AlexanderTheGr8

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by AlexanderTheGr8 1y ago
To add on: a 3% stock shift means that the search-engine deal was worth >=3% of the stock. That is massive free cashflow. In 2022, Google paid Apple $20B (full profit bec negligible costs) while Apple's total profit was around $100B
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by AlexanderTheGr8 1y ago
Apple stock is up 3%, strongly implying that this ruling is good for Apple as well. That is in contradiction to a lot of folks saying that this ruling means Google won't have to pay Apple. While the terms of the deal with Apple will li
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by AlexanderTheGr8 1y ago
Off-topic to the comments here, I am impressed by how the poster has described their issue so eloquently! They mentioned 6 reasons for why they have an issue with the banner : each of the 6 is a valid concern and put very eloquently and cle
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by AlexanderTheGr8 1y ago
I followed this case when it happened. It was $16M at the time, not sure how it became $65M now. I suppose it doesn't matter - any number above $100k probably grants the same punishment* Interesting side-note : the people he took/
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by AlexanderTheGr8 1y ago
Incredible coincidence. I was making a new tab extension for myself today. Well, more accurately, I was making ChatGPT and Claude to make a new tab extension for me. Wonder if this is frequency bias or just an incredible coincidence. I thin
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
> Oh right, it's the year of the fully autonomous car! Or was it last year? Or 2016? Just because CEOs have been hyping this tech up to raise valuations doesn't mean it will never happen. They said the same about landing rocket
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
> Uber or Lyft are more convenient for the customer Gross understatement! 1) You can find a cab wherever (almost) and whenever (24x7) - you don't have to hail a cab for minutes/hours (even worse was not knowing when/if
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
I have faced this exact problem with Canadian govt forms. Evince doesn't support them. They are so specific about only adobe acrobat to fill out the forms. I can open them in firefox but can't update them properly The only option
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
I see a bunch of comments about whether gambling should be banned or not. But what about enforcement : can you ban it? Nowadays, gambling is on 2 fronts : in-person and online. I am not sure about % distribution between them but I suspect o
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
A text-to-speech (TTS) model. Most good TTS models are closed-source. I intend on making this one open-source. All the decent open-source ones are fairly basic with limited fine tuning and no alignment (RLHF). I plan on adding those things.
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
I have often wondered : Why don't they attach a transponder on each athlete's center-of-chest (using some objective definition) and use that to time each athlete? That can be much much more accurate than any camera. We can still u
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
> those able to decode the still-military-only encrypted signals How? I was under the impression that military-only signal was encrypted. And if someone breaks that encrpytion, blame should go to the poor handling of encryption rather th
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
I never really thought of that. That's a pretty interesting restriction. Although any party with access to warheads that can fly 1000+ mph probably can bypass the GPS restriction, no?
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
Can you explain what you mean by that? The only thing I can think of is that GPS has 2 modes : one civilian and other military use. But military use-case uses encryption so civilians can't use that mode anyway.
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
Nice reverse engineering! As a hacky way for the non-tech-savvy, couldn't you use a temp account to create ticketmaster account and then buy the ticket and then sell the temp account information to bypass their rules? This reverse-engi
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
The article and comments debating best practices in notebooks remind me of the time I hosted a website from a jupyter notebook. Technically, I was using gradio to create a localhost webpage and then piping it through cloudflare. The website
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
"Interestingly, the only thing stopping civilians from using the P code is the knowledge of the value of its chipping sequence. If the formula to generate the P code was publicly known, there’d be nothing stopping civilian GPS receiver
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
"Interestingly, the only thing stopping civilians from using the P code is the knowledge of the value of its chipping sequence. If the formula to generate the P code was publicly known, there’d be nothing stopping civilian GPS receiver
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
>On the other hand if my country was invaded I would probably watch those videos with popcorn We don't even know which country the soldier belonged to. And realistically, if your country was invaded, you are unlikely to be in a posi
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
I understand I am making assumptions bec of lack of information in the article. Re shooting them down, if you can't shoot them down, whats the point of detecting them? And a drone being kamikaze only matters IF you can shoot them down.
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
Does anyone have a comparison of Airtag vs "Bluetooth tracker tags from Chipolo and Pebblebee"? I imagine Airtag is superior due to non-reliance on Bluetooth? Can Chipolo/Pebblebee tap into the Android network without Bluetoo
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
What if you cover the drone with non-reflective material? Or does it care about the reflective nature of the core of the object rather than just the surface?
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
I read the article but couldn't find any mention of how a radar detects drones? A drone is much smaller than an aircraft, can be confused with birds and can have 0 communication with a command & control station due to AI. So how ca
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
> I really don't care if you were running around dealing drugs, robbing banks, stealing cars or whatever two decades ago. If I found out one of my coworkers was a career bank robber I'd just want to get a beer and hear the craz
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
Is there any progress on identifying the attacker? This would make it much easier to find out it this was really a state-sponsored attack. If this backdoor can be classified as a crime, github logs can identify the IP/location/oth
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
> Fleecing them out of money is bad, but we can (literally) print more of it. Once someone is dead we can’t bring them back. The math of my argument was that with money, you can save lives, i.e., prevent people from dying. I don't b
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by AlexanderTheGr8 2y ago
Reposting one of my comments that wasn't particularly liked when i originally submitted it but i think becomes more relevant now. ``` I find such white-collar crimes very interesting because of the math between crime and punishment. Fo
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
You don't need to use the previous, present, and next code. Most decently implemented TOTP servers take time-sync-issues into account and accept codes a few seconds here and there. They do this also bec the time for a packet to move ar
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by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Unrelated but you are a great writer! "user agency lives in the very long tail of any software usage" "agency drives the birth of tech but dies in the scoreboards" "scale to species level adoption discover that the
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Ques: Why are so many single-letter .org, .net, and .co domains unused?
1 points by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago|1 comments

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