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by zarzavat 4mo ago
The beauty of VPNs is that you do not need to have a presence in the UK to make or sell one. And there's a huge amount of money in it. The law is very bad at dealing with such realities, see also piracy and drugs. The last time I check
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
If it's my repo then I decide which files are tracked and I don't want any .DS_Store files, nor do I think any person in history has ever intended to track a .DS_Store file. In a perfect world everyone would add .DS_Store to their
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
It would also be nice if Finder stopped generating .DS_Store files and moved that information to metadata on the directory! They had a great opportunity to fix this when they introduced APFS but alas the blight continues.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
I add .DS_Store to every repo despite also having it ignored globally. Efficiency beats pristine. I don't want to have to ever think about or deal with it at all.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
> Randomized colonoscopy screening has not shown a statistically significant all-cause mortality reduction. My grandfather went to the doctor complaining of chest pains, they gave him a colonoscopy, and he died of a heart attack a week l
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Conventional ultrasound scanners are already cheap. Why can't a big ultrasound scanner be cheap too? What makes MRI machines expensive is that they are big helium-cooled superconducting magnets that have to be continuously kept at a f
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
An outage is the best failure that can happen. The worst that can happen depends on the system but could be anything from a business collapsing because of an attack, your production database being stolen and wiped, all the way to someone
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
This is just NIMBYism, literally. Street View is one of the most amazing technologies ever invented. It brings humanity closer together. No longer do you need to get a visa and get on a plane to see what the world is like in a particular pl
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
> > The bad guys won’t rest > Probably not. But we will. A pleasant dose of humanity in decidedly inhuman times.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
I don't disagree with the essay, but is there any benefit to being a billionaire? Almost anything I could possibly want could be satisfied by being a humble multi-millionaire.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
> - Power available 24/7 for "free" The Sun is visible from Earth as well, the last time I checked. In LEO you don't get power 24/7 because you are only 500km above the Earth. Yes the Sun is more attenuated on Ea
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Nobody is doing maintenance on an orbital data center because it's too expensive and dangerous, not because it wouldn't be useful. Maintenance in space would in fact be way more useful than on land because the redundancy required
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Maintenance for a mountaintop data center only requires a team of skilled mountaineers. In space you'd need astronauts. It's at least an order of magnitude cheaper, perhaps two or three.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
There's a much simpler explanation: Amazon's business is selling cloud services. Amazon is constantly under threat of attack and anything that disturbs the balance between attackers and defenders is bad for Amazon. Amazon also nee
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Most of the value of a CS degree is being able to say that you have a degree truthfully. If you don't have a degree then you just lie and say that you do, which is a moral papercut. Nobody really cares about your education though, they
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
You have to squint to see the output of an LLM to be speech. The input is clearly speech but the government is not preventing anyone from writing or publishing prompts, only from running those prompts through the model. In the case of t
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
Obviously Rust was first but over time both languages have been taking inspiration from each other. For example let-else was motivated directly because of its success in Swift: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3137-let-
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
The US tried to ban it. djb challenged it on first amendment grounds and the result was that the US government gave up trying to enforce any ban. AI is different though because these models are private, so they cannot really be considered t
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
It would be very funny if the UK were to put export controls on Gemini 3.5 Pro.
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by zarzavat 4mo ago
That's just a normal part of Mac development. Apple sees documentation as a net negative for them, something that can constrain them in the future. So they only document the major highways and leave everything else as an exercise to th
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
If I tried to put a mini PC where my Pi currently sits - a very narrow shelf - it would fall off and probably hurt itself. You can put a Pi just about anywhere.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
You can say that but Anthropic are literally the "good guys" that were disgusted by Altman and co, yet even they seem to have sold off their morality. Absolute money corrupts absolutely.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Everyone knows it's bullshit but because these companies are being valued at a trillion dollars a piece, it's hard to say that if you were in their shoes you'd do any differently.
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
I don't understand why it's so difficult for people to understand. If you're using the Pi as a microcontroller that you can run Python on, then just get the cheapest Pi that meets your needs. If you're using the Pi for c
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
> You went to Austria and did Austrian business with an Austrian company, you should be aware that Austrian rules and norms apply. The consumer purchases a domain name from their registrar. Neither the consumer nor their registrar are in
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
Seems like they still do: https://www.nic.at/en/how-at-works/domain-holder#id105 > I received a letter from the debt collection agency. What can I do? > If a domain hasn't been paid for despite several
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
This reminds me of the business practices of the Austrian NIC. Usually domain names expire if you don't renew them. In Austria, unless you explicitly cancel the domain name by fax, they just roll the registration over to the next year
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
That assumes a world where nobody else has AI. There's a night and day difference between: 1. One party has ASI and everybody else has nothing but their human brains. 2. One party has ASI and everybody else has high-level AI but not qu
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
There's an easy way to stop most supply chain attacks: 1. Publishing users must approve each and every release from a smartphone app. 2. Publishing users must provide verified government ID. The first step prevents the types of attacks
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by zarzavat 5mo ago
They couldn't deliver because they are not a startup and thus have something to lose in a way that OpenAI/Anthropic don't. If Siri starts telling people to self-destruct themselves it would be a major PR disaster, whereas App

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