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by colmmacc 1mo ago
I think the article is wrong on this but it's more subtle than that. Probability distributions have a peak; there is still a token with a peak probability. What's interesting about these techniques is that token by token it can ac
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by colmmacc 2mo ago
I was at ANSSI headquarters last year doing a technical presentation and several of their questions were about Post-Quantum Cryptography, "Q day" (when a practical Quantum Computer is expected) and other related things. They keep
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by colmmacc 2mo ago
You're right but in my experience in Washington state - Park rangers, forest fire marshals, and reservation police will all rigorously enforce the bans in places that are prone to wild fires. The local community won't have much sy
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by colmmacc 3mo ago
32-bits are great for recording too because they do an incredible job of capturing the dynamic range without having to be precise on the preamp settings. It removes an entire job from the recording workflow. 192 for mixing and mastering can
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by colmmacc 3mo ago
Unless it is very specific to a proprietary product, craftspeople take their jigs with them from job to job, building up a personal library over a career. As a software developer I've always had a well-tuned IDE and shell config in a s
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by colmmacc 4mo ago
Reed-Solomon is an Erasure code, and I definitely wouldn't look to that for Secret Splitting. Those leakage models are gnarly. But if you want something else that is more general - there are Monotone Span Programs. Seriously underused.
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by colmmacc 4mo ago
Related: https://observer.com/2026/03/the-catholic-priest-who-helped-... Chris Olah, one of Anthropic’s co-founders, got in touch. What followed was, by McGuire’s own description, mind-blowing. “They basically we
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by colmmacc 5mo ago
If GitHub flipped a switch and enabled IPv6 it would instantly break many of their customers who have configured IP based access controls [1]. If the customer's network supports IPv6, the traffic would switch, and if they haven't
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by colmmacc 6mo ago
The four essential freedoms of the Free Software movement are ... 1. The freedom to run the program as you wish 2. The freedom to study how it works and modify it (which requires access to source code) 3. The freedom to redistribute copies
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by colmmacc 6mo ago
EC only works if parents are the sole carers, and every success story I've heard had one main parent doing 90% of the care-taking. No daycare would do it, and if you can find a nanny, au-pair, grand-parent or other carer who is up for
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by colmmacc 6mo ago
Our two year old is potty training right now, and this was definitely a factor for us. We had to wait until it could be explained. Another factor is that diapers are now so absorbent that the kid feels no real discomfort from a pee or a poo
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by colmmacc 7mo ago
That's almost certainly right. I couldn't see that as anything other than "Teal" but Éalú makes perfect sense especially thematically.
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by colmmacc 7mo ago
That does make more sense.
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by colmmacc 7mo ago
Native Irish Speaker and Sci-Fi fan here. What an unexpected delight. For those who might not pick it up , the author name "Máiréad Ní Ghráda" is that of an unmarried (that's the "Ní") woman ("Máiréad" whi
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by colmmacc 7mo ago
Grafton St buskers at their best are really really good, but there are also some very average buskers there every day too. New Orleans is a stand-out in the US where you can find world-class jazz bands playing on the streets. Nashville has
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by colmmacc 7mo ago
Lesser known but possibly more relevant to most HN readers are Feynman's lectures on computation - https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard... . There's some really great explana
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by colmmacc 7mo ago
I don't support this kind of detention, but the case reads like he overstayed his original conditions of entry. According to the court order, he entered the US on the Visa Waiver Program in 2009. He may have a work permit now because a
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by colmmacc 8mo ago
I am very petty about this one bug and have a very old axe to grind that this reminded me of! Way back in 2011 CloudFlare launched an incredibly poorly researched feature to just return CNAME records at a domain apex ... RFCs be damned. ht
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by colmmacc 9mo ago
I've always considered that Tim Jennison quote to be a reference to C.P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" lecture. Steve Jobs' ambition for Apple to be "where the Liberal Arts and Technology meet" also seemed sim
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by colmmacc 9mo ago
There is a great meditation in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance about the differences between riding and driving. Being open to the elements, in and a part of nature, is visceral. Bubbled in a car, our surroundings are observed mor
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by colmmacc 9mo ago
The transition to 7200 VXRs as core routers really hit a tipping point around 2000. They could handle millions of entries in the FiBs and really led to a relief in pressure. Subsequent devices had to match that. On the IPv6 side; by 2002, n
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by colmmacc 9mo ago
The Oscars, The Golden Globes, the Emmys, just a few!
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by colmmacc 10mo ago
I don't think it's nefarious but it is sabotage. There's long been an implicit assumption that optimization should be more important than safety. Yes, languages do lack good mechanisms to mark variables or sections as needing
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by colmmacc 10mo ago
I bought this latest Heaney book while I was in Ireland recently and it lives in my nightstand, along with the other Heaney books in the series (his letters, and his translations). They are an endless marvel and constantly make me ponder. P
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by colmmacc 11mo ago
So they open the source ... how do I know that's what's running on the voting machine? There's really no good practical solution to this problem. What matters more is that there is a voter-verified paper audit trail and that
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by colmmacc 11mo ago
No, this absolutely is not how forward secrecy works in TLS. Forward secrecy protects against a break in the signature algorithm, but not in the key agreement algorithms. Both the FFDH and ECDH key agreement algorithms are vulnerable to qua
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by colmmacc 11mo ago
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/22/hank-green-pissing-out-c... Watching Hank Green's YouTube video where he found out that his cloudy pee was cancer leaving his body, he was surprised that doctors don&#
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by colmmacc 1y ago
Completely open borders migration between all countries would be the biggest such market correction. If every development job was open to every qualified developer in the world, I suspect software salaries in the US would be much lower.
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by colmmacc 1y ago
Interestingly, there's a whole category of H1B visas just for fashion models. H-1B3, which is for models with "distinguished merit and ability". A famous supermodel can most likely get an O1 visa, for people of extraordinary
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by colmmacc 1y ago
H1B visas don't require employers to post jobs; this PERM process comes later when someone seeks an employment sponsored green card. Visas could be allocated in some kind of priority order, but salary alone would probably concentrate v

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