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xoa
4mo ago
> Adding to DNS block list immediately. Just making a note here for anyone else with the same thought: I went to ping the domains listed ITT, and nothing went through. I'm running OPNsense and amongst other things using some of the
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xoa
4mo ago
> The LLM approach is not dependent on system configurations How is it not dependent? Like, help me out here: I'm writing something up in vim on my FreeBSD system using the built-in dictionary capability, maybe I've got gramma
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xoa
4mo ago
> And "the given word" in that particular example means "well" and is spelled G R E A T. G R A T E is a misspelling of that word. "Grate" is a real word, and it is correctly spelled. In fact, within the pur
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xoa
4mo ago
LLMs don't seem to be doing a very good job of clarifying your basic thinking however, in this post or your earlier one. To reply to both: > I immediately disable spellchecking on every avenue it tries to approach because managing a
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xoa
4mo ago
> It's not clear whether using "grate" instead of "great" is a grammar mistake or a spelling mistake. It actually is clear, because words have meaning. "Spelling" refers specifically to the order of l
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xoa
4mo ago
> Only if the problem is declared to be whatever it is that spell checkers solve. The problem being misspelling, hence, "spell checker". Like, this seems pretty straightforward? Grammar checking if you cannot use the languag
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xoa
5mo ago
Sedov-Taylor-Rayleigh blast equation, though this video isn't high enough frame rate to more than ballpark it I think. Tower is ~180m high, so 0.2 sec would be a bit over 1 kiloton instead? But definitely not remotely 13 kt. Still seri
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5mo ago
> And we're not going to hide from them through Cyber-Libertarianism. Like we did for over 230 years? I'm not entirely sure why you choose to call that period before vast ALPR networks "cyber-libertarianism", I'
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Analyst on China's spent rocket stages: "Things only continue to get worse"
(arstechnica.com)
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5mo ago
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5mo ago
> A .kids domain is not a useful approach. I surprisingly seriously disagree, and think you're perhaps missing a lot of the contention in this whole societal debate. The point is to give people workable tools with some level of agr
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xoa
5mo ago
Yes, exactly, this should be really simple as a foundation: by default the Internet is for adults. All of it. Where it's desirable for things to be available for kids, create the economic incentive and easy tools for parents to use and
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xoa
5mo ago
This. In fact I thought the government had long since gotten pretty serious about using smartcards and HSMs for everything? Why let anyone take any sort of accessible credential at all vs handing out hardware they can use but that cannot ha
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xoa
5mo ago
...where are, at a trivial minimum, the VLANs!?!? Or even outright separate physical architecture, but at the very least even the absolute cheapest prosumer Omada/UniFi/Mikrotik/whatever switches and WAPs made for the last de
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5mo ago
> I guess all those goverment actions should limit freedom of individuals more and more. Excellent strategy for tyranny. ... what? ? Are you ok with murder and theft as well and whine about how laws against that limit your freedom and a
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5mo ago
> Out of curiosity what do you find missing from the PoE sensor market? I'd be unironically delighted if you could point me at some site helping me find what I've been missing like a goof, because it feels more like the questi
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5mo ago
> The switch will cut the power if you draw less than 10mA (480 mW), so regardless of PHY efficiency [...] you are REQUIRED by the spec to generate heat that will mess up your sensor measurements. Out of genuine curiosity, could you ela
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5mo ago
For a brief, beautiful moment from the headline I thought "oh good, more PoE sensors finally happening!" doho. But no not just about battery but any power at all, and an interesting approach for further research. Of course to actu
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5mo ago
> Is there a fuck-you option by which a large company can force escalating costs on you through small claims? It'll vary by state, in general I don't think so? Or at least not if (as apparently was the case here) they don'
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Design Secrets of the General Electric Armament Systems Department (2008)
(smallarmsreview.com)
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5mo ago
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6mo ago
> I think there is also the added challenge that ARM macs are a moving target Yes, but also no? Because I think a reasonable argument can be made that ARM Macs are like game consoles with a more rapid generation: yes there are changes b
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6mo ago
Seconding this, it's what I immediately thought of. It's a really beautifully made movie. And yes cats are front and center, but it's also using them as a window on humanity, the city of Instanbul and its living history from
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6mo ago
> I can't really judge whether 1000 charges is a reasonable target for a car I mean, if "charges" is "full charge" and the battery pack does even 200 miles of range then that'd be 200,000 miles right? And m
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6mo ago
> There are lot cases where it is proven that you don't have any legal protection on border crossings. Assuming "you" here refers to US citizens, there are actually no such cases, because it is not true that we don't
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6mo ago
> courts can absolutely force you to enter a password even if it's not written down by holding you in contempt indefinitely. This is not true outside of a narrow exception. Indeed this is the core point of the 5th Amendment, to pro
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Robot Police Dogs Powered by AI Take over Atlanta's Streets
(newsweek.com)
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6mo ago
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6mo ago
> Most hackers actually keep their promises if paid the ransom, nowadays. I don't think that's actually true, or at least is certainly cannot be taken for granted. Instead, it appears ransom has followed more of the path of Si
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6mo ago
> The US happily arrests and charges people for cryptocurrency theft too. But the whole discussion here is whether or not it'd be theft at all. There is no breaking into computers or laundering involved here. And you're also n
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6mo ago
> I don’t live in the US, and am not a citizen of the US. Well good then, I guess you don't have to worry about any of this so long as no American ever gets a quantum computer! Not like any research on it happens here or anything s
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6mo ago
> If I buy a vintage computer second hand for $1500 and then manage to sell it to someone else for $2000, I don’t owe taxes on that. Uh, in the United States? Yeah, you absolutely do [0, 1]: > "If you make a profit through these
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6mo ago
> Cryptocurrency gains are taxable in many (most?) countries. So? > Clearly the governments see cryptocurrency as something more than just random numbers without meaning. Not really? It's the realized gains that get taxed. Th
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