ngomez

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by ngomez 10d ago
Well, Buckmaster says both his and Alpöge's use of Codex was non-institutional, and OpenAI claims the right to train their models on inputs and outputs of non-enterprise users in their service policies [0]. So I'm not sure they we
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by ngomez 3mo ago
You can grind some of the raw silicon out of a finished wafer but I don't think it'd be suitable to use in another batch of product. So instead of having the weights on the wafer like OOP was suggesting, hardware inference has bee
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by ngomez 3mo ago
Using the space of an entire wafer for one chip would result in extremely low manufacturing yields. Even with state of the art silicon cleanrooms, there will still be defects in parts of the output. With CPUs and GPUs, chip makers can disab
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by ngomez 5mo ago
The CloudFlare blog discusses that idea when they talk about having an "agent process" to hold cryptographic material, but they list drawbacks like having to develop two processes, implement a well-defined interface, and enforce A
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by ngomez 5mo ago
Interestingly, Microsoft has been trying to get ahead of this for a couple of years now with their National Partner Clouds program [0], which they describe as: > designed for scenarios where full ownership and operational independence fr
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by ngomez 2y ago
I've been trying uBO Lite myself for a few months, and anyone who uses YouTube will absolutely notice that it's worse at blocking. Lite tends to delay playback at the start of a video for as long as the blocked ads would've b
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by ngomez 2y ago
Are you thinking of the Windows 3.00 Working Model? https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_3.00_Working_Model
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by ngomez 3y ago
Not the whole thing: a lot of the Windows org chart is still under Rajesh Jha in Experiences + Devices, or scattered around Azure with Scott Guthrie. But they've already been pushing Windows Copilot and Bing Ads and widgets, so I imagi
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by ngomez 4y ago
It's not just the kids growing up now. I'm sure plenty of millennials who watched YouTube when AudioSwap was a thing will recognize "Dreamscape" by 009 Sound System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKfS5z
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by ngomez 5y ago
I think the IPv4 "evil" bit [0] already does this :) [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3514
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by ngomez 5y ago
Whether it's proper depends on who you ask but you can use the singular they. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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by ngomez 5y ago
Could you elaborate? AMD spun their fabrication arm off into GlobalFoundries a while back, and they seem to be doing okay. I thought that would be a good precedent for Intel divesting its fabs too, but I'd love to hear any counterpoint
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by ngomez 5y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28501901
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by ngomez 6y ago
>if a Twitter user was logged in with a dongle but the attacker had access via social engeneered remote desktop access a dongle still could mean access to private data It depends on the dongle. YubiKeys and similar devices require the us
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by ngomez 7y ago
This is actually something I've played around with before. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find the free time to finish the project. https://bitbucket.org/nsg-usa/constitution/commits/all
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by ngomez 7y ago
What's stopping Apple from selling the parts that they manufacture to third parties, though? If anything this is an argument for right to repair laws, not for manufacturers to further restrict how consumers can use their devices. The M
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by ngomez 7y ago
That story sounds similar to Bezos' mandate in Steve Yegge's Google platform rant: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
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by ngomez 7y ago
This doesn't work too well if someone adds Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts I-IV or Kendrick Lamar's untitled unmastered to their playlist.
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by ngomez 8y ago
Can you point to an example of telemetry that Windows is collecting that isn't documented and shown?
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by ngomez 8y ago
>they still refuse to publish the complete list of what is collected They give you the option to fully inspect all the telemetry data your computer is sending, categorized by use. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/win
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by ngomez 8y ago
I'm also a TA for the class mentioned in this article. We teach Git and have a submission system where students submit patches based on skeleton code; students are required to make at least five commits. We still have a significant num
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by ngomez 8y ago
The issue of incentivizing students to guess-and-check when providing the test scripts upfront is, IMO, fixed by making the students write the tests themselves. This paper explains it pretty well: https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~n
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by ngomez 10y ago
The interesting thing is that dd wouldn't even give us an error, but the write speeds were abysmal. Toward the end of the hackathon, we noticed that blocks would be corrupted here and there, while leaving other pieces of data (even ent
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by ngomez 10y ago
we out here!!!