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by zkms 8y ago
> SoC power management, system bringup, and maintenance tasks are complicated enough these days to warrant a full small core tacked onto the side. These cores are necessary, and aren't going away. Complaining about them being there
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by zkms 8y ago
> BitGenGo is actually a small program which spawns off two goroutines(threads) and they take turns setting a shared variable with a value(zero/one). Every time the user requests a bit, the current value of the shared variable is re
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by zkms 8y ago
LKY concurred on this as well: > Air conditioning. Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropi
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by zkms 8y ago
> The really funny, and by funny I mean sad, thing about your argument, is that you're all upset about this happening to racists and bigots, but you completely ignore that this was a fact of life for many of the marginalized communi
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by zkms 8y ago
> They don't work to treat the pain and the patient develops a tolerance and so ends up taking large quantities putting their health at risk. That's not how opioid tolerance works. As dose needed to achieve desired effect (anal
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by zkms 8y ago
> Yeah, I don't buy that. If Stormfront and Daily Stormer can still be up, then there can't really be any credibility to that argument. That those two loathsome websites are still up doesn't mean that the technique I descr
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by zkms 8y ago
> That is why I pay attention to kooks and antiflocks. If you can explain precisely why something is impossible you’re halfway to making it possible after all. And if nothing else, kooks are really good at pulling those explanations out
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by zkms 8y ago
> Well you can host your own website on your own server. Sure, then the people who drove you off Facebook/Amazon/Apple iTunes/Youtube/Azure/EC2/Digitalocean/Cloudflare will go after your DNS registrar a
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by zkms 8y ago
> And... we appear to be back :) Far out. Stay tuned for a blog post about this later. Congrats and thanks, good luck with the search for another upstream or two :)
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by zkms 8y ago
Yeah I'd have expected them to have multiple upstreams and an ASN to announce their IPs but apparently they don't. Pretty odd.
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by zkms 8y ago
Looks like an issue with their upstream, nyi.net: traceroute to mail.fastmail.com (66.111.4.148), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.582 ms 4.760 ms 4.748 ms 2 142.254.XXX.XXX (142.254.XXX.XXX) 14.748 ms 41.67
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by zkms 8y ago
Look up "anti-islanding". If the grid is down, you can do whatever the heck you want with your own wiring, but back-feeding power into the grid is a very firm no-no. > Islanding can impact utility asset integrity. For example,
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by zkms 8y ago
> As an information theorist, I used to be able to point to optical disks as an application of my field, and be like "see all that math is useful for something," but now I don't have anything shiny to point to anymore I st
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by zkms 8y ago
> You have to look at the effect of the noise on the statistics of the bits, Yes. Soft combining (in systems designed for it) isn't even done on bits, it's done on the actual analog (well, a digitised version of the analog va
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by zkms 8y ago
> This is the 19th version of Touhou Lossless Music Collection torrent, current total file size ~1.75 TiB. I didn't know this existed but I am grateful for you changing this and now I need to buy a new hard drive.
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by zkms 8y ago
> It turns out you can’t fix noisy data by intersecting it with a different-but-related noise source. No you actually can; it's called "soft combining": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_automatic_r
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by zkms 8y ago
They have upward-facing transmit antennae for 1090MHz ADS-B/extended-squitter for TCAS reasons.
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by zkms 8y ago
Any ill that would befall GPS could easily also affect those. The issue is "a shocking amount of critical infrastructure depends on positioning/timing information derived solely from a handful of satellites broadcasting weak signa
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by zkms 8y ago
> I can't speak for the US, but most European banks I've seen require 2FA for almost any non-read-only action. You need either an app, or a tiny machine that authenticates against your (chip) debit card. I have multiple US bank
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by zkms 8y ago
> It is only data from universities, not real for-profit businesses. Plenty of universities work (often in collaboration with national laboratories and/or with corporations) on work that's far more important and critical than m
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by zkms 8y ago
> Dropbox gave us access to project-folder-related data, which we aggregated and anonymized, for all the scientists using its platform over the period from May 2015 to May 2017 — a group that represented 1,000 universities. This include
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by zkms 8y ago
Thank you so very much for providing latency-under-load statistics; this is excellent.
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by zkms 8y ago
> don't open it up to public review and leave it completely in the hands of more-or-less capable technocrats. Is that a price you're willing to pay? Given that in US, "public review" for any kind of infrastructure (r
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by zkms 8y ago
> What’s the problem here? License plate data is public information, it’s the same as if a person standing on the street saw your plate and told someone else. Cool, so you won't mind if i install a GPS tracker in your car that tell
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by zkms 8y ago
> but a 14-year-old with a smaller budget could easily cause similar chaos on a busy highway by, say, rolling a heavy object down a hill onto it or throwing some spiked gardening tools onto the road at night. Doing that puts them at seve
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by zkms 8y ago
> cities with essentially no zoning rules also have have rising housing prices. those cities may have laxer zoning/land-use laws than other US cities but they're still very strict compared to cities outside US.
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by zkms 8y ago
Was it with Glen George?
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by zkms 8y ago
> Air conditioning will literally save lives. We need to get the infrastructure and economy in large portions of the world to the point where the vast majority of the population will be able to afford air conditioning and the infrastruct
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by zkms 8y ago
Unless Locationsmart (and the other shady data brokers like "zumigo") goes under then it's pretty clear that there's some serious caveats in this alleged stopping of sharing location data.
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by zkms 8y ago
It's a lightbox-infested mess that badly reimplements browser features like "tabs" and "back button" with so much needless JS that my laptop's fan goes to 100% of rated RPM. Also the design takes up lots of scr

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