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by phire 3y ago
- It's significantly easier to monetize mobile apps (both with ads and in-app purchases) - Open projects already dominate the desktop space - There are a growing number of younger people who aren't really computer literate, or oth
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by phire 3y ago
Yeah, 6 interleaved spirals, allowing it to select a track by timing when it drops the stylus. There are 6 electrical contacts spaced around the disc that close at the correct timing for each track. This is described in the patent (pdf) ht
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by phire 3y ago
Me too. Reddit almost certainly ran those numbers. They might have chosen to ignore them. They might have fed biased assumptions into their calculations. Project management might have messed up and deprioritized the features meant to placat
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by phire 3y ago
The Reddit API changes are hyper-focused on killing 3rd party mobile apps. Most mod tools should be unaffected simply because they fall well-inside the free usage limits. As for the remaining mod tools? Reddit admins have even resorted to m
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by phire 3y ago
It's designed to handle a one engine takeoff even when fully loaded, just in case an engine fails above V1. Sure, it's not actually designed to go from standstill to V1 on a single engine, but it shouldn't have any problems.
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by phire 3y ago
Immediately after the equipment stopped operating, MH-370 made a series of course changes. It did a ~160 degree turn (at a very high angle of bank) and flew along the border between Malaysia/Thailand border (probably assuming that mili
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by phire 3y ago
> It doesn't help that btrfs developers refuse to work around drive bugs. The entire selling point of the filesystem is that it's resilient to data corruption. Drive bugs are just another class of data corruption.
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by phire 3y ago
Would be an interesting experiment. My hypothesis is that an LLM would actually do a pretty good job at moderation, but only if the community didn't know it was an LLM doing the work. Moderation is really just applied sentiment analysi
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by phire 3y ago
There is circularity in that Proof-of-work was originally proposed as a solution to bulk email spam. Didn't work as a solution for that either.
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by phire 3y ago
Yeah, looks like you are correct. I only checked that the title matched the contents of the article, not that the article was correctly researched.
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by phire 3y ago
Title appears to be correct: "Later on Tuesday, a filing from the United States District Court for the District Of Columbia showed that the court had agreed to grant the SEC’s demands."
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by phire 3y ago
I had a BTRFS raid corrupt because one of my HDD had a firmware bug and was silently discarding writes. Sure... HDDs shouldn't do that, but it's literally the job of a BTRFS raid to protect me from such issues. The data was all st
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by phire 3y ago
Digg was more or less dead before the v4 launch. They were already losing a flood of users to reddit and other social media networks (facebook and twitter were going though the roof). They had massive issues with voting rings manipulating
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by phire 3y ago
Actually, a minimal magnet link only contains the infohash which "points" at just the info section of the torrent file. The info section contains the name, list of files and SHA1 hashes for all pieces, and the private flag. The tr
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by phire 3y ago
Commercial? Not really. It's closed source freeware with a donation option.
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by phire 3y ago
Your examples are not inherent rights that copyright law explictly grants to rights holders. They are clever side effect of how the holder licenses out their monopoly on reproduction. Holders rarely grant unrestricted reproduction rights to
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by phire 3y ago
> Lossy or not, the training data provides value. If we ignore the issue of machine learning for now; It's not the job of copyright to prevent people extracting value from a copyrighted work. If it was, then it would be possible f
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by phire 3y ago
Once you get to this level of performance, the bulk of a SSD controller ASIC is essentially just high-performance switching fabric; directing the flow of data between the 8-12 channels of NAND flash, the PCIE bus, it's internal buffers
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by phire 3y ago
It's nearly impossible to create a ground effect vehicle that can't fly out of ground effect for a limited time. They need a significant amount of extra power to get out of the water in the first place, so there will always be mor
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by phire 3y ago
That's not the story on Wikipedia. Microsoft entered into negotiations with Stac Electronics to licence Stacker, but the deal fell though (allegedly, Stac claim that Microsoft didn't offer any money, just the right to sell enhance
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by phire 3y ago
The user is meant to keep a backup copy of the seed written down somewhere safe. If the firmware had been tampered with, there is no safe way to extract the key. Better that the user uses the recovery seed on a fresh device. Which means the
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by phire 3y ago
I'm not sure it's possible to fix that "core problem". In the example of an AI assistant managing your emails, users want to be able to give it instructions like "delete that email about flowers" or "move
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by phire 3y ago
Information about Rational System's 286 extender seems to be limited. What I found: Rational System were later renamed to Tenberry and their DOS/4G and DOS/4GW extenders were very popular (due to the latter being bundled with
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by phire 3y ago
Not bugs. IBM literally wired up the keyboard controller to trigger the CPU's reset pin on request as a workaround for getting back to real mode. But not every system has that feature. Some motherboard chipsets had an even faster metho
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by phire 3y ago
Before anyone jumps to conclusions, all this ruling means is that this example of an iOS virtual machine (for the purpose of security research) counts as fair use. It doesn't exactly open the doors for everyone to run iOS in virtual ma
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by phire 3y ago
That trademark is only for the term "Turbo pascal" on a printed reference manaual for a computer program. It probably wouldn't have applied here anyway, but maybe there are other (more generic) turbo pascal or even "turb
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by phire 3y ago
They made a lot of progress, but compared to a lot of other countries, they started from a poor position with almost zero hydro and a lot of coal. Much of their progress was replacing coal with cleaner natural gas imported from Russia, whic
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by phire 3y ago
Still, an average of one brand new phone per person every 18 months seems very high. Don't forget that includes almost a billion children under the age of 8 who typically get hand-me-downs phones from their parents. And people in 3rd w
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by phire 3y ago
Also, it's not enough to simply repair the damage. They need do proper failure analysis and engineer a solution so this damage won't happen next time, 6-8 weeks seems way too short. Elon is suggesting just slapping down a shitload
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by phire 4y ago
Even if the target system doesn't have explicit login attempt limiting, you still run into the natural limitation of target CPU time. It's common to have login attempt limiting just to avoid letting remote targets waste all your C

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