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by tlb 3y ago
You could base a society on randomly selecting people at a young age to be elite. It would still have advantages over a society with no elites at all. The goal of having an elite class is to make better collective decisions about how societ
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by tlb 3y ago
The immediate reason is that Homebrew predates the other package managers you mention. It goes back to 2009.
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by tlb 3y ago
They don't usually have to. They just lobby for something that sounds like it will be good for the public, but is actually good for them in the long run. They can bamboozle well-intentioned regulators because they understand their cust
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by tlb 3y ago
It was intended by the car companies. As usual, the regulatees understood their business much better than the regulators.
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by tlb 3y ago
That's the big unknown question with microkernels. It was (in the 90s) a reasonable theory that a microkernel could be much more robust and secure and easy to develop than a monolithic kernel. It would be more robust because individual
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by tlb 3y ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.01192.pdf in figure 3. I'm not sure how they're attached (it looks like gold wire bonding) but the distance is a few mm.
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by tlb 3y ago
I understand the 4 wire idea, but the two inner wires are still farther apart than an individual crystal might be. So a material composed of 100 um superconducting crystals in a resistive bulk medium would appear resistive to probes that ar
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by tlb 3y ago
The resistivity measurements I've seen are 4 wires soldered onto a chunk of material several mm long. If superconducting crystals are growing inside a bulk material, they might be much smaller. Suppose I had a polycrystalline material
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by tlb 3y ago
Ocean electrolytic deacidification is interesting. CO2 dissolved in the ocean makes it more acidic, which disrupts marine biology and slows down further CO2 absorption. You can extract acid from ocean water using electrolysis, raising the p
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by tlb 3y ago
How did this process rate the relative security of the clouds? How much does security matter to your business? A common bureaucratic failure mode when evaluating competitors is to make a bunch of categories: Performance: 4/5 Ease of u
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by tlb 3y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "all your personal information?" The evidence is only for them having a phone number and email in addition to your (obviously necessary) name and address.
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by tlb 3y ago
Apple's Metal GPU profiler is excellent. And it works even if you're using it through WebGPU from C++ compiled outside of XCode. Among other things, when you click on a draw command it shows you a thumbnail of the changes it made
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by tlb 3y ago
Still, 1 MWh is a tiny fraction of the power those 100 wafers worth of chips will consume in their lifetime. So if we can reduce power consumption with smaller features, it's worth using more laser power.
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by tlb 3y ago
"In mathematics, a function from a set X to a set Y assigns to each element of X exactly one element of Y." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_(mathematics)
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by tlb 3y ago
The eyeball scan prevents people from signing up multiple times. You also have to protect against insider fraud by the employees at the signup locations. So having them click "Yes, a person showed up" isn't enough.
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by tlb 3y ago
The lying seems like the problem there. Present the patient with accurate records of previous trials and outcomes, let them make an informed decision (with help from their doctor, if they're not scientifically literate) and I don'
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by tlb 3y ago
It's a very impressive exploit. But I wonder if the PoC||GTFO maxim for security researchers leads to a lot of wasted effort. I was convinced that ssh-agent needed fixing as soon as they pointed out that it (a) accepts the name of a sh
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by tlb 3y ago
That turns out not to matter, because the noise is always at least several quanta at whatever frequency you’re using so you can’t get close to the quantization limit anyway.
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by tlb 3y ago
Cartels of any kind (drug, music, oil) are never where new ideas start. If a new drug were going to be adopted, it'd start with a local manufacturer/seller, and spread by word of mouth. If it gets big, eventually cartels will move
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by tlb 3y ago
They handle some crazy situations. https://twitter.com/kvogt/status/1641123102858919953
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by tlb 3y ago
Suppose it's the near future and driverless cars are causing 5x fewer injuries per mile than human drivers. (5x fewer != 0, so some injuries and deaths still occur) What accountability would you like to see in that situation? Or a tabl
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by tlb 3y ago
There was ransomware in the 90s. For small amounts, they often requested prepaid gift cards or for you to call premium phone numbers. For larger amounts, wire transfers to countries with weak law enforcement. Cyberextortion rings still oper
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by tlb 3y ago
Most outsider analyses of YC are total nonsense. But this article focuses on the right things. One thing it gets wrong: > Despite Paul Graham’s assertion that startups should not co-locate, many of the YC startups of this period did live
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by tlb 3y ago
Do you mean a data structure to model spacetime and gravitational bending of it, or do you mean using spacetime to store regular data?
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by tlb 3y ago
Plenty of people are quite happy without doing economically valuable work. Maybe most. So this isn't an X-risk in the sense that humans might go extinct. Workaholics may remove themselves from the gene pool, but there'll be plenty
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by tlb 3y ago
Methane might not be the best thing to make in a CO2 capture plant. Methane has an especially high greenhouse effect, and it seems to leak when transported around for fuel. And it's not a good fuel for the applications where grid energ
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by tlb 3y ago
What percentile rank among college-educated Americans would that correspond to? I'd guess that takes it out of the top 0.1%, but not the top 1%.
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by tlb 3y ago
I remember having to get a µ that way using FrameMaker on SunOS 4 in the mid-90s. Mac had a µ from the beginning. And some PC code pages did. But PCs in Canada (where I'm from) used code page 850, which had an Á (for French) where µ wo
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by tlb 3y ago
My own experience is that when it misinterprets an ambiguity, it's immediately obvious to me what was ambiguous in my question and I can add clarification. Asking for a clarification always adds an extra step, compared to giving me a l
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by tlb 3y ago
This can be refuted by observing that the refractive index isn't proportional to density, but is accurately predicted by charge mobility. Also, how refractive index changes with wavelength is related to the resonant frequencies of elec

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