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mecsred··on Rust kernel policy
I think the way it was handled is pretty reasonable considering it's a public facing statement. Putting your name down on an authoritative statement is an important commitment internally, but a name put down for any reason on a public statement is a magnet for a firehose of questions, controversy, and potentially harrassment.
mecsred··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Again, I'm not making any comment on the deficit. Literally never brought it up. I'm talking about people losing confidence in the dollar.
mecsred··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
I'm not sure why you think that's what I'm talking about, because I never brought that up. In fact I agree with that point. The apparatus will never report a failure because it has an incentive not to. The whole system is built and described in a way to make failure seem impossible because confidence is necessary for it to work. But when numbers and reality don't match, reality wins.
mecsred··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
What do you mean "there's no failing for a country with a sovereign currency"? There are many, many examples of countries failing. Some of them had sovereign currencies. Sure they can't "run out of money" if they can print more. Along with many more examples of being able to adjust internal values and metrics. This is a very different thing from not being able to fail.
mecsred··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Hindsight is 20/20, so let's use it. How many times has the "too big to fail" hedge worked out favorably for everyone involved?
mecsred··on Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind
Do you believe they do nothing or know they do nothing? The number of times a manufacturers website told me one thing and the actual hardware told me something different is quite high.
mecsred··on Show HN: Browse Anime from the Terminal
Yeah that makes a lot of sense, my mistake for posting before coffee.
mecsred··on Show HN: Browse Anime from the Terminal
It's an app for browsing lists of anime. How is this not a constant stream of attention grabs?
mecsred··on I Met Paul Graham Once
Sure I can support that. The difficulty as always comes with the grey area in defining "great". There are truly reprehensible people in the world, but they're the exception not the norm. I see you did address that in your comment with "in general" so I was a bit strong in my wording, but I do believe the in general case covers >99.99% of people.
mecsred··on I Met Paul Graham Once
Then you don't agree at all. Every single adult in the world has "done or advocated for things that cause harm". It's inescapable.
mecsred··on Rhai: An embedded scripting language for Rust
It's absolutely a valid and serious answer? You asked for reasons, omitting two options, and they gave you a list of points for and against not including those two options. That's a good response, you don't need to agree with it, but I don't see how you can call it not serious?
mecsred··on Why the weak nuclear force is short range
When he provides sources, then it's the first one, otherwise the second.
mecsred··on The Origins of Wokeness
It's also with nothing that this article's title was either directly ripped from or just so happens to be identical to a YouTube video about the "party ball" in the video game super smash Bros[1].

There's lots of good criticism of the actual article to expand on here, calling someone a white supremacist because they used an incredibly common title format does not add to that.

[1]https://youtu.be/lSaNV-83mAQ?si=xAE75fWHcqG17Lfm

mecsred··on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
Being able to revoke individual credentials is definitely a benefit. I'm not convinced about the transitivity, what's stopping one access from authorizing more? I suppose that would be asy to flag in an audit? Either way it's not really resisting the phishing, that's moreso resisting abuse once the credentials are gathered in any way.
mecsred··on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
That's a particular scheme that might be fooled, but what's stopping someone from making a version of the same scheme that redirects to a prompt on the real site which authorizes them as a new user? I'll admit web technologies aren't my area of expertise but I have little doubt it's possible based on my interactions so far. E.g. discord allowing me to log in to a new device by scanning a QR code with my phone and clicking OK.

Ultimately the point of phishing is to attack the user instead of the technology. If the user has any control over access to their account, phishing is largely unaffected.

mecsred··on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users
I don't understand what is meant by phishing-resistant. There always need to be systems to authorize new devices or allow users to re-prove themselves if they loose the primary proof. Is the idea that scammers would have difficulty adapting phishes to access these resources? If "hello this is Jeff Bezos what is your password" works why wouldn't "hello this is Jeff Bezos please click authorise a new device so I can transfer you 1000$"
mecsred··on The unplanned impact of mathematics (2011)
Anyone who's worked for a big enough company knows that isn't true.
mecsred··on Psychoacoustic and archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles
Maybe if you tried out of the blue, but if there was a cultural incentive to practice you could probably learn to do it fairly easily.
mecsred··on Psychoacoustic and archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles
I respect the rigor here, but I can't imagine "scary scream like noise was used to spook people" is a novel idea to anyone. The main interesting point to me is that it was categorized as both manmade and non manmade. If you wanted a scream you could just make one yourself. So I suppose the utility of the instrument is that the scream sounds human like but obviously isn't, adding some fear of the unknown into the mix?
mecsred··on Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad
Is the sugar ultra processed?
mecsred··on The secret electrostatic world of insects
Depends how it's applied and what's sourcing it. 3v does basically nothing to dry skin, but would be quite bad on wires implanted in your chest across your heart.
mecsred··on Gravity is not a force
I think the missing piece in your puzzle is adding the "time" to space-time. A particle moving through time is "falling" in the time dimension. The curvature of the 4d space makes this movement through time also move through space due to the warping effect of a gravity well.
mecsred··on AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%
Yeah I can see that use case, I just wouldn't trust an LLM to decide "is this worth reading". May as well flip a coin.
mecsred··on AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%
Didn't intend for it to be aggressive, just concise. Spare me from the llm please :)
mecsred··on AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%
If 20 mins of informations can legitimately be condensed into 20 seconds, it sounds like the original wasn't worth reading in the first place. Could have skipped the llm entirely.
mecsred··on Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix
That explicitly wouldn't work in the example you're responding to
mecsred··on A team paid to break into top-secret bases
Depends on how you define stop working I guess? An E-Stop would count in some definitions.
mecsred··on Gustav Klimt's Obsession with Gold
The thing most people find ostentatious about the "mobbaroque" examples is that gold is used to add gold to the work. As a physical demonstration of wealth, i.e. "I can afford so much gold it's all over my artwork". The reason people find the Byzantine halos less ostentatious is that gold is used symbolically in lesser quantities to represent something else which is perceived as valuable.
mecsred··on Flesh and Blood (2021)
You ever seen two ant colonies fight?
mecsred··on [dead]
If you're worried about three letter agencies you're really out of luck. Tampering at the factory is the least of your problems. The more tinfoil conspiracies include backdoors in processor hypervisors and possibly in silicon itself. Or possibly even backdoors in common crypto algorithms, like the defaults we use for elliptic curves. If you want paranoia levels of protection from everything you're going to need to break out VHDL and write your own cpu to run your bespoke crypto algorithms on.
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