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by perlgeek 4y ago
I don't know about that far back, but when my older daughter was about 18 months old, she had autobiographic memories going back to maybe 9-12month of age. When she was 3 years old, she still remembered them. Forget everything about th
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> I think sentience/consciousness are relatively clear concepts, at least in most areas of application If you think that, try to come up with a black-box test that determine if something or someone is sentient / conscious. I th
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Just wow. I "love" how in that picture, the individual contributors doing the actual work are the only ones not having a label. And it took me quite some time to even find them, and where the programming happens.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> Include an Hardware Asset FK in your Link M2M table. Model each binary link explicitly, so a Y cable = 2-3 different Links that point to the same cable Asset. Or you can have single Links with M2M inputs/outputs. But definitely do
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I want to believe you, but there are just so many complicated problems IN REALITY that we have to model in software that I don't really see complexity going down. Just an example: around here, most people have a first (given) and a las
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Similar to how cults are forming and then reinforcing: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Encryption alone doesn't prevent replay attacks, you need something more advanced; for example controller generates a nonce, reader hashes secret + nonce, controller compares to expected value.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
There is a trademark for "Open Source", and if you want to use it without written approval from OSI, you have to use it for something under an OSI-approved license: https://opensource.org/trademark-guidelines#Usage
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Things that no longer comfort me(jksteinberger.medium.com)
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by perlgeek 4y ago
if it's open source but in a private repo, couldn't somebody just make a public mirror? open source implies the right to redistribute source code.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Have you looked at the security of VPN products in the past 2ish years? Basically every one of the big ones had several really dumb and easily exploitable RCEs. It doesn't really help you to use a security product in front of your vuln
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by perlgeek 4y ago
... and yet car makers still feel obliged to provide turn-based navigation out of the box.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
What about cloud?
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by perlgeek 4y ago
It's not merely about the performance, it's about the management layer on top, support contracts, enterprise sales etc.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> What companies or roles will be more resilient? Maybe the right question to ask is: which industries will still be essential in a downturn? There will still be food production, health care, transport, energy, telecommunication, manufac
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> Be really careful with the yellows: if there is low impact, you might be confusing work for progress. If there is low urgency, you might be overestimaging the value of your work. On the flipside, if only high-urgency projects get done,
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by perlgeek 4y ago
... or in different cities, or even different countries, or at different times of day, or in different seasons.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
There was one study about that, which was... not very robust science. It relied on self-report of the biker (and if I remember correctly, it was just a single one, so not enough data).
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by perlgeek 4y ago
This assumes that the risk primarily originates from the riders, not from other traffic participants. Is there any data to substantiate this?
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I work at a b2b company with a 25+ years history, and OH MY GOD... * Sales is payed (partially) off commissions, so they do their very best to sell whatever the customer wants, not what the engineers know how to bill, or that product manage
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by perlgeek 4y ago
There doesn't seem to be much public transportation happening in Shanghai either...
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> What difference does it make whether the control and output have the same form of energy when the real thing that matters is the information it captures? A logic gate itself doesn't do much useful computation, you have to chain th
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by perlgeek 4y ago
If I understood the logic correctly, if you think in terms of transistors, they had a laser on the gate and used that to control an electric charge. > To reach these extreme speeds, the team made junctions consisting of a graphene wire c
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Customers will pay late. Some never pay. Plan for that.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Let me throw https://www.fallenlondon.com/ into the ring. It has lots of options to acquire various items and qualities, and depending on our situation, spreadsheets can help a lot figuring out which one is most efficient.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
About 4 months ago I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29520685 > I'm currently driving a pretty new Mercedes (company car), and its lane assistant regularly tries to kill me in construction areas becau
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Don't do it if you want people other than yourself visiting the blog.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
If carbon capture usually is a big cost, why not pair it up with industrial processes that produce lots of CO2 in a more concentrated form?
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by perlgeek 5y ago
I tend to agree. However, there's one point that makes me skeptical: there are no organizational changes, or changes to leadership, or anything in that direction. This sounds like "the tech guys screwed up, culture and management
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by perlgeek 5y ago
If you have a crappy connection, you should really use mosh ( https://mosh.org/ ) instead of SSH. My own experience is that text user interfaces over mosh work far better than web applications when on a crappy connection. My

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