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by mkj 10d ago
https://wp.josh.com/2025/10/30/a-billion-digits-of-pi-experi... has some details. Seems plausible?
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by mkj 15d ago
These don't seem really physically immutable, just protected by the firmware of the drives/robot against being written twice. With enough effort couldn't the same laser write _something_ over them again? Maybe optical discs n
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by mkj 15d ago
So Google Pics is for work, and Google Photos is for personal photos? Got it.
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by mkj 1mo ago
Australia banned telemarketing a while ago, it worked pretty well. The only spam phone calls left are 100% illegal scammers. https://www.acma.gov.au/telemarketing-and-e-marketing they give out million+ dollar fines which so
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by mkj 2mo ago
This looks like it's doing that? https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-hal/tree/main/examples/async/e...
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by mkj 2mo ago
Aha, thanks. The adsb.exposed maps are excellent, thank you! Really intrigued by the building maps.
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by mkj 2mo ago
A few times I've had an irregular 2D dataset to process and thought "aha, maybe I can be lazy and iterate ordered by a space filling curve coordinates and it'll be more cache effective". But it's never given any imp
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by mkj 2mo ago
There are a lot of urls for the bots to follow. Yesterday's logs had 2.2M unique URLs out of 2.7M requests (more unique than I was expecting!) Typical traffic: https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/annotate&
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by mkj 2mo ago
It's mainly that dealing with them is a hassle, time that could be better spent doing other more useful things. Over the weekend I got round to turning off some old viewvc (CVS and subversion) and hgweb (Mercurial) web interfaces. They
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by mkj 3mo ago
openai etc are going to have a higher utilisation of the hardware so can afford it more than small companies/people. Efficient resource use matters more when they're expensive.
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by mkj 3mo ago
Interesting idea, but wouldn't an embedded language normally be interpreted/runtime editable? I guess you could do it shipping a rust compiler, but it'd be big. A bit like Numba?
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by mkj 3mo ago
getaddrinfo was added after ipv6. Software had to be rewritten to use getaddrinfo. Prior to that programs used gethostbyname() etc, which only works with ipv4.
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by mkj 3mo ago
Old Nanostations as a client need to do proxy arp or something, which doesn't handle ipv6. That said it's probably 15 year old hardware. I ended up using a wireguard tunnel across it instead.
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by mkj 3mo ago
Maybe the LLMs need some kind of "coverage" metric so they prioritise new paths? The author would know a thing or two about that.
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by mkj 3mo ago
I think that's incorrect. Brains/eyes are good at looking for patterns.
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by mkj 3mo ago
If you have less than hundreds of thousands of points, you can probably get away with drawing individual dots on the map. Computer screens are high res.
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by mkj 3mo ago
There are excellent examples of the problem in Edward Tufte's "Envisioning Information". Have a look at http://blah.ksteinfe.com/181106/tufte_envisioning_informatio... for a few snippets of it, then buy
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by mkj 3mo ago
I'm wondering who's going to buy pi! (Edit sorry forgetting names, I mean who's going to buy Earendil). Good luck to Armin, he's done some good stuff.
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by mkj 3mo ago
It looks like github is just buggy in this case.
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by mkj 3mo ago
From what distance? I would have thought $1M wouldn't go far
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Budget 2026–27: Free Access to Australian Standards Confirmed(design.org.au)
3 points by mkj 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mkj 4mo ago
Wait until they hear how much source code is thrown away to make software! I guess that's a bit ephemeral, but still probably similar in a lot of industries. Clothes are weird shaped, weaves are rectilinear, it's a pretty tricky p
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by mkj 4mo ago
Solvinity is a pretty terrible company name.
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GitHub security alerts don't get sent(github.com)
1 points by mkj 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mkj 4mo ago
"needs clarification" looks like a pretty normal hardware design process as the details are finalised. https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperone-docs/commits/pu...
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by mkj 4mo ago
The rustcrypto crates seem a lot better maintained and will probably supplant ring in future. Ring maintenance seems hostile to use outside of expected use cases.
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by mkj 4mo ago
If they're already running a custom Linux kernel build, why did they have AF_ALG enabled? Seems the perfect situation to limit features to only those actually being used.
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by mkj 4mo ago
They're talking about billions of dollars of market share, so how does debian get a mention being free? I'm suspicious of their methodology. At least the infographics down the bottom are obviously full of slop
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by mkj 5mo ago
> Tokio’s dominance is function coloring at ecosystem scale That isn't function colouring, but rather plain incompatible APIs/runtime. You could have the equivalent with non-async ecosystems.
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by mkj 5mo ago
How is docker a context switch overhead? It's the same processes running on the same kernel.

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