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by spitfire 8y ago
I used to think things like these were fun conspiracy theories for a slow afternoon. I remember seeing a guy who got Linux running on a spare ARM CPU on his SATA hard drive, thinking "that'd be a great place for a rootkit". B
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by spitfire 8y ago
Any papers or books to get started with this? I'm in ML but not on the DL hype train - disappointed by its limits.
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by spitfire 8y ago
I've seen papers from back in the cold war documenting a study regarding east german IP theft. The conclusion was stealing IP actually put them behind. You steal the IP, then have to learn how to make it without the context. So you end
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by spitfire 8y ago
For some reason that reminds me of Pascals interface/implementation split... For those not in the know Pascal units had to declare the function (procedure) prototypes before implementing them.
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by spitfire 8y ago
Paper is behind a paywall. Sci-Hub doesn't have it. Does anyone have a link to the paper PDF?
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by spitfire 8y ago
My home isn't connected to sewage (or water). The municipality doesn't provide that in my low-density area. Instead I have well water and a septic field. Require that a home has a source of electricity, water, sewage and meeds so
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by spitfire 8y ago
It defines specifically HOW a bunch of aspects of the build are to be achieved. Even when there are vastly better options already available, or the LEED approach is inappropriate for a particular build site. It requires a bunch of gimmicks
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by spitfire 8y ago
This is a deeply flawed idea. As bad as LEED. Specifying HOW to go about being energy efficient is the entirely wrong approach. Instead specify a minimum energy efficiency per square meter and let home builders sort it out. By specifying mi
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by spitfire 8y ago
What's the deal with ubiqiti? Do they use Huawai parts or what? I had understood them to be a fairly competent company delivering good products.
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by spitfire 9y ago
I call these the Bhopal 2.0 problems. Bhopal was a disaster where 32tons of toxic MIC gas was released into the atmosphere and killed 3,787 injuring half a million people. My premise for Bhopal 2.0 is we automate processes so much and have
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by spitfire 9y ago
I've posted this a few times before (taken shamelessly from tokenadult), but I'll post it again: There are three main criteria for hiring (in knowledge work environments): 1 General mental ability (Are they generally smart) 2 Wor
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by spitfire 9y ago
> (This is equivalent to making genetically engineered animals or plants dependent on a nutrient that is only supplied in the lab to make sure they can't survive in the wild.) Nothing can go wrong with that. [1] [1] https:/&#x
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by spitfire 9y ago
Sopwith II and druglord DOS games. Also Mathematica on NeXTstep.
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by spitfire 9y ago
If the author is here (or anyone else) please, please, please put a copy of Framemaker/Illustrator with serials somewhere for people to grab. It is simply impossible to find this NeXT software on the net.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Serious question here. What are the liability laws like in the US for producers of propaganda? Can you hold say inforwars or brietbart (used as proxies here) liable if they insight or inflame this sort of person to go on a rampage? You coul
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by spitfire 9y ago
NeXT actually had prototype PPC hardware, so they may have had that at the ready too. Less developed and with less driver support of course.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Finally! I've been wanting something approaching this for modern development since NeXT dropped EOF (enterprise objects framework) in the '90's. See this Steve Jobs demo [1] from the 90's creating a DB driven app in a fe
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by spitfire 9y ago
No none of those are it. I believe it was before the elction that the article came out. There was a picture of someone reading the paper CA was supposedly based upon in the article. Someone zoomed in and found the paper. I'll keep look
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by spitfire 9y ago
When talk about CA first emerged on HN before the election some posters found the original papers referred to. They were looking at pictures in the story and zoomed in to find the titles. I cannot find those posts for the life of me again.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Well they had a history of dominating at le mans in the 1950's. Then they had the E-type in the 1960's and 1970's which Enzo Ferrari called the most beautiful car in the world - it was also tough competition for a Ferrari at
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by spitfire 9y ago
So that's very interesting. For any future litigation it establishes a clear timeline of when he was aware of these issues. So if it turns out he has any liability for the data breaches they don't have much to stand on.
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by spitfire 9y ago
They've been watching this in Ukraine for a few years now. Russia has been using the Ukraine as a cyberwar testing ground attacking utility systems on a seasonal basis. US utilities and US officials have been in Ukraine for a while wor
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by spitfire 9y ago
Mr.Wizard far surpassed Nye, even back in the day. There was never any competition. Nye was always an entertainer first, science teacher second.
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by spitfire 9y ago
What would that move be?
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by spitfire 9y ago
In the UK they do put K-series[0] engines into the MGB. [0] The K-series is the descendant of the T16, which is the descendant of the M-series, which is the descendant of the O2-series, which is the descendant of the O-series, which is the
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by spitfire 9y ago
Go with the black book. I've written a comment about this before but can't be bothered to look for it. The Abrash's black book is both totally outdated and highly relevant. All the technical material is entirely outdated - wh
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by spitfire 9y ago
They absolutely are. I have the complete wiring diagram for every piece of equipment I own. As long as the ROM's in the master/cd players don't die on me I can replace every electronic part in them for decades to come. Which
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by spitfire 9y ago
I have a pair of B&O speakers from 1988, with no reason to upgrade them. They still sound as good as new (and look better than newer speakers) after I installed new surrounds on the speakers. You can choose to buy well and half things l
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An Optimistic Nihilist's Take on Building a $2M Business(indiehackers.com)
1 points by spitfire 9y ago|0 comments
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by spitfire 9y ago
Is this the business side asking? They're implicitly giving you product guidance here. I'm also in the DS/ML space, and there is an absolute dearth of explainability in our models. It's atrocious given the decision that

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