SAI_Peregrinus

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by SAI_Peregrinus 3d ago
In the USA they already take passport photos. Being able to receive mail addressed to a name is the closest thing to a national ID the USA has. They're already depended on for identity verification quite a lot.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5d ago
1000 Colonial Farm Road, Langley, Virginia, United States of America seems likely to me.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5d ago
I use wire cutters. Non-compliant cables get cut & discarded. I've got a dedicated USB condom with USB-PD support for cases where I want to block data, since those are always charging and I want the negotiation to work for fast cha
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by SAI_Peregrinus 6d ago
AI safety efforts from OpenAI and Anthropic are purely about brand safety.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 7d ago
ECC allows greater security for key exchange (because it is so cheap to generate keys we can have "ephemeral" exchanges and forward-secrecy). It isn't significantly better for signatures in most cases.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 12d ago
I've got one as well, and I'll say it's extremely nice for removing splinters. I do a bit of woodworking, so it ends up being unexpectedly dual-purpose.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 12d ago
I will say it's important that the soldering iron be temperature controlled. It's especially nice if it's one with the temperature sensing integrated into the tip in a cartridge (like the ones you suggested). Also, 63/37
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by SAI_Peregrinus 13d ago
I like to delete all AI comments, and write my own. If I can't write a comment, I don't understand the code well enough to have my name on the commit. I often delete the resulting comment, because AI likes to add many more than ar
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by SAI_Peregrinus 14d ago
If they isolated themselves from all news, social media, and lived as a hermit, yes. They could care less, but it'd be difficult.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 14d ago
IMO JJ allows a simpler "mental model" than git. Git is a DAG of commits, each of which is a node in the DAG. There's also a staging area that isn't a node in the DAG, and a working copy that also isn't a node in th
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by SAI_Peregrinus 14d ago
> a public example of an open source project that you are using that showcases those features? IMO that's almost fundamentally impossible. The whole point is that it makes maintaining a "clean" linear commit history easier
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by SAI_Peregrinus 14d ago
Practical upper bound is closer to 35°C, at 100% relative humidity. Or equivalent wet bulb temperature for lower humidities.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 21d ago
Even in an infinite universe there's no requirement for all events to have non-zero probability of occurring. A simple analogy: there are infinitely many integers, but even if you could pick between them all uniformly at random infinit
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by SAI_Peregrinus 23d ago
JJ workspaces don't have that limitation. They do limit you to not having the same working copy commit opened in more than one location, but that's not particularly restrictive with JJ since you're probably squashing changes
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by SAI_Peregrinus 24d ago
Crater is one of the biggest benefits of crates.io being the biggest Rust package registry. Being able to test toolchain changes against all the largest crates before those changes stabilize is an enormous benefit.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 27d ago
Jittered exponential backoff. You don't want the whole herd to come back at the same time, you have to add timing jitter to the clients.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 28d ago
Parentheses, commas, em-dashes, footnotes, endnotes, and starting new sentences can all be used for interlocutions. Endnotes maximize disruption, the reader has to turn to the back of the book to find the end note, then return to what they
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
Yep, it's Murphy's law of online content. Anything you want to reference later will be gone, with no archive copies. Anything you want deleted will be available forever.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
It certainly can be a good thing! But it can also be considered a bad thing that you have to keep taking them, and have to keep paying for them forever. A one-time fix (a cure) can be more desirable than a lifelong treatment regimen.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
SOC2 requires a company to write policies in a large number of areas, and to demonstrate that they're complying with the policies they wrote. AFAIK SOC2 does not require anything meaningful about the actual contents of the policies, no
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
I think they mean they're drugs you have to keep taking forever (for the rest of your life) to keep the effects.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
It's not just down, it has errors. Not merely some, but elevated errors across all models.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
By "runny scrambled" I mean a folded omelette with a runny center, just-set exterior, and no browning. Classic French style, not just slop on a plate.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
I do French-style omelets in a carbon steel pan, on an electric cooktop. Mine's an 8.5" omelet pan, perfect for two egg omelets. I treat it a lot like a wok: heat up until a bit of water dropped in shows the Leidenfrost effect, du
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
Runny scrambled (French omelet) isn't too bad on carbon steel IME. And certainly possible on cast iron, since that was the type of pan used when Carême wrote his cookbook. By Escoffier's time carbon steel was more common. Neither
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
To add (and agree), if you've got (say) a 10-word Diceware-style passphrase with ≥128 bits of entropy, the point of a KDF becomes solely for the domain separation that KDFs provide. That's not particularly relevant for the USB dri
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
Not all providers tread dots and plusses the same. Gmail ignores dots (strips them out), and omits a plus and anything after it. Some providers include dots, so stripping them will be a different email address. Same for plusses and the cont
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
Schemes like this just indicate they've joined the USB IF.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
On the plus side, in electroplating the positive ions are what actually moves. So in the experiments where you can visually see something move from one terminal to the other the conventional current direction is obviously correct.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
Name it `-->result.txt`

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