yayachiken

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by yayachiken 6d ago
You cannot treat light as particles in that scenario. The primary wave gets absolutely and completely delayed, with no part getting ahead. It's not some photons doing something with a certain probability and then causing a macroscopic
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by yayachiken 6d ago
I always find it interesting to read takes like this. I get it, I also bounced multiple times off Elite Dangerous due to boredom. But in the end it was always intended to be Euro Truck Simulator in Space. The main problem was that (just lik
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by yayachiken 7d ago
People often say that but does the cost for handling cash really scale (even approximately) proportionally with the number of transactions or revenue? Or is it more binary that you have to decide, you either handle any cash and have the cos
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by yayachiken 8d ago
If you actually read how GUIX (what they talk about in section 7.3) is calling a "full source bootstrap", they have brought down the compiler seed to less than 200 bytes, but also they rely on an execution environment that still h
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by yayachiken 9d ago
The paper is not about implementing a general attack that works on all trusting-trust mitigations. It is precisely about showing that you can still propagate backdoored code if the compromised binary in your seed is NOT the compiler.
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by yayachiken 23d ago
But to be fair, at least paper disposal is truly free because paper recycling generally turns a profit for the municipalities.
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by yayachiken 29d ago
Note that the fork()/execve() semantics of Linux pretty much depend on memory overcommit. You may get weird OOM crashes when there is seemingly no memory pressure, if you turn overcommit off. In the short time between fork() and execve
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by yayachiken 2mo ago
Read up on the Koch method. To be exact: Koch method with Farnsworth timing. You'll have to keep the letters in a certain speed so your brain does not have enough time to decode dots and dashes. So only the length between the letters i
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by yayachiken 2mo ago
HAM was a nice rabbit hole to fall into, but unfortunately I couldn't muster enough interest to actually get good enough to go "on air". Some other things that surprised me and may be interesting for other people: Learning Mo
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by yayachiken 2mo ago
The normalization of the age variable still looks problematic, as it requires that there is a linear dependency between age and incidence. Both the scatter plot and also the probability graph seem to be curving upwards w.r.t age, i.e. the i
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by yayachiken 5mo ago
I think when thinking about progress as a society, people need to internalize better that we all without exception are on this world for the first time. We may have collectively filled libraries full of books, and created yottabytes of digi
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by yayachiken 6mo ago
Yes, that is plausible indeed, but the problem is that there are many explanations which are plausible, but there doesn't seem to be a smoking gun. Strange about that explanation for example is that the time correlation is backwards. F
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by yayachiken 6mo ago
Yes, I think it's wrong, or at least way over-exaggerated. You can run a grid to supply approximately 80% renewables (long-term average) without significant technical changes. Only if you want to get the last 20% to renewables, you get
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by yayachiken 6mo ago
> crap like that report > Only those working closely in that profession have any knowledge of the underlying causes. This report is literally from the ENTSO-E which is the main regulatory body for the grid in Europe. > Crap quote f
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by yayachiken 6mo ago
That being said, I was apparently also under the impression of outdated or just plain wrong information. While the report I listed mentions the sudden loss of decentralized generation as starting point of the blackout, and also specifically
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by yayachiken 6mo ago
> It's not that easy, and the 2025 blackout good evidence of that. Renewables need a grid that's engineered for them and that require significative investments. The outage in spain had multiple complex causes. While the grid ha
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by yayachiken 8mo ago
Then we are just talking about two different things. On ISP level, routing tables are built via BGP. BGP needs Autonomous Systems (AS) as organization unit to work. If you are not an AS you are never a peer as you are not on equal footing.
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by yayachiken 8mo ago
> This also describes transit and describes getting internet service at home. Well no. Transit means that you use another AS (usually by a larger ISP) to get connectivity to a certain AS. And as for your internet service at home, unless
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by yayachiken 8mo ago
Well, there is always a regulatory measure that would be a lot easier to implement: Lawmakers could just disallow Tier 1 carriers to provide consumer Internet access. (This forced separation of business domain already has precedent in other
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by yayachiken 8mo ago
Peering just means that two AS physically connect to each other directly. Whether this peering is paid or not is independent from the technical implementation. Just nearly everybody except Telekom is doing this on a liberal and informal not
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by yayachiken 8mo ago
DTAG are also a consumer ISP. A consumer ISP should be considered a utility, and utilities can also be forced to provide certain services. In addition, Internet Exchanges have become so critical for the Internet architecture that they shoul
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by yayachiken 8mo ago
Regulating peering within the EU would already be a win. The providers are then free to either move out of the EU market, or let their non-EU traffic flow via the (then likely larger) unrestricted pipes at DECIX and AMSIX. If they think tha
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by yayachiken 8mo ago
Small tangent, but I feel like it is a good time to drop the term "net neutrality", which covers way too much ground. In the past in political discussions, the term "violation of net neutrality" was used to protest multi
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by yayachiken 2y ago
I think you are reading too much into it indeed. I just paraphrased what the author called "My teenage daughter went mad." I explicitly do not want to make a statement about the normality of the described behaviour, as it is impos
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by yayachiken 2y ago
Also, browsing through the rest of the blog, the author seems to be deep in the "incel" social darwinism rabbit hole, which explains why they have so much difficulty to shoe-horn everything into their world view to the point of co
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by yayachiken 2y ago
What a strange article. To summarize, a guy is rejecting the current opinion about the autism spectrum, seemingly because they struggle to understand behaviour of their daughter once she entered puberty. Then they read about a specialized p
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by yayachiken 3y ago
For everybody reading this and scratching their head why this is relevant: Python subclassing is strange. Essentially super().__init__() will resolve to a statically unknowable class at run-time because super() refers to the next class in t
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by yayachiken 3y ago
I loved the game, but I can see where people struggle. You cannot laser-focus on the objective. Just get in character, you are on a mysterious ship, it's completely abandoned and somehow returned to harbor still. You are just trying to
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by yayachiken 4y ago
For me this sounds just like the lecturer inserted some casual sexism. I can say from my own experience at least at my university, that "Altherrenhumor" ("old gentleman humor") like this is still very common in German
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by yayachiken 4y ago
Yes, this is the most obvious omission of the article. It really made me think about the kind of social dynamics that must be going on in an international and culturally-diverse research station like this one. Obviously, you will try to kee

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