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TFA takes us on this journey and then at the end, "Image maps ended up not working for us" without telling us what they did. My money is on JavaScript for that "expressive" aspect of the hover.

Still. My god.

5 year old low end Motorola Android with Firefox and ublock. Smooth as a baby's bottom. Genuinely surprised!

Jokes on you, I do have a fortinet which does this.... Oh wait, only up to TLS 1.1 or something and it's slow.

I forgot the name of the software but there used to be a few tools to terminate and reencrypt. But yeah dnssec is it's own challenge

OpenwebUI and you can run quantized or low end models (Llama 3 4b or gemma 4b) on a 4-6gb graphic card.

It's a game changer to run local (no usage caps for a weekend blitz project)

My understanding is the opposite, see papers for "synthetic" data training. They use a small bit if real data to generate lots of synthetic data and get usable results.

The bias leans towards overfitting the data, which in some use cases - such as missile or drone design which doesn't need broad comparisons like 747s or artillery to complete it's training.

Kind of like neural net back propogation but in terms of model /weights

I can't figure out how to download your comment. (Written in a serif font textarea which will show up as a generic arial)

Too hard (and i help my wife with crosswords).

Hint mode (put one letter in place) would be the best UI

Nirsoft saved my ass so many times on different things. I remember when I lived somewhere without (reliable or consistent) internet access, I scraped all the tools to take with me. They still are in my tools folder to this day!

Li-fi. This combined with ultrasonic and we'll be surrounded by non radio signals!

A well-rounded take in an age and medium of reactionary hot takes!

While theres some synchronistic effects... I think the physical manufacturing and logistics base is harder to develop than deploying a new model, and will be the hard leading edge. (That's why the US seems to be hellbent on destroying international trade to try and build a domestic market.)

Thanks for this, I still provision with a bash script.

Agreed. Been around long enough to see u/sers from another site change the culture here subtly.

There was an interesting FB engineering post here about cost benefits to using a QLC storage layer... No comments. I feel like a lot of technical people nowadays don't even appreciate that we get FAANG engineering blogs and talking about hardware. Maybe I'm just jaded from having worked in a data center.

So say we all.

My non-tech friends call me paranoid at the basic level of protection I do - separate browsers for everything, and a couple of VMs for e.g. finances.

Vlan has always been an important part of LAN security but we're just out here with always on, full Internet access? My home firewall logs show an insane amount of bot / scraping etc.

Typed data?! What's next, unit tests? Memory safety? Where will it stop?

Exactly, someone who can answer where media queries fall in terms of loading priorities for FE (when hiring for that.)

Electrical engineering is a whole nother thing!

Oohh I haven't seen this, will check it out as a possible metric / sample answer for this question!

That's exactly the point - sometimes too much detail or focused on wrong thing can ve distracting.

But having a frontend engineer aware of Safari on iOS or macOS vs assuming chrome compatibility, or a SRE aware of abusive UDP http2 / h3 stuff...

Again the beauty is in the flexibility and scope of something normies take for granted, and this video delves into some of the esoterics of this topic!

Consider, do you type or paste the url? With or wothout http/s? Or www? Does it matter? What if you typo wwww.domain.com?

And what do you mean physical keyboard, the virtual one on my phone works fine ;) (also preconceived notions)

That's the beauty... Sometimes too much detail can be distracting, so knowing what to mention/omit is part of it too.

As CTO for multiple companies and hiring across multiple competencies for 10 years... This is the question that keeps on giving!

That's the beauty. I could care less if my backend JS candidate knows anything about Ethernet frames, but I damn well expect h3 and async discussion.

But my devops guy? He better be talking about CDN, cavhing, WAF.

One of my favorite tech interview questions for any position is, "Describe in excruciating detail, everything that happens when you request and load a website in your browser."

You learn a LOT about how a candidate thinks and the depth of their knowledge.

Interesting! The only thing of value are pictures, notes, and TOTP 2FA.

I use kde connect to backup the first two, and store keys at time of creation instead of scanning QR code for the last one.

Which then gets into my NAS / 3-2-1 manual backup process.

Meanwhile, working on legitimate GPS requests in an app, my fiber optic ISP has the GPS of my IP about 2 streets up from where I live. I took a stroll and sure enough there's a big ol' grey communications box there.

My experience in mainland China cerca 2003 is notably missing from this thread.

Entire markets with "daoban" (pirate) DVDs, music, and importantly - English language software.

The fascinating thing was the corruption and collusion with local authorities; occasionally I would go to a shop almost completely barren, it's because cops were scheduled to show up soon.

Nice article, basically a teardown guide, lots of details.

Portable electronics have come a long way. People kvetch about glued phone components but hey, better than exposed parts shorting out against the case!

This is fascinating and looks promising! I've never heard of this but expect we will more in the near future, especially if they meet that 2028 target.

I wonder what the environmental impact of this is versus extreme ultraviolet. Although they mention "cost of ownership" and throughput, I wonder if this has any hidden implications.

As a left handed mouse user i can confirm, mashing keys is uiop and jklñ etc

Thanks for sharing this

You beat me to it. This Guardian article kind of summarizes it for the layfolk.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedente...

Reading the paper itself, they say it will take a decade of research along the lines of the human genome project to fulfill this, and recommend stopping funding. Interesting caveat about public disclosure too.

I have two gut reactions.

1. The concept of forbidden technologies, like in Herbert's Dune series. Although pure curiosity and scientific endeavor always pushes the bounds, is there a moral point where we must draw a line?

2. AI powered research means that, even without funding, eventually the genie will be out of the toothpaste tube.

Xenobiology is fascinating, and the fact we can make synthetic biology is terrifying.