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by oofbey 6mo ago
Good catch. The trick is you don’t need a good clock on the phone. Really all you’re measuring is the difference in time signals between the satellites. The clocks on the satellites are (effectively) perfectly synced with each other. So wha
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by oofbey 6mo ago
Hopefully between this and looming cryptographically relevant quantum computing, this whole house of cards will come crumbling down. And those who invested vast capital to burn carbon in order to evade finance regulations will lose everythi
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by oofbey 6mo ago
You asked the wrong question. Sorry if you still don’t understand why. Seems others are also trying to help you understand but maybe you don’t want to.
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by oofbey 6mo ago
HOW are they logically separated? Are there any layers to this security? Any standard established security boundaries like containers? Or is it just your app code doing its best not to have security bugs?
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by oofbey 6mo ago
I would argue that saying the accounts are logically separated is a snarky comment. It’s akin to patting the reader on the head and saying “don’t you worry your pretty little head”. Logically separated says nothing. Distinct VMs are logical
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by oofbey 6mo ago
I’m guessing you’ve never been poor. For people living in poverty, finding $100 for a one time purchase is extremely difficult - much more than say finding $10 per month. Finance options are notoriously predatory and expensive. Plus if i
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by oofbey 6mo ago
I love the line “People like to freak out about this, so I wanted to post it here to make sure that everyone who wants to freak out about it gets the opportunity to do so.”
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by oofbey 6mo ago
Agreed. Although I’m not sure what’s nicer about it. It’s in color. But I failed to understand why I’d want any of those features.
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by oofbey 6mo ago
Oh they’re logically separated. Thanks for explaining that. Now I’m certain nothing could possibly go wrong. /s
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by oofbey 6mo ago
I had a friend who complained about this too. I never understood it. She had a really cheap old android phone. Maybe that’s the issue?
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by oofbey 6mo ago
Obtaining your first id is obviously difficult. But so is obtaining your first computer. If you’re on good terms with your government, obtaining the id is easier. That’s really the key. Sure if you focus on hostile states this stuff all mak
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by oofbey 6mo ago
Privacy enthusiasts tend to align with anarchists - people who intrinsically distrust institutions. Maybe this also correlates with qualities like blind optimism, or disbelief in institutions like capitalism?
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by oofbey 6mo ago
I guess it depends on what you consider normal. Most of the humans I know find it vastly easier to produce a state issued id to an authority than to generate a public/private key pair.
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by oofbey 6mo ago
I like the idea. But I’m pretty happy with Signal. Signal does require a phone number I think, but otherwise seems very similar. Grounding identity in a phone number is very reasonable for almost all normal usage. It makes recovery simple.
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by oofbey 6mo ago
I agree that’s a great question which I don’t really know the answer to. These tools have been moving in lock step for some time now. One will innovate and within 2-3 weeks the others have that feature. Where I sit the mind share all seems
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by oofbey 6mo ago
The unit economics at this point are about utilization. Their cost is well below what they’re charging, but only when there is enough traffic to keep the GPUs busy. So the game is about increasing demand to level the load. GPT has negligibl
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by oofbey 6mo ago
Also not like it’s a particularly good piece of tech. It was the first to show a new category. But jeebus the design and security are a nightmare. Any of the numerous other claws are better choices for anything serious.
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by oofbey 6mo ago
Classic SV hubris. Talk to OpenAI people and they’re so convinced they’re untouchable, they don’t bother worrying about things like revenue, or product strategy. All they cared about was being the first to AGI. Well it looks like that isn’t
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by oofbey 6mo ago
Exactly. The heat shield problems and lack of full disclosure are quite troubling.
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by oofbey 7mo ago
The idea that they don’t learn from experience might be true in some limited sense, but ignores the reality of how LLMs are used. If you look at any advanced agentic coding system the instructions say to write down intermediate findings in
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by oofbey 7mo ago
Hilarious. I agree that it says a lot how a project handles reports like these.
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by oofbey 7mo ago
Most everything starts as PyTorch. (Or maybe Jax.) But the inference engines all use hand tuned CUDA kernels - at least the good ones do. You have to do that to optimize things.
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by oofbey 7mo ago
I’m using VRAM as shorthand for “memory which the AI chip can use” which I think is fairly common shorthand these days. For the spark is it unified, and has lower bandwidth than most any modern GPU. (About 300 GB/s which is comparable
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by oofbey 7mo ago
Meh. DGX is Arm and CUDA. Strix is X86 and ROCm. Cuda has better support than ROCm . And x86 has better support than Arm. Nowadays I find most things work fine on Arm. Sometimes something needs to be built from source which is genuinely ann
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by oofbey 7mo ago
It’s not for people to buy. It’s for companies to buy. Compare to salary, and it’s cheap.
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by oofbey 7mo ago
DGX Spark is a fantastic option at this price point. You get 128GB VRAM which is extremely difficult to get at this price point. Also it’s a fairly fast GPU. And stupidly fast networking - 200gbps or 400gbps mellanox if you find coin for an
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by oofbey 7mo ago
> Windows touches more people’s lives than almost any technology on Earth. Thankfully Ballmer failed and this isn’t even close to true. I, like a lot of highly technical professionals, have been Windows sober for many years now.
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by oofbey 7mo ago
AHT?
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by oofbey 7mo ago
Exactly. Consider the current conflict in Iran. They have thousands of drones that cost $50k each. The US’s only real defense against one of these drones is to fire a million dollar missile at it. That assymmetry can win or lose a war.
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by oofbey 7mo ago
This design is pretty clearly optimized for weaponry. Eg the foldable fins - necessary if you want to keep a magazine of these things stored compactly before firing. Totally unnecessary for funsies. What nonviolent application are you imagi

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