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811.
by phire 4y ago
Even a bad password can be immune to brute force if the attacker never gets their hands on the password hash. People always forget that there are two steps to a password brute force attack. First the attacker needs to somehow get their hand
812.
by phire 4y ago
Older films tended to show the copyright date during the opening credits, on the title card.
813.
by phire 4y ago
The blue checkmarks were a large part of his original beef with Twitter. Charging for blue checkmarks was always a key part of his proposal for "fixing" Twitter. Backing down on that aspect would be equivalent to admitting that he
814.
by phire 4y ago
> and even Intel admitted that ray tracing is just "brute forcing" the complex optical physics of a scene Modern ray traced games are much less "brute force" than what they were doing back in 2008. The use clever te
815.
by phire 4y ago
For bidirectional ferries, I assume they just pick a direction all the way back at design time and stick to it. The direction might not matter, but consistency does.
816.
by phire 4y ago
Beyond the tech demos There are dozens published 3D games. The most impressive is the GBA port of Driv3r. More or less stripped down Grand Theft Auto 3 style sandbox game, squashed down onto the GBA. Driv3r Video: https://www.you
817.
by phire 4y ago
I found one page that suggested 65% of recycled cobalt came from recycled batteries. Most of the rest came from heavy metals.
818.
by phire 4y ago
Ah, during the 80s and 90s, they only allocated 89.0 to 101mhz for FM radio due to previous allocations. When users of of those bands were moved elsewhere (to mobile phones) they expanded to the standard 88.0mhz to 108mhz range in 2000. Loo
819.
by phire 4y ago
I assume these satanic panic cases happened everywhere. In New Zealand, we had a kindergarten teacher who was convinced of preforming satanic rituals in a medieval style torture chamber in the basement of the kindergarten, There was even a
820.
by phire 4y ago
I find it interesting that when we say terminal emulator these days, we are very explicitly referring to an informal standard that is (more or less) VT100 + color + mouse + Unicode.
821.
by phire 4y ago
It's a thing in New Zealand. Limited to a 1w transmitter, so it can only cover a small area. And only a few subranges within the FM band. But no registration is required, you just need to use pre-approved equipment and anounce your con
822.
by phire 4y ago
Yeah, it has some lift. Not as much as the space shuttle, but more than apollo. I couldn't find published numbers for reentry. I know it hits 2.5g for a second during the final flip maneuver, I suspect they have engineered it to hit ab
823.
by phire 4y ago
Yes, though you can engineer reentry too. For example, the space shuttle uses it's wings (and body) to generate quite a bit of lift and spread the reentry over a much longer period. the g-forces during re-entry. It's 10min at 1.7g
824.
by phire 4y ago
You can absolutely use engineering to limit the g forces. It's just a matter throttling back the engines near the end of a stage and/or staging sooner. For example, Gemini peeked at 6.4g, Apollo peeked at 4g and the Space Shuttl
825.
by phire 4y ago
They didn't receive the cash backing the deposits, just an obligation to pay those deposits back to depositors. The cash backing the deposits has already been lent out to create the $56 million in assets that they are also receiving.
826.
by phire 4y ago
The feedforward nature does mean it's not computationally complete for a single iteration. But a single iteration only generates a single token, which gets fed back in to the next iteration. If you let it loop forever, generating unlim
827.
by phire 4y ago
I'm not a vegetarian, but even I feel it's not directly equivalent.
828.
by phire 4y ago
Yes, chicken does make me feel a little uneasy. Beef and lamb are probably the least cruel, at least when they are fed grass outside (and where I live, they always are) I understand that grain fed beef can be more cruel, depending on how lo
829.
by phire 4y ago
There is so many places to inject creativity into the process. Before the capture you have: Chosing the location, posing the camera, adjusting objects in the background, setting up bate to attract wildlife, choosing optimal camera settings.
830.
by phire 4y ago
Well, it might be more accurate to say they are taking on risk. They are getting customers (the deposits owed to those customers is debt), but they will also be getting illiquid assets that should more or less cover the value of those depos
831.
by phire 4y ago
That's a windows issue. When they say dword, they actually mean 32bit. It's just a type alias. I assume you will find the same issue on the Window NT ports to MIPS and PowerPC. Where you see dword as 64bit on those platforms is th
832.
by phire 4y ago
Worth pointing out that it's not 100% accurate at arithmetic, that becomes quite clear when you ask it to calculate large numbers. It's result is usually close, but not perfect. So it hasn't learned the exact rules for arithm
833.
by phire 4y ago
PowerPC, ARM, AArch64, RISC-V and MIPS all use dword to refer to 64bit data. And AArch64 also uses qword to refer to 128 bit data types.
834.
by phire 4y ago
The reason why word size is so confusing is that we started sharing architectures (partially or fully) across multiple CPU designs, baking in the word size of whatever CPU design was first. And even Architectural word size has fallen out of
835.
by phire 4y ago
Dragon Naturally Speaking required extensive training on the voice of the user, and the result wasn't as accurate as modern machine-learning speech-to-text models. You had to watch it and actively correct it's results. IMO, the ac
836.
by phire 4y ago
> (cd burners were very expensive, but a floppy version existed) You just borrowed the install CD. The only time you needed it was for the install and (sometimes) installing drivers after installing new hardware. You could actually cop
837.
by phire 4y ago
Yes, One branch unit per SIMD. Though actually 16 IPs, for the 16 hardware threads that can be multiplexed in to hide memory latency, similar to SMT on CPUs. CUs don't really exist anymore as of RDNA 1, replaced by the WGP. In some mar
838.
by phire 4y ago
Yeah, an "SIMD" in AMD's terminology is more-or-less an independent "cpu-like" core. Has it's own instruction decoder and multiplexes upto 16 threads of executions (wavefronts) depending on how many registers e
839.
by phire 4y ago
The freedom of information request revealed no evidence from tv detector vans was directly used in prosecution. But apparently tv detector van evidence was used for search warrants that then lead to further evidence that was used in prosecu
840.
by phire 4y ago
> If you scaled the architecture down significantly, it would be significantly less capable[1]. But perhaps I misunderstand your point. No, my point is that if you scaled a transformer based architecture, down to the equivalent paramete

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