kongin

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by kongin 5y ago
You don't have to threaten to leave, you do leave.
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by kongin 5y ago
And yet we heard the same thing last December. Things aren't going back to normal, when Australia opens up regardless of vaccination status thousands of people will die if they are lucky and tens of thousands if they are not. The vacci
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by kongin 5y ago
Way back when I reached out to them for getting the actual blueprints for a light industry coop - modular open source welders? Sign me up! Got a reply along the lines of "we are working with our sponsors and will not be releasing any b
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by kongin 5y ago
The reason why AWS got popular everywhere I worked was that you didn't need to get buying new hardware past ops. You just spun up your own, then when it was supporting half the business you pointed at it and said "Gee wouldn'
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by kongin 5y ago
> Just look where the best and brightest CS graduates from top schools go to. Yeah, it's not google or facebook. The people who go there today went to Wall Street/law firms 20 years ago. The shift started 10 years ago which is
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by kongin 5y ago
It's kind of stunning that starting with fully open technologies we build another closed mainframe on top of it. All that's old is new again.
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by kongin 5y ago
I feel exceedingly stupid for never having thought about something so simple.
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by kongin 5y ago
You both overestimate and underestimate the intelligence of intelligence agencies.
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by kongin 5y ago
Yeah and it's been getting gentrified since. It sucks that a bunch of nimbys came here and threw everyone fun out. Hell even pg would get flagged off hn if he said the stuff he used to in the 00s.
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by kongin 5y ago
If you haven't read the article read it, don't just read the title. I have no idea if this is the type of thing they put as reading material in toilets in the pentagon (which I fully support if they also regularly run out of toile
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by kongin 5y ago
> Tangentially related is the concept of a memetic hazard, although this would be more something that targets the collective hivemind rather than weapons that target individual human brains. >>The only body-related information warf
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by kongin 5y ago
In 2006 SF was well on the way to world domination, google was the hottest place to work and a whole bunch of other things were cropping up. The long cold internet winter after 2000 was thawing and dotcom bubble 2.0 was just starting to thr
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by kongin 5y ago
What's a good IRC channel for cs/maths/physics? After the freedone implosion I don't know where anything is any more.
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by kongin 5y ago
It reads like oldschool creepy-pasta from 4chan. The point isn't that it's true (it's not) the point is that it takes something that you've felt (online comments that can't possibly be made by a sane human being) an
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by kongin 5y ago
This is the type of high quality tinfoil hattery I've missed. Wake up sheeple the lizzards are here!
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by kongin 5y ago
Signing packets is not a new idea. The problem still is that you have no way to authenticate on any layer above the hardware. Ham radio as is is stuck in the 1960s which given the age of the people on it isn't really surprising.
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by kongin 5y ago
Different bands have different physical properties. One of the points of amateur radio is experimentation. Right now the old boys clubs that all ham radio organizations have turned into to have decided that packet networking isn't real
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by kongin 5y ago
In universities Google and FB are now seen the same way as law firms and hedge funds were seen 20 years ago. A boring place where you go to have an upper middle class career and be conventional. Which means they are ripe for disruption.
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by kongin 5y ago
>Regarding mesh networking, you don't have to have encryption to do that. It could still be very interesting, you just have to know that people can inspect your transmissions. If they didn't allow this restriction, I imagine th
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by kongin 5y ago
>But then it's no longer Amateur Radio, Take your binary message, encrypt it, use a lookup table to encode the bits into common English words, send them in the clear. >No sir, this is just a random word service which provides ran
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by kongin 5y ago
>I'd say that HAM can evolve or it can die -- but eventually the people holding it back will literally die and then it will evolve all the same. That's how actual evolution works. You can't stop the future. Still, you can
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by kongin 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy Using a decimal expansion adds 25% overhead from pure maths. Your cache will be larger if you're working in base ten regardless of what optimizations your compiler does.
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by kongin 5y ago
It's still not as efficient since you're breaking on base 10 digit boundaries, not base 2, the most efficient encoding will be base 3, but alas we don't have ternary computers.
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by kongin 5y ago
I pay universities to get a degree. Companies pay me to work. They are welcome to pay my consulting rates of $300 per hour for interview questions.
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by kongin 5y ago
>… but that’s exactly how conversion to string works, so handrolling an algorithm would likely be around the same speed. https://github.com/lattera/glibc/blob/master/stdio-common/_i... It's
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by kongin 5y ago
I'd read a short story about it.
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by kongin 5y ago
Facebook has gotten worse with its young liberal staff. And I don't mean in the dark patterns for more clicks sense, I mean in the cpu cycles to do a basic operation. Maybe it's time for the old crusty developers making $60k on em
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by kongin 5y ago
I suggest they act like a non-for-profit and live within their means from the mountain of cash they already have.
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by kongin 5y ago
I rather enjoyed the short essay: https://web.archive.org/web/19970614230544/jubal.westnet.com... In my Lovecraftian phase I imagined an infinite winding black pagoda with brail inscriptions on its walls. If you&#
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by kongin 5y ago
Google chrome helpfully asked me if I want to translate Polish to English.

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