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stevemk14ebr··on Harnessing America's heat pump moment
Even at 0F most modern heat pumps produce heat at a COP greater than 2. This means you get twice the rate of heat generation than a typical electric space heater. You are out of date, and wrong.
stevemk14ebr··on Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
That's childish and sad. Don't do that please
stevemk14ebr··on Matrices can be your friends (2002)
Yea this is horrendous. Not reading this
stevemk14ebr··on Vector database that can index 1B vectors in 48M
Thank you, title needs edited.
stevemk14ebr··on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public
This is pseudo-intelligence: "can be exploited by an enemy to bring harm to American forces" means nothing when talking about a metal gun. This isn't some computer vulnerable to RCEs or fly by wire bullets.
stevemk14ebr··on Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
believe it or not the same line is how it works at google too!
stevemk14ebr··on Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
There are 10 types of people in this work. Those who can extrapolate from missing data, and
stevemk14ebr··on LINUX is obsolete (1992)
No drivers are kernel modules
stevemk14ebr··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
My human aimbot evaded fairfight for years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVdaf6CkqL8
stevemk14ebr··on Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
Even better, host it on github pages - then you mirror the code too https://stevemk14ebr.github.io/YTCH/ . Author, how do generate the list
stevemk14ebr··on Over 90% of US Population Growth Since 2020 Came from Hispanics
this chain of discussion is hilarious because each step just gets worse
stevemk14ebr··on Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
This is supported, but it's probably not rolled out to you yet. And once it is rolled out, you need to turn it on yourself. See the blog the developer linked to in a comment.
stevemk14ebr··on Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
Yes, and to import. You mess with the mime types when creating a document or exporting and the conversion operation happens. Standard gdocs APIs cover conversion of formats already with doc files as an example.
stevemk14ebr··on Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
There was partial markdown support (and still is) in gDocs today. AFAIK copy as MD was never supported. But this new feature is full round tripping into and out of gDocs as native markdown.
stevemk14ebr··on Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
They are supported (source: beta tested it internally). We use this markdown feature for some internal workflows where github flavor markdown syntax is used. We've tested this works and ourselves rely on it as well as some other markdown extensions.
stevemk14ebr··on Chasing a Bug in a SAT Solver
this article has almost zero content on the bug, the debugging, or the fix. I expect more details
stevemk14ebr··on Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman
how does this start?
stevemk14ebr··on Python Gotcha: strip, lstrip, rstrip can remove more than expected
Developer uses the wrong api and goes :surprised_pikachu:
stevemk14ebr··on Read Google's memo warning employees to 'think again'
not at all related
stevemk14ebr··on Lezer: A parsing system for CodeMirror, inspired by Tree-sitter
None of those responses were at all hostile
stevemk14ebr··on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
i don't think the internet is a good place for you
stevemk14ebr··on VirtualBox KVM Public Release
User error, I had to discard the snapshot state first - just like in normal vbox ;)
stevemk14ebr··on VirtualBox KVM Public Release
This would be useful for anyone who needs to run bleeding edge linux kernels. Most other hypervisors have poor support when you're pinned to testing distros (For security reasons). KVM and virt-manager are uh not exactly user friendly, so being able to use the KVM backend and always be compatible with the new kernels while having the UX and UI of vbox is actually a very huge deal. This is one of the main reasons I really really hope you all manage to upstream this.

I built and tried this, it worked great, so excellent work there. I found the processor CPU core counts being grayed out unpleasant, it's not clear to me how I am supposed to adjust my core and ram values now, maybe document this?

stevemk14ebr··on VirtualBox KVM Public Release
Please upstream this code. That ensures this work will live forever with better maintenance without you all having to chase upstream vbox AND will be easier to justify use if it's an included vbox component. I would find it difficult to justify using this to my bosses "lets just go use this custom fork of vbox" isn't going to fly for most.
stevemk14ebr··on Top Cybersecurity watchdog issues emergency Ivanti directive to federal agencies
Solarwinds was a supply chain attack where the company itself was hacked first, trojanized an installer, and then let that installer released to eventually end up in the target organization. This is an exploit, not a supply chain attack in the same manner. I would not compare them.
stevemk14ebr··on revng translates (i386, x86-64, MIPS, ARM, AArch64, s390x) binaries to LLVM IR
I read a paper once that a more ideal goal would be to not aim for goto free code, but instead aim at decompilation output that matches the source input best. The idea being that some C programs are really implemented as gotos and it's more natural to decompile them that way. This suggests some low % of gotos is the best rather than zero. Thoughts?
stevemk14ebr··on "CSS is dramatically more difficult than learning assembly language" [audio]
Assembly is not trivial lol. The instruction set is easy to learn yes, but the kind of bit manipulations that occur at ASM are not easy or simple. Look at optimized division sometime. Try reverse engineering, it's an art that takes decades to learn. I do agree with "Anyone who can learn CSS can learn assembly" though, anyone can learn pretty much anything with enough time and effort.
stevemk14ebr··on Rising costs mean food companies are making snacks, sodas taste worse
Literally no where was that said, and fat is not as bad as sugar (popularized by the sugar industry).
stevemk14ebr··on Google calls Drive data loss "fixed," locks forum threads saying otherwise
I don't believe you.
stevemk14ebr··on Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials
You're correct it's necessary for how they use this, to impersonate a user and 'clone' their email data. But then, that is the problem, they shouldn't be able to do this at all.
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