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_ache_··on Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS
Everything in that article is a little outdated, 30% of web request are in HTTP3 now a day with CORS. There is no date of publication.
_ache_··on Blue field entoptic phenomenon
Whoua ! I didn't know and assume we can see big particles coming from the sky.
_ache_··on One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid
Can you elaborate? What did France do exactly? Apart from having a minimal (but working) welfare system.

For several decades, liberal policies have been driving down the welfare system and the minimum wage. Macron is definitively trying to put a end to the french social welfare system.

_ache_··on Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections
I may suggest that the link between the two statements is exactly to escape from the trap you talked about. If the leadership is elected by the state rather than by internal competition, you don't end up with a group of people who are loyal to themselves but with a meritocratic leadership.
_ache_··on Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections
Yeah, but actually, that nationalize part isn't something in trend in USA, isn't it ?

Gwynne Shotwell, engineer and COO of SpaceX maybe considered from the job of CEO of Boeing. It seems to me more USA-ish move than nationalize Boeing. Don't know witch one is the best for Boeing in the end.

_ache_··on Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections
You are inverting cause and consequence. It's because Boeing has had so many failures that it has come under particular scrutiny. Failures which, from a statistical point of view, suggest that there may be a cause to look for. Other companies do not have as many (and as basic) problems.
_ache_··on PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default
Thank you ! The documentation was misleading about "default encoding of string".
_ache_··on Removing Reflections from RAW Photos
They use a context picture to help with the removing of the reflections. It's the first time I see something like that.

But without the context it doesn't seem that good, the S24 AI that remove reflections seems better.

_ache_··on PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default
You can verify on the documentation by switching the version.

So ... since 3.2: https://docs.python.org/3.2/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.deco... In 3.1 it was the default encoding of string (the type str I guess). https://docs.python.org/3.1/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.deco...

_ache_··on Tiny World Map
I will improve the map and explain how it was made and why, because I think it worth it.

But I'm not going to improve it significantly.

Thank you. ^^

_ache_··on Tiny World Map
I tried to use only UN approved names. « Somaliland » isn't on unterm.un.org, it's why there is two Somalia. I'm pretty sure that Eritrea isn't on the map because of a display bug.

Definitively, if you are making a map, your have to make geopolitical chooses. And yes, I have edited NE data to highlight the geopolitical choices that I think are the simplest to defend.

_ache_··on Tiny World Map
Thank you for pointing this out.

The capital positions are the only data that is not UN sourced nor from natural earth. I will fix that.

_ache_··on Tiny World Map
Thank you very much. How lovely.
_ache_··on Tiny World Map
It's very good !

- Get the islands back !

- Limit the zoom level to not pass through the land

- Make the Capital city maybe in light bold or slightly bigger to differentiate them

- Fix long name

- Some cities disappear when you zoom.

_ache_··on Tiny World Map
I made the same (offline first, very small, vector based) but with a focus on i18n. So it's available in all languages of the United Nation (except Spanish because I just forgot, shame on me, could be made in a couple of hours).

The name of the countries (and cities) are the official one declared at the UN. So, yeah, the official short version of UK is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

https://map.ache.one/en

_ache_··on AI instructed brainwashing effectively nullifies conspiracy beliefs
Interesting, that's true. Is it the only effect ? I'm not sure.

From this study, it doesn't seems that speed mater that much here since it was a short conversation with a fixed subject.

You introduce a new variable in the equation. Trust. I think that is justified and its posing a whole set of new questions. I would like to answer them but I can't.

_ache_··on AI instructed brainwashing effectively nullifies conspiracy beliefs
I think too. But I want to check and to quantify.

It is also about improving human speech too, what can we do to match AI performance ? I think, that are some very interesting questions that it may helps to answer.

How can we make AI even better at « brainwashing » ? Does the value of information matter ? I mean is it easier to AI to « nullifies conspiracy beliefs » or to « nullifies scientific ones » ? We may have opinions on these issues, but the scientific reality behind them is not obvious. It's so exciting !

_ache_··on Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
Very interesting project too !

https://adguard.com/adguard-home.html

_ache_··on Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
It's a DNS proxy, like pi-hole, but it seems a lot more powerful than Pi-hole that is basically just a configured dnsmasq server to be user-friendly.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/

_ache_··on AI instructed brainwashing effectively nullifies conspiracy beliefs
It needs to explain the method. For reproducibility. Nothing clear in the blog post but everything is well explained in the research paper. Kudo for that.

It seems solid. But I would like to have the same study with an human conversation instead of an AI one.

_ache_··on GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art for Visualizing Buffer Overflows
Need the `-Wanalyzer-out-of-bounds` option and it's only static. At compile time so.

It can catch easy one, not the obscures cases.

_ache_··on 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
What impress me the most is not that there is a Wikipedia article. But it's translated in 19 languages already !
_ache_··on 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
One must note that epicenter is in Hualien. The small city near the Taroko National Park. Which is know to be beautiful and subject to rock falls. I think it will be close tomorrow.

There is also a power plant there but I guess it will be fine.>

Edit: A lot of the victims are from rock falls. The others part are from falling building. It's really sad.

_ache_··on LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
By book, I mean, written in any form, study paper, blog, theses, books, etc. I don't understand you comparison.

Same for your example, no logical link between the effect and the consequences.

_ache_··on Living human brain images of "unrivaled clarity" from new 11.7 teslas MRI
Bad URL.

https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/world-premiere-living-...

Or for French speaking people:

https://www.cea.fr/Pages/actualites/sante-sciences-du-vivant...

_ache_··on LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs
I think you underestimate the amount of information contained in books and the extent to which our society (as a whole) depends on them.
_ache_··on Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
For now, I'm still using OCRmyPDF as it maybe slow but incredible usefull.

The files become big but it just works.

If an alternative is quicker / lighter I will use it but it must just works.

_ache_··on Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
People has broken CI/CD so we do meme. Not sure if 6M/m is a lot. Looks like not that much.
_ache_··on SQLite Schema Diagram Generator
Thank you. Interesting little tool.
_ache_··on Has HackerNews.org just been acquired by Namecheap?
Pretty sure I'm talking about hackernews.org. I've always typed hackernews.org and it was updated today (you can check with WHOIS).

Nice to see that hackernews.com also works. Thank you.

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