xyzzy123

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   by xyzzy123 1y ago

   Ok, my definition of "elites" is they are the people who wrest control of the systems that sustain us all and bend them towards extracting value for themselves. They're the people who live up on the hill and extract grain fro
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   by xyzzy123 1y ago

   I wonder about this; theoretically elites who control capital no longer "need" masses in such numbers to retain power/wealth. It would be much simpler to manage a smaller population and extract surplus production from technoc
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   by xyzzy123 1y ago

   gestures doors opening upwards vs doors opening outwards In the short term stuff doesn't need to bring in revenue - if the belief that it might make a lot of money moves share prices that is good enough. You don't even need to
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   by xyzzy123 1y ago

   It's an interesting litmus test because regulators would not accept ZK age proofs unless the stated purpose of age verification laws (reduce harm to minors) is the _actual_ purpose of those laws. Not some different unstated goal, such
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   by xyzzy123 1y ago

   Thanks. What I've seen is that organisations are focused on process compliance, not technical security. As long as people can tick the boxes in standard supplier assessment forms (which you can do with plain TLS, not even mTLS), you ca
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   by xyzzy123 1y ago

   Hi, I have worked on security teams, been on both sides of supplier assessments and built infrastructure / deployed vendor agents. Both of these options (assuming best practice configuration) would be acceptable to any security team I&
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   by xyzzy123 1y ago

   Isn't family "skin in the game", in a fairly literal sense? People don't come from nowhere, they have families, affiliations, communities etc. Politicians in particular are selected for this.
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   by xyzzy123 1y ago

   Farming sector in the UK was heavily subsidised in the past, not sure of today or what if any support rice farmers might be able to get. I agree it shouldn't be "discouraged" (as a private enterprise) but it seems reasonable
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   by xyzzy123 1y ago

   I find the debate really interesting because I have 2 sons who were early readers and they taught themselves by more or less guess / check. I watched them bootstrap by recognising whole words and memorising them. They start noticing &q
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    I think it's "worse" than that. I have at different times put out windows, mac & rpi as "lounge computer" used by kids (5, 7, 9 and their friends) and their main complaint with rpi is DRM issues, that's pre
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    There are a few different scenarios but outsourcing firms / consulting (infosys, tcs, wipro etc) take up about 1/2 the tech h1bs. As a body shop you can charge a higher rate and get bigger margins on an on-shore body. I see your p
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    Then people accuse you of being "protectionist" or "mercantilist". Your companies aren't internationally competitive. This cripples your exports unless you can convince other countries to also block the goods that a
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    Are carriers "floating coffins" that will be the first target of long-range missiles in the event of a conflict? Or are they a critical platform for projecting power? Can they be both things at the same time? Maybe, but it's
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    The difference is that if you have a prestigious degree you have good odds of dropping into a fast track starter role. If you don't it may take you a decade of career time to "prove yourself" and network to the point where yo
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    I have a play project which hits these constraints a lot. I have been messing around with getting AI to implement novel (to me) data structures from papers. They're not rocket science or anything but there's a lot of detail. Often
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    P.S: I can't edit this post but I misgendered the author. She is the child's mother.
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    The author makes a lot of good and accurate points, but I also can't help but notice that as his daughter becomes a teenager and is looking to become independent and construct an identity he considers her "mad". All his comp
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    You can't build things without being part of a culture and understanding the tools that culture uses.
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    Thanks again Scott, BESS testing with a robot arm is such a great idea.
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    That's cool, thanks! So it's not like traditional ultrasonic cutting where you're trying to couple energy into the material, but vibrating the knife sounds like it's doing genuinely interesting things. Have you been able
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    Hm usually ultrasonic cutting tools have small, disposable blades, which are tuned so that they vibrate right. Also they can produce an intense burning sensation in either the hand you're using (if you hold wrong / too tight) or i
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    Because otherwise all the reasonable people get replaced with unreasonable people. Some say this has already happened...
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44925913 (China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers (bloomberg.com))
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    The house is just the security, the thing you got the loan for is the asset (hopefully).
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    Likewise, thanks for the perspectives.
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    Having an overseas social media platform widely used in your country is basically giving foreign intelligence direct access to the brainstem of your citizens. It's not even about speech necessarily, it's about what speech is ampli
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    I think GFW is more of a fallback (hammer) in the overall system but yeah that does happen "in detail" on WeChat etc. In the US, censorship is obviously a hot-button political topic (core values), but we are starting to see US con
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    As I understand it the idea is not necessarily to stop all dissent / awareness, but that it's useful to be able to slow the spread of "rumours" / incendiary information when it is spreading virally. This gives autho
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    According to https://gfw.report/publications/usenixsecurity25/en/#3 they sniff the SNI out of the handshake like for TLS.
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    by xyzzy123 1y ago

    For me it was the ram for the OSDs, 1GB per 1TB but ideally more for SSDs...