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rdevsrex··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
Maybe in a country like the UK, but not in the US. The Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination.

Which covers divulging encryption keys because it is treated the same as compelling you to give up the combination to a wall safe which is testimonial and protected.

rdevsrex··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
Do they have the rest of the Epstein files?
rdevsrex··on OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
There is one benefit that Jev has, that it is not OpenAI and thus it's probably less likely to steal your own work.
rdevsrex··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
There is no human right to have a US visa interview; everything is a privilege that can be withdrawn.
rdevsrex··on Git at any scale
Seems well written to me.
rdevsrex··on Norway should buy OpenAI
Maybe at a bankruptcy sale; otherwise, it's a bad investment that only relieves current investors of their problem by passing the hand grenade to someone else.

If Norway, or any other country, wanted to, for far less money than buying a problematic company, they could fund a public cloud and rent it out at below-market rates to citizens, universities, and small businesses.

rdevsrex··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
This is the most Euro commie thing I've heard in a long while.

Sure, get rid of factory farms and CAFO's, but I see nothing wrong with raising animals on family farms where they eat a nutritious diet in line with what they evolved to eat.

Grass for cows, pasture and bugs for poultry, silvopasture for pigs. Anyone who wants to go vegan for ethical or environmental reasons is fine, but I hate this idea that all of us have to fall in line with your crazy ideas.

rdevsrex··on A native graphical shell for SSH
This looks pretty cool! I can already imagine use cases for admin portals or other tools that I'd prefer to run over ssh.
rdevsrex··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
This is a good move. I hope Switzerland doesn't become like the UK.
rdevsrex··on Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
This won't cause any confusion with the jai language :)
rdevsrex··on Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
The problem with riding the bus in the US is that you end up around a lot of undesirable people.
rdevsrex··on The Post-American Internet
Why not go all the way and establish your own publicly owned central bank and establish an alternative to the dollar?

Oh, yeah, the US will send the CIA or the military in and take you out and make you take on IMF debt to ensure your future compliance.

Clearly, there are limits to what tech alone can accomplish.

rdevsrex··on Why I chose Lua for this blog
Why would anyone today leave port 80 open? I do https by default even for my blog.
rdevsrex··on Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
Thankfully I'm employed, but from what I've heard there pro diversity bias against hiring straight white males.

Does that have any basis in anybody's personal experience?

rdevsrex··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
I'm sorry, I don't care who you are or what the history between your country and the US is, you don't come and be disrespectful like that and get away with it.

All he had to do was was smile and wave, but Zelensky made it into a dick measuring contest which he was always going to lose.

He is a terrible leader and this is just more proof of it.

rdevsrex··on China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025
One day they might be able to sell ready made thorium reactors. That would be big business.
rdevsrex··on Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment
I don't know why, from the start, we haven't used nuclear power more for baseload.

China is already building between 6 to 8 nuclear power plants a year and plans to expand that number to 10 a year.

It's nothing compared to all the other sources of power they are creating, but it seems to me that rather than investing in mass battery storage, a few dozen modern nuclear power plants would be a good idea.

Assuming, of course, you can actually get costs down and cut through red tape like China can.

rdevsrex··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
Just because we have machines that can lift much more than any human ever could, it doesn't mean that working out is useless.

In the same way, training your mind is not useless. Perhaps as things develop, we will get back to the idea that the purpose of education is not just to get a job, but to help you become a better and more virtuous person.

rdevsrex··on United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency
That's simply not going to happen. The West isn't sending enough military aid to tip the scales, and this is an existential war for Russia and they are managing it well enough.
rdevsrex··on Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs
Ramanujan attributed his success in no small part to divine assistance. I wonder if sentient AI would do the same :)
rdevsrex··on The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing
This was a great writeup. I've never heard of the GJK algorithm before.
rdevsrex··on Starlink as a means to win at nuclear war
Can you actually "win" a nuclear war? I thought we all understood that as foolish. Yet presently the governments of the West think such a thing is possible, otherwise they would not be poking the bear like they are.
rdevsrex··on Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
Schaffe, Schaffe, highway baue?
rdevsrex··on Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
That's pretty cool! Perhaps genetic or innate memory is how he knew what to do? Sort of like dogs eating grass when they are sick?
rdevsrex··on Printing Music with CSS Grid
This is pretty cool!
rdevsrex··on Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
It looks pretty interesting! Definitely something to play around with, but honestly, I'd rather just use Rust (or Gleam if GC is ok).
rdevsrex··on America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws
Or maybe they just believe in teaching their kids the value of hard work and discipline and don't want them on their phones all day.
rdevsrex··on As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production
I would say that the US also belongs in the agressor camp.
rdevsrex··on Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?
Calculus and more DSA. Also want to build something in Rust.
rdevsrex··on The curse of the goitre in Switzerland
It's so sad how many people's heath is affected by assholes trying to protect their ego.
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