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by theamk 1y ago
> The current Backblaze client excludes non-physical drives not connected via a USB or Firewire connector. While this has been Backblaze's policy for some time, our Client Teams have taken steps to reduce the number of allowed excep
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by theamk 1y ago
USSD is the ancient (since GSM/"0G") cell phone feature that handles special phone numbers like *123#. The upside is it's available even on the non-smart ("feature") phones. But in the US, it's practically
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by theamk 1y ago
Sure, as a single person who does not want to interact with lawyers, there is not much can do to prevent malicious actor from using your code. But what your license affects is large companies. If you declare your project as AGPL, then you c
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by theamk 1y ago
Description: 35 lines (all about philosophy, zero technical details) Build scripts: 18 lines Entire source code: 1 file, 7 lines of inline ASM (StopUEFIWatchdogTimer.c) I'd recommend filling this a bit before sharing with people
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by theamk 1y ago
Everyone was fine with Flock as well until arrests started. Once there will be a few high-profile cases around telemetry data being used, there will be much more outcry there.
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by theamk 1y ago
> interested to see what kinds of systems this could be used in. if you, the author, don't know, then the likely answer is: "in none of them" From the outside, this is strictly inferior to PID controller. If there are adva
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by theamk 1y ago
The (in)famous "spaghetti code", where function is impossible to understand because of large number of goto's. The only useful purpose for goto's I can think of is breaking out of mulitple nested loops, and this has been
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by theamk 1y ago
Hard disagree, esp re "only useful for a software developer familiar with the codebase". Too many "user-friendly" apps create "helpful" error messages that hide essential information. "Cannot open data fil
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by theamk 1y ago
What is the system model being simulated here? I've played with it, and checked the source code, and this looks like a really, really simple control loop mechanism. It's basically P controller (as in, PID controller with I and D s
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by theamk 1y ago
Why is it OK for AI models to don't credit the training data, even if they reproduce the code almost verbatim? The AI companies are not big fans of crediting - once they get access to _any_ learning data, all attribution disappears. So
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by theamk 1y ago
This sounds like a thinly veiled weapon? Sure, we'll call it "supply capsule" so that there is no public outcry and our engineers don't quit, but once the system is ready it'd be as simple as removing the parachute
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by theamk 1y ago
Their example is using signed URLs for OTA firmware updates - that is, ensuring only the authentic devices can download firmware files, and not security researchers or device owners. I see no good use for that feature. I should be able to a
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by theamk 1y ago
I think the answer is very obvious here: Debug should not omit fields. serde should not skip fields. Which means that there needs to be a way to put flowinfo into textual representation. Since there are already incompatibilities in how ipv6
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by theamk 1y ago
TL/DR: How to setup Nextcloud instance on VPS (via docker-compose) and expose it using cloudflare tunnel (Since it's already VPS with a public IP, there is no real reason for cloudflare tunnel.. Author said "No open ports. No
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by theamk 1y ago
I don't think "everyone" pulls from master - "everyone" run the distributions, and they always pin to the specific git commits. Only people who run xorg master are the ones who want bleeding edge, and those would b
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by theamk 1y ago
... because this dev's patches broke master, multiple times. I feel this is an important detail to keep in mind while choosing a fork.
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by theamk 1y ago
Page says: > Ideals > Enable new ways of working together - Fragmentation is a chronic barrier in the pursuit of software that meets people's needs. Creating interoperable foundations can unlock new freedoms and creativity. This
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by theamk 1y ago
If they could answer those questions _before_ making fancy website with claims like "our breakthrough AI algorithms and hardware, which can run generative AI workloads using radically less energy than deep learning algorithms running o
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by theamk 1y ago
> The algorithmic problem they need to solve is how to harness Gibbs sampling for large scale ML tasks, but arguably this isn't really a huge leap, Is it? The paper is pretty dense, but Figure 1 is Fashion-MNIST which is "28x28
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by theamk 1y ago
Is there anything new that uv gives you here though? If you don't care about being ecosystem-compliant (and I am sure malware does not), it's only a few lines of Python to download the code and eval it.
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by theamk 1y ago
you set BROWSER to your local script, like /home/kevinburke/bin/my-browser And that file is a shell (or python) script that runs whatever you need - for example that "open" command with profile argument. Or for
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by theamk 1y ago
that really does not seem to be something that tools care about. There is already $BROWSER env var, and all tools should support this - and then user can point it to whatever logic they want. This will give much more control to the user com
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by theamk 1y ago
I decided to look at why the original block happened.. it's on [0], search for "July 2018", then check out administrator's reply, including the links to recent edits. I had no opinion either way, but wow, I have to agree
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by theamk 1y ago
The website mentions Kickstarter, and Kickstarter page [0] has "Founders" section. It's pretty fuzzy, but at least there are founders' names. But the country of jurisdiction is not mentioned anywhere, and it is very imp
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by theamk 1y ago
TL/DR: this is from engineer working on Zed code editor. This is about GPUI, a Rust native GUI application framework: https://www.gpui.rs/
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by theamk 1y ago
> A friend sent me this screenshot the other day - his backend had been running for 7 days without a proper database setup. Just failsafes returning empty responses. Any technical expert would tear this apart immediately. (We're tal
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by theamk 1y ago
And as long as you don't copy-paste its advice into comments, that's fine. No one really cares how you found all those .permission_allowed() calls to replace - was it grep, or intense staring, or AI model. All that matters is you
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by theamk 1y ago
Of course I respect humans, I am a human myself! And I learned a lot from others, asking them (occasionally stupid) questions and listening to their explanations. Doing the same to other is just being fair. Explain a thing and make someone
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by theamk 1y ago
Sure it is, as long as those engineers apply and honest effort and learn from their mistakes. Even if they don't do things faster then you initially, at least they learned something. Unfortunately that logic does not apply to models.
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by theamk 1y ago
Yes, if you find a book that is as bad as AI advice, you should definitely throw it away and never read it. If someone is quoting a known-bad book, you should ignore their advice (and as a courtesy, tell them their book is bad) It's so

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