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by torginus 7mo ago
> While small microservices are certainly simpler to reason about, I worry that this pushes complexity into the interconnections between services 100% true in retrospect.
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by torginus 7mo ago
Cool observation, might be more to it than I would like to admit. Interestingly, most of the CEOs of the biggest tech companies are not particularly tall (with the notable exception of Musk and late Steve Jobs) were exceptionally tall. I wo
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by torginus 7mo ago
I think most 'attractive' people put effort into their appearances, which might appeal to management types who evaluate work performance. Also, imo the best way to get a management position in my experience isn't to work hard
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by torginus 7mo ago
This is what I dislike about a lot of open source projects (not all, but a significant amout of the notable ones) - publicly it's proclaimed that the code's open, and you are free to fix bugs and implement your changes. But when y
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by torginus 7mo ago
> I doubt Iran has these According to guys in the know, they have quite the hardware: https://www.hisutton.com/Iranian-Naval-Mines.html
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by torginus 7mo ago
I mean you could have some slack in the cable easily, and have the mine become intert should its cable snap. You have to be mindful of enemy tampering, but overal I would say the idea's worth investigating. On an unrelated note, I was
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by torginus 7mo ago
I was thinking you could run a fiber optic cable. Those have proven themselves to work over 10s of miles in Ukraine with drones.
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by torginus 7mo ago
The API design has nothing to do with security. The Posix API is completely secure. MS has been able to bolt on exactly this kind of security to Win32.
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by torginus 7mo ago
Win32 has managed to do this without any API change, all the existing APIs work. The same approach would've worked for X11. What it does is simple - all the functions that deal with windows/handles or events simply do not work on
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by torginus 7mo ago
I would at least like to understand the idea of 'pureness' this API tries to aspire to. It's definitely not Unix-like, since file handles and writes and epoll, and mmap for IPC are nowhere to be found. Instead you have '
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by torginus 7mo ago
I'm not a military guy, but I would think you can make mines nowadays that do exactly that.
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by torginus 7mo ago
Batteries only help with peak loads, they also cost money and wear out. Let's do some math - a 10 car 500kW charger, with a ~30% occupancy, would draw a constant 1500kW from the grid, if we calculate 3kW average for a household(which i
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by torginus 7mo ago
Ah thanks for the expert opinion. I used to be an EE, but I've not been working in the field for a long time Forgive me, but afaik you can't really run truly high voltage AC lines underground - the main issues are electrical arcin
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by torginus 7mo ago
Imo one of the biggest wins of renewables + battery is you can skip most of that infrastructure - you can have solar panels on your roof, on the edge of town, and you can skip most of expensive transmission infrastructure.
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by torginus 7mo ago
The fundamental problem of high-wattage charges (say 500kW), isn't to deliver power from the charger to the car, but that there needs to be crazy amounts of grid capacity to support them. A house has like 10kW peak sustained power cons
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by torginus 7mo ago
Compliance is crazy sucky - I remember there being a case when one of our vendors was harvesting data like crazy, and we went after them. It was grossly in violation of GDPR, like as bad as it could get. When we reached out to them, they sh
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by torginus 7mo ago
It did by default for me, and there are a bunch of other poorly implemented analyses, such as it incorrectly flagging Dictionary keys in C# as mutable, or opinionated stuff like it disliking certain names and patterns, forcing me to make ar
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by torginus 7mo ago
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by torginus 7mo ago
Pretty far? No idea about the sota in GPU vector rendering, but if you triangulate shapes, RIGHT 45 FORWARD 10 would produce a vertex buffer of points on the CPU, which could be rendered on the GPU.
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by torginus 7mo ago
Not really, and I kinda envy you that you haven't really worked up close with compliance-related people. A lot of compliance is basically corruption - while in country A, you might fall out of a window if you don't buy from the ri
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by torginus 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS Am I supposed to believe we live in a world where this exists, yet carriers are impossible to find and track on the sea? Besides, modern fighter jets have radars with 400km detection
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by torginus 7mo ago
Well everything's impossible, until its not.
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by torginus 7mo ago
It would make tracking impossible, as no other country operates satellites.
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by torginus 7mo ago
Considering how AI companies incestously RL on each other's models, I would not be surprised if any number of behavioral patterns and (claims to be ChatGPT/Claude/Deepseek or whatever) just popped up on new models constantly.
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by torginus 7mo ago
Just to illustrate how bad Google has gotten, I've had the boomer habit of searching for a website name and then clicking the link in Google. In the past 1-2 years I had to stop that, as there's a good chance I will be taken to s
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by torginus 7mo ago
I think there needs to be a new kind of 'razor': 'Never attribute mistakes to stupidity that benefit the ones making them' The dressing up of purely malicious or greedy actions as merely resonable ones, that were execute
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by torginus 7mo ago
Well, I wouldn't extrapolate much from this. Look at what happened to entry level EVs - brands like BYD and MG undercut VW, Kia and others, and their cars came fully loaded with extras missing from Western models. In response VW and co
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by torginus 7mo ago
One of the strangest discoveries of my life was that vector graphics is a solved problem, and the solution is turtle graphics that I was taught in primary school.
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by torginus 7mo ago
I mean it's a bit hard to take away hard data from just monthly sales across the whole of Europe. 10% is a lot, but far from overwhelming, and individual popular models can create big changes in overall stats. For example, the Brits lo
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by torginus 7mo ago
I wouldn't encourage that and I don't think it will be necessary. In Europe, most Chinese brands aren't selling exactly well, while domestic manufacturers really sped up their timelines and pushed for competitive pricing, so

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