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by perlgeek 2y ago
It seems to me that the authors are pretty cautious. They don't claim "we found a scalable way to violate the second law of thermodynamics", but instead make very specific claims about what they measured, and that they produc
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I don't see government monopolies as immediate red flags. In most nations it's widely accept that the state has a monopoly on violence (usually through the police force), and it's not clear to me what a good alternative to th
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> Solar panels only work because there's a temperature difference between the panel and the optical surface of the Sun. I believe this isn't quite true (even though it's often repeated). Consider that you could have an LE
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Thermodynamics says "no", at least on macroscopic scales. My thermodynamics lectures are some 20 years in the past, so my memory is a bit rusty, but iirc you need "free energy", that is, usable energy in the form of a lo
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Most governments value their law enforcement obligations and/or desire for surveillance more strongly than an Internet that is protected from spying, so good luck with that.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Another aspect are HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) headers, which can extend to subdomains. If your main web page is available at example.com, and the CMS starts sending HSTS headers, stuff on subdomain.example.com can suddenly break.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
As an addition, if you first try to write the code one way, and then it doesn't work and you need a second approach, that's a really good indication that you want some kind of comment there. You were surprised while writing it,
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I've told the story before on HN, but maybe it fits here too... A great-uncle of mine lived in Eastern Germany. He bought a pleasure cruiser, about 28 meters length. For everything longer than 25m, he would have needed a captain's
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Even if not intentional, such things happen by accident. Have you ever read up on how the psychedelic properties of LSD were discovered? > While re-synthesizing LSD, he accidentally absorbed a small amount of the drug and discovered its
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> For desktop users who just want sandboxed applications, I don't think Red Hat's SELinux implementation does much to protect them Does, like, anything on mainstream Linux distributions really sandbox applications by default? L
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Location: Germany Remote: Only (though occasional travel for RL meetups are OK) Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Python, Perl, SQL, Gitlab CI, container, ansible, ... Résumé/CV: https://moritzlenz.
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I agree this is not trivial, but yubikeys are (at least sometimes) used in context with very high stakes. This includes access to "crypto" assets, but also more serious situations such as defense contractors. These are scenarios w
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by perlgeek 2y ago
From the hiring page: > at the end of the month, a bot summarizes the time tracked by a staff member and multiplies it by their hourly rate to figure out the compensation. So this is not a regular employment contract, I guess? Can you ma
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Could be an artifact of record keeping culture, combined with eagerness to contribute to Wikipedia.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
At some point, the glass, frame and wiring will dominate the cost of solar panels, and when we hit that point, the price will likely stop falling. I don't know if we'll ever get as low as $4 with our current approach.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I cannot decide if this is ingenious, incredible dumb, or maybe both at the same time. Where does the "1 mile down" come from? That seems more like based on emotion than on science / engineering. If it isn't, I'd li
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> being ghosted after helping a customer I guess that's a matter of expectation. A ticket system I've worked with in the past had an "autoclose" state where you could set the ticket to automatically close after a set
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Honest question: does building low-cost cruise missiles use microchips or other parts produced in China? Or, maybe in Taiwan, or any other country that would probably stop shipping parts after such a war (involving China and the US, most li
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> The "Undo" button in the toast is unnecessary because the user can just click the checkbox again I disagree with this part, at least in general. Having an Undo is very good if you have accidentally clicked somewhere and don&#
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I've read up a bit on it, and it seems I was wrong. I was under the impression that some kind of regulatory body that told Google that they don't have a good enough reason to lay off people, but it might have been their own counci
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Technically, this was not a lawsuit. It was an enforcement action from the Workplace Relations Commission, and can be appealed in court.
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BTW in Germany, if a company decides to lay off people just to save money, they have to coordinate with some government agency -- and if the company doesn't have financial trouble, those layoffs can be blocked. This happened to Alphabe
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Lots of software started this way: as a toy, a proof-of-concept, a learning opportunity for the programmers. I really hope that they find interested people who join their experiments, and build something awesome and open together.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
90% accuracy for diagnosing cavities doesn't seem that great to me, would be good to see dentist's accuracy in comparison. Otherwise very impressive.
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I'd love to see more products use some machine learning in ways that fit their current UI paradigms. For example: * You enter an ambiguous search term into a search engine. It shows you some results, but it also shows you some buttons
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> I think UBI without regulations on pricing will result in inflation that will negate the benefits of UBI. I believe that too, and that sounds like a market failure to me. Shouldn't competition keep prices down? I believe we need t
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Which of course begs the question: How were they able to do that? Was there no internal review? What about automated processes? For an organization it's always the easiest, most convenient answer to blame a single scapegoat, maybe fire
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Unfortunately, consistent self-care isn't easy for many people struggling with mental health issues. Since you don't immediately feel worse after not taking your pill once, it's very easy to slip up if you aren't the mos
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I'm always fascinated by these spacecraft that far outlive their designed mission lifetime, and then sometimes need a software hacks to continue operating, often with reduced capabilities. Just recently we had the news about Voyager 1
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The authentic experience is irssi in screen, tmux is quite new in comparison (2015 maybe?)

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