pifm_guy

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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Is anyone actually getting scammed? When using a public wallet address like this, scammers often give money to their own scam to make it look more successful.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The goal of fingerprinting in this case is not to uniquely identify users, but merely to differentiate real human users using an actual iPhone from bots that use an emulated iPhone. This fingerprint suffices for that. They use small diffe
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> empires that span the globe are much more feasible today A lot of people would argue that ~half the world is part of the US empire today... In that the US has power to strongly influence/make decisions in about half the world, ext
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Maybe next year we'll see this chip paired with another die in the same package for the analog stuff adding in WiFi, Bluetooth, an ethernet Mac, a 1 watt audio amp, an analog mux, and all the other things to make it a real 'system
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The problems are identical when you pipe stdout through SSH...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
At the extreme, DC cooling is an optimization problem with some hidden/delayed outcomes... For example, if you run your DC's hotter, then you'll save cooling money now, but have to deal with more hardware failures in 3 years
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Correct. ML papers always try to find the most similar examples in the training set, and rarely find a close match.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I wonder if perhaps they are having trouble securing manufacturing capacity for analogue chips? By dropping WiFi and BT, they can use a different production process in other foundry's.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The rate of change of that progress bar would be the gradient of the progress with respect to time. Could be a handy thing to have if, for example, you were designing some progress animation...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Some services still allow the less sensitive account actions after logging out. Examples of this are eBay (can still edit cart) and AliExpress (can still see unread messages count). Perhaps YouTube has decided that appending to the watch hi
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
So was YouTube...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I was once burned by a Samsung TV whose backlight LED's got so hot they melted the innards of the TV... Any engineer designing stuff with high power LED's knows how important thermal design is. The LED's should have had temp
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Courts in general require consideration for a contract to be valid, but there is no requirement for that consideration to be proportionate. The company can offer you any new perk, like a free pen, and it counts.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I believe snow could be moved with far less energy. Today's snow ploughs use a lot of force. But perhaps with better engineering, new ways to move snow could be invented - for example conveyor systems that move and compact the snow. Th
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
There are some programming languages where that would be correct - for example a `for i in range(n):` from python.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Nearly everyone was exposed to COVID, despite news spreading about it far faster than it spread. COVID only killed under 1% or so of those exposed. But there are plenty of diseases with far higher mortality. What makes you think we could
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> ranking mechanism that can take account of the expertise level of the author I assure you that all major search engines use the author name of articles and blog posts and even posts of forums like HN for all kinds of purposes that end
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I wonder exactly what equipment. ADSL modems on the provider end, with the right software, could provide PSTN voice service-over-SIP too. It wouldn't add any substantial complexity, and could be one of those legacy services provided
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The stock is still worth nearly 10x what it was in mid 2019.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Engines are only ~100kg usually. And a full fuel tank is also about 100kg. So the fuel tank and engine could be swapped without affecting weight distribution.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Even if all electricity comes from the least efficient coal plants, EV's still tend to produce less CO2/mile because EV's are designed to have regen braking, low rolling resistance and low aerodynamic drag.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
And how does that compare to the fleet of electric cars his companies make to replace gas cars? Is he net negative?
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
30% more traction sounds ... Really bad. Aren't real snow chains more like 300% more traction in the right conditions, since regular tyres offer basically no traction?
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Users seem to be spending more time in twitter than ever before... Sure, everyone 'hates' it, but by one key metric it seems to be doing rather well.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
You can buy USB keyboards that fit on top.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Just write a document saying what you did, what you paid, and to who, and for what, sign it, and then scan it in as a pdf. Written testimony is plenty of evidence for lots of things.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Related: serverthiefbait.com
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I wonder how many buyers were persuaded by the branding and reputation of Tesla and Musk? Now that that reputation and 'cool factor' seems to have been shattered, I wonder what the market share will look like in Jan/Feb...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I once got an unsolicited donation that was larger than my lifetime earnings... The sender didn't reply to messages. I really wasn't sure what to do. And without a document saying it was a gift from the sender, I had to give hal
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
If you're hosting video on the internet and don't have a team of 50 engineers to make sure it streams smoothly on every type of device and internet connection speed on every continent, then please just embed YouTube or another str

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