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Salgat··on AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement
My hope is that ML can be used to point out real world things you can't fake or work around, such as why an idea is considered novel or why the methodology isn't just gaming results or why the statistics was done wrong.
Salgat··on SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale
Is something like redis with aof enabled an option? Assuming the rows aren't holding too much data.
Salgat··on U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine
It worked so well for Ukraine, who had peaceful relations with Russia, and even a pro-Russian president, up until Russia's invasion of Crimea.
Salgat··on Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance
The two main enforcement mechanisms are economic sanctions and military aid, which even the EU has been involved with. Economic sanctions haven't had much impact but coupled with military aid has stopped Russian progress in the invasion. The problem is, with the US pulling out, EU big shoes to fill with military aid.
Salgat··on Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance
You keep misunderstanding. As I have already stated, the agreement lacks formal enforcement mechanisms, how it is upheld is up to the agreeing nations to figure out. In 2014 that was economic sanctions. In 2022 that was military aid. This is how political agreements work.
Salgat··on Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance
The agreement has no explicit terms for whether or not nations must enforce it, that's left up to the nations to decide on their own. It was intentionally written this way, otherwise Russia would have never agreed to it.
Salgat··on Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance
You seem to downplay the strength of Italy's status in the EU and its non-sanctioned access to international trading partners as part of its economic strength. Italy, just like Russia, has its own economic advantages.
Salgat··on Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance
To clarify, the upholding of the security assurance is still left up to the discretion of nations in the agreement, based on how important non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is to them. It seems that recently, nuclear proliferation is no longer a concern for the US, hence they no longer enforce this agreement, which is their right, for better or worse.
Salgat··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
With official linux support on Windows, I really love developing on Windows, it's the best of both worlds. Mac on the other hand feels like a second hand citizen to both linux and windows depending on what you're doing.
Salgat··on Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit
I can't help but think that XBox 360 emulation is the only long term path that exists for the 360, which is concerning because only Xenia to my knowledge exists and it's still experimental.
Salgat··on Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives
That reminds me of what happened with Kitchenaid, where now only the pro line and better has metal gears, which is why folks seek out the old models at garage sales.
Salgat··on Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives
And part of this is because it's very difficult for consumers to measure this, especially as even the best brands experience enshitification. Sears' Craftsman tools famously had a lifetime warranty, but capitalism eventually did its thing and outsourced their manufacture and removed the lifetime warranty, hoping to leverage years of good will for a short term gain.
Salgat··on Gooey rubber that's slowly ruining old hard drives
When peoplespeak of planned obsolescence, they're discussing how companies pay the bare minimum to make a part that functions within the warranty period. They aren't doing it to fail the part prematurely, they'd doing it to pinch pennies in the manufacturing costs.
Salgat··on Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
Robotics is unfortunately not there yet, unless we plan to send everything there fully assembled with zero maintenance ever. Unless you mean purely for basic exploration.
Salgat··on 2025 Hiring Pause
To add, money is fungible. $100 for one department just means that $100 is freed up for a different department.
Salgat··on The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
Which is how it should be. There's a limited amount of resources in developing a chip, best to take advantage of the least costly route given those constraints.
Salgat··on Learning C# and .NET after two decades of programming
Since it was opensourced I don't really care anymore. Not like Oracle or Google are great companies either.
Salgat··on Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)
Shoot back in 2001 Rhapsody was already doing this, I used to use it to stream music all the time for a monthly fee. Ironically in 2016 they rebranded as Napster. Spotify ended up winning in the end because they used a freemium approach instead, also Rhapsody was a bit too ahead of its time.
Salgat··on Bybit sees over $4B 'bank run' after crypto's biggest hack
The point isn't whether you commit a crime, it's whether you get caught.
Salgat··on Bybit sees over $4B 'bank run' after crypto's biggest hack
Whose to say they don't get a cut on the back end? Sounds like a nice exit strategy to me if you want plausible deniability.
Salgat··on Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)
You generally reserve this tactic for people who act as blockers for everything, or for people who aren't critical to the project/action but still need to be notified.
Salgat··on Bybit loses $1.5B in hack
Is it possible that this was an inside job?
Salgat··on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
400 families own the same wealth as 160 million Americans, so they better be paying far more in taxes. In fact, given how much taxes eat into basic living expenses for the bottom 50%, the rich should be paying even more in taxes.
Salgat··on Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased
For me the meta sunglasses have two killer features. Taking candid pictures of my family is extremely easy, I no longer miss catching photos of small things my toddlers do and I'm able to do it hands-free. Additionally, they work remarkably well as headphones, they use some technique where only you hear the audio which is great both for music and for watching videos in public without bothering other folks.
Salgat··on Pi-hole v6
I used to love pihole, but it seems like it's more trouble than it's worth now. Advertisers have wised up and will use the same subdomain for both content and ads. I've also had issues with normal website functionality being broken due to pihole which isn't fun for my wife. It seems mostly useful for blocking background traffic on smart devices, not so much for ads.
Salgat··on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
And the beauty is that long term capital gains is capped at 20%. That's a lower overall rate than what my family pays in taxes. The rich got it made.
Salgat··on Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
Everyone knew it was probably faked, but for the longest time there was no smoking gun that refuted the run's legitimacy without any plausible deniability. You have to remember that the speed runner gave plausible answers to many of the concerns brought up, which took a lot of concrete work to disprove (for example, proving that the map seeds they used required different runs, which required special tooling to bruteforce check against).
Salgat··on Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US
Our models are not inferior because we're not constrained by copyrights, which is the entire concern we're discussing.
Salgat··on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
It's simple statistics. With a large enough sample size, you're going to always have a few very loud outliers.
Salgat··on Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies
I can't imagine nickel fraud for snacks and beverages is particularly lucrative.
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