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asojfdowgh··on Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
asojfdowgh··on Cancelling Student Debt Is Unforgivable
I'm confused how "people arn't paying off their student loans" and "credentials are still inflating"

Like, I wouldn't say the Zimbabwe dollar is inflating, its instead inflated

asojfdowgh··on Playstation launches new subscription service at double original price
> Mark Griffith, director of the International Gaming Research Unit in the psychology department at Nottingham Trent University, told Sky News: "If you're a football fan of a specific team and the club puts their prices up, fans will still buy season tickets even in times of recession and inflation. Avid gamers are likely to do the same.

Cloud gaming changes this imo, while both cloud providers in australia are more expensive than even psdeluxe, xbox cloud's deals made me switch away from ps focus to PC/xbox focus, even on my super old laptop

asojfdowgh··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
besides the fact that dragging a sledgehammer into the department of defense is really obvious.

And that hitting something with a sledge or smashing a window would both activate alarms, and just, be really loud regardless.

Yes, there is places without windows and with reinforced doors

Even setting that aside, impressioning attacks require only seconds at a doorway for each step in the process, this defeats that attack.

bump keys only requires ~30 seconds if you are lucky, this defeats that

And yes DoD has security cameras, most places do actually.

asojfdowgh··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
Its the standard procedure for "unpickable" locks before SMH's lock too.
asojfdowgh··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
https://www.bowleylockcompany.com/store/c1/Featured_Products... comes to mind as another "unpickable" lock provider

The prices are vastly different, but the 250 is for a pre-production demo model, I'd expect the price to be halved or more upon production

asojfdowgh··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
I do feel that selective brute forcing is going to become popular one day or another

e.g. a key with mechanical sections to actuate the pins to specific heights, plus, a very precise rotational sensor (perhaps acoustic sensors too)

but anyways, potential but easily fixable methods: a magnet with enough force to pull the slider would give tension, so just don't make it ferrous

the slider will always get super close to the front of the lock body, could be drilled, even if a stronger steel or the such, and then tension from there. Fixed by not surrounding the last pin with the slider, only needs ~1/4th of the last pin's space at most.

Its a nice solution, very compact overall

asojfdowgh··on Introducing PyScript (summary of PyCon keynote)
That's a random unofficial build of micropython, MP is still in active development (the specific build target got touched 3 days ago)
asojfdowgh··on Introducing PyScript (summary of PyCon keynote)
uncached, 8 seconds, cached, 6.5 seconds

Loading the entire wasm, touching all the things that need to be touched, etc, takes up the majority of the time

asojfdowgh··on Introducing PyScript (summary of PyCon keynote)
Hello World example:

15 requests. 21.65 MB / 7.66 MB transferred. Finish: 8.19 s. DOMContentLoaded: 707 ms. load: 2.95 s.

no, stop. I'm super confused about the obsession of clonking specifically the reference implementation when other implementations exist, like micropython for example. Sure, less compatible, but you are already not getting native modules so shrug?

asojfdowgh··on HDMI Firewall
on the flip side, USBC does all 3, so the future is already here!

RPi4 should support power and network through its usbc plug, however you'll still need another cable for video currently.

the frame.work "SBC" would allow all 3 through the same connector, but, you'll be looking at ~400+ per SBC just to achieve this, but the key thing is, its 100% doable if you get the hardware combination right

asojfdowgh··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
fair
asojfdowgh··on HDMI Firewall
There are so many devices where I already want a sequel to them, HDMI Firewall 2, with the ability to solder spots to re-enable features
asojfdowgh··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
I really don't like this math, no one actually stops at that point, you take the output, la, "0.9005" and re-run it

     (0.9005 × .1) × (1-.995) + (0.9005 × .9)
and again, and again, etc, point being that over time it does cycle the entire room, due to entropy, and then suddenly the differences start to stack up a bit, not a lot, but when one filter is letting 10x the particles through vs the other filter, it'll show
asojfdowgh··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
> which is generally super low.

Except when it isn't, which is kinda the point: Its a fan and a filter, if the fan is improperly fitted, path of least resistance starts playing, if the filter is improperly fitted, blah blah

making a fan spin to the point of getting the most volume allowed through a filter, is probably the easiest bit of the entire process

asojfdowgh··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
They recommend against a bunch of things even if they get commission
asojfdowgh··on [dead]
"debunking" the abstract??

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"how cringe is that." / "Yeah and cola with Kiwi is also a nice cocktail recipe. Cringe man,"

"Every kid calls himself a Researcher these days because he opens Google."

Glass houses and stones

asojfdowgh··on Webcams aren't good enough
So when using the barebones webcam protocol, the webcams look bad, when using custom software for the webcams or iphones, the results are much better.

Why is the conclusion that the hardware is bad, not that the method of using the hardware is bad?

asojfdowgh··on [dead]
> Based on physics, information science and economics, we compute and compare the energy consumption and define what is the energy efficiency of both the current monetary payment system and Bitcoin cryptopayment system. We demonstrate that Bitcoin consumes 56 times less energy than the classical system, and that even at the single transaction level, a PoW transaction proves to be 1 to 5 times more energy efficient. When Bitcoin Lightning layer is compared to Instant Payment scheme, Bitcoin gains exponentially in scalability and efficiency, proving to be up to a million times more energy efficient per transaction than Instant Payments.

so when not used, it uses less than other systems when not used, but when used it uses up to the same amount of energy?

unless its a million times less, when you use resolve-it-later-bitcoin

I'm assuming they are going to be saying "if you do a million tx on lightening before closing the channel, it'll be only 1 transaction" or something?

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edit: it started going on about newton's laws, the equal and opposite reaction I had was to stop reading

asojfdowgh··on Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
publicity and traction over competition by using the open-source label, then silently switching parts of the code out with closed source replacements, and for the most part, dropping any development or contribution to the pre-existing components, practically killing them off (in turn, preventing any floss forks of vscode from using said components, unless they make a commitment to maintain the security, API compatibility, etc, of those components)

for example, Sublime never did that, sublime was closed, and is closed, and will be closed.

They arn't trying to gain traction at the cost of lying in their advertising and labeling, they don't exclusively release closed licensed versions of their "open-source" product like MS does

asojfdowgh··on TBD Web5
less of a pain if someone makes an extension for it, which afaik no one did neither (without cryptocurrencies being mentioned)
asojfdowgh··on TBD Web5
All I can say is... I've seen it all before now? on "web2", nothing ever prevented someone using cert/key based auth, and there were libraries to abstract over proprietary APIs, but if you didn't want to go that way, there is also https://remotestorage.io/ et al

biggest hugest problem though: no one cares, go ask your mom about the difference between web1, 2, and 3

asojfdowgh··on Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language
can still do that logic too, without leaving the parsing step, per say

    /^ (\d+) ** 4 % \. <?{ $/[0].all <= 255 }> $/
or if wanting it really explicit

    /^ (\d+) \. (\d+) \. (\d+) \. (\d+) <?{ $/.all <= 255 }> $/
asojfdowgh··on Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language
can't overstate how nice raku is, bit sharper learning curve but still

    raku:       ^ ( \d+ <?{ $/ <= 255 }> ) ** 4 % '.'  $
    slow raku:  ^ ( @(0..255) ) ** 4 % '.' $ 
    rulex:      <% ( :( range '0'-'255' ) '.' ){3} :( range '0'-'255' ) %>
    regex:      ^(?:(0|1[0-9]{0,2}|2(?:[0-4][0-9]?|5[0-5]?|[6-9])?|[3-9][0-9]?)\.)((0|1[0-9]{0,2}|2(?:[0-4][0-9]?|5[0-5]?|[6-9])?|[3-9][0-9]?))$
first one running code in the middle of the regex, to see if it matches a mathematical property, the second, running code to generate a [0|1|2|3|...|254|255] equivalent, which also matches as tightly as the rulex/regex code (e.g. no 00 allowed)
asojfdowgh··on Ask HN: Is fake GitHub profile data a thing?
- fad chasing

- making plans without executing them, using forks as upvote button

- when you make or fork a repo, it shows to ur followers, hence same people each time

and yeah, they do things to make number go up, consider it "metagaming" as opposed to like, bad stuff. Anyone is allowed to play github how they want!

as always, check their original code, la commits done by their accnt, ignoring anything silly (small, low effort commits) as punishing someone for being silly, is a bit silly, look at their PRs, look at their projects they have efforted on, etc, if there are none, then just treat it like they had no github.

asojfdowgh··on IFixit: Tearing Down Apple's 2000$ Tools What's So Special?
all 3 devices look somewhat a case of giving way too much budget to a designer, e.g. just jamming in some nylon rollers, or even doing nothing, would have worked just as well for the sliders
asojfdowgh··on Mini-review: The Clockwork Pi DevTerm R-01, or RISC-V on the go
Same reason why I need a UART plug externally accessible

Its a cyberdeck, the more questionable the features the better, because then you can make up silly scenarios about saving the world with it, e.g. doing a direct audit of the network hardware in a datacenter, plug in your serial cable, download the running/stored configs, beam them up to some wifi accessable server, plus generate a paper backup at the same time

or, log into your deck at the start of the day, as you are reading the morning news, you get a printout of today's todo list and agenda

etc, its a lifestyle meme, not a computer

asojfdowgh··on Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
> "Caching" is not considered basic rudimentary politeness

You don't consider this a truth, I do. By google's standards it is a truth, https://cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/caching for one example

> I get that you feel like you could design a better Go module proxy.

I add "sleep 1" at minimum to all my scraping loops, and refuse to use clients that don't keepalive and cache (if I'm hitting the same endpoint), I've done this always, so yes I could have designed a better proxy today, and a year ago, and two years ago, and three years ago, et, al.

> Money generating

They can pay people, I'm not doing it for free for a language I don't use

> if he took the Go project's offer up on just not having them clone modules hosted on his service so often.

Do you know that he hasn't tried? considering how well google responds to emails

Some people have principles that you might not understand, I too would not ask someone to not DDoS me, because I feel that is an absurd request.

So not a impact to the technical aspects but to the administrative aspects. People are paying devault to run a service as devault would, it would be improper for him to not run the service as expected of him.

> burn the extra bandwidth for a cacheing benefit that literally nobody on the Internet seems to be able to describe

bandwidth and CPU time both cost money

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There are alternative approaches that have existed before 1.16, Deno with its pull once then pull only when told to approach, has not had a crisis of security, Every other language works on demand, NPM at most checks a dedicated security issues API designed for mass consumption. These things existed, none of them were referenced.

asojfdowgh··on Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
Considering they don't want caching, la what is considered basic rudimentary politeness, (and noting that the change increased traffic, so the proxy was intentionally doing busywork that no-one wanted or needed), The odds of them developing an unacceptable proxy were 100%

Its akin to putting up an open exploitable DNS resolver in 2022 despite, with 2 seconds of research, the entire world telling you not to do that

no one needs to full clone 2 times a minute just to check if a security update exists

one of the top money generating machines does not need a devil's advocate

asojfdowgh··on Tinder removes option for users to filter out trans-identified people (2019)
"Can you stop showing my profile to people who hate me" gets met with "we stand by that decision, because inclusive"

reminds me of git/hub changing from master to main, and how that did nothing to help minorities get hired, did nothing to fight for better wages, better treatment, for those that have been hired, etc

Or perhaps worse, since the people involved in the change felt like something was achieved, they may feel that their part is done and no longer seek out other changes, which could actually have helped people instead

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https://www.tinderpressroom.com/taking-care-of-everyone-in-o... anyways 2019 should be added to title, url replace with this

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