compsciphd

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by compsciphd 14d ago
On this note, there is/was an apartment I'm semi looking at (in practice its just a bit out of my stretching ability) in my beach town that isn't quite first row to the sea, but one street back. But the lot behind it (which w
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by compsciphd 15d ago
Honestly, I dont know why "xbox mode" isn't this for PCs. Instead of anticheat, reboot into a stripped down mode just for playing the game that has a secure boot chain that the app can attest and report to the servers about
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by compsciphd 21d ago
I mean unrar is included in windows now too....
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by compsciphd 27d ago
i'd argue that perhaps the ability to play audio should be permission gated, much like the ability to use webcam/microphone. However, I'd bet that many people will gladly allow aliexpress to play audio as there are probably v
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by compsciphd 1mo ago
the question is, what's the worst situation for society. People not trusting the votes being counted properly or people being coerced paid to vote some way and this making it more valuable. A plausible solution would be to significantl
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by compsciphd 2mo ago
re #2 see metavnc (old at this point) https://metavnc.sourceforge.net/ TLDR: it leveraged a specific client that could a) connect to multiple vnc instances b) display them in a single window c) act as the "window manag
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by compsciphd 2mo ago
to lose less money on the prisoners? i.e. its not a good motivation to increase the number of prisoners (even if one looses less money per prisoner, more prisoners will mean more loss), but it does motivate investigating ways on how one can
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by compsciphd 3mo ago
I used to walk from the main library to the metreon every sunday (made a day of visiting library and seeing a movie). It's not a long walk to most americans. It's easy, in that its a flat walk. Less easy (at least then) as it w
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
you were thrown that way in Kazakhstan? :)
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
that's just 3 shamir secret sharings. key is protected by a 3 of 3 keys. 1 protected by 3 of 4 (i.e. SSS the key into a 3 of 4) 1 protected by 2 of 3 (i.e. SSS the key into a 2 of 3) 1 that just is. so you take your original key and SS
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
before I learned of shamir secret sharing, I wondered why one couldn't do the same exact thing with a par2 like system (albiet with smaller pieces than a par2 system would traditionally have). i.e. you have X bits of data, you create
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
it is annoying that it can't remember it by series. Perhaps for a normal series I don't want captions but for a foreign language one I do. Perhaps for a foreign language that I'm good at I don't want it, but for others
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
as someone who bought a lifetime pass years ago when it was cheap, I'm more concerned about this indicating that they are in desparate straits and are heading towards going out of business. I like plex, I've tried jellyfin and emb
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
I had a jellyfin server on the same machine as my plex. I really tried to use both, the jellyfin experience was so much worse overall. It had one technical feature that I valued (the ability to tone/color map dolby vision content for
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
why could you not implement it as ptys. Currently the terminal doesn't really process input itself, it just gives the program running the "raw" fd. If instead the terminal gave the processes a pipe (for instance) and consumed
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
in the country I'm now in somewhere around 18% of my salary is basically put into my "pension" (basically equivalent to a 401k). around 6% from my salary, around 6% match from employer and around 6% for severance (that one g
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
it doesn't cover you getting disabled so you can't work anymore at the age of 30 after working 8 years. 1600% higher return is great when you work from yours 20s to your 50s/60s and can essentially self insure yourself at tha
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
these policies hurt employees (at least US taxed ones, other countries only tax at liquidity events). Large insiders (founders, investors et al), still get to unload their shares (i.e. to future investors), while employees who might have wo
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by compsciphd 4mo ago
why do you assume we wouldn't have seen value in satellites if we didn't see value in going to the moon (or mars)? There's clearly an extraordinary value in satellites from a military perspective, for instance to enable spyin
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by compsciphd 5mo ago
this has been done for ages with a simple kernel module that just wraps the real kernel syscall, no binary changes needed. example how we used it in early 2000s to implement pre linux namespace containerization. https://www.useni
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by compsciphd 5mo ago
lots of cell phone services are no longer doing that either.
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by compsciphd 5mo ago
"In response to an NPR request, a Navy spokesman acknowledged that 1,500 sailors, their families and several hundred pets were relocated back to the U.S. from NSA Bahrain." Because the US moves civilians out of an active war zone?
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by compsciphd 6mo ago
If one is going to store the originals anyways (i.e. the ISO images one backs up from disc), then I'd still stand by my statement, you're not saving anything by encoding it then, beyond perhaps limitations in how much storage one
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by compsciphd 6mo ago
I haven't been at TR in 10+ years as well. AT TR, I mostly dealt with Eikon's pipeline for estimates, actuals and the like (IBES data) ingestion, querying and analytics. So can't say much, though some of my old colleagues s
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by compsciphd 6mo ago
I disagree. But to each their own, also depends how one watches it. a truehd atmos audio stream for a movie can be 3-4GB by itself. Of course, for many perhaps a TrueHD atmos audio stream is overkill, but for many its not.
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by compsciphd 6mo ago
it's all about the bas
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by compsciphd 6mo ago
as someone who worked at TR (now Refinitiv) and then Bloomberg, it's not even the data. it's IB. After IB it's the data. :)
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by compsciphd 6mo ago
1. easy enough to store it remuxed as an mkv (this tool first converts it to a remuxed mkv via makemkv) to get that convenience. 2. "easy enough" (this is a bit hyperbole, but i've done it) to take an iso and expose the playl
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by compsciphd 6mo ago
IMO, that just changes the calculation a bit. As I said, it depends on the quality one wants to store it at relative to size to determine how long it will take to encode / power consumed to encode.
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by compsciphd 6mo ago
IMO encoding is just not that worth it these days. Storage is relatively cheap. An 8TB HD can hold 200+ bluray discs as is (assuming we are talking 30-40TB each). Lets say encoding lets us store 400-600 movies in the same amount of stora

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