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781.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Just receiving on a radio is often a surprisingly expensive operation, especially for a small battery powered device that is otherwise well optimized, and especially when you need to receive continuously like with GPS.
782.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
It was worse than that. Higher ups in the post office knew the system was buggy and still doubled down on it. Yes, if the accounting software wasn't terrible the whole issue would not have happened, but there were so, so, many chances
783.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
By itself the density of such a system would just be an interesting superlative: the paper itself references people who have achieved similar densities in the lab, but it's not necessarily useful if the read and write are slow and the
784.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
It's a near full-time job in and of itself, and the nature of them means that you really want to get a grant for something you've already done and use the scraps from it to fund the new stuff.
785.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Well, yeah. It takes a heck of a long time to pull something out of the lab, let alone theory, into the real world, and there's a ton of ways that it can die along the way. But you do need people to be pursuing these things to actually
786.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
A modern hard drive (36TB @ 280MB/s) can take more than a day. If you treat a bank of tapes as one device this can get even more extreme.
787.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
How do you statically guarantee the order of lock acquisition for a thread? I think either you have simple enough control flow that it is somehow entirely visible to the compiler or you need to embed the order into the type system like this
788.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Also the food industry, especially meat where you want to avoid bones in unexpected places.
789.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Clothing doesn't get cancer. Also a lot of what can get left in a patient doesn't show up super well on x-rays, so more general solutions like counting in and out are preferable.
790.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
If it happens it'll probably the result of a positive feedback loop forming: miners leaving slowing down transactions and affecting utility/faith in the system resulting in people selling, meaning more miners leaving, etc. That sa
791.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Which has always been the case. Attackers only have to find one exploit in the weakest part of the system, and usually that's more a function of grunt work than it is being particularly sophisticated.
792.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I dunno, it's not obvious to me that it shift the balance that way. It's always kind of been the case that a sufficiently determined attacker is going to be able to spend way more effort than you put into secure a system to break
793.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
This has tended to be significantly overblown recently with a huge amount of 'no CGI' advertising coming from studios, which often verges into utter BS. There's an incredible amount of CG at every level of modern productions,
794.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
The news articles on it are going to affect this. I wonder if the original paper is in the base models at all, almost certainly these results were from the article showing up in an Internet search. Similarly, I wonder what a frontier model
795.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Doesn't even need the companies to react fast. Now that the Google results are returning news articles on it the LLMs are going to find and report on that as opposed to the original paper.
796.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Even if you could do this rigorously (not at all obvious with how LLMs work), it's not a reliable metric: you can easily fabricate debate as well, and in this case the main issue was essentially skimming the surface of the reports and
797.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I would also say that it matters how you remember things. It's possible to memorize a large quantity of facts without really meshing them together into a coherent whole, and this is a lot less useful than remembering things through the
798.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I talk to a lot of users who are not utterly incompetent with computers but really don't want to focus on them any more than they have to. Almost all of them have enabled this kind of thing without understanding it at all because micro
799.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
What's also irritating is that onedrive will use some kind of 'smart' caching system to delete the local copy of a file. Which is all fine and dandy until you need said file when you don't have an internet connection. Ex
800.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
It's pretty obvious that Microsoft is forcing their cloud services on anyone that doesn't actively fight back. Whether this is because they deliberately expect that they will dupe people into paying for storage they don't nee
801.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
And that first bit only really matters if you're making a fast-paced game with sophisticated graphics. Most indie games can get away with horribly inefficient code.
802.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Secure boot is an attempt to make covert persistence of an infection harder, that's all. It doesn't make it more or less likely for you to be compromised in the first place (and in general compromise of your user account is enough
803.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
D'oh, yeah.
804.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Only if those similarities are indicating more than 'generic internet hacker' for both of them. You only need 23 bits to identify a person but those are 23 uncorrelated bits, and all the 'similarities' presented here a
805.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Texas famously had massive spikes in electricty prices and a near failure of the grid because of their electricity market structure, so it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
806.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Other countries are not likely spending much less on the transition, it's just that they're paying for it more in tax and less in the electricity bill. The UK's strategy here basically means there's now a huge amount of
807.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
A lot of the value to homeowners is essentially arbitrage on the retail cost of electricity: when prices are high you're going to be paying a lot more to pull electricity from the grid than you would be paid to supply it, so you'r
808.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
The transition will probably be quite nonlinear: getting from zero to a few days a year of 100% renewables is about as much effort as going from a few days a year to most of the year.
809.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
You need something that's valuable, energy intensive, easy to stop and start, and cheap to build capacity for. Either or both of those last two tend to be the problem for most industrial processes (and also crypto mining).
810.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I mean, if you're worried about Signal being a bad actor you also should probably be worried about Intel being a bad actor, and they hold the keys to SGX (especially because the biggest threat, if you're worried about this at all,

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