tashbarg

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by tashbarg 2mo ago
… means I can show the numbers from 0 to 10 with my fingers. But base 10 means I only have digits from 0 to 9. … would 10 fingers not be a better argument for base 11?
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by tashbarg 6mo ago
Yes, I think I am with you. That search should not have happened (and consequently was ruled unlawful by a court afterwards). But it should not have happened in the first place. I hope (but do not know) that in the Schwachkopf-case, they ju
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by tashbarg 6mo ago
Please tell me more about that much better system. And probably also tell it to some lawmakers. But start with me.
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by tashbarg 6mo ago
There is a strong hint in the search warrant, that they knew about the distribution of Nazi materials. Just calling someone Schwachkopf doesn’t get prosecutors to investigate further.
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by tashbarg 6mo ago
Yes, I agree. But I can not see how the legal framework could be better. Insults are illegal. Prosecution needs to look into all reported cases.
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by tashbarg 6mo ago
Germany really did not. Where do you get such nonsense? The guy was sentenced for distributing forbidden Nazi materials. The initial insult investigation was dropped, because of it being insignificant.
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by tashbarg 6mo ago
No authority was used (or misused). Anybody can report a crime and prosecution is required, by law, to investigate.
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by tashbarg 6mo ago
Regarding the Pinocchio thing: Local police said „that‘s probably insult“ and sent it to public prosecutors. Public prosecutors investigated and said „nope, free speech“. I really don’t see the problem.
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by tashbarg 1y ago
Because it is wrong. Lev is pegged since 1999. And if you (or the first comment author) had read the article, then you would immediately have identified the problem with the comment.
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by tashbarg 1y ago
> Bulgaria is unusual in that it pegged its currency, the lev, to the euro right from the beginning of monetary union in 1999, even before it joined the European Union in 2007. Apparently, they did not use that control in the last 26 yea
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by tashbarg 1y ago
This reply makes the mootest point of all the moot points.
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by tashbarg 1y ago
Total trade with Russia in 2024: $3.5bn Total trade with Ukraine in 2024: $2.9bn https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia... So, Ukraine will get an exemption, too, right? Because their trade i
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by tashbarg 2y ago
There are only 144 Bytes in a PhotoDNA hash and they are used to identify the whole picture. This is definitely not enough data to identify a face reliably. The proposed AI does not identify people and it will not report that it "found
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by tashbarg 2y ago
Judges usually rely on experts in forensic science who, of course, are infallible and absolutely not influenced by what they read online during their day. https://innocenceproject.org/misapplication-of-forensic-scie... It i
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by tashbarg 2y ago
You can certainly not produce inversions. The data that is left in the hash is not enough to produce anything vaguely photorealistic. However, you can fill the gaps and generate photorealistic photos that fit to the extremely reduced inform
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by tashbarg 2y ago
MD5 is “broken” as a cryptographic hash function. It still is perfectly fine as a non-cryptographic hash function.
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by tashbarg 2y ago
Zebras come in colors? Ours are all kinda monochrome.
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by tashbarg 4y ago
So ... your solution is no tfa? Putting second factor material in password managers is terrible advice. For reasons unknown to me, it might be the right solution for you. But in general, it defeats the two factor authentication purpose
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by tashbarg 4y ago
It makes perfect sense if you consider the right abstraction. TCP connections are streams. There are no packets on that abstraction level. You’re not supposed to care about packets. You’re not supposed to know how large a packet even is. Th
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by tashbarg 4y ago
I guess parent is focusing on the point, that PDFs can render as perfectly human-readable documents, but can be completely non-machine readable at the same time.
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by tashbarg 4y ago
That's not how latency or responsiveness works. Dan Luu did cool experiments with input lag ( https://danluu.com/input-lag/ ).
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by tashbarg 4y ago
Sure. I'll oversimplify a lot, but the feeling of how things work should be correct. The clock frequency is not a good way of measuring performance. Never was. Even earlier designs as the 8086 did not do one thing (instruction) every c
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by tashbarg 4y ago
A modern 4GHz CPU is not only 40 times faster. It is a few thousand times faster than a 100MHz CPU back from the days. Probably not 20,000, but at least 2,000 times faster seems reasonable. And responsiveness back then was so good, because
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by tashbarg 4y ago
Mathematicians do not have funding for „large scale“. A 10-year old mid-range server is exactly the kind of system I would expect Magma to run on in the average case. Perhaps even just a desktop pc. Source: worked with algebra researchers u
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by tashbarg 4y ago
Back of the envelope: for 20-30 kWhs of capacity less, you put in an ICE that can burn gas for 10kWh/kg.
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by tashbarg 4y ago
No, it does not. Not _this_. Erlang has, however, excellent support for distributed computing using its own kind of processes.
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by tashbarg 4y ago
30€, median income adjusted to UK, then.
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by tashbarg 4y ago
Source: https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-... Exposing the battery to high temperature and dwelling in a full state-of-charge for an extended time can be more stressful than cycling. Most Li-i
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by tashbarg 4y ago
On my thinkpad, I've found it most useful to additionally set a start charge threshold much lower than the charge limit. My use case only sees a handful of minutes without charger per day. With charging starting at 40% and ending at 80
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by tashbarg 4y ago
Most if not all of the editing in German free TV is done by the station to fit the show to the schedule (ad breaks, fixed time budget, afternoon slot requiring removal of graphic scenes, etc.) Streaming should not have these problems.

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