dual suction cups and the cups themselves were pretty significant.
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by nvy 3y ago
I used to be in military SAR and the powers that be required helo crews to keep their EFBs/iPads in a clip with suction mounts, similar to what you see in cars for phones. Those regs are well established. Whether these guys were follo
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by nvy 3y ago
So, I used to work in SAR and we trained annually at a major disaster exercise. Absolutely none of the exercises included working with hams. Ham EMCOM is mostly useful for relaying "Bill Jones says he's okay"-type traffic bu
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by nvy 3y ago
How charming. Email is in my profile if you'd like to discuss this further.
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by nvy 3y ago
Yep, that's the fetish these guys have. Old grouchy misanthrope in a Tilley hat becomes local hero during an earthquake.
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by nvy 3y ago
At least where I live, the vast majority of hams you encounter both in person and on the airwaves are grumpy aging boomers who are actively hostile to new people. Goodbye Amateur Radio, you won't be missed.
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by nvy 3y ago
PRU stands for Programmable Real-time Unit. The soc on the original Black had two 200MHz PRUs which ran independently of the main processor and could be used for signalling and sensing tasks that require tight timing guarantees, and can the
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by nvy 3y ago
I have a few Beaglebone Blacks kicking around the house and they're great. I've always felt the Beagle boards were superior to Raspberry Pis, and that the RPi mostly succeeded because of better marketing and outreach efforts. It&
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by nvy 3y ago
Nice find, thanks!
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by nvy 3y ago
For people who are proficient in other languages but haven't touched C++ since CS036 in undergrad, some 15+ years ago, what would be the best way to learn what "modern C++", both the code and the dev stack, looks like? Asking
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by nvy 3y ago
This is cool. I do something similar but with an IRC server that I run and expose over wireguard. I have a channel where my various IOT devices tell me stuff, a channel where my algorithmic trading bot notifies me, and a reminders channel
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by nvy 3y ago
The problem is that if drugs are not decriminalized, that guy's probably in jail or was extrajudicially executed by the police. It's not like we'd be doing him a service by charging him with a felony.
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by nvy 3y ago
I'm not a Signal user nor a Moxie fanboy but I believe Snowden used PGP because that's what Laura Poitras used, not because of its technical merits.
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PGP is for security LARPers and doesn't matter at all.
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>Now, if you consider the uncensored models, then you actually have some capabilities that GPT 3.5 and 4 are completely lacking. Can you elaborate on what those capabilities are?
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by nvy 3y ago
I like to be able to actually tell someone my domain name/email address/etc., verbally. Rattling off a 56-character base32 string just doesn't work.
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Seems to me that this article does a great job explaining why jupyter notebooks are a poor collaboration tool. I wish that non-emacs implementations of org were more commonplace, as it's a pretty sane markup language and supports embed

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