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pitaj··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
There were two lines of enigma machines. IIRC the naval ones were much more difficult to crack, which is what Turing was instrumental in solving.
pitaj··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
Wind has the same problem, because the actual generator is not spinning at line frequency. It has a rectifier plus inverter.
pitaj··on Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
Namespace every package, so you install "somebody/thing" instead of just "thing"
pitaj··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
From what I've seen it's mostly related to just losing weight in general (less weight -> less musculoskeletal stress -> weaker bones and muscles). Weightlifting can counteract it.
pitaj··on My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
Motherboards are actually stupid cheap right now, especially secondhand. I'd look into that some more.
pitaj··on Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite
Or a hectometerstone, if you will
pitaj··on How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
Explain how it is relevant
pitaj··on The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
And yet, as the DEA and other agencies tighten distribution of opioids, deaths continue to increase.
pitaj··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
The US has done everything but defund public education lol.
pitaj··on Life During Class Wartime
My hot take is that wealth inequality is the least bad problem we could have, if it is even a problem at all.

What people are actually experiencing is not wealth inequality, but cost disease. Vital things (housing, healthcare, education) are more expensive - and that's mostly the fault of state action.

pitaj··on Life During Class Wartime
Wow this is nuts.
pitaj··on Life During Class Wartime
History shows that the "fundamental change to power relations" is just a shift from moneyed interests to political/bureaucratic interests. Which is worse because while moneyed interests have power money can buy, political/bureaucratic interests have the power of state coercion.

"They will go as far as to kill people for this" is rich coming from someone preaching Marxism, for which millions have been murdered.

pitaj··on What killed the Florida orange?
this made my day
pitaj··on All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
Isn't mercury tidally locked? Day is always day, night is always night.
pitaj··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
Nuclear restrictions were instituted by beurocratic means, not democratic means.
pitaj··on Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
That's heat shrink tubing, but we're talking about one of these:

[1]: https://www.holley.com/products/engine/engine_dress_up/hoses... [2]: https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/c/dorman-conduct-tite/lig...

pitaj··on Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers
Nobody has suggested using this for addition tasks in production. It's an academic exercise. What are you on about?
pitaj··on Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
You can pay bills from your savings account with ACH in the US.
pitaj··on Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
Electrician
pitaj··on The state of the kernel Rust experiment
I'm not more "in the know" but it makes sense that new drivers could require it. New drivers, after all, are pretty much always written for newer platforms that Rust has support for. The main issue with enabling Rust (let alone requiring it) is that Linux still supports platforms which Rust does not.
pitaj··on Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion
I think code size is one notable reason
pitaj··on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
While saying "it's an herbicide, not a pesticide" is categorically incorrect, I still think it would be better if the journalist used the more specific and less confusing term here.
pitaj··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Off topic, but I'm curious. Why are you typing spaces before every period and comma?
pitaj··on Using secondary school maths to demystify AI
Similarity of the hardware is absolutely irrelevant when we're talking about emergent behavior like "thought".
pitaj··on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
Creators say that premium is a huge chunk of their YouTube revenue. I'm inclined to believe them over some random like you.
pitaj··on Google is killing the open web, part 2
JavaScript is backwards compatible. You can use an older standard supported by everything if you wish.
pitaj··on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
No. The powder he's promoting in the video (which performs better than pods) actually costs more per wash than the most effective pods on the market (Cascade Platinum Plus).
pitaj··on Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance
I love Svelte. When I first used it, it was like using a framework for the first time: Wow, everything is namespaced to the component, even CSS! Wow, just putting $ in front makes it update automatically! etc, etc
pitaj··on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit
They asked what was controversial about what he said, not whether the FCC's actions were constitutional.
pitaj··on New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care
Private healthcare is barely a market at all - heavily distorted due to government policy.
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