londons_explore

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by londons_explore 3d ago
surely someone in apple would have run some common neural net architectures through the rtl simulator before tapeout and checked that the performance meets expectations??
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by londons_explore 3d ago
> it has received ~8,000 requests from two of your scanning hosts If it were 8000 requests per second , this might be worthy of some investigation. But 8000 ntp requests alone consume far less than 1 us cent of compute + bandwidth. T
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by londons_explore 3d ago
And how much did this investigation cost, when you account for all the hours spent by investigators, lawers, judges, etc? My guess is it was a huge net loss for the taxpayer. The more effective move for the nation would have been for this g
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by londons_explore 4d ago
Not soon there won't be. There is no reason you can't have phased array antennas of tens of elements on the handset and thousands on the masts, to give a massive bandwidth increase. It will take a lot of generations to get to the
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by londons_explore 5d ago
In quite a few countries, a false positive can lead to someone getting put in prison, entirely without any human viewing said image. It's all a matter of 'the image hash was on the database, therefore OP is guilty. 10 years inca
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by londons_explore 5d ago
It also has a fairly high false positive rate, and due to the nature of the content paying someone to verify false positives is near impossible both legally and morally.
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by londons_explore 5d ago
And most chat apps are either e2e encrypted or HTTPS, both of which are hard to break for third world nations. But leaks of those messages onto twitter are probably the most valuable info source for what the enemy is doing.
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by londons_explore 5d ago
Whilst this is OP's point, the reality is the majority of big tech companies have been treating user data like radioactive waste for 10+ years. Most user data is of minimal economic value, until you leak it, and then suddenly there are
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by londons_explore 5d ago
There is a pattern in software engineering of: * Project exists * New employees come up with idea for efficiency improvement * Months spent implementing. Old codepath becomes legacy. * New thing now has extra features bolted on during buil
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by londons_explore 6d ago
> Since it appears to be impossible to build anything cheaply in the UK The solution is to build nuclear power stations on ships in China, then sail them to the UK and plug them in. If power prices elsewhere in the world become advantage
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by londons_explore 6d ago
Indeed - it is only explosive when it leaks out and mixes with air in the correct quantities. Unfortunately this happens occasionally - with the common case being someone trying to use a knife to get ice out of a freezer or AC which is f
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by londons_explore 6d ago
Isobutane doesn't work well unless a system is designed for it - things like different diameters for the pistons in the compressors etc. Nearly all refrigerators/freezers in Europe are isobutane, and have been for 20 years.
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by londons_explore 6d ago
Europe is using lots of refrigerants like r600 (isobutane) and r290 (propane). They work really well, with the downside they are very explosive. However stories of airconditioners blowing up are really rare - it seems the risk is probab
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by londons_explore 6d ago
Presumably you need a bath with extra plumbing? What happens when the heat exchanger gets clogged with soap and hair?
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by londons_explore 6d ago
I suspect what you were told is a misunderstanding.
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by londons_explore 6d ago
I'm really not sure that putting money into safety will actually lead to safety. It's like putting a fish in charge of stopping sea levels rising...
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by londons_explore 6d ago
the core problem seems to be you can't make something that fold in half, yet has 4 curved corners both when folded and unfolded.
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by londons_explore 6d ago
larger screen possibly leads to more hours of usage per day, more ad-surfaces, more software and services revenue per user per year.
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by londons_explore 8d ago
I have put hundreds of canary strings into my conversation history of all the big providers, and so far the 'hit rate' is very low. Really looks like they aren't yet training on conversation histories effectively.
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by londons_explore 8d ago
I feel like at least half of leaks are either staged or at least done by an employee with a wink and a nudge from management.
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by londons_explore 8d ago
Smells like someone is botting the download numbers to get a press release....
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by londons_explore 8d ago
How many people download classifiers? The number of downloads really doesn't seem like a good way to measure the quality of a bit of work. One download could be deployed on a bit website and classify billions of users images.
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by londons_explore 9d ago
And in that case, any indemnity clause won't be worth much - the manufacturer will end up paying most of any claim
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by londons_explore 9d ago
I would bet that if self driving software was involved in any accident, it is the company who developed the software who will be paying, even if someone else owns the car.
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by londons_explore 13d ago
discord support can fix such issues
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by londons_explore 13d ago
Email died because of the junk/spam issue. And it's self-fulfilling - when most emails are junk, nobody sends a love-letter or party invitation by email because the recipient probably won't notice it, which in turn lowers t
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by londons_explore 13d ago
A child born today sees email like we see the telegraph... they'll grumpily sign up to gmail just so they can get a verification email, and that'll be all it gets used for. Messaging their irl friends will be done in apps like
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by londons_explore 13d ago
The real benefit of a merged company is that where the two original companies were competing in the same market, it would be illegal for them to collude to set the same prices as eachother. However, when merged, they can do exactly that - w
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by londons_explore 13d ago
Zstd allows a 'dictionary'. With a dictionary, small objects - even just a couple of bytes - compress well. Compress the headers too, and suddenly it's worth doing
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AI agents will choose their own pricing(omattos.com)
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