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by pslam 7y ago
> The purpose it was originally intended to be used for doesn't make sense in a world where most new technology is just software, and software is incredibly easy to copy and duplicate. The very first patent was to duplicate an exist
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by pslam 7y ago
I am absolutely with you on this. I still think USB is an abomination, and the most modern incarnations only get worse — USB3 being essentially PCIe signaling but messed up because the USB committee got involved. They must ruin everything w
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by pslam 7y ago
The specific case I was thinking of was the host suffering an incident where it is not possible or practical for its software to know where it left off. For example, you get a kernel panic, or soft-reset for some reason. When you recover, y
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by pslam 7y ago
Same. I really dislike I2C, but it's universal and it's been around for decades, and it's hard to avoid designs without it. I2C keeps causing these additional issues which the article doesn't touch on: * No way to safely
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by pslam 7y ago
The AI comes in as a way to make rich venture capitalists, sorry I mean philanthropists, part with their money.
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by pslam 7y ago
If you cannot find a buyer who will take a cut of a $50MM valuation, then the company is in fact worthless. Liquidity is no barrier to this — there are plenty of financial instruments available to do this transaction, even if you can't
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by pslam 7y ago
Uber's defense fails The Duck Test. They are describing a job, people doing a job, people paying for a job, and people taking a cut of the profits. They just don't use those words. I suspect if/when this gets to a higher cour
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by pslam 7y ago
I have no idea about this guy, but in my experience, people like this always seem to be pleasant, creative types on the outside. Every now and then in conversation they hold weird viewpoints you just can't reconcile with their projec
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by pslam 7y ago
> Between CarrierIQ and OTA updates/access, there is no such things as end-to-end encryption on a cell phone. I don't think you understand what end-to-end means.
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by pslam 7y ago
Yes, wearout rate definitely depends on temperature, but without reference to any actual data, this is what I mean by "no evidence". Is it reducing 10 year lifespan to 9 years? 9.99 years? 5 years? Was it 50 year lifespan? It&#x27
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by pslam 7y ago
This article is actually describing how the Raspberry Pi 4 does NOT need a fan. This is not the 1990s. It is perfectly acceptable and even advantageous to design for a high peak:normal load ratio, with thermal throttling. In this case, it a
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by pslam 7y ago
You are missing the entire point of the article if you continue to call these algorithms "AI". Inflating simple things like this to mean "AI" has led to the term being meaningless. You are the example it is making.
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by pslam 7y ago
> Backpropagation, which most researchers will agree is an AI algorithm, is a "simple algorithm". Back-propogation is not an "AI" algorithm. You are ironically doing exactly what this article is about.
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by pslam 7y ago
This trick may break ordering and cache aliasing rules on many architectures. If you're dipping into this kind of thing, it needs per-architecture whitelisting.
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by pslam 7y ago
I have routinely created firmware written in Rust which are just a handful of KB. The issues people are having are related to system-integration, such as static linkage, can be mitigated in cases anyone really cares about, and will disappea
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by pslam 7y ago
An easy example with git would be to create a pair of read-only repositories: one public-facing which is cloned by the general public, and one with (potentially entirely) different contents which can be selectively pulled depending on the c
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by pslam 7y ago
Marc Stevens quotes $500K, which is very much still a threat (even an order of magnitude more would be). Plenty of organizations would be willing to spend that much pocket change on a single attack. The game-changer is it's chosen-pref
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by pslam 7y ago
It is appalling that the top 3 comments (at time of writing this one) are victim-blaming. "They should get better jobs". "There's a high demand so they should go elsewhere". "They should have known before they
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by pslam 8y ago
> No point in bottlenecking my audio just because _other_ people are unable to appreciate it. The entire point of the post is that _nobody_ can appreciate it. It is entirely a waste of space at best, and a cynical marketing ploy at worst
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by pslam 8y ago
You win at right wing talking-points bingo. The whole point of the EU is that Europe is better when it's together. There were multiple wars, involving the death of many millions, and that's just the last hundred years. Independe
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by pslam 8y ago
It's just one part of the tooling, and doesn't solve program-correctness on its own. A formally verified toolchain is only really useful for projects which have pervasive mitigations against these kinds of errors. In other words,
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by pslam 8y ago
The intent is a currency which can be reliably used for exchange of goods and services. This would seem to cause a failure of the basic reason for its existence.
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by pslam 8y ago
Valuations like this always remind me of this meme which went around when 37Signals had an absurd one of their own: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-... $500m sounds like a lot, but the 60:1
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by pslam 8y ago
A technology which incentivizes consuming all available resources and favors those with the most sounds like a perfect fit for amateur radio.
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by pslam 8y ago
The story title is "AI powered Noise Cancellation" but the text never uses the term "AI" at all. It's deep (machine) learning. It doesn't need the useless marketing bonus term "AI" to make it better —
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by pslam 8y ago
Sears falls into the "utter contempt" category, along with utter incompetence. It was obvious to every outside observer their model was busted. It was obvious how bad their stores were to anyone who went there to try to buy someth
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by pslam 8y ago
Businesses this big and old don't "sink" unless there is utter contempt for obvious changes in market conditions by the entire board, for a sustained amount of time. Even with utter contempt, it would take an enormous amount
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by pslam 8y ago
Sure it is. There are plenty of companies which can't easily be categorized as having significant negative effects to the world. You can work for a "bad" company but consciously constrain your work to a business unit which im
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by pslam 8y ago
"They're all like this so it's impossible to do good" is an even more morally bankrupt position. It rejects personal responsibility and agency, places you as the victim, and allows you to continue to be a bad actor in th
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by pslam 8y ago
Spare a thought for all the other perfectly reasonable, and achievable goals which companies did not achieve, because the funding they needed went to Elon Musk companies instead.

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