vitus

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by vitus 22d ago
> The merchants think so, too, or they wouldn’t accept the processors that let their banks hand out these cards. Visa / Mastercard / American Express all have lines of premium credit cards (Visa Infinite, World Elite Mastercard
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by vitus 3mo ago
IIRC the block was on archive.today's side as a protest against 1.1.1.1 intentionally not supporting ECS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
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by vitus 3mo ago
Best I can tell, it's originally from Heguanzi: https://ctext.org/he-guan-zi/shi-xian
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by vitus 3mo ago
I have evidence that it's not AI. It's just a regex. https://github.com/elijah-potter/blog/blob/master/pages/hnsa...
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by vitus 4mo ago
Shockley? The guy whose employees hated him so much they went and founded a rival company which then gave rise to Silicon Valley? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
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by vitus 5mo ago
Hilariously, "os as g" adds one more byte than it saves, since os is only used 4 times but the alias takes 5 extra bytes to save 4. And "socket as s" comes out even. If you wanted real savings, you'd use "d=byt
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by vitus 5mo ago
Agreed. That said, FDIC would have not been able to cover all $150 billion or so of uninsured SVB deposits directly from the insurance fund, so had that been the only available option for making depositors whole, then FDIC would have had to
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by vitus 5mo ago
Indeed; most personal banking customers can fall back on FDIC insurance ($250k should be more than enough to cover your emergency fund). This isn't the 1920s.
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by vitus 5mo ago
> I didn’t know about the term happy eyeball to signify that all requests fire at the same time. It's not quite the same. Usually with Happy Eyeballs, you want to try multiple protocols (e.g. QUIC vs TCP, or IPv6 vs IPv4), and you h
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by vitus 5mo ago
> magic eyeballs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs is the usual name. It's not quite identical, since you often want to give your preferred transport a nominal headstart so it usually succeeds. But y
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by vitus 5mo ago
This is approximately the section in the video titled "Memory controllers hate you" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbgulTp3FE&t=1399s ), combined with the following section. The actual explanation starts a c
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by vitus 6mo ago
Eh. It depends what your bottleneck is. If the bottleneck is now, say, CPU cache contention because you've doubled your thread count, it's entirely possible that FL1 running on the new server generation is operating in a different
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by vitus 6mo ago
It depends what dates you're looking at, but energy (gas prices and more) and food (including eggs) are generally recognized as way more volatile than the rest of the CPI. Eggs were actually quite stable for the 20 years prior to 2001,
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by vitus 6mo ago
> Kaeshibashi The preference is to use a separate pair of communal chopsticks that is not used directly for eating. > Kosuribashi I have heard that this one is because it's considered to be an insult implying that the chopsticks
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by vitus 6mo ago
Agreed on all those fronts. I'm just dismayed by all the comments suggesting that maintainers just merged PRs with this trojan, when the attack vector implies a more mundane form of credential compromise (and not, as the article implie
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by vitus 6mo ago
Looks like the repo owner force-pushed a bad commit to replace an existing one. But then, why not forge it to maintain the existing timestamp + author, e.g. via `git commit --amend -C df8c18`? Innocuous PR (but do note the line about "
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by vitus 6mo ago
> if indeed he went all-in on AI in 2015, that seems to me like a damn near prophetic vision. Also note that 7 years later, when ChatGPT came out, built on top of Google Brain research (transformers), Google was caught flat-footed. Even
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by vitus 7mo ago
> That’s PCIe 3.0 x4 or PCIe 4.0 x2, which a decent commodity M.2 NVMe SSD can use and can possibly saturate, at least for reads. Given that there's a separate item for sequential disk reads vs SSD reads, I think it's pretty cl
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by vitus 7mo ago
Well, it shouldn't be slower than "Read 1,000,000 bytes sequentially from memory" (741ns) which in turn shouldn't be slower than "Read 1,000,000 bytes sequentially from disk" (359 us). That said, all those numb
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by vitus 8mo ago
You probably meant to say oversubscribing, not overprovisioning. Oversubscription is expected to a certain degree (this is fundamentally the same concept as "statistical multiplexing"). But even oversubscription in itself is not g
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by vitus 9mo ago
We do; most people don't just write eBPF by hand. https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/llvm/lib/Targ...
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by vitus 9mo ago
std::ignore's behavior outside of use with std::tie is not specified in any finalized standard. https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p29... aims to address that, but th
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by vitus 9mo ago
> This is incorrect, the correct strategy is mostly to check the most probable match (the exception being if the people in that match has less possible pairings remaining than the next most probable match). Do you have any hard evidence,
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by vitus 9mo ago
So, for 10 pairs, 45 guesses (9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1) in the worst case, and roughly half that on average? It's interesting how close 22.5 is to the 21.8 bits of entropy for 10!, and that has me wondering how often you would
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by vitus 9mo ago
It should be easier to understand the optimal truth booth strategy. Since this is a yes/no type of question, the maximum entropy is 1 bit, as noted by yourself and others. As such, you want to pick a pair where the odds are as close to
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by vitus 10mo ago
It's way more lopsided than your example would suggest. My understanding is that Netflix can stream 100 Gbps from a 100W server footprint (slide 17 of [0]). Even if you assume every stream is 4k and uses 25 Mbps, that's still thou
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by vitus 10mo ago
To add to this: rough consensus is defined in BCP 25 / RFC 2418 ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2418#section-3.3 ): IETF consensus does not require that all participants agree although this i
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by vitus 10mo ago
I get that it's satisfying to tell them to go away because they're being unreasonable. But what's the legal strategy here? Piss off the regulators such that they really won't drop this case, and give them fodder to be ab
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by vitus 10mo ago
The combative stance that he's taking really doesn't do him any favors in resolving the issue. Lawyer: "I've confirmed that at least one UK IP address is blocked." Regulators: "We've confirmed that at leas
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by vitus 10mo ago
China is much more smartphone-centric than the US. QR codes are universal, WeChat and AliPay are the most common form of payments (online or in person).

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