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proce55ingon Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

Apparently they’re removing it.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1357

proce55ingon In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death

My first thoughts were CCC when I read the article but could it not be an example of Poincaré recurrence?

proce55ingon 4-7-8 breathing: How to use the technique for sleep or anxiety

My sinuses are generally a pain, with meditation and breath control exercises I focus on breathing in with my mouth and my nose at the same time. I still find it more beneficial than just mouth breathing and usually I can start to take deeper breaths in through my nose further on in the session.

proce55ingon What does “AOSP Android” mean? Can you use it?

A lot of US carriers provide the OS updates with branding and junkware rather than the device manufacturer.

Also for others concerned about privacy, your carrier can push applets onto the SIM card itself which can do a lot. Malicious actors in the past have exploited devices via applets such as Simjacker and WIBattack

proce55ingon Ask HN: Heavy Metal Music for Programming?

I like to keep the theme going sometimes and listen to The Algorithm; Brute Force is probably my favourite

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CDS9gmdHtB8

proce55ingon Breaking 256-Bit Elliptic Curve Encryption with a Quantum Computer

I thought Turing's Cathedral told the story leading up to that feedback loop quite well. The insignificant size of the grants that enabled the birth of a new industry stand out a bit.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44425/turings-cathe...

proce55ingon AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not be blocking any workload

The cards that have access to mining lack a video output. Once they become unprofitable to mine with they won’t impact the gaming market on resale.

proce55ingon It's time to port your extension to Firefox

Firefox offers an account (bookmarks, tabs, etc) sync functionality with between the desktop browsers and mobile apps.

proce55ingon Göbekli Tepe

It took a bit to get used to the narrative style, but After the Ice was a good tour of early humanity.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019997

proce55ingon How not to lose 16,000 Covid-19 test results: a data scientist’s view

They did indeed use Excel to process the data. They could have possibly used a more recent version of Excel but saved the data in the legacy file format anyway.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988

proce55ingon At this point, 5G is a bad joke

I think the term is more use cases rather than value added services.

Parts of the 5GC specifications such as URLLC (Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication) allow for far more safety critical solutions to be back-hauled over a mobile network. Autonomous driving, critical industrial control systems and remote surgery solutions are some I've seen.

Even standalone 5G networks are now specified, they use unlicensed spectrum and give you the freedom to not even include a carrier in the equation at all.

proce55ingon At this point, 5G is a bad joke

Yes and the cost models are being driven down even more by Cat-M and NB-IoT.

I've been working in the IoT space for some time and there's now a real shift into these technologies for large scale telemetry deployments like you described. The shutdown of 2G networks across the world have ruled out a lot of the cheaper modems.

There are other benefits, such as enabling a larger set of solutions to be battery powered and for an increased lifespan.

High density, sparse traffic solutions like you described are often termed as mMTC (Massive Machine Type Communications). The main benefits to 5G in these regards focus on the mobile network and their ability to manage a higher volume of subscribers and therefore lower their costs to the end customer.

proce55ingon Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to be impossible

Different binary body systems have been modeled and the gravitational wave forms are compared against experimental data.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2020.0002...

proce55ingon Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to be impossible

The Eddington limit constrains the absorption rate of a black hole, but through mergers there's no theoretical upper limit.