rcxdude

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by rcxdude 5mo ago
I agree
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
I've worked with the guy credited in the article before, so I'll vouch for his general credibility and the underlying information likely being solid: there's good evidence for this field being some kind of encrypted data stre
573.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
There is definitely value in having a demonstrated as opposed a simply supposed capability, though. And actions that are 'almost-certainly-but-not-completely-provably-us' is very much something Russia likes to do. (One question I
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
Jamming in general will affect everything using those frequencies (and potentially more besides) in a given area, so if you're using it you're weighing up the effects it'll have on your stuff as well. (early in the current Uk
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
They're all part of the internet, which is one of the most complex systems ever built.
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
1) The two are not directly dependent in that way. General relatively can, in theory, allow for some time-travel like effects, but not ones that violate causality. General relativity, and indeed most theories of physics, are actually '
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
I have heard some reports which say that some parts of the rule changes imply that SpaceX stock will be weighted something like 3x higher than the amount of shares available would otherwise mean, but I'm not sure exactly what the detai
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
Residential solar doesn't make that much sense from a system point of view - it's a lot more expensive than utility grade solar for the same amount of energy, but with the way the energy market works retail electricity prices are
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
I cry more when I think about the amount of farmland being used for bioethanol, something which is barely energy positive. If the US would switch the subsidies and regulations propping that up to propping up solar, it would easily free up a
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
There's no fundemental reason even a very fancy trsctor should need an Internet connection. Even with RTK GPS for ultra high precision positioning, you can operate a base station locally, and this is getting increasingly accessible. (
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
It is worth double-checking your intuitions on these things. How large is the pool of people that you are considering anomalous and what would the base rate of accidental deaths or suicides be for a subset of the general population that siz
582.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
The capabilities of quantum computing, in theory, are pretty well known. There's basically a few extra operations which can be done efficiently on it and so that can be built into the threat model, even if no-one's built a quantum
583.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
Given a sufficiently crappy hardware setup that the CPU activity is injecting noise into the audio path, then in principle the FLAC decoding could be more inconsistent in that regard, because the processing is much more data-dependent with
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
It's generally best to do the port as directly as possible, even if the resulting code is ugly in the target language, then refactor to fit the new language better. Doing both at once can make things a lot more difficult. (With porting
585.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
Probably most of them. It's not exactly an area with a great focus on quality, let alone security.
586.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
I don't think they blamed the users for that mistake, though. They specifically thanked people for reporting the regressions. It's the rage from bystanders which is totally out of proportion with the scale of the issues that they
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
If you install a package that has been part of a supply chain attack, you definitely have a problem. If you have a dependency with a vulnerability, you might have a problem, and any really bad one you are likely to find out about anyway. Yo
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
The kind of 'urgent CVE' situation they're describing generally involves you learning about it out-of-band and then rushing to deploy an update. If you learn about a supply chain attack, oops, you might already have been pwne
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
Anthropomorphism simplifies!
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
I'd say the opposite in some ways: it's arguably the reason for the bitter lesson and ML techniques tending to beat other approaches, because they work by giving examples as opposed to trying to articulate the rules in an explicit
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
These kinds of hobby projects either successfully hide from Nintendo's legal threats or exist at their leisure, anyhow. Fair use arguments mean relatively little to them, and no-one doing this kind of thing has the money to stand up to
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
Maybe, there is an aspect of things being deliberately kept hidden, but also communicating this stuff is just pretty hard. Large organizations often spend huge amounts of effort on it and still get things wrong.
593.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
I think if anyone's tracking, this specific example is so far down the list it's not worth thinking about. 2 days total effort per month? That's peanuts for waste in most organisations, let alone government.
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
You could potentially do so with some extra games around 'different' products and/or business entities, but whether it's worth the trouble is another question (there are certainly companies that make a good margin just r
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
EU CE requirements are generally (outside some universally more regulated domains like medical devices) pretty lightweight to deal with, and pretty sensible. I've gone through them, and honestly the biggest pain is finding the applicab
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
It's at the minimum a bit impolite to leave the system more vulnerable in between sending the report and the report being received and acted on.
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
Arbitration only works if both parties are at least somewhat co-operative with the process. If someone decides to just not co-operate with the process or actively impede it, you need to escalate far beyond arbitration, which gets very expen
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
You don't generally buy people. You can employ them, though.
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
There's a pretty healthy regulatory environment around it, though I have noticed a resurgence of opt-out marketing communications on signup forms, which is unwelcome (I don't know if some legal decision changed, but it seemed like
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by rcxdude 5mo ago
I doubt that. Dev boards are often not very high margin despite their costs, but absolutely the majority of their profit is from hardware sales, not software licenses. Small volume customers are a combination of a long tail and a loss leade

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