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otterdude··on ESP32-S31
I was wondering this as well. What exactly makes this a good AI chip vs others.

Unless they're not listing a major feature in their spec, a dual core 320Mhz microcontroller is not bad but youre not going to be running any kind of vision model on it, at least very fast.

otterdude··on Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006)
This is an ok introduction to CFD in that you discretize a problem, but it is not insightful and not scientific in its approach. The author routinely admits he doens't know how certain portions of the code work.

This is a much better approach to CFD / Navier-Stokes and will help you understand the various phenomenon along the way. https://lorenabarba.com/blog/cfd-python-12-steps-to-navier-s...

otterdude··on A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned
The vertical stabilizing surface of these elements is really insignificant to the entire surface of a board. Combining drag coefficients is done with the wetted surface area.

In truth there's some contamination from the upstream flow. Stabilizing elements are behind the center of pressure, so they will see the most "diry flow"

otterdude··on A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned
The core tenant of the paper is that roughness reduces drag IN the transition zone. A very small region of the total flow.

Thats the region between laminar and turbulent flow. Laminar flow is typically 5x less drag than turbulent, and will be encountered about a Reynolds number of 500K-1M (ratio of inertial flow to viscous flow).

Surfboards will have a Reynolds number of 10^7 which is entirely turbulent.

A Cessna aircraft will have a Reynolds number of 1-5x10^6.

otterdude··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
You're sharing the IP! That will severely harm the credibility of the poster for popular system at scale
otterdude··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
If you're sharing the IP that harms the credibility in the first place for an established system.
otterdude··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
The 65K IP addresses cost 1.638M dollars, thats alot more than they would spend doing the exact same thing today.

The idea is to accept bad actors but make it more expensive and also you can directly identify cliques by IP ect.

otterdude··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
I think residential proxy IP's still have the same associated cost, and arent those often for bundled traffic?

I'm not much of a blackhat so excuse my lack of knowledge on tricks of the trade

otterdude··on We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)
256 Processes x 10k clients (per the article) = 256K RPS
otterdude··on We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)
When people talk about a single server they're not talking about one hunk of metal, they're talking about 1 server process.

This article describes the 10k client connection problem, you should be handling 256K clients :)

otterdude··on Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening
did you forget up is down and down is up?
otterdude··on GoDaddy is auctioning a 15-year-old .org from an FOSS volunteer group – help?
First off you should get a better, less douchy domain provider than GoDaddy. I like namecheap.

You're better off just dumping them and changing domains don't put up with this kind of BS.

You could try suing them but they'd probably roll you

otterdude··on Convex raises $24M to reinvent back ends
"We're not just reselling Postgres. We're trying to create something both novel and foundational at the same time. It's not easy!"
otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
No but i think you get more accountability and visibility. Right now we could never do this but in a functioning democracy I think it would be prudent.

In civil law when there is no clear precedent congress gets involved preventing the kind of critisisms we get in our legal system of activist judges ect.

otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
I would like to see the law defining that!
otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
My argument is created to test the original "corporations are people" legality in common law.

- slavery, the owning of people, is prohibited by the 13th amendment. - the law of the land is that corporations are a type of legal person based on the famous ruling based on the 14th amendment - corporations are bought and sold, and owned by shareholders. Can they be people if this is so?

obviously there is a problem here with all of the contradictions involved, but thats the point of my argument. The legal system picks and chooses the desired outcome, and doesn't actually pay attention to the words involved.

otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
My point is the benefit greatly from the distinction, never codified in law. They have more rights and fewer responsibilities than actual people!

They way it "should" be is that congress creates a legal framework for coporations, then justices enforce that. Instead we are living with a nearly two centuries old common law that makes peoples lives worse.

My argument that if corporations are people, then they cannot be bought or sold is the kind of argument you can use to create legal precedent by suing some company over a merger or buyout to test the law and the strength of the original case law.

otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
My arguments are as bad-faith as the arguments that lead to corporate personhood and citizens united. Fight fire with fire.
otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
I guess my larger point is that words are manipulated to get to a desired effect in the justice system.

Slavery is defined as the practice of owning a "person" which the 13th amendment prohibits. As corporations are people why couldn't this apply using the same flexible level of logic our court system uses??? Its just picking winners and losers!!!

Regarding "money is speech", this is the implication and argument from Citizens United. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citi...

otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
The answer if for congress to make a legal definition of corporation, instead we get the justice system coming up with a handwavy explanation that helps out their golfing buddies.

The answer is to get rid of the common law justice system and codify laws in congress like a civil law system. That way you dont get rich people trying to buy favors or "tip" judges.

otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
The definition for person is "a living human".

This argument is just ridiculous, a corporation is a corporation. That contains subsets of people who have rights (shareholders, employees).

otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
The problem is judges, especially in a common law system.

Computers follow the machine code PERFECTLY. For the legal system judges get to embark on a jazz odyssey of bullshit.

Were living in an easy to track, decades long legal conspiracy to abuse power for corporations - based on the Powell memo.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYoqcr7bAIs7kdyMhh-9m...

otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
Its just not logical to argue, either they are or they arent.

For instance, corporations can be bought or sold, but people cannot per the 13th amendment.

Help me understand how these inconsistent principles are allowed in the supposedly rigorous logic of the legal system

otterdude··on Unexpected things that are people
I am continually baffled by the "logic" behind laws and the justice system.

If corporations are people, then how can they be bought or sold considering the 13th amendment?

How can money be speech, if the constitution allows congress to regulate commerce, but prohibits it from abridging speech.

It just seems like in a common law system we're forced to live with half-assed arguments that corporate lawyers dreamed up while golfing with the judges.

otterdude··on Tell HN: Azure outage
All I'm saying Its a complete 360 from the marketing they did to establish their brand... you know, save the world kind of stuff, especially from google.

From 2000-2016 most tech marketing\branding was aimed at some kind of social benefit.

otterdude··on Tell HN: Azure outage
What Amazon, Azure, and Google are showing with their platform crashes amid layoffs, while they supports governments that are Oppressing's Citizens and Ignoring the Law, is that they do not care about anything other than the bottom line.

They think they have the market captured, but I think what their dwindling quality and ethics are really going to drive is adoption of self hosting, distributed computing frameworks. Nerds are the ones who drove adoption of these platforms, and we can eventually end if we put in the work.

Seriously with container technology, and a bit more work / adoption on distributed compute systems and file storage (IPFS,FileCoin) there is a future where we dont have to use big brothers compute platform. Fuck these guys.

otterdude··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
naw dude we gotta get these quarters numbers up by degrading quality on windows/chromecast. It just reeks of incompetence and insincerity
otterdude··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
Also, that reputation was earned before 2010 when every asshole jumped into "technology" for the fat paycheck.

It used to be hard and a liability to be a nerd

otterdude··on ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all took advantage of "viral marketing", ontop of lots of venture funding for advertising potential.

Distributed/P2P tech is essential because of the income from marketing maintains these systems, selling user data. P2P changes that by allowing people to own their data and share it their way. User-Hosting shouldn't be such a wild idea in 2025, especially if its like IPFS based which already has infrastructure for low-effort hosting such as a chrome plugin.

As long as transition is easy I dont see why change cant happen. A browser plugin to scrap your existing profiles and bring them to NEWSITE.com is all thats needed

There's No reason change cant happen especially when so many people see social media as despotic, and gov takeover of tiktok beckons. Be the motherfucking change yo!

otterdude··on ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
All those out of work programmers here's an opprotunity to create some disruption, pad your resume, and possibly create a job.

While we still have a free internet, it would be great to see efforts to create technology to replace centralized social media, cloud-tech, and businesses.

We need to make it so fucking hard for the gov, advertisers to get access to your data that it very expensive to maintain a system like this. And please please please do not work for or lend talent these jerks!

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