saint_abroad

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by saint_abroad 3y ago
2 months later we have the "Spectre" - an aperiodic monotile (without reflections): https://aperiodical.com/2023/05/now-thats-what-i-call-an-ape... Edit - a visual explanation of this journey: https:&#x
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by saint_abroad 4y ago
> Americans waste almost 40% of all the food that is produced in America, and for all sorts of reasons. Put another way, free markets produce 67% more than required. When it comes to food, most populations that eat prefer a market that f
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by saint_abroad 4y ago
> There are any number of tools that will generate me a pretty and useful database schema diagram if I point them at a relational database. I'd even go so far as to design database schema with these ER diagram tools in mind: if the
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by saint_abroad 4y ago
> his companies were earning about $800,000 a day selling diet supplements, gun paraphernalia and survivalist equipment. It's almost as if Jones' show is a binary classification filter for chumps https://www.microsof
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by saint_abroad 4y ago
Sound decreases by 6dB for every doubling of distance: https://www.airbornedrones.co/drone-noise-levels/ So a typical 80db commercial drone flying at 300m (CAA minimum) would be 50db at ground level (closest point), or
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by saint_abroad 4y ago
Why is the pubkey "hash" sent to the server as a query, rather than staying client-side as a fragment? Why does "Regenerate Private Key" not actually regenerate private key? Why is the pubkey obfuscated by encrypting wit
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by saint_abroad 4y ago
I'd corrupt the quote slightly to factor informational effects of propaganda: "a wealth of [conflicting] information creates [an apathy] of attention and a need to [withdraw] that attention efficiently among the overabundance of i
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by saint_abroad 4y ago
So the only hangover from bad parties is that the party ends? The biggest, baddest parties will always draw the popular crowd, and the same DJs will know better when to quietly slip out the back door with bags full. How does a well-regulate
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by saint_abroad 4y ago
> Life is filled with risk. Accept them or don't. Life is also filled with negligence. Companies (and people) have a duty of care to minimise risk or damage to others.
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> Hardware is quite cheap. Enterprise has embraced a cloud-first stragegy. Suddenly, throwing hardware at a problem becomes throwing cash at the cloud.
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
Linux keeps track of "credit" for entrophy pool sources. Anyone can write to /dev/random - this mixes data into the entrophy pool but it won't be "credited" as securely increasing /proc/sys/
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> Creating more money steals value from everyone who has traded their work for money, and creating less of it adds value. Conversely, creating more debt (as is with QE) adds value to everyone who has borrowed to invest. At some point tho
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> Persistent inflation generally happens when an economy runs out of people. While there is a short run tradeoff between unemployment and inflation, it has not been observed in the long run. The Phillips curve was contradicted the 1970&#
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> But they'll probably check some box for some security audit so they're used. A WAF is useful for when a zero-day is found for that legacy application you just can't get patches for anymore because the team has "move
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
The "Y2K bug" cost an estimated US$300 billion in remedial work, having been in production for ~40 years. Corollary: The most expensive bugs to fix are the oldest bugs.
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
Deep Neural Indifference - DNNs without emotional weights to guide behaviour and interactions. Leads to impaired empathy and lack of remorse.
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
Indeed, maybe it's about time advertisers got back to sponsoring quality content their target audience enjoys, rather than direct marketing through the back door on the lowest common denominator.
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> Drug tests generally produce false-positive results in 5% to 10% of cases and false negatives in 10% to 15% of cases, new research shows. Most often, some tests have high sensitivity (no false negatives) whilst others have high specifi
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> deploying a technology with obvious potential false positives "Okay, let's run this through the system." "What, no match? This system sucks." "Let's try the competitor's system." "56% m
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough on this point: copyright of a derivative work is distinct (but not inseparable) to the copyright of the original work. So portions of a derivative work are covered by the original copyright, and other port
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> Where do you draw the line? My simplistic view is that the following is legally equivalent: input -> ai network -> output input -> huffman coding -> output So, whilst: * compressing and decompressing a copyright work is per
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> There's also usually signage warning you to not do the running-through-the-nest thing. "No drones, no dogs, and no bikes. Those are the posted rules in the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach." https:&#x2
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> 1. Capital Gain taxes are delayed until you actually sell the stock. By far, the greatest increase in wealth (and inequality) is due to capital gains. > [...] capital gains are eventually taxed Normally, one might sell assets before
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> If they want to sit out the development of this new tech it just gives everyone else the advantage. Au contraire- China is leapfrogging Western Banking with the DECP "digital yuan", and Bitcoin is competition to state-sanctio
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> there are far cheaper and simpler methods that are also more reliable Reminds me of crypto-nerd reality: "His laptop's encrypted. Drug him and hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us the password." https:/&#x
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> what is the overlap between the set of people who check "just pay it out of checking/savings" (50%) and the set of people who check "charge it and pay off in full at the end of the month" (36%)? The report plai
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
Reality is more nuanced than that. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jan/29/howard-sch... The survey actually states, "Four in 10 adults, if faced with an unexpected expense of $400, would
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> It's not like Americans become poorer due to inflation, because all their wealth is denominated in dollars. What of the nearly 40% of Americans that can't cover a surprise $400 expense, due to having no wealth?
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> The system may be fundamentally broken, but the market is not. This gives me some level of confidence in saying that as of April 2021, I don’t believe that we’re in a housing bubble. Markets have the remarkable ability to function righ
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by saint_abroad 5y ago
> They don't really explain what the digital yuan is here. tldr; > Direct access to central banks will allow tech-enabled non-banks to offer payment services > In the most disruptive case, banks lose deposit base, [and] credit

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