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sysguest··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
> Is this not exactly why banks have to deposit X amount outside their doors?

Sorry, what do you mean?

-- think that's referring to bank deposit insurance schemes...

sysguest··on iPhone Duo Teardown
well with youtube shorts optimized for really-small screens while lectures aren't...

small screens actually encourages the worst attention-seeking media consumption

sysguest··on iPhone Duo Teardown
idk those reviewers must be bonkers if they actually said "larger screen is not great for productivity"

well of course larger screen is fking great for productivity

try reading book on iphone SE vs ipad mini

and then try taking scribbing on pdf slides with ipad mini vs galaxytab ultra (14.6inch)

you must have really good working memory to remember all the relevant context NOT shown in the screen with that iphone SE

(I noticed this because I read same stuff, but understood less stuff with that iphone se vs galtab ultra)

my only complaint is ultra tabs not getting bigger: I want 16+ inch scribble note

sysguest··on Apple Security Research Device
well that's cheaper than expected!
sysguest··on The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]
well math has always been about "understanding things" -- hence proofs and etc is the main tool in the field

(and why math differentiates between conjectures (maybe true) and theorems)

so that "oh some 3rd party person/machine understood it for me" can feel... a bit icky

sysguest··on Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off
> But without trying for millions of times, scientists won’t find the one drug that works.

well isn't it mostly other way around? millions of times to LOOK FOR hidden SIDE-EFFECTS?

animal testing is mostly for answering 'is it safe?'

sysguest··on Show HN: Strot – Compile an LLM's intent once, run decisions locally
> Happy to go deep on the calibration math, the compile/cache design, or where this does and doesn't make sense.

yes plz

sysguest··on Tesla Roadster
hmm maybe this car will appear on 007?

it's "actual stunt" car

sysguest··on Tesla Roadster
well... when you gotta jump over police car barricades...?

I mean if you're not sober, maybe it's a nice option to have

sysguest··on The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME
yeah but... that convention is so much of a security/bug headache

sometimes, its footguns seem worse than javascript...

hope some typescript-like "typed shell" becomes mainstream someday

sysguest··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
> acquiring an existing team of experienced engineers and tying them with the golden handcuffs is not a bad deal

well... why not tie who's already inside the company (who you actually know about) instead of an external people (who you DON't know about)?

it's much difficult to get info about some external person, and most info is about external reputation ('the looks')

though... that's the reason job-ping-pongs work: someone outside looks better than someone inside, because of your lack of info

sysguest··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
well Deno was the only player who could have prevented recent npm security disasters:

built-in permission system for filesystems and etc

just forbid writing to important folders like ~/.ssh

sysguest··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
well I just don't get it -- why?

unless cloudflare's CEO is a friend of cloudflare people, so just want to financially them bail out...

...why acquire and kill? cloudflare can have more outreach and reputation by keeping deno alive

sysguest··on Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
+ deno's file-system permission model is the answer to recent malicious npm packages fiasco:

"deny access to ~/.ssh and other important folders" --> that alone would likely have 99.99999% sterilized most "hacks"

sysguest··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
> methods for using the level change every week or so

hmm doesn't mean noob will become better? if what I'm "learning" about AI is going to get deprecated every week... then it doesn't make sense to "keep up"

sysguest··on Jev introduces a new shape of LLM
"even Qwen 3.8 has a hard time to consistenly conform to a schema"

idk maybe this is a feature? if some LLM model is wonky, it won't generate right json format, so I'll know for sure

but for Jev, it's 100% right format, so I can't know if it's gone wonky or not

sysguest··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
another thing: chinese gov can just some of its wipe its populace easily (the gov controls media 100%)

but... not the western govs

sysguest··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
yeah this

if I'm ordering 1 RAM and demanding some special customization, even mom-and-pop stores will just ignore me

but if I'm buying 100000000000 RAM, things change

sysguest··on In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches
well even if the results are crap, it still has big economic influence:

"since I can use AI to create this app this much, I'll pay you less"

"although current AI made this crap, it'll outpace you eventually, so I'll pay you less"

sysguest··on Apple's Dimensional Drawings
idk maybe apple can release fbx or blender files?

I mean these seem nice for print-decorations...

sysguest··on Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
any link to presentations/papers on this?

I'm interested on learning ZKPs -- they seem so much like "fairy-tale come true" because I don't know much

sysguest··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
hmm thought this was about adwords JS 'intelligently' reading page contents, and when it finds such attribution with some special tags, filters out certain ads...

well thought I was getting some actual useful tip

sysguest··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
hmm could you explain more?
sysguest··on Did Meta's Big Settlement Actually Help It?
hmm seems "Everyone can control themself" is assumed here

well, if you look at legal side, the OPPOSITE is assumed in many cases:

- age-limits on smoking cigar(rettes)/sex/drinking

- soft-limits on gambling

- hard-limits on drugs

sysguest··on An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power
well what can you expect?

"Head of" + "Strategic" + "Futures"...?

hard to not attract insane people

sysguest··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
...molesting? a country? ...how?
sysguest··on Universities would prefer no AI
> with pen and paper level of technology

definitely try out:

galaxy s9 ultra tab (wacom! edit: also, 14.6 inch: bigger than any ipad series)

+ LAMY s-pen

+ paper-feel screen protector

(and optionally felt-tip nibs)

miles better than MPP or AES or other crap: those can't draw diagonal lines without wobbling, thought I was getting parkinsons

sysguest··on Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
wait I can't find "The information is in people's heads" in that article

(what's the exact phrase?)

btw, if that's the problem, why not chop it off before leaving?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sysguest··on Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
well Deno has the necessary ingredients for defense: file-system permission by path
sysguest··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
for rough roads, fat-tires are the way to go
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