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by zrm 3y ago
Expecting all networks to do this is a pipe dream because there are too many of them and a large proportion are administered by people you might not have anything charitable to say about. And then you're stuck falling back to something
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by zrm 3y ago
This seems like it should be solvable by having the stateful firewall support e.g. Port Control Protocol (RFC6887). Obviously that has to be done by the network rather than the client, but what's stopping them? It can't be resourc
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by zrm 3y ago
> Going to a branch in person with government-issued photo id would be the way to establish identity when generating a bank card. You need to bootstrap it all somehow. All you've done is move the authentication problem to how you ge
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by zrm 3y ago
We can say that such and such part of the brain is "for" this or that. Then it releases neurotransmitters or changes the level of hormones in your body which in turn have cascading effects, and at this point information theory wou
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by zrm 3y ago
The hard part of this isn't that we don't know how to do it, it's that people don't like the consequences of it. Your bank can give you a bank card with cryptographic keys in it and then you need the card to make a trans
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by zrm 3y ago
Inefficiency was always a red herring. $ curl https://www.reddit.com > /dev/null % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload
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by zrm 3y ago
They used "_Generic" as a keyword but it doesn't really do that. Suppose I need to define a copy assignment operator for the library's sort function to use. Is there a good way to overload it? Can the library know what t
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by zrm 3y ago
> This makes no sense to me. What about C makes it hard to use a good library? It doesn't have templates/generics.
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by zrm 3y ago
> ISPs have different cache refreshing intervals They're omitting the detail that ISPs are violating the spec. If you set your DNS TTL to 3600 seconds, a caching resolver should store both that and when they received the response. T
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by zrm 3y ago
A lot of this is workload-dependent. LLMs for example seem to be memory-bound, so a fast CPU with HBM or a large number of memory channels should do well. Socket SP5 has 12 channels, which is 461 GBps per socket at DDR5-4800. Intel is getti
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by zrm 3y ago
Interestingly the "4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors" themselves have up to 2.45 TBps in memory bandwidth, with the 8-socket configuration, or 2 TBps with 2-socket Xeon Max and HBM. If they'd make an 8-socket Xe
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by zrm 3y ago
If the point is code diversity, what stops you producing a fork of BSD for BMCs under the GPL?
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by zrm 4y ago
> Which is why coffee works so well for ADHD because the stimulant action from caffeine is produced by glutamate. Caffeine also antagonizes adenosine receptors which modulate dopamine. (Caffeine is complicated. Nicotine too.) > Regard
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by zrm 4y ago
The active form of B6 is the enzyme cofactor used by AADC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatic_L-amino_acid_decarbox... AADC is an enzyme in the path that converts amino acids into dopamine and PEA/NMPEA (see &
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by zrm 4y ago
> It would make me hyperalert like a more subtle version of caffeine. I had insmonia for random days. That's phenylalanine. Its metabolites are interesting . One of them is tyrosine, which itself is the precursor to dopamine and ad
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by zrm 4y ago
Debian is one of the top Linux distributions, so there are empirically a large number of people not being deterred. And many of the other top Linux distributions are Debian derivatives which both participate in the community and provide the
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by zrm 4y ago
Try it this way: You create a game which is actually good. People want to play it a lot. It costs $0 and becomes popular. It's easy to mod so it gets a big community. And everything gets released on GNU/Linux two months before it
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by zrm 5y ago
So choose a different one. You don't have to use your ISP's. The danger is in everyone using the same one, which is what you get if the browser vendors are choosing for everyone. Better yet, give the browsers a way to detect this
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by zrm 5y ago
> Overall I think the problem here is just how many things are tied to the price. Quality of screen, keyboard, battery, etc. The secret here is to get an old high end laptop. Then the screen and keyboard are good but the price is low.
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by zrm 5y ago
"30-45 lbs"
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by zrm 5y ago
> Support and warranty work is simplified when you only have 4 or 5 models of computer in your org, and can reference a spreadsheet to see exactly what a given user has in front of them. In theory you could treat desktops the same way. A
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by zrm 5y ago
The main advantage of a desktop that you can't get from a laptop with a dock is that they can be a lot faster. There isn't any laptop that gets anywhere close to a 64-core Threadripper on threaded workloads. There are some that ar
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by zrm 5y ago
Currently the thing with enough bipartisan support that it might pass.
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98 points by zrm 5y ago|61 comments
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by zrm 5y ago
Depends how big you think the market is.
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by zrm 5y ago
Is anybody doing surveillance conversions? Like take a stock Tesla, throw out the computer it comes with and replace it with one that doesn't spy on you. Keep everything else. Probably easier than doing the reverse, isn't it?
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by zrm 5y ago
Most products like that don't actually work. Payday loans are available to everyone, but people typically don't use them to buy luxury goods. The people who take them out use them to avoid things that are long-term worse, like evi
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by zrm 5y ago
They don't need to not like it. It's relative. They just have to like the new thing better. Which shouldn't be hard when they're objectively maximizing engagement at your expense. The hard part is figuring out how to ove
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by zrm 5y ago
> Facebook achieved market dominance in an open market, it's hard to convincingly argue that they won by doing things against the desires of the market. This is the information asymmetry. People sign up without understanding how t
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by zrm 5y ago
Things win by out-competing other things. Competition works, and is important, because you would rather make $1 for yourself even if it reduces someone else's profit by $10. Which is how the market gets $9 more efficient. Sometimes the

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