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by pipo234 3y ago
To quote yet another time format: NTP 64-bit timestamp format (rfc8877), which is 32 bits seconds since epoch + 32 bits fixed point second fractions. (Outside of Network Time Protocol, you'll find this baby for instance in ISOBMFF Pro
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by pipo234 3y ago
Godbolt’s Law — if any single optimisation makes a routine run two or more times faster, then you’ve broken the code. I think in this case, the single optimisation turns out to be: comparing Apples to oranges.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Tried Medikinet 20mg twice (out of curiousity). Felt nothing. Coffee works just fine.
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by pipo234 3y ago
I applaud Dan North for engaging with these McKinsey clowns, although it might have been better to ignore their report altogether. I fear that once again we'll see that what gets focus inevitably grows. The problem is McKinsey's D
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Wolfram Research is a strange company. Its CEO livestreams their R&D meetings and is publicly pursuing a theory of everything. and then: > Meanwhile, Google and Microsoft’s OpenAI are commoditizing intelligence. Apple is, uh, s
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by pipo234 3y ago
The Nobel Peace Prize has historically been surrounded by the kind of ambivalent feelings you allude to. To name one: Hume & Trimble (1998) was considered ironic because it was viewed as kind of reward for ceasing violence they initiall
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by pipo234 3y ago
Nice! Finally, a legit use case for TPMs. That is: a use case where the "genuine advantage" presented to the end user isn't simply * (remotely controlled) access restrictions on content (DRM), or * marginal OS integrity when
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by pipo234 3y ago
Yes, seems like the GitHhub repo was a bit of an after thought: Top right: > About > SOURCE CODE for "Database Performance at Scale: A Practical Guide (Apress, 2023)," by Felipe Cardeneti Mendes, Piotr Sarna, Pavel Emelyan
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by pipo234 3y ago
I was thinking progressive MP4, with sample table in the moov. But yes, cmaf and other fragmented MP4 profiles have ftyp and moov at the front, too. Rather than putting the media in a contiguous blob, CMAF interleaves it with moofs that ho
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by pipo234 3y ago
...And Apple also considered making Bing the default search engine. And they considered building their own. They might even have considered Yahoo at some point... Off course they considered . But it turned out no-one but Google was able or
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by pipo234 3y ago
Traditionally, ffmpeg would build the mp4 container while transcoded media is written to disk (in a single contiguous mdat box after ftyp) and then put the track description and samples in a moov at the end of the file. That's efficien
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by pipo234 3y ago
Yes. While it presents itself as a Blog (says: Entorii Blog), I think this is intended as and on-ramp / marketing collateral / link page promoting the Entorii app. Which appears to be some sort of travel planning app for Apple e
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by pipo234 3y ago
Ehrm. Yes, there is permission. I did not say it imply that there is a restriction there, or did I?! Just meant that so far, the permission has not led to a thriving ecosystem. So beyond permission there must be factors. Like access to mone
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by pipo234 3y ago
It hard to argue for any reliable indication of accuracy. What does "less than half a percent" success rate even mean? What if you're sampling an interval where there is no crime? How would you know that the model "f
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by pipo234 3y ago
Permission is one. (A pretty important one, at that.) A second is funding, the prospect of becoming profitable. This hurdle, Framework seems to have taken (for now), but it also seems to be stopping competitors (for now). Would be great if
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by pipo234 3y ago
Yes, enumerating available capabilities helps fingerprinting. And this is not good, and APIs should be designed better. But there are easier avenues that are harder to mitigate. Hashing an image that relies on the browsers rendering of (def
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by pipo234 3y ago
:-( Developing on a webserver that runs locally on your desktop is becoming more an more painful.
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by pipo234 3y ago
> 127-0-0-1.backname.io resolves to 127.0.0.1 Is this enough to fool Edge (Windows 10) into allowing you to view your local Apache development environment?
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by pipo234 3y ago
If FPV drones are that ubiquitous, you'd expect some sort of drone mitigation to emerge as well. I guess communication between drone and drone operator are the weakest link. So signal detection, radio scrambling, interference are pro
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by pipo234 3y ago
(Lack of) government regulation in Texas and China might have something to do with it... > In Germany, all work accidents must be reported.
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by pipo234 3y ago
> By day, the solar panels will run the airship's electric propulsion systems, while also banking up extra power for the overnight haul by electrolyzing water into hydrogen . By night, the hydrogen will run through a fuel cell, p
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by pipo234 3y ago
I read that the "PC style" power button allows both soft and hard shutdown, so I suppose suspend and hibernate come into the picture as well. It's mostly a matter of OS support, the firmware seems to be there.
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by pipo234 3y ago
"Adaptation" means: people moving from places that become uninhabitable (middle east, Africa, India, Latin America) to places that are inhabitable (Europe, USA, Russia, South America), while those people flee to places that beco
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by pipo234 3y ago
Indeed. I think I recently heard Cory Doctorow phrase it like this: Both pessimists and optimists are essentially fatalists . Ie.: at the core it's more important to believe you can make a change, than to "know" what "w
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by pipo234 3y ago
Accelerationism Learned a new word today, thanks. Had to google that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism Very depressing...
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by pipo234 3y ago
> But critics say the Mozilla deal makes little commercial sense given Firefox’s dwindling user base. I suppose in the long run it's not unlikely things will change. And for Google, it would be a shame if they had lost their relatio
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by pipo234 3y ago
Not that many BIG tech in the EU. But there have been big fines for EU tech companies. Here's one from 2012: > EU imposes record $1.9 billion cartel fine on Philips, five others https://www.reuters.com/article&#x
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by pipo234 3y ago
It definitely matters. Just think about what sort of how much Dr. Evil would pay for an exploit that relies on user action versus one that doesn't. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator
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by pipo234 3y ago
Please accept my apologies :-)
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by pipo234 3y ago
You are absolutely right, that (for plain, domain attestation) paid CAs are exactly as trustworthy as LetsEncrypt, and often much less (remember the Diginotar debacle, for example). "Keeping the streets safe" is not their responsi

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