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bubblethink··on ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
Reviewers aren't paid. This is just money for ACM, the non profit.
bubblethink··on ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
The open access pricing is different and higher than the old closed access pricing. That is the switch in all open access publishing. In any case, both the old prices and new ones are absurdly high.
bubblethink··on ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
This is just shifting the cost from the readers to the writers. It doesn't make it any better as the prices are completely out of touch with reality. Note that this is not the cost for registering at a conference; that is separate. This is just the publishing fee for each paper.
bubblethink··on ACM Transitions to Full Open Access
With publishing prices ranging from $700 to $1800. Some real art of the deal stuff here.
bubblethink··on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
I don't know if it has ended but you could reverse engineer the Symantec BS and convert it to regular totp. You likely need root to extract the internal store from the symantec app.
bubblethink··on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
Schwab works with totp as 2fa.
bubblethink··on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
The solution is decoupling and disaggregation. The core payment infra or transaction processing is a utility and there can be more regulation or state intervention there. Credit or lending is an add-on product which shouldn't be tied to payment infra.
bubblethink··on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
The other devices don't meet the criteria. Be happy that Pixels are supported, for Google seems to closing down Pixel OS too, making this whole effort rather difficult.
bubblethink··on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
What's ridiculous about it ? There are now 4-5 gens of Pixels with their major/minor bumps too (A series, pro, etc.). There's enough variety at different price points for everyone there.
bubblethink··on FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices
To be the devil's advocate, the previous admin also squandered a lot of broadband money away in a pattern that seems common to all Democratic infra projects. See https://reason.com/2024/06/27/why-has-joe-bidens-42-billion-... . Neither party is good at this. The FCC broadband map and the b/w labels (previous admin) are nice though.
bubblethink··on “Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
There's a lot of variety in DP. Knowing about DP doesn't help much with solving DP problems. I'm sure you've seen all the fun problems on codeforces or leetcode hards. The one quote I remember from Erik Demaine's lecture on DP is where he comments, "How do we solve this with DP ? - With difficulty."
bubblethink··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
I still use SO out of habit, but they make it really difficult to use it. Everything on the web is gated behind ridiculous captchas now. More than the AI, the legacy websites will die because they are too busy trying to prevent AI companies from scraping the content and have ruined the product in the process.
bubblethink··on Musks xAI pressed employees to install surveillance software on personal laptops
Probably the most secure client system you can get these days. The purpose of the laptop is to ssh.
bubblethink··on AOSP project is coming to an end
The software also used to be supported for only that long. Support cycles have been getting longer, but so has the price. Batteries also die in a few years.
bubblethink··on AOSP project is coming to an end
But that's China. Google isn't playing in that sandbox at all. And all this is old news. Fire tablets have existed for more than a decade, Huawei phones w/o Play for more than half a decade.
bubblethink··on AOSP project is coming to an end
I don't get the motivation behind this RedHatification. Hasn't Google already won in the Android space ? Nobody that matters is forking or using AOSP without Google's blessings anyway due to the stranglehold of Google Play Services. Why the sudden dick move ? I see some mention of the impending antitrust cases, but I don't quite see how that fits.
bubblethink··on AOSP project is coming to an end
You need to manage your expectations with Pixel devices. They are often on sale. Buy the A series for ~$300, which is also what the Nexus phones used to be priced at. They easily last 3+ years, and if they die after that it's no big deal. Dying early, bootlooping, overheating, etc. have been a part of these devices since they have existed.
bubblethink··on Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data
What's he going to do with SSN data in this hypothetical where he is outside the government ? This data is not terribly difficult to get in any case. There have been countless SSN leaks and dumps. It's only useful as a political and administrative tool while you are in the government where you make up some numbers and show savings.
bubblethink··on Precision Clock Mk IV
The reception of radio signals tends to be worse and more sensitive to your location. There was also talk of decommissioning them.
bubblethink··on Precision Clock Mk IV
No, it doesn't. You need to set the offset to UTC manually. You also need to set the dates when daylight savings start and end if you live in a place that that uses daylight savings. But it runs on batteries that last for 3 years, so it's very low maintenance.
bubblethink··on Precision Clock Mk IV
If you want a commercial GPS wall clock, Seiko makes several models. I have one - GP502W. They make others too. They are JDM models though, so you'll have to order one from Japan.
bubblethink··on Precision Clock Mk IV
Yes, I get that, but that is less interesting. Any clock can sync to GPS or NTP. It would be cooler to have an autonomous accurate clock if you are making a giant device with an ARM chip, flash storage etc.
bubblethink··on Precision Clock Mk IV
Cool project, but with this sort of power and area budget, can't we use chip scale atomic clocks ? Also, the quartz accuracy is listed as 1000 seconds to drift 1 millisecond. So that's 31 secs a year ? That's less than HAQ quartz watches (+- 5 secs a year) and definitely less than Citizen 0100 (+-1 sec a year).
bubblethink··on Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
They seem to have dev tier pricing (https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/support/pricing). It's likely that they don't make much money on this and only make money on large enterprise contracts.
bubblethink··on Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
>Each one costs ~$2 million, so that is $40 million.

Pricing for exotic hardware that is not manufactured at scale is quite meaningless. They are selling tokens over an API. The token pricing is competitive with other token APIs.

bubblethink··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
There may also be some trademark law precedent that forces this naming convention. Even on the google play store, if you have 3rd party apps for something, it's always "App for X", the name cannot be "X app".
bubblethink··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Yeah, if your F1 expires before your OPT, it makes sense to try for an O1. It's a minor expense for the company. Escalate it through your management chain.
bubblethink··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
O1 is an inferior visa, so they are right that you should be trying for H1B before going for an O1. I'm assuming that you are on OPT or some other visa category. There is likely no advantage to getting an O1 in your current situation.
bubblethink··on Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
If you subscribe to a paid podcast, you can mirror and share your own rss link with friends, which is better than sharing credentials or your private link, and it won't trip some shared password flag at the upstream server.
bubblethink··on Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials
You'd need hardware attestation, but you can essentially implement DRM like schemes that prevent any unofficial client from working.
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