theincredulousk

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by theincredulousk 5y ago
Every time I see one of these articles, I can't help but think of some bacteria evolving or escaping a lab that works a bit too well and ends up destroying the modern world
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by theincredulousk 5y ago
The way the last administration rolled this out was certainly with a political narrative, but my guess is it originated with people that weren't thinking at all about politics. The simple story is that core infrastructure is of strateg
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by theincredulousk 5y ago
Great the new PC I just built has the "BLU" version. I've always bought Samsung drives without even comparing. Edit: OP article says BLU is the new "inferior one", while Tom's hardware says BLU is the old one.
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by theincredulousk 5y ago
Still curious how they specifically recovered the bitcoin. Was it transferred to an exchange? Grabbed when they tried to convert it to fiat? Physically recovered a cold wallet?
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
what the actual fuck
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
How many products does Apple have to release before people stop trying to say It WiLl FaIl YoU CaN GeT SoMeThInG ChEaPer ThAtS BeTtEr. It is exhausting. For this round in particular, Apple is not competing against the Grados and Beyerdynam
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
They're not going to fail, unless you have an insanely high bar for success, and they're not going to sound like shit either. Apple wouldn't just accidentally release a terrible sounding headphone product without having peop
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
ehhh I'd say mostly solved. The problem of turning a recording into a perfect sound-wave replication is actually not easy, because the physical world is annoying with heat and friction and and physics. I'd say 24/96 is com
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
the commonality between the phenomenons of audio and wine etc. is that they start on a foundation of objectivity and end in subjectivity and cognitive bias. Hearing and taste are two things that are literally unique (almost impossibly equi
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
Spotify HQ mode is not a bad digital source. Do you mean that's all (these) people think is required to get high quality playback?
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
of course they don't advertise the per-device royalty for embedded - do you (or anyone else here) have an idea what it costs?
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
yes, I was referring to theoretical, mechanically limited speed. It's not like the tires can expand in diameter 200% though. I'm sure that Michelin has parameterized tables for the tire's mechanical behavior that they are co
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
you could use a maximum value from a parameterized table that I'm sure Michelin has for their top of the line super-car class tire.
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
Sorry maybe I wasn't clear - it is a mechanical system with gear ratios directly coupled from the wheel to the engine. The maximum RPM of the engine, propagated through the lowest gear ratio, gives a hard limit regardless of the "
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
I mean regardless of measurement, the gearbox ratios, engine RPM, and wheel/tire size plainly dictate maximum possible speed. Why even use GPS for this, as opposed to a known distance and a clock, or an on-site laser (or whatever elect
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
Yes, cloud bullshit, which is currently running the world based on the size and scale of the cloud providers. More users = more feature demand = more bugs = more use cases = larger development team. Engineering is only a fixed cost if you’
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
Worked with Arxan's technology for a bit. Not surprised it is getting to the point where cracker's don't have the time to break it. Embracing the point that everything can be broken eventually, the focus becomes just making
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
Yes there is plenty of entitlement in software, mostly from folks who have never run a software business. Queue video-game enthusiasts that think the $60 price of the game somehow facilitates providing content updates, bug fixes, and hosti
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
I think you meant "marginal cost", and in software it mostly comes from the cost of engineers and infrastructure that maintain, create, and deliver the software. Nowadays that includes bandwidth, storage, and compute for any clou
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
(disclaimer: I have only used this software for rock-bottom basic 3D printing) It seems to me the deeper features make for highly sophisticated and capable (read:valuable) engineering software. At the risk of getting pitchforked, is $25 a
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
they didn't kill off QNX... It is alive and well as a stand-alone company and still used in many, many automotive applications
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
Isn't it even in theory not possible for any algorithm (be it an ANN or otherwise) provide a solution to an infinitely variable chaotic problem based on solutions from a less-than-infinite set of other chaotic problems? Isn't esse
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
Tell us how you really feel scott
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
Yes this is risk management, and tbh holding 25% for 28 days isn’t all that unreasonable. If your business’ finances can’t adjust for what amounts to a 1-month billing cycle for 25% of your revenue, look inward.
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
I was actually hoping this was going to be some WFH setup where someone had pushed multiple desks together like that episode of The Office
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
He had to answer a small questionnaire/set of affirmative responses to be able to trade these option strategies. If he lied on them that is not their responsibility anymore (unfortunately).
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
The performance impact is not as much as you’d think, speaking from C/C++ land. I had a secured video player that was using these techniques, and even with the dial turned all the way up, it was costing 1-2% CPU and no human-detectabl
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
These techniques are largely automated through metadata during a build process. It takes effort to setup, but not nearly as much effort as you think. The effect is asymmetrical- what takes you 1 hour to do costs a reverser 100. At least
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
Worked with Arxan before. They are legit - what is described here is the tip of the iceberg. Haven’t even gotten into in-memory instruction and data encryption. If you’re dumping the binary you’re likely not even seeing all of what is ex
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by theincredulousk 6y ago
There are commercial products that largely automate these techniques through metadata. See Arxan.

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