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by wolpoli 10d ago
I was quite surprised that this phrase, which papers over nuances in how operating systems classify and manage memory, was posted by someone who studied CS.
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by wolpoli 26d ago
The HN crowd understands that, depending on bottleneck, adding a fifth network connection (lane) between 2 nodes may not necessary decrease the latency (travel time).
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by wolpoli 1mo ago
Is Delta using older Wifi equipment? I was under the impression that the current Wifi standard now prevents deauth attacks.
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by wolpoli 2mo ago
I have always felt that the button in the last couple version of Windows was a bit off. This page confirms it: Old school buttons used to stay in a "selected" state after being pressed, but that was not implemented in Windows 8&#x
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by wolpoli 2mo ago
There is no coherent reasoning here for banning open weights. The billion of dollars to train a model was supposed to be a moat so they can sell tokens. AI labs can't make money by capturing values from intelligence if any company cou
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by wolpoli 2mo ago
If a person were to receive data from someone subjected to such restriction, is the receiver bounded by the same restriction?
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by wolpoli 2mo ago
Honest question: what is the ultimate end game if at some point a court in another country orders a domain be reinstated? Do we end up with a domain registration system per country?
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by wolpoli 2mo ago
Constraints include needing to keep component cost low and ensuring that they could sell more hardware in 2 years.
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by wolpoli 2mo ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but I recall they did give a full refund when they shut down the ebook platform.
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by wolpoli 3mo ago
Recall that real interest rate = interest rate - expected inflation. The goal of the central banker is to keep real interest rate low. If you have negative expected inflation, that sets a lower bound on the real interest rate since interes
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by wolpoli 3mo ago
> rebalancing of people’s portfolios values It's not just portfolio value. It's well accepted in the economics that wealth impact's people spending (see wealth effect and its cousin negative wealth effect)
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by wolpoli 3mo ago
In computer science, we have classes on memorizing/implementing various algorithms so that we may understand their behavior. Could anyone name the reason why grade school students memorize and execute the long division algorithm? I ce
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by wolpoli 3mo ago
> 8. How will age verification work? We know that having a range of methods to prove age is important to ensure online spaces are accessible. > Ofcom will set out in the coming months different options for effective forms of age assur
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by wolpoli 3mo ago
Or alternatively, it is plain and obvious that Anthropic is using ethics to justify business decisions.
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by wolpoli 4mo ago
The Pi SBCs are squeezed in between the SFFs and the microcontrollers for many use cases. It's only a good fit if there is a need for the GPIOs/Linux/Display. For anything else, there are better products out there.
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by wolpoli 4mo ago
Raspberry Pi isn't in direct competition with N150's. Their niche is the industrial/embedded space. For that market, power consumption doesn't matter. What matters is that each model is guaranteed to be available till a
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Lossless data compression software benchmarks / comparisons(web.archive.org)
3 points by wolpoli 4mo ago|0 comments
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by wolpoli 4mo ago
It is rather hard to lose of habit of using search engine with keywords given the change took place without much fanfare. I have no problem using sentences with the current ai tools through.
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Over $5M in donations flowed in after the Lapu-Lapu Day attack. Where it went(cbc.ca)
2 points by wolpoli 4mo ago|0 comments
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by wolpoli 4mo ago
Does anyone know why the 3DMMForever project stalled? Was technical or was it just a general lack of interest?
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by wolpoli 4mo ago
At my school, I purchased my cap but rented the gown. The cap is in a box never to be looked at again. I can't imagine what I would do with the gown.
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by wolpoli 4mo ago
There is a lot of information, in various forms, on the internet that are specifically designed to misinform those who hadn’t taken a course on that particular topic, but leaves the reader feeling they learnt something. Right now LLM’s are
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by wolpoli 5mo ago
> EAT-Lancet healthy reference diet I am unable to find this diet. It's likely referring to something called Planetary Health Diet [0] [0] https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet/the-planetary-health-diet/
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by wolpoli 6mo ago
I am quite surprised that Google hasn't done this in the name of security, as email, one of the few channel that brands do not have to pay any middleman, is a competitor to search ads.
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by wolpoli 6mo ago
Sure, but those same professional certifications and development hours also allow them to not need to re-prove their basic competency when interviewing.
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by wolpoli 6mo ago
PC makers are going to stop some of the artificial segmentation they used on the lower price devices, and that is going to hurt the sales of their higher-end lines. There is no reason they kept pushing 70 percent srgb panels on even the mi
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by wolpoli 6mo ago
None of the reason for the redesign in 2014, 2020 and 2025 had anything to do with solving any problem users had with the interface. The goals were just to blend controls and content visually and make the interface feel fresh, which I doub
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by wolpoli 7mo ago
> For what they designed it, allowing beginners to discover all the functionality that's available, it works perfectly. Sure, but where are the beginners are we talking about? In 2007, Microsoft office had long reached dominance in
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by wolpoli 7mo ago
I believe the security vulnerability issues will be addressed with companies using cloud based vibe-code platform or a ai security auditor agent that runs through the code base and flags security issues.
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by wolpoli 7mo ago
> 3. If Amazon finds your product on another website for lower than its own website, it'll just hide your listing from the search -- this is meant to be pro-consumer (when you go to Amazon you'll get the lowest price). Most fav

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