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by gsquaredxc 6d ago
Even better: All of the under 18 users are probably on the free plan. It’s fairly likely that this demographic is disproportionately expensive.
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by gsquaredxc 17d ago
I somewhat agree and somewhat disagree. If your students haven’t completely disabled GoGuardian, they are only working within the system. At least when I was a student working on this problem, I spent some time writing some software that wo
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by gsquaredxc 26d ago
Unrelated to security, modern chips are designed with JavaScript in mind. ARM’s FJCVTZS is the most famous example. Broadly speaking, a custom chip for JavaScript would likely not be to improve security, only performance. ARM did try out
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by gsquaredxc 27d ago
Delay is frustrating, but not a violation. Just because you reverse engineered GPLv2 code doesn’t make that in violation of GPLv2, many people have done that for reasons that rhyme with yours over the decades. GPLv2 also doesn’t have any cl
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by gsquaredxc 27d ago
Tarballs certainly aren’t in violation of the GPL, via gnu.org own source distribution methodology. It would also be a very interesting legal claim that git metadata is required, and likely something already hashed out when the government
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by gsquaredxc 27d ago
They still make printed textbooks. Google’s lawyers I’m sure are well funded enough to make this case.
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by gsquaredxc 27d ago
That’s an ambitious interpretation. The preferred form for making modifications to the Linux kernel also involves having a build cache, but that’s clearly not required to remain GPL compliant.
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by gsquaredxc 2mo ago
Starlink is going to be a cellular company, except instead of maintaining cheap metal frames, they have to physically launch the antennas to space every 5 years.
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by gsquaredxc 3mo ago
You can reason it out (in a way that might make Fermi proud) pretty easily: a very large AC unit can be powered by a very small (relative) solar panel, where the solar panel is maybe 20% efficient. Thus, solar irradiation is substantially h
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by gsquaredxc 3mo ago
Wouldn’t someone that has to pay for an AC’s power bill be more aware of the cost-benefit analysis of energy efficiency over someone that doesn’t?
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by gsquaredxc 3mo ago
> Here I should note that Python is not the best choice for CPU-bound software. I want to take the opportunity to learn Zig. For optimizing CPU-bound operations in Python, there’s some low hanging fruit with numba. I would recommend this
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by gsquaredxc 3mo ago
There's some good answers here but something important is missed. Militaries spend a lot of time having soldiers shoot rounds down the range to ensure everyone is up to snuff. The engineering corps is similar but better. You can fund t
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
Even weirder: the Kickstarter campaign says it’s 4 MSPS per channel. 100kHz bandwidth with 4 MSPS per channel just doesn’t make sense. However, they have “verified” 400kHz on their Kickstarter. Not sure who verified it, but it’s verified. T
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
The specs on the physical device are quite weak too. 100kHz scope, no mention of # of bits. Power supply isn’t programmable, just +-5V at 200mA. 5V PWM and “sine and triangle” is the function generator. It’s definitely misleading to say thi
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
I would say that there’s quite substantial value perhaps not to the general public but to the general HN user from their reports. I was very excited to see them have a public scan of an LFP battery because the previous scans they did of bat
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
Heat is exactly why this is useful. A very large amount of power draw is due to the physical size of circuits. This monolithic 3D stacking should result in smaller wires for decreased parasitic capacitance. SRAM is probably the biggest winn
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
Malicious maybe, malware no. Not leaving your password as a sticky note on your work computer is presumably also taught in those same courses. I wouldn’t call someone typing in that password malware. If IT comes around and tries the passwor
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
I have a hard time viewing prompt injection as malware. LLMs are unpredictable and there are many different prompts that can unintentionally cause unexpected behavior. It’s probably closer to a memory canary in that it tries to get malforme
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
It doesn’t read like shaming to me. It’s, in the grand scheme of HN comments, definitely on the more constructive side of the criticism. Maybe it could have been reworded, but I think the author of the post could very easily find it actiona
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
It’s not about preserving a unique writing style. When I see LLM writing my brain automatically discards the content of the writing. To me, seeing LLM writing is equivalent to going to a high-end restaurant and getting served on generic pap
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
I think you confuse long-term planning with long-term success. Just because something is meticulously planned doesn’t guarantee the plan wasn’t flawed fundamentally. Additionally, wireless charging is viewed as a flop? MagSafe (wireless) is
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by gsquaredxc 4mo ago
I would like to offer some additional reassurance: I send my friends articles I see on HN that might interest them. A (in my view) very good litmus test is when someone asks where I saw it, because this demonstrates some desire for continua
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by gsquaredxc 1y ago
This study I feel is misleading at least at a headline. They found 6621 studies and narrowed it down to 51 studies to analyze. This is somewhat fine as meta-studies do need to narrow from the initial scope, but this is more aggressive than
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by gsquaredxc 2y ago
CRWD is a member of the S&P 500. Are you truly suggesting that every holder of the S&P 500 should be put in prison? Realistically, this means that nearly every American and a very large number of international average workers just t
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by gsquaredxc 2y ago
This isn't true. H1 antagonists, which is the group of drugs commonly referred to as antihistamines, contains two subgroups of pharmaceuticals. There are the first generation antihistamines, which are generally more popular and earn th