waselighis

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by waselighis 3y ago
Some animal species in Chernobyl (not all) have higher levels of antioxidants than their non-Chernobyl counterparts. > James Lovelock argued that we could save the rain forests from the ravages of man by burying nuclear waste in them. In
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by waselighis 3y ago
You could look into running a Tor bridge (not a normal relay). It generally uses little CPU so there's little concern about carbon emissions. You can also limit the amount of bandwidth the bridge uses. https://support.torpro
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Tell HN: MitM Attacks on Windscribe VPN
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by waselighis 3y ago
Embrace, extend, and extinguish.
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by waselighis 3y ago
Yep, I feel pretty dumb right now. Annoyingly I can't edit my comment now, but please disregard it.
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by waselighis 3y ago
There's a couple interesting hypotheses in that article I wouldn't have thought of. However, I think they left out an obvious culprit, the lockdown meant that kids were home all day, which means less physical activity, and possibl
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by waselighis 3y ago
No need to re-encode the video. Just split the video at a keyframe and inject an ad at that point, no re-encoding required. Most video files have keyframes every few seconds or so. The proper term is I-frames, though they're commonly k
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by waselighis 3y ago
I used D for a while several years ago. The language was always a huge mess. The compiler and standard library were riddled with bugs. D was the only language I ever used where it could actually be a compiler bug. D was a mess of features t
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by waselighis 3y ago
Exactly. Even if the software is never updated with any new features or changes, it still requires constant maintenance to fix bugs, patch security vulnerabilities, support new hardware, and OS updates. It costs money to maintain software,
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by waselighis 3y ago
It's an announcement for a major update with relevant benchmarks and some basic technical details. What more do you want? You might find this older post more interesting, more technical. Just keep in mind this blog post is 3 years old:
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by waselighis 3y ago
They provided links to the benchmarks so you can try running them yourself. I feel like a prerecorded video would add little value to this announcement. https://downloads.scirra.com/labs/perf/opacitythrash-webgl&#x
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by waselighis 3y ago
Exactly my attitude. Not just for Edge, I use Microsoft products and services as little as possible. Even if they might be technically superior, I will go with the solution that isn't being shoved down my throat.
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by waselighis 3y ago
I strongly disagree with this view, not so much the emergent part, but rather that "any sufficiently powerful cognitive system" can gain consciousness. To me, it suggests that consciousness is magic, because it doesn't matter
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by waselighis 3y ago
I'm surprised nobody else has pointed out yet, the majority of the most popular dating apps are owned by Match Group. At least in the United States, I can't speak for the rest of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by waselighis 3y ago
That seems unlikely to me as UPS certainly would have spotted that kind of activity in their logs (enumerating). However, it may not be entirely impossible either. UPS tracking numbers are long but not completely random, they encode a lot o
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by waselighis 3y ago
My best guess would be a compromise of a 3rd party service that acts as an intermediary for UPS (and possibly other shipping providers) and serves Canadian businesses. Another possibility is, again, a 3rd party which collects data for busin
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by waselighis 3y ago
I guess it's fine if it's free or cheap. But why would I pay anywhere from $29-232 per month for what is basically a glorified web UI wrapping open source models? I can get the same or superior functionality for free from FOSS run
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by waselighis 3y ago
I wish there was a nicer shell scripting language that simply transpiled to Bash and would generate all this boilerplate code for me. There is https://batsh.org/ which has a nice syntax but it doesn't even support pipe
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by waselighis 3y ago
I haven't looked at Digg in a long time. Looking at it now, wow it's terrible, nothing but SEO/clickbait/sponsored trash. I'm comfortable with saying Digg is dead.
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by waselighis 3y ago
It's far from perfect, but in my experience, it's much better than both ChatGPT and Bard. I've also used it to ask non-technical questions, and it often generates a good response, so not really just "for developers"
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by waselighis 3y ago
I think Reddit is headed down the same path as Twitter, it's not going to die, but it will be less popular and less relevant. The most popular subreddits appeal to a broad/general audience that doesn't care much about API acc
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by waselighis 3y ago
It sounds to me like migrating to a fully multi-threaded architecture may not be worth the effort. Simply reducing the number of processes from thousands to hundreds would be a huge win and likely much more feasible than a complete re-archi
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by waselighis 3y ago
> It also seems that they are planning on adding tablets to the cars to play ads? This one leaves me a little dumbfounded. Do they really expect Uber drivers to go along with this? Many drivers are motivated to provide a pleasant and com
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by waselighis 3y ago
One guess, dealerships are local and have a much stronger interest to support local candidates as opposed to auto manufacturers who have a national or global presence. Dealerships are also far greater in number, hundreds if not thousands in
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by waselighis 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
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by waselighis 3y ago
Elon is a businessman and nothing more. Everything he says is bullshit just to further his business interests. Not just Elon, all billionaires do these things regularly. I don't fully understand the game they're playing, but no do
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by waselighis 3y ago
> Really your conscious experience is quite empty/vacuous. I don't know about that. Maybe you need to elaborate more, but the fact that we are aware of our own consciousness and can practice introspection and speak of concepts
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by waselighis 3y ago
The length may not be known ahead of time. Hashing algorithms generally work on streaming data. For example, suppose you wanted to hash compressed data while it's being compressed, you can't reliably predict the size of the compre
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by waselighis 3y ago
TIL. I can think of many simple ways to mitigate such attacks. Of course, the real solution is, never try to roll your own crypto. Use a well established library whenever possible.
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by waselighis 3y ago
Long ago, Apple included a warrant canary in their transparency report. One day, it disappeared. Nothing came of it. https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/18/6409575/apple-warrant-can... The problem with a war

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