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by snoshy 2y ago
> now you're getting convicted instead of having an opportunity to correct the problem You have completely ignored the fact that this is literally the opposite of what has (likely) happened in this case, and is provably almost the n
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by snoshy 3y ago
The IEA has done a pretty terrible job of predicting the mix of energy sources over the recent past, largely being overly biased towards fossil fuels. I honestly wouldn't put a whole lot of stock in their predictions even if their cla
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by snoshy 4y ago
For those of us that chuckle at it at this time, this is likely to be far far far bigger than Y2K. The reason is because software that runs critical aspects of human life will have proliferated to a greater degree when compared to >2000
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by snoshy 4y ago
Why would that be true in any alternate versions of these contests? I understand the enormous incentive mechanisms involved, and yet I cannot see this being obviously true. Edit to add: if the authorship of the submitters is as above repro
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by snoshy 4y ago
While I largely agree with you, and respect your opinion on these matters, the truth is that Dual EC was indeed a standard of the NIST, and therefore as a practical matter did get deployed by the public in whatever ill-informed manner for n
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This Interview Is a Mistake(spikeartmagazine.com)
3 points by snoshy 4y ago|0 comments
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by snoshy 4y ago
Great news. While this whole saga has built a sense of a trainwreck waiting to happen, I think this is the best result that everyone involved could have walked away with. I have no doubt about Elon's intentions about what he plans to
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by snoshy 4y ago
Oddly apropos anecdote to your pun: About 15 years ago, while working on Windows at Microsoft, a test machine sitting at my desk hit a kernel panic (BSOD). As was standard working on the test team, the machine was already setup for kernel
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by snoshy 5y ago
honestly i'm glad you brought up the reference to the awful censorship for this hilariously terrible movie. it made a mark somehow, and i still remembered (and waited for a reference to) it.
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by snoshy 5y ago
What name(s) do you have for it? What's the philology?
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by snoshy 5y ago
Great observation. It's frankly sad that it took this many years to implement such a common sense system, even though it comes with it's own flaws. I highly doubt it's gonna do anything for call systems in general though. T
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by snoshy 5y ago
That's certainly one kind of minimalism, but I think it goes well beyond what GP intended. While your comment and lifestyle seems earnest, it's a bit too far for most given the GP context, in the sense that rather than minimizing
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by snoshy 5y ago
Not to mention that order mix is almost always guaranteed to be a highly prized secret that companies rarely give out. You don't see Apple breaking down iPhone shipments by their variants in detail.
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by snoshy 5y ago
> * Four additional gigafactories already in development Where did you see this? Best I can tell, 4 new models (Cybertruck, Roadster, Semi, Unannounced) are in development but only one more gigafactory (TBD) is in the works. Perhaps yo
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by snoshy 5y ago
Of course, but I'd be more likely to give the job to the person who could decipher such madness and explain it clearly any day over the author. Code should be written to be understood by humans first and foremost. The person who can u
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by snoshy 5y ago
Cortana's revenge for Microsoft shutting her down.
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by snoshy 6y ago
They do, but we make exceptions for appliance power all the time. Laundry appliances frequently have a higher voltage circuit dedicated for them, at least in California. Why not treat the exception as the exception? Appliances might consu
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by snoshy 6y ago
True. But while a high voltage converter might be expensive, it's far more efficient and would pay off costs over the duration of the life of a home. Having a single one of those per home should surely be a net win. The utility is r
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by snoshy 6y ago
Tons of amateur space nerds are analyzing every frame of video that's been gathered about the incident. Here's a gif [1] posted on NASASpaceFlight but originally shot by LabPadre that shows that some of the legs on the left exten
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by snoshy 6y ago
I very highly doubt the lean is expected. The fact is that 2-3 of the landing legs deployed but did not lock into their extended position, which resulted in the lean this time. This also caused structural damage to the engines and tanks,
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by snoshy 6y ago
This is actually normal, and expected. The issue with these specific Starship tests is that the flight plan calls for 1) a height of ~10 km, 2) not going supersonic. The second one is quite critical, because supersonic flight introduces m
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by snoshy 6y ago
The issue is that the vast majority of these ingredients are artificial substitutes for the actual content of a pizza-like-thing that an average consumer might expect. That they are artificial is not in itself inherently an issue (at least
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by snoshy 6y ago
The old school response, weaponized without being inappropriate.
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by snoshy 6y ago
Oppressive regimes even of the most extreme order still need to deal with reality and the choices of other parties that aren't fully within their control. If Google/Apple were to take a stand here and walk away, it would put tre
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by snoshy 6y ago
Coinbase did need something like Mt. Gox to become what they are today, but not in the sense you imply. The whole Mt. Gox episode opened people's eyes up to the fact that large institutional frauds could take place with their Bitcoi
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by snoshy 6y ago
It sure seems additive in this case. Google & Apple can choose not to do business in regulatory regimes that are oppressive in nature. That obviously comes at a direct cost of lost revenue from abstinence. It is a deliberate choice
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by snoshy 6y ago
It's a common way of describing deadlines in the aerospace industry, since a lot can go wrong with large complex engineering projects in the physical world. It's usually abbreviated to NET.
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by snoshy 6y ago
This is a fair point to consider. Perhaps my claim was a bit overbroad.
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by snoshy 6y ago
Yes, this was my intent. It's not that security researchers don't publish this kind of thing... it's just that there are a million rabbit holes to explore, and probably only like 0.1% of those dead ends get written about.
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by snoshy 6y ago
Anyone that's new to the industry? Non-technical folks that keep hearing about git hugs?

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