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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Yes; milling is fiddly but because the forces are so low (and you can reduce the mechanical accuracy needed with depth probing), it's possible to do reliable pcb milling for similar to cost of decent fdm printer. People are doing this
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Agency & control over own time costs about this much in a modern economy if you don't want to compromise on housing or having a family.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I've known a few well adjusted individuals who finished their education early. You would tend not to notice except in conversation when you add things up and realise they are unusually accomplished. Personally I think it's weird m
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
The overton window of the general public is much wider than the overton window permitted by current establishment thinking. From the position of establishment norms, this means _any_ platform with user generated content will inevitably be
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
That code is just data. In lispalikes, code has the same "shape" as any other data. The compiler / language environment and the runtime environment are "blended" in a much more natural way than is usual.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
The team actually got a nobel prize so they're not so hard to find ;)
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I agree but the main criticism I have of the article is that tornados don't challenge anyone's world view and that is often the problem that individuals face. An Amish person getting support via well worn community norms is one th
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Hypothetically, you can imagine the government setting all tax income on fire and just printing new money to do the stuff it wants (however much they need). It's valid to argue that dollars are fungible and it's all how you choose
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
It's possible for cryptobro criticism of the fiat economy AND absolute skepticism of crypto/defi to be valid at the same time. Crypto is a self licking ice-cream cone, yep. Fiat, its management and its creation are politically com
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
In industry we just call those junior and senior employees.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
It's a good question, if we didn't have small microprocessors the alternatives would tend to be more material intensive (eg mechanical governors or clockwork) or be less efficient. We'd lose the Internet and cellphones, have
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Complaining about (VCs funding) teams of a few people destroying the world - it's like complaining about water flowing downhill. If I had to identify the skill I think they have (and the valley trick in general), it's an ability t
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I don't think it's crazy though; I think it reflects that in software / OS development you save a lot of dev & qa time by minimising your hardware fragmentation. Also that if you have special sauce (eg a tensor chip), you
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
You were always going to lose access to that data on a free plan right? Now you just know exactly when you'll lose it. It's going to be worse for small private instances but much better for large public instances.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
At first I did not believe this could possibly be true but you're right, there's been a case and everything. I don't think you have gdpr obligations if your private cameras are just capturing your own grounds and home. But it
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Your overall point is valid (there are lifetime constraints that mean you shouldn't rely on unpowered SSDs for long term archiving) but IMHO your post is overly pessimistic. The spec is 1 year minimum for client and 3mo for server, but
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Something more like https://transparency.dev/verifiable-data-structures/ would probably be a better fit. The ideas are "blockchain adjacent" but without the waste.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Stainless can also be a pig to machine due to work hardening.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
There's a huge export market though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_used_vehicle_export... I read that something like 60% of cars registered in NZ are Japanese imports. IMHO Japanese used car exports hav
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
If defaults don't work then Google wasted 15 billion dollars last year paying Apple to be in the search bar... I guess there must be further detail in the paper and I will have to read it to understand the nuance.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
In the example you cited I don't think that's a nudge? Or is it? I ask because I am sure that changing defaults DEFINITELY works, especially if the user does not have a strong existing preference. You're not really changing u
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
For backend, if you have a platform that allows you to run arbitrary containers, you will need to have a way to express how they are connected together, how much resource they should get, which parts should receive traffic from the Internet
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
One reason many well-meaning security teams want mobiles is that phone numbers "cost" money for (most) attackers to create but do not create much additional burden for (most) legitimate users. In a sense they are used as a kind of
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Some TSLA investors are in it for the car manufacturing and others are there for the lulz / meme stock value. Elon and bitcoin provide a lot of value and fun for the latter class of investor. Matt Levine (bloomberg) has some amusing bu
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Suspect the usefulness will end up being dictated by energy management concerns. Balancing mobility & runtime. The logistics of swapping batteries / charging every hour, how well you can make them "camp" somewhere & w
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
More like the sum total of promises that've been made is greater than our collective capacity to deliver on them.
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
This is the TechShop business model, and they went out of business :/ I think fundamentally the problem is that we have been operating for a long time in an economic environment where "stuff" is relatively cheap, but land and
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Some ideas for improving, uh, "cyber skills" (mainly offsec): Find vulnerabilities in software, the more widely used the better. Try both closed & open source software. Publish some CVEs. Different approaches can work dependin
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Right but it doesn't prevent infection or transmission for more than a couple of months. > If vaccinating under fives reduces the risk to preschool carers and enables us to maintain higher preschool capacity I agree, but this is als
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
I've not been able to find medical evidence that the vaccine has any benefits at all for under 5s. It's been theorised to reduce severe illness and death (and it's very plausible it might!) but afaict that's never actual

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