andwur

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by andwur 5d ago
Good workaround! It's just sad that to achieve the previous behavior we now need to burn significantly more compute, and in turn energy, and with far worse performance and an inverted UX. The most frustrating part is that they have all
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by andwur 11d ago
And for the illogical conclusion: buy factory equipment to make just the butts to minimise your running costs and limit supply chain dependency. I joke, but this is surely what would eventuate.
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by andwur 2mo ago
I too have run into this problem on a number of devices. The client's supported codec/media format detection logic appears to be extremely pessimistic. To the point that the mere existence of certain audio track formats and subtit
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by andwur 2mo ago
Likely referring to Android's Play Integrity/hardware attestation API (good explainer from GrapheneOS [1]) that is practically used to restrict what devices/brands/Android builds an app will allow itself to be run on. [1
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by andwur 2mo ago
How are the economics of this idea meant to be viable? The proposed business model is to park hundreds of millions to billion dollars of satellites in orbit, plus the costs to maintain and operate them, to meet the goal of selective area il
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by andwur 3mo ago
What if your licensed component is non-trivial, e.g. provides critical features so that omission renders the service entirely non-functional? These laws would need to cater for that scenario, as skimming over that detail and allowing stripp
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by andwur 3mo ago
> Like....what licencing issues? After the game is "dead" and the parent company doesn't want to support it anymore, we could easily release the source code or even just the executables for the servers. I can't speak
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by andwur 3mo ago
Unfortunately that's non-DAC copper cabling life it seems. They build them to work at the rated speed at the maximum rated distance (on the transceiver, not the spec) and none of them appear to link train to reduce the power output ove
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by andwur 3mo ago
Could do with a difficulty setting that includes when you inherit someone else's log pile, someone who really enjoyed making every cut on a new and more inventive angle than the last. Normally a wedge is used to split the wood, but it
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by andwur 3mo ago
Vastly different target market and/or features there. Mercedes are chasing maximum power density, minimum weight for high performance deployments, with seemingly little concern for cost or supply chain. Renault is going after the consu
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by andwur 3mo ago
Looking at just the `grit` executable, 58 of the top 200 largest file->resulting code sources are from clap-rs' derive functionality i.e. it's the command-line parsing. The #1 largest is, surprisingly, merge_trees[1] which come
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by andwur 3mo ago
The problem in isolation isn't new as such, but I think there's a combination of new factors to differentiate it: 1) the speed at which AI-generated codebases grow is far in excess of what human developers can achieve. What took y
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by andwur 4mo ago
The AI pundits often seem to apply the logic that code output is directly proportional to revenue and/or profit, and as such it follows that an AI usage increase leads to more code which leads to more revenue. I don't believe this
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by andwur 4mo ago
Sadly that only works when all parties agree on the "clearly" part. They will lose, but only if you can endure years of squabbling in court and have unlimited funds for your legal team to prove that the aforementioned clearly real
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by andwur 4mo ago
That's an oversimplification. Asset vs liability isn't a binary state but a superposition. An asset can carry liabilities. Your asset might generate $10k a month in revenue, but at the same time may have a high chance of needing a
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by andwur 4mo ago
It's about denial of labour leading to denial of broader competition, rather than a true intent to build a competing product. If you were actually to follow through with building the product you would need a lot more than just engineer
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by andwur 4mo ago
This is quite a claim without any evidence to substantiate it. LLMs are nondeterministic models, whose behaviour is reliant on training data, model architecture and context (both in the general and domain specific sense). There is absolutel
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by andwur 4mo ago
Standing a safe distance away, flanked by their union rep robots who refused to let their members go to work in such dangerous conditions. Unfortunately we can't force them to go in either. They threatened to pull the entire humanoid r
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by andwur 4mo ago
They may as well have just said: Company institutes an OKR that the IT division must spend over $1000/day/developer (fictious number). Company is surprised when IT division is costing far more than it did before. Company increases
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by andwur 4mo ago
Protected from _what_ and _who_, exactly? Are we protecting the owner of the vehicle from fully accessing the vehicle that they own? On my 2011 car I can hook into the OBDB port under the dash and have full access to everything but the alar
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by andwur 4mo ago
Oh just wait, the AI phone service on their side will be more than happy to complete your device attestation key challenge by touch tone. We have to make sure you are still you after all! But in all seriousness, many services are making it
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by andwur 4mo ago
That's dependent on the credit laws of the country in question though. In Australia you have it both ways, you cannot unreasonably discriminate (e.g. race, gender etc) but at the same time you are forbidden from issuing credit to appli
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by andwur 5mo ago
It's a different jamming scenario however. Starlink is comparatively centralised, and reliant on both terrestrial (ground stations) and satellite communication. While the terminals themselves are sparse and widely distributed, the back
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by andwur 6mo ago
From personal experience that usually results in the person on the attack opening two additional issues: 1) the original issue recreated, maybe with a childish flourish added e.g. "because we're apparently in the DPKR for this pro
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by andwur 7mo ago
Sounds like a new remit for the NRO. Park a billion dollar satellite over an area to keep an eye out for petty vandalism. Then the sheriffs office can team up with Space Force: papers will be served immediately by LEO MIRV deployment, which
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by andwur 7mo ago
Ownership of paintball guns is regulated under the state-level firearms act in most (all?) states and territories. You can use them under the direct supervision of the licensed owner, but it's still quite restrictive. If you were to ta
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by andwur 7mo ago
"Undrain" is not idiomatic, at least outside of Google. One might drain a tank or creek to empty it, the reverse isn't "undraining" to fill it back up. "issuance flow has been restored " might be a more w
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by andwur 7mo ago
It's amusing that after all this time and (hundreds of?) billions of dollars invested in adtech I still find the adverts in old magazines far more relevant and compelling than any of the "personalised" adverts of today. The i
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by andwur 7mo ago
That's inaccurate for standard thickness drywall sheet, which is usually a 20kg maximum parallel load (e.g. vertical for a wall) regardless of fixing method. Orthogonal load is even less. You might be able to attach a TV or cabinet but
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by andwur 7mo ago
One needs to only witness an exec team or board meeting to realise that loyalty as a concept doesn't exist at the top for the vast majority of companies. You're 1.8% of the accounts department budget, or 0.02% of the head office b

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