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by devit 3y ago
At least modern Google Pixel phones have an IOMMU ( https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation )
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by devit 3y ago
Yes, but it's without prompt only for apps that they themselves installed, while Google Play can bypass that.
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by devit 3y ago
It runs as a privileged app. It uses that to install new applications and update applications installed by other app stores without the OS-level confirmation, probably can't be uninstalled on most Android OSes and perhaps some other th
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by devit 3y ago
You can also add a property to all objects with an array of keys in the order you want (if you can guarantee it won't conflict with existing properties, or can escape those), or turn them into a {k, o} array where k is the key array an
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by devit 3y ago
That's what game consoles usually attempt to be.
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by devit 3y ago
Presumably they have captured the Mozilla foundation board?
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by devit 3y ago
I think reading the encryption key from memory is usually easy and cannot really be detected in any way if done from the kernel or hypervisor by parsing page tables and accessing physical memory (except by looking for known code if the anti
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by devit 3y ago
No, I meant gRow lamps that are marketed to help to grow plants indoor, and thus presumably have a light spectrum that is natural (although they also include UV light, so it's not clear if they are safe).
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by devit 3y ago
What are the pros and cons of those lamps vs those sold as "grow lamps" and those sold as "UFO" high bay lights? Is there any >=100W (actual, not equivalent) sunlight-like bulb available that is dimmable and programma
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by devit 3y ago
In my first attempt at the problem it made this mistake: "The condition fails for i=1 since 1 does not divide p+q unless p+q is a multiple of n, which is not generally true" (1 divides everything) In the second it gives up: "
191.
by devit 3y ago
It's problem solving (i.e. finding a proof of a statement or finding one or more mathematical objects that have some given properties and proving they have them and possibly that no other objects do), not computation.
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by devit 3y ago
That's obviously the only correct approach. The concept of "window position on screen" makes no sense, since a compositor is allowed to display windows arbitrarily, and doesn't necessarily display them as 2D rectangles (
193.
by devit 3y ago
That is easily solved by using Debian instead of Ubuntu.
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by devit 3y ago
Well, the biggest advantages of Linux are that the OS vendor is not itself malicious (in particular, does not collect telemetry, push advertisements or attempt to restrict your use of the system like Microsoft and Apple do), the OS is relat
195.
by devit 3y ago
Maybe Facebook's Segment Anything could replace the first clustering step?
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by devit 3y ago
I seem to remember that Stockfish is known to be bad at handicap games and in general at maximizing odds of winning against humans from strongly losing positions.
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by devit 3y ago
Based on the first figure in the paper, it seems that this scheme effectively turns 8 input values into a 4-bit number, thus giving an effective 0.5-bit quantization. Considering that current aggressive quantization for LLM transformers use
198.
by devit 3y ago
Seems to be a language equivalent to a subset of strict Haskell. There doesn't seem to be any particularly compelling reason to use it, and note that, unless they can use libraries from an existing language, there needs to be a really
199.
by devit 3y ago
That seems like a problem. But the solution seems to be to have the desktop client request data from the phone. In fact I'm not sure how it can possibly work otherwise (what if someone just uses their phone for years and then opens the
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by devit 3y ago
Hmm, no? Photos are generally <1MB in size and I think have a single photo sent but not received on average per user seems reasonable (most users probably almost never use Signal, and of those that do probably most only use text, and tho
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by devit 3y ago
I assume they only need to store it between the time it is sent and the time it is received by the recipient. Maybe the problem is that the Signal app doesn't eagerly download messages upon notification? They should start doing that gi
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by devit 3y ago
These costs seem absurd. For instance, 1.3$ million per year for storage??? Apparently, they have 40 million users, so 1 MB per user (seems reasonable for Signal) means 40TB. You can buy a 4TB SSD for $200, which means you need $2000 one-ti
203.
by devit 3y ago
Seems like it would be much better to do conventional weather forecasting and then feed the predictions along with input data and other relevant information to a machine learning system.
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by devit 3y ago
Properly designed hardware with signed firmware versioning has the bootloader permanently disable the ability to blow efuses until reboot before passing control to the OS, either through hardware or a mandatory hypervisor (and the bootloade
205.
by devit 3y ago
I think it's more fun to program with LLMs, because rather than having just a single programming phase, you basically have three quite different phases: a first phase where you craft an initial prompt, then a second phase where you rev
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by devit 3y ago
Current CPU vector instruction sets are as good as the ones on GPUs and they also have tensor/matrix instructions comparable to the ones on GPUs. However, usually CPUs don't have enough cores and execution units to compete with GP
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by devit 3y ago
Seems really terrible engineering to design a laptop where malware can destroy the speakers. I guess there's reason to wonder whether malware might also be able to set the whole machine on fire.
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by devit 3y ago
It seems to me the problem with that font is that the strokes are way too thick, making the "m" look like it's almost all ink, and it also seems that the lowercase characters are far too tall for their width. If you use a nor
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by devit 3y ago
A much simpler and compatible solution would be to assign a single IPv4 address per AS and then use IP options to pass additional address bits to identify the specific host within the AS.
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by devit 3y ago
16-bit bytes?

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