pifm_guy

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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Everyone is missing the main point of this partnership.. By merging data about every purchase, both Amazon and stripe benefit dramatically from lowered fraud rates. Suddenly Amazon now knows when payments on your card are likely to bounce b
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I really want these ML libraries to get smarter with use of VRAM. Just cos I don't have enough VRAM shouldn't stop me computing the answer. It should just transfer in the necessary data from system ram as needed. Sure, it&#
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The 'fixing up mistakes in the map' team is quite separate from the anti-spam team. Using volunteer reports for anti-spam doesn't work because the spammers play a numbers game, and perhaps only 10% will be reported by a good
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
You'd think those magnets would go rusty in the bay...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Luckily, most projects seem to have a few supporters who want to help the project but don't have the technical skills yet to do so. For these people, managing the forums and bug reports is a valuable way contribute. They can keep the
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Yes it is, especially if it's posted with no evidence backing up the claims. For all we know, this might be a private dispute between two people, and, if presented all the information, Bryan's side might be the side that sounds mo
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Indeed... If I had to ban a community member for bad behaviour, I would want to do it in the most professional way possible, and never to directly accuse OP of anything not backed up with a direct link to evidence of wrongdoing.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
For any substantial changes, it's probably easier to just rewrite the firmware from scratch. Nearly every chip that supports Bluetooth has demo code available to make a Bluetooth HID device. All you'd need to do is run that and
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Oh it must be nice to be able to do things like this, while only keeping an eye out for the laws of your own country, safe in the knowledge that your government won't extradite you for breaking the laws of another country.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Even with a beefy PC, the chrome 'youre offline' Easter egg dinosaur game still drops frames. It's code is pretty much the simplest web game you can make. The bug is not in the game. Rendering should tax no machine. And y
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Have another circuit on-chip which is more sensitive to glitches than the CPU. Whenever that circuit detects a glitch in the clock, the power supply, the reset line, electric fields or magnetic fields, it halts the CPU until the whole syste
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> There were a few places where the text didn't even parse, I suspect that to be some artifact of the way the email has been stored/archived over the years. Sorta looks like the email was line wrapped to 100 chars, then line wr
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Legal troubles when people delete the location history, yet the estimated locations are still attached to photos in their account. It's a shame because on many devices tagging photos with GPS locations is unreliable - especially when t
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
If you look at the on-disk structure of NTFS, you see that it's design is rather similar to databases. Metadata and file data are treated in the same way. Every 'special' data structure, like for example the record of which
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> cant make a new Facebook in 2023 and add all these old friends. Literally psychotic behavior. I'm pretty sure Facebook 'archives' your account and allows reactivation just for people in this position...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
You can, but you need to own two neighbouring houses and be willing to install an (illegal) cable between them.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
It's like a copy of Photoshop with the color green blocked so that you can't draw US banknotes. Would Photoshop ever have seen success of it could only edit red/blue images?
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Well the bankruptcy practitioners will be presumably wanting at least 10% for their work finding all this stuff ...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Heat pipes - the large copper tubes between hot chips and heatsinks - are actually hollow and usually filled with some liquid/gas mixture. That's often butane or something with a lowish boiling temperature at lowish pressures. T
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I'd like to see what this malware actually does . I don't really care if there is malware running in my living room. Makes no difference to me if it runs there or at the north pole. It isn't exactly wasting much of my pow
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Which probably means they can upload unlimited photos to Google photos without it counting against the users quota ...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I 3d printed this well before 2019... Made in plastic as a prototype heat exchanger designed in openscad. Is there anything I can do, or must I now shelve my project because I didn't see this patent be filed?
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
All the whales and insiders thank you for your donation of £303 to their net worth.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Coinbase has 4700 employees!?! Like a team of 5 software engineers, and a customer support team of 10, and 1 boss ought to cover it...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
A flowchart can be encoded as simply the name of the state you're currently in.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
KYC isn't about stopping bad guys doing stuff. It's about stopping the government from shutting you down.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
There have been some pretty big advances in the last few months in machine learning.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
As a developer, I can tell you it usually isn't that simple. The vast majority of 10+ year old apps wouldn't compile with modern xcode, and even if they did they won't meet the stores requirements anymore. For a small app wit
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
It works much the same way as you exclude the rest of the people in the world from a document... Don't publish it on the open internet...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
That's why the fingerprint is taken by obfusticated code running in a VM. And that VM also uses a crypto challenge so you can't just replace the output of the VM

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