doesnotexist

11 ms·

1.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
https://archive.is/380kL
2.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
Coding being the act of encoding/decoding information from one representation to another. The system itself is called a Code and these are designed to have specific properties like making transmission of information resistant to inter
3.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
Situations like this are instances of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble... In this case, corporate management holding the purse strings but their workers (devs) using the actual tools. T
4.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
Apparently they did this in Iceland and it's been fine? https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/31/iceland-approved...
5.
Are CTs a Leading Cause of Cancer? A Doctor Explains(forbes.com)
2 points by doesnotexist 1y ago|0 comments
6.
Robotics: The Push and Pull of Ideas and Applications [video](youtube.com)
2 points by doesnotexist 1y ago|1 comments
7.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
Rodney Brook's keynote at Stanford HAI earlier this month. Some interesting points right at the beginning relevant to recent on-stage demos by companies including like Nvidia and Tesla. - Product lifecycle has a realistic timeline on o
8.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
This arstechnica article is pretty good, but in my opinion the best article covering this study was published by NPR http://npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/16/g-s1-60...
9.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
Well there are now many instances of enforced disappearances.[1] To what the administration likes to call jails in Ecuador, except for the fact jails and prisons are part of legitimate criminal justice systems with judicial review/due
10.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
Ok sure but also the number of CT scans has been increasing exponentially (3 million CTs in 1980, 20 million in 1995, 60 million 2005[0] to 93 million in 2023[1]) so you'd need to find some opposing force that is decreasing the inciden
11.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
There have been and continue to be technological improvements that reduce the dosage required. There is not a single dosage for all CTs. The dose for a head CT is an order of magnitude less than for abdominal/pelvic CT. "The cur
12.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
Love that xkcd chart. One thing it doesn't show is that different particle species of radiation have different effects on our biology at different "potencies". Gamma rays released by an atomic weapon being worse than the x-
13.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
dupe, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43688395
14.
by doesnotexist 1y ago
"CT scanning became widespread in the 1980's. Cancer incidence is flat to slightly decreased since then. I'm not sure their risk model matches reality. Many of these models are based on extrapolation from higher radiation exp
15.
by doesnotexist 2y ago
It's like the inverse of Gil Scott Heron's "The revolution will not be televised" "The Nuclear Holocaust Will Be Televised" There's even a trailer from the Reagan era: https://www.youtube.com&#x
16.
Docker-OSX image removed after Apple reports copyright infringement(github.com)
90 points by doesnotexist 2y ago|32 comments
17.
by doesnotexist 2y ago
The image maintainer wrote a short blog post in 2021 putting forth the rationale and good faith intentions of the project as a resource for security research. https://sick.codes/is-hackintosh-osx-kvm-or-docker-osx-legal...
18.
by doesnotexist 2y ago
I'm surprised that ~$10 million dollars of GPUs, @ $40k per H100 and excluding operational costs like the energy bill, only rents for $455k per month. Sounds like a really tough business since the amount of time required to recoup the
19.
by doesnotexist 2y ago
Wow, it's amazing to me how much anki eventually caught on with medical students. Back in 2008 I introduced my med school classmates to Anki via a web app front end that I scrapped together. Basically it allowed us to crowdsource a sha
20.
by doesnotexist 2y ago
Here's what I found about the underlying system https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/the-software-behind-the-hi... and the Hitachi Vantara Press Release: https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/news
21.
by doesnotexist 2y ago
I do not believe there are any restrictions on what 0-days can be sold to or bought by the American government. As far as I know the only thing resembling restriction is regarding export to non-allies which stems from the Wassenaar Arrangem
22.
by doesnotexist 3y ago
Exciting! V has a knack for making things that let others make creative things with ease. I'm a big fan of their prior work such as https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/ It's to bad twitter shutdown api access sunsetti
23.
by doesnotexist 3y ago
Impressive work. Looking at the presentation slides which accompany the 37C3 talk, the author covers their "Your princess is in another castle" experience. Turns out they fully reversed the firmware for the MIPs cores (one core pe
24.
by doesnotexist 3y ago
In this instance, it appears the author's motivation was to facilitate a clean room reimplementation by "producing a natural-language specification for others to reimplement". In other instances security researchers might rev
25.
by doesnotexist 3y ago
Thanks, I will probably read that collection. Nice to see it includes the stories The Zahir and The Book of Sand which feel just as relevant as the ones mentioned in the paper.
26.
by doesnotexist 3y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if you could give out a revokable token in place of a phone number to various businesses. If you ever received spam through a token just revoke it and move on. Puts the power back into the hands of the recipient rat
27.
by doesnotexist 3y ago
From the headline, it sounds like the beginning of a great Armando Iannucci sketch making fun of management consultants. Which sure seems to be tangentially relevant to more and more situations during these times. https://www.you
28.
by doesnotexist 3y ago
Edit: Please sign-up using this url. I would have posted this before but we had a SSL termination issue. https://www.stayspry.tv/
29.
by doesnotexist 3y ago
This is adjacent to a project I'm currently working on that makes TV more useful for grandparents and elderly parents. It's a shame that in an era when you can't buy a non-smart TV, the market hasn't delivered much in t
30.
by doesnotexist 3y ago
"Exploitation method described in this advisory works against almost all of the SUID-root programs that are installed by default on Linux; a few exceptions are: - sudo on all distributions, because it specifies its own ELF RUNPATH (&

More ›