meltedcapacitor

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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
SiFive is a fabless prop chip designer, they build no fabs. Yes building fabs is heavy industrial investment, and thus less amenable to open models. Drawing the masks is not. Lot of VC work is regulatory arbitrage: how to steal the flowers
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Awesome news. The world is healing. Having a big player as the "ARM of Risc-V" funded by VC was so toxic. It takes the oxygen out of the ecosystem. The next step in open hardware is not having more proprietary silicon shops, it&#x
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
If it becomes a problem consensus can evolve to trim inactive data (say expiring unspent outputs after N blocks in UTXO chains, "move it or lose it" model) or explicit charging for storage per unit of size and time (decay some ass
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
They use the occasion to get more commission, by encouraging renewals further in the future to "lock" the current price. Presumably they get the full 10 years worth of commission today when a .com is renewed for that long.
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Sounds inferior to the "no cookies no banner" solution. The GDPR does not mandate gratuitous and pointless personalised spying, which is the only case that requires consent. Normal operations (say a shop collecting payment details
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Are these vendor kernels good enough to run some sort of hypervisor and pass through devices at the lowest possible level to (updatable) guest kernel(s)? The idea here would be to run things like the TCP stack, USB from the lowest proxy-abl
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
nim with a bureaucracy would quickly turn into rust, so corporate heads can just adopt rust and let the world of niche opinionated tools be themselves.
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
the argument seems to be that redhat is/was playing fairly and then Oracle/AWS/Google/etc (which for legal reasons obviously cannot be named explicitly) came and started freeloading on redhat's work instead of &quot
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
maybe a "click here to continue receiving these updates" link at the end of the first message would have solved this. :o)
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Has the cost of lawyers and moderation been modelled? At $2/month spammers break even if they get like 5 clicks from all their posting on the platform, huge magnet for them, and content copypasters, if the platform gets some traction.
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Sounds like the "is DJing an art form" debate. :o) Unlike classic "hiring a musician", here it's practical to "hire" the (robot) musician 10000 times with a feedback loop between the model and the prompt w
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
A "usenet 2.0" that only does (short) text and links/embeddings for media (to youtube etc) would already be a very useful thing, notwithstanding the risk of take-down of controversial media (freeloading on Big Tech infra for
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Same as people who also "can no longer work" under that age? There is no need to give blanket age-based pension rights to fit people to coincidentally help the disabled, who can be supported directly based on actual impairments.
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Quality-adjusted maybe?
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Nothing a tweak to the parameters (retirement age, pension value net of taxes on pensions) can't fix. Pension "rights" are not immutable physical constants. Counter-intuitively, in democratic systems, lot of young people mean
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
That feed anecdotally looks similar to the accountless (not logged in) feed. Makes sense, "no follows" is pretty similiar to "no account". BTW accountless twitter got better under Elon: it's now possible to just boo
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
In true Knuth fashion, this page is better formatted than 99% of the web. TXT = CSS^^2b
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Are the rumours that "crypto" in Argentina is just everybody being on the Binance app true? (Let's hope not!)
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Can this tech be used to make a concise version of Money Stuff by Matt Levine? He does not need de-sensationalizing but he badly needs summarising, which seems adjacent. That Matt Levine refuses to use the services of an editor is one of th
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
It is sure an upper estimate but the order of magnitude is maybe not off: That revenue is probably mostly fees from the exchanges. Alameda as a partnership started with peanuts and was at some point (say 2021 fiscal year) was worth like 80b
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
That web is no more, sadly. It's just a question of time before the containerized crowd discover that the exact version of Chrome they test their website with can be compiled to the WASM+canvas platform, bundled with the website, and s
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
they did not own to being antisocial dicks in the first place, with all the bad decisions that also apply when the thing works as intended...
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
LLMs make it much easier to make harder to detect spam...
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Fascinating review. It begs the question: is CSS beyond repair? So many footguns, so little time. I recall browsing one of the websites collecting such CSS "frameworks" in a previous episode and was stunned by the mediocrity of it
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
It's sort of toxic socially though as devs write dark patterns during working hours and dark pattern blockers in hobby time, for other nerds to use. So dev caste gets usable web and profits from antisocial behaviour, while low non-dev
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Sounds like a hard business for small VPN providers, getting squeezed between the cat and mouse game with content providers blocking them on one side, and users abusing the service on the other side. Same work whatever size, so better be bi
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
For a "small server/NAS"?
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
bad actors are not gonna be stopped by their own "legal jargon"... the terms look like copy pasta or AI generated themselves. can't imagine the operators spent much time reading them. though maybe true bad actors would try ha
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Thanks for doing the research, this is much appreciated.
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by meltedcapacitor 3y ago
Awk is an improvement on most of its successors. (h/t Tony Hoare)

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