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by shawnz 8mo ago
Wow, these preassembled ESP32 plus touchscreen boards are extremely cheap, and there are tons of them in all kinds of different form factors on Amazon. I didn't realize this kind of thing was so plentiful, this seems like a great way t
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by shawnz 8mo ago
IIRC Apple has attempted to implement some defences against this, for example by requiring the passcode to be inputted before an update can be installed to prevent another San Bernardino scenario. A cursory search indicates that they also h
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by shawnz 8mo ago
The table has two categorizations: "In transit & on server" and "End-to-end". The former, which covers iCloud backups in the default configuration, is explicitly NOT end-to-end, meaning there are moments in time duri
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by shawnz 8mo ago
What's the joke here? If they are better than average drivers, that's a huge win which improves road safety for everyone
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by shawnz 8mo ago
Furthermore it seems like it's specific to Azure AD, and I'm guessing it probably only has effect if you enable to option to back up the keys to AD in the first place, which is not mandatory I'd be curious to see a conclusi
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by shawnz 8mo ago
Why would you need to create a local account? You can just not choose to store the keys in your Microsoft account during BitLocker setup: https://www.diskpart.com/screenshot/en/others/windows-11/win... A
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by shawnz 9mo ago
This interpretation basically waters down the meaning of end-to-end encryption to the point of uselessness. You may as well just say "encryption".
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by shawnz 9mo ago
There's FHE, but that's probably an even more difficult technical challenge than doing everything locally
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by shawnz 9mo ago
I don't agree that this is end to end encrypted. For example, a compromise of the TEE would mean your data is exposed. In a truly end to end encrypted system, I wouldn't expect a server side compromise to be able to expose my data
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by shawnz 9mo ago
Ah yeah, factoring in the whitespace might make this a bit more practical
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by shawnz 9mo ago
I don't think I see the vision here. If you want to maximize the number of tokens representable as a prefix code while still being able to output any sequence of characters, how could you possibly pick anything other than the one-chara
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by shawnz 9mo ago
Regarding the first part: that's an interesting idea, although I worry it would bias the outputs in an unrealistic way. Then again, maybe it would only impact scenarios that would have otherwise been unparsable anyway? Regarding the se
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by shawnz 9mo ago
I can't imagine they consider it a bug, it is a common and beneficial property of essentially every LLM today. You want to be able to represent common words with single tokens for efficiency, but at the same time you still need to be a
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by shawnz 9mo ago
Another fun application of combining LLMs with arithmetic coding is steganography. Here's a project I worked on a while back which effectively uses the opposite technique of what's being done here, to construct a steganographic tr
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by shawnz 9mo ago
I don't think it is intending to frame the move as clueless, but rather short-sighted. It could very well be a good move for them in the short term.
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by shawnz 9mo ago
One huge benefit of Tahoe for me is that you can now hide any menubar icon, even if they don't explicitly support hiding. It's a small thing but that alone makes the upgrade worth it for me
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by shawnz 9mo ago
Sure, and that goes even for myself. Like for example, on some projects maybe I'll be more interested in exploring a particular architectural choice than actually focusing on the details of the feature. It ultimately doesn't matte
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by shawnz 9mo ago
I used to think this, until I tried it. Now I see that it effectively removes all the tedium while still letting you have whatever level of creative control you want over the output. Just imagine that instead of having to work off of an amo
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by shawnz 9mo ago
Keep reading: > Pieper emphasized that current over-the-counter NAD+-precursors have been shown in animal models to raise cellular NAD+ to dangerously high levels that promote cancer. The pharmacological approach in this study, however,
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by shawnz 9mo ago
Follow the citation: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/how-utc... > ... in English the abbreviation for coordinated universal time would be CUT, while in French the abbreviation for "tem
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by shawnz 11mo ago
They're calling it taskbar tabs and it's behind a feature flag in nightly currently: https://windowsreport.com/firefox-is-bringing-web-apps-to-wi...
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by shawnz 11mo ago
Here are some of the things that make Firefox the best browser for me: - An extension system more powerful than Chrome's, which supports for example rich adblockers that can block ads on Youtube. Also, it works on mobile, too - Many so
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by shawnz 11mo ago
It's not necessarily performative research just because a pop science author wrote a catchy, exaggerated headline about it
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by shawnz 11mo ago
The point stands: the hard part is proving that all the programs with longer runtime than your upper bound will never terminate, and once you've solved that, getting the exact value is just a little extra work
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by shawnz 11mo ago
I think finding an upper bound is basically just as difficult as finding the actual value itself, since both would require proving that all of the programs which run longer than that will run forever. That's why we can say BB(x) grows
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by shawnz 1y ago
Would the split tabs feature that they are currently rolling out work for your use case? https://windowsreport.com/hands-on-firefoxs-new-split-view-l...
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by shawnz 1y ago
Here's a good article which explains the remaining arguments in favour of the amyloid hypothesis: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h...
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by shawnz 1y ago
> Of course, the user who named those files probably wants file-9.txt to come before file-10.txt. But 1 is smaller than 9, so file-10.txt should be first in alphabetical order. Everyone understands that, and soon people learn to put enou
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by shawnz 1y ago
To be clear, did you test the game in Act 3? Because Act 3 generally has significantly worse performance than other parts of the game
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by shawnz 1y ago
It's crazy to me that even Fedora disables swap to disk by default now. It really speaks to how broadly misunderstood swap is

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