abalone

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by abalone 6mo ago
Here's a good interview with the director of the Free Speech Coalition on the consequences of these "protect the kids" moral panic laws, which include widespread surveillance, banning VPNs and raising the cost of running an i
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by abalone 7mo ago
The code they posted doesn't quite explain the root cause. This is a good study case for resilient API design and testing. They said their /v1/prefixes endpoint has this snippet: if v := req.URL.Query().Get("pending_
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by abalone 7mo ago
I think this comment misses that OpenAI hired the guy, not the project. "This guy was able to vibe code a major thing" is exactly the reason they hired him. Like it or not, so-called vibe coding is the new norm for productive soft
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by abalone 7mo ago
Taylor Lorenz has done excellent reporting on this. It's a right wing censorial moral panic that's forced some Democrats to go along with it by positioning it as "protecting kids". This legislation is moving at a fast cl
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by abalone 7mo ago
The argument here is simply over your false claim that "You don’t need to do anything to keep panels with a significant angle clear of dust in deserts." Your only source does not, in fact, establish that, and cementation is in fac
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by abalone 7mo ago
Thank you for providing a source. That’s an early stage research paper, not the proven solution you originally implied. There are tons of early stage research papers on all these problems on earth and in space. Often we encounter a bunch of
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by abalone 7mo ago
> We don't use fibre optics on earth rather than lasers because of some specific limitation of the earth's surface being in orbit would avoid. That's incorrect. Lasers can suffer from atmospheric interference and fogging
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by abalone 7mo ago
You are again misquoting the article. She did not say soiling was "significantly less of a problem" in the desert. She in fact said it "requires you to clean them off every day or every other day or so" to prevent cement
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by abalone 8mo ago
You’re not summarizing the article fairly. She is saying the soiling mechanisms are environmentally dependent, not that there is no soiling in the desert. Again, it cites an efficiency hit of 50% in the ME. The article later notes that they
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by abalone 8mo ago
What’s your source for that claim? Soiling is a massive problem for desert solar, causing as high as 50% efficiency loss in the Middle East.[1] [1] https://www.nlr.gov/news/detail/features/2021/scientists
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by abalone 8mo ago
I’m all for it — converting just a third of that land to solar would be enough to power the grid in terms of raw output — but there is still a huge, unsolved problem of energy storage that scale. Without that you’re only powering your data
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by abalone 8mo ago
> using wireless communication means even less bandwidth between nodes, more noise as the number of nodes grows, and significantly higher power use Space changes this. Laser based optical links offer bandwidth of 100 - 1000 Gbps with m
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by abalone 8mo ago
> Even just building a long powerline around the globe to fetch it from warmer regions would be cheaper. Deserts have good sun exposure and land availability but extremely poor water resources, which is necessary for washing the sand o
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by abalone 8mo ago
What makes you say they "clearly have not read" their citations? Are you assuming that because they used ChatGPT to generate the citation section based on their description of the papers that they haven't read the papers? Are
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by abalone 8mo ago
> It makes far more sense to build data centers in the arctic. What (literally) on earth makes you say this? The arctic has excellent cooling and extremely poor sun exposure. Where would the energy come from? A satellite in sun-synchrono
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by abalone 8mo ago
There are plenty of legit concerns here about e.g. the launch externalities which are actually greater than the launch costs themselves, i.e. climate impact to future generations. However one flaw in this critique is that is only looks at
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by abalone 8mo ago
At least in one case the authors claimed to use ChatGPT to "generate the citations after giving it author-year in-text citations, titles, or their paraphrases." They pasted the hallucinations in without checking. They've sinc
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by abalone 8mo ago
I tried clicking on every number on this site and none of them linked to any primary sources. I clicked through on the first news item I saw, "Security forces open fire on woman filming them." This led to a post on X captioned &#x
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by abalone 9mo ago
I just think it's funny he has an obnoxious snow animation all over his screed against arbitrary graphic elements.
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by abalone 10mo ago
I am skeptical as well BUT on the cooling question, which is one of the main concerns we all seem to have, the article is doing a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison between the ISS and a cluster of small satellites. It cites the ISS&#x2
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by abalone 10mo ago
Sure, but there's an obvious tradeoff: You're also delaying the uptake of fixes for zero-day vulnerabilities. The article does not discuss this tradeoff.
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by abalone 10mo ago
It was a change to the database that is used to generate a bot management config file. That file was the proximate cause for the panics. The kind of observability that would have helped here is “panics are elevated and here are the binary
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by abalone 10mo ago
Thank you. I am sympathetic to CF’s need to deploy these configs globally fast and don’t think slowing down their DDoS mitigation is necessarily a good trade off. What I am saying is this presents a bigger reliability risk and needs corresp
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by abalone 10mo ago
By rapid I mean a rapid rollout of changes to 100% of the fleet, not how often changes are made.
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by abalone 10mo ago
I’ve led multiple incident responses at a FAANG, here’s my take. The fundamental problem here is not Rust or the coding error. The problem is: 1. Their bot management system is designed to push a configuration out to their entire network ra
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by abalone 10mo ago
Or there's 3.5: separate services where it makes sense, but not necessarily small in number. "Makes sense" would entail things like, does it have distinct resource utilization or scaling characteristics, or do you want to ena
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M5 Macs Support Memory Integrity Enforcement
25 points by abalone 11mo ago|2 comments
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by abalone 11mo ago
I did primary research. I just bought an M5 Mac and confirmed by doing: $ sysctl -a | grep MTE4 hw.optional.arm.FEAT_MTE4: 1
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by abalone 11mo ago
Not only does M5 have MTE, it has an "enhanced" version of it. "We conducted a deep evaluation and research process to determine whether MTE, as designed, would meet our goals for hardware-assisted memory safety. Our analysis
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by abalone 1y ago
That's really cool. I will just add that in my experience, with a bit of conditioning it is possible to get this satisfaction from crossing things off digital lists. The benefits are manifold: - It saves paper - It's easier and fa

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