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bolster··on Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 1
> Data used for the charts was researched and compiled by ChatGPT, I spot checked it and found it was accurate enough to for the narrative.

Last I checked, that wasn't how citations worked.

I only sampled one data point (2017 AMD EPYC Rome Clock rate) which was significantly off, because in 2017 it was the Naples chipset that was released, and, unless 2017 was desperate enough to clock from 2.2Ghz to 3Ghz on the regular (Boost up to 3.2Ghz), the 'research' was a fair bit off...

Doesn't undermine or contradict the authors (bots?) point, but a strange way to provide 'evidence' for an argument.

bolster··on The Impact of Element Ordering on LM Agent Performance
"Structured token models don't work as well when you mess with the structural order of tokens" - News at 11
bolster··on Sunlight and Vitamin D (2013)
So you're saying lack of sun increases health care expenditure? Excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjJbhuwGkU

bolster··on Fuckup Nights – Series of events where stories of failure are shared
Yeah... I'll pass on paying $480/year to fuckup my own city; we've been doing it for free for years.
bolster··on Adding a “duress” password with PAM Duress (2021)
I've always been on the fence with technical solutions to the 'Pipe wrench' problem but one thing that I don't see mentioned that often is that there are usually many secondary keyrings unlocked by the login password (ssh auth, saved passwords, session cookies maybe, etc);

I could see a solid usecase for a duress script that clears all these and requires 'standard' reauth, so that at least you're back to a 'defence in depth' style. Also, in the 'Pushover' example, I can't imagine many attackers waiting to plug the thing in before starting the ~pipe wrench~ credentials discussion.

bolster··on Innovations of 2018
> Unrejectable Cookies Blocking Access to Articles

Yup, that was an innovation in 2018... (Greetings from the EU)

bolster··on One in three tech workers is underpaid
Not paid enough to pay for a WSJ sub either...
bolster··on Relationship between Education and Mental Health: New Evidence from Twin Study
TL:DR "If there are social factors that systematically drive differences in mental health within pairs of MZ twins, our findings suggest that education is not among them."
bolster··on Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with 1 km range
Hey Taylor, Greetings from Belfast, Northern Ireland (Well, not currently, I travel a bit... anyway).

Disappointed that this appears to be US only. would love to use a few of these for monitoring our Hackerspace!

Actually I'm also involved in mobile ad hoc security research so might try and 'acquire' a few of these for testing out some collaborative network theories on our quadcopters... but can't do that as current delivery status stands!

Good luck with certification.

bolster··on Changes in rankings of smartphone search results
I think you missed the point.

It's not about defining what experience people get, it's that as they are coming into your site, they get the right experience for your content on their device, regardless of whether they were given a desktop link on a mobile device or visa versa.

As demonstrated in the diagram, this is punishing people who strip the tails off incoming links so the link example.org/stories/good-news-everyone gets directed to m.example.org and the user is left with the mobile experience, but the wrong content.