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by topspin 3y ago
"Instead you have a 'DID:PLC', which is a kind of 'DID' (invented by, not a surprise, CRYPTO PEOPLE)" Interesting. About two weeks ago at the HIMMS conference (Healthcare Information and Management Systems) in
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by topspin 3y ago
Is coincidence plausible here? Anyhow, Ian Fleming's thoughts on such things seem applicable: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action"
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by topspin 3y ago
> I've been interested in understanding how the Soviet economy worked for a long time. After the '91 collapse Western scholars briefly got their hands on some Soviet archives and worked to piece this together. The Soviet econo
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by topspin 3y ago
What was the peak altitude reached in this test launch?
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by topspin 4y ago
"Goggles enable any individual—or community of people—to alter the ranking of Brave Search by using a set of instructions (rules and filters). Anyone can create, apply, or extend a Goggle. Essentially Goggles act as a custom re-ranking
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by topspin 4y ago
> virtio is being implemented in more and more hardware Would be interested in more information on that.
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by topspin 4y ago
> This article initially seems to be arguing over semantics This article is conducting the same goal post shift operation that happens every time machines reach another fraction of human capability. Ironically, we're maybe a year o
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by topspin 4y ago
The design of ArenaNet's GW/GW2 has always impressed me. 99.4% of all of the game is contained in one file: GW2.DAT, which is (currently) 66.7 GB. I/O for updates is extremely efficient. I've seen many games create a v
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by topspin 4y ago
Guild Wars 2 and others solve this with progressive downloads. You may start playing after a fraction of the content is downloaded. There is effectively no downside: new players can't access most of the content anyhow. It also appli
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by topspin 4y ago
I agree. A lot of it seems fairly low value, but the info on intelligence penetrations of the Russian military is a major setback. That's high value intelligence; exposure means assets are now compromised. That this is floating arou
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by topspin 4y ago
Something I forgot to mention here that supports my view that designers of modern cars are not thinking about this problem at all: after battery power is lost cars lose their maps and tables for ignition timing and fuel delivery. After a u
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by topspin 4y ago
> I've never understood why cars don't just cut power before the battery is too low to start. The design of most cars can't tolerate losing 12V DC power without problems. Clearing superfluous codes after a battery swap is
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by topspin 4y ago
> I don’t understand why I’d want to pay for information that’s less reliable. It's faster. Much faster in a lot of cases. Think of ChatGPT not as a precision source of answers, but rather a universal clue generator. Yes, ChatGPT
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by topspin 4y ago
> modern TV features, like HDR Many of the Sceptre 4K models have HDR. MEMC as well. Likely the $400 price point is blown at that point, but who buys 1080p and cares about HDR?
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by topspin 4y ago
Can't fathom why annotation are used for this, except maybe as a holdover from years ago when Java didn't have certain language features. Other approaches in Java are much nicer and involve zero annotations. Example (from the Sp
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by topspin 4y ago
So keep doing it despite whomever it annoys. Also, throw some superfluous cats in to annoy them more.
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by topspin 4y ago
> pixels starting with pixel 6 have 5 years of updates. Nice. Didn't know this. Got a 7 pro shortly after it came out; spectrum had a $400 discount on them.
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by topspin 4y ago
"everyday citizens" shouldn't have an interest in what the US military is shooting at over North America?
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by topspin 4y ago
> jumping with both feet to conclusions What conclusions? I'd actually like to see some conclusions. So far all we have is 'objects'.
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by topspin 4y ago
All of them, I guess. "Twitter back online after suffering longest global outage in years" (2022, before Musk fired everyone.) https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/twitter-down-as-social-media-g... "T
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by topspin 4y ago
Twitter wasn't all that stable before Musk.
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by topspin 4y ago
> I've alway felt "billion dollar mistake" is unreasonably hyperbolic. I guess you can take that up with Turning Award winner C. A. R. Hoare FRS FREng. I'm going to go ahead and keep citing it despite being a epic un
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by topspin 4y ago
I don't care how they get there, as long as they get there. In this case they're realizing that NULL makes optimization difficult and are swerving into solving this 27 year old instance of the "billion-dollar mistake."
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by topspin 4y ago
Basically. Microsoft and Google have both analyzed software defects and claimed that memory safety violations account for ~70%. I don't have time to dig up citations atm, but it's not hard to find. I think the Google results ar
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by topspin 4y ago
One type error, one timing attack and six memory safety problems. Defect ratio checks out.
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by topspin 4y ago
> I was wondering who is the audience of this article. Shareholders.
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by topspin 4y ago
"Past that I can't quote a regular person I interact with on weekly basis." The establishment promulgated term for this is "social distancing."
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by topspin 4y ago
merriam-webster.com: vet verb vetted; vetting; vets to evaluate for possible approval or acceptance
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by topspin 4y ago
> how are they supposed to test all the products they sell? Who suggested they should? And why would that be necessary? Simply applying the least bit of effort vetting their sellers and aggressively pursuing the reported scams would solv
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by topspin 4y ago
> Noctua has a compatibility guide where they list Of course they do. Noctua is an excellent company. Hard to imagine how they might improve. And some credit to PC builders is deserved as well; they've supported this company and

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