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wang_li··on Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP
Would be much better to hook this up to dump and restore. It'll only copy used data and you can do it while the source system is online.

For compression the rule is that you don't do it if the CPU can't compress faster than the network.

wang_li··on Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
>while a flipper zero can be used for instructional purposes and research.

Only in the same way a weapon can be used for instructional purposes and research. Someone buying an off the shelf product and using it in the way it was intended isn't doing research except in the loosest sense of the word. E.g. "Does the radio transmission open this garage door? Does it open this garage door? Does it open this garage door?" v "Does this rock swung hard cave in this skull? Does it cave in this skull? Does it cave in this skull?"

wang_li··on Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D
Dividends are not spending. It’s just the shareholders taking money they own.
wang_li··on Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
But the image is based on the attributes of each node in the NN matrix. The Mandelbrot set can be calculated at any precision you desire and it keeps going. An NN is discrete and finite.
wang_li··on Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
They should have definition at arbitrary scales. These images do not, they are built from a fixed sized matrix. Beyond a certain point you are between the data points.
wang_li··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
You're rationalizing reading all your anti-opinions into what I wrote so you can argue against them. I never said any of the things you're objecting to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpAvcGcEc0k

wang_li··on New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe
It may be implemented in the system firmware, but it's still a hypervisor performing context switches and enforcing access to pci devices. Even if you've never looked at the processor architecture manuals you can tell this is what's happening when you can assign 0.1 cores to an LPAR. Different implementation details but the same functionality as SPARC LDOMs and Intel's vt-x & vt-d.
wang_li··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
A crime was identified as proof that the system was organized in a particular way. The fact that it was a crime explicitly tells us the system is not that way. The Green River Killer murdered lots of people and wasn't arrested for 20 years. This doesn't mean that the laws and criminal justice system are designed to advance murder. The fact that they were able to identify him as the murderer and arrested him proves the system is against murder.

Things I didn't say:

- any value judgment about private prisons - no statement about shutting up or stop bringing up the crimes - didn't justify or attempt to justify excluding oversight of government - anything about the business model of private prisons

wang_li··on Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media
Because social media should support multiple points of view and not just a single aggregate pov. Why should a person who is interested in the political career of Gavin Newsom give a crap about the downvotes from Ben Shapiro listeners?
wang_li··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
You are reading a lot into my three sentences. I didn't say any of the things you are refuting. I'm not going to defend them, not simply because I never espoused those opinions, but also because lots of them are completely irrational anyway.
wang_li··on Command line interface guidelines (2021)
If your program detects -? and tells the user to use -h or --help or --long-help or --full-help you should be kicked in the crotch. Just show me the help.
wang_li··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
Prison is supposed to keep people who are harmful to society away from their victims. Anything else is secondary and should not impinge on prison's functionality of segregating convicts from society.
wang_li··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
Kids for cash was a crime. It doesn't reinforce the idea that the system is designed to ship people into private prisons. It shows the opposite.
wang_li··on Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands
Prisoners lose most of their rights. They have no privacy rights, they can be searched at any time without a warrant, they often don't get to vote, they don't get to own weapons, they don't have freedom of association, they don't get to choose their style of dress.
wang_li··on Los Angeles Becomes First US City to Outlaw Digital Discrimination
And yet municipalities don't enforce these laws except in the most convenient cases.
wang_li··on Los Angeles Becomes First US City to Outlaw Digital Discrimination
We're not talking about people with disabilities, we're talking about people who are choosing to not join the rest of society and using modern technologies to sustain modern life. Someone doesn't want to do banking online? Only wants to pay cash for everything? Doesn't want to carry a cellphone? That's their choice, it doesn't mean everyone else has to act like that too or even streamline their ability to behave that way. Shops can only accept cards, banks can have a reduced number of physical locations and hours, telephone companies can stop offering payphones.
wang_li··on Los Angeles Becomes First US City to Outlaw Digital Discrimination
>and no one should be charged more based on their neighborhood

Then the city should be obligated to lock up vandals and refined materials thieves. It's bullshit to tell a network provider they have to provide the same service at the same cost to an area where they have to re-lay hundreds of meters of copper every week.

>Plenty of room there to include people who choose to protect their security and morals but are discriminated against for those choices.

Society should not be obligated to adapt to a crazy person who is only willing to communicate by passing notes via dumbwaiter and only using pseudonyms.

wang_li··on BBC BASIC raytracer in 432 characters
How do you speculate GOTO works if the tokenized program doesn’t have line numbers? Or if I write

     5 REM MY COOL PROGRAM
    10 PRINT “HELLO” 
    20 GOTO 10
Then later I write

    10 PRINT “DIE BART DIE”
How does it know to replace the right line?
wang_li··on Lab crafts mutant Covid-19 strain with 100% kill streak in humanized mice
We don't allow people to make automatic weapons. We don't even allow people to buy automatic weapons manufactured under government license after something like 1980. We don't allow people to build nuclear weapons. You're not allowed to broadcast radio waves willy nilly. Fact is we restrict things people are allowed to do all over the place in many different areas of life for the purpose of public safety. Yet we have researchers doing GOF research creating lethal germs that can spread through the air and kill the majority of people exposed with simply institutional review board at most.
wang_li··on Lab crafts mutant Covid-19 strain with 100% kill streak in humanized mice
Thank you.
wang_li··on Lab crafts mutant Covid-19 strain with 100% kill streak in humanized mice
What selective pressure exists in nature to result in a virus like this naturally evolving?
wang_li··on Lab crafts mutant Covid-19 strain with 100% kill streak in humanized mice
What does this gain them over hypothesizing that it can happen and working accordingly? Researchers always make this kind of claim but it’s bullshit. When we’re interested in making earthquake resistant structure we use shake tables, not full on earthquakes. When we want to make more fire resistant buildings we don’t go about making better fires. When we want to understand the harms of child sexual abuse we E: dom't go around raping children.

Everyone involved in this should be permanently barred from entering laboratories or working in the broader field at all. They can go become artesian lumberjacks or subsistence farmers.

wang_li··on Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency
Not familiar with tc, but from an online search they seem similar.
wang_li··on A NetBSD/amd64 guest can now boot in 18ms
I'm curious as to why this isn't 0ms for a VM. The entire state of the system can be known ahead of time. Why does the kernel need to do any kind of dynamic initialization? Why aren't all data structures and variables statically assigned to proper values for the given VM. So at VM start up time it simply enters the main dispatch loop.
wang_li··on US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, Study Finds
The vast majority of wealthy people who are commonly accused of not "paying their fair share" and of dodging taxes are simply structuring their financial lives in ways that allow them to reduce their tax obligations. Very few are engaged in actual tax evasion and all the rest pay all the taxes they owe.
wang_li··on US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, Study Finds
Your average unemployed homeless person is dodging enormous amounts of taxes simply by not having an income. Do you also complain about them or is your bitterness simply a result of envy?
wang_li··on US Cities Could Verge on Becoming Ghost Towns by 2100, Study Finds
The solution is to limit the expense of non-contributing people in our cities. Fact of the matter is is that certain lifestyles require a certain amount of ability to produce value. No one gets upset when you say that a middle-class person can't buy a luxury automobile without greatly increasing the ability to earn, but the same principle applies to the basics as well.

Seattle and King County were spending a cumulative $100,000/year per homeless person. That's higher than the per capita income of the county. No way to sustain that in the long term. If you aren't prepared to tell high-school dropouts, drug addicts, and the lazy, that they shouldn't aim for more than an ultra-high density apodment and generic brand everything and no kids, then you can't have a high standard of living city for anyone.

wang_li··on Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency
FreeBSD also has dummynet as part of ipfw that allows injection of latency, bandwidth caps, queue sizes, and packet loss. Same thing as in MacOS.
wang_li··on Meta Admits Use of 'Pirated' Book Dataset to Train AI
Fair use doesn’t allow you to pirate the source material in the first place, even if your parody or commentary constitutes fair use. It sounds to me like Meta committed 195,000 acts of copyright violation for commercial purposes. What is $250,000 x 195,000 in criminal penalties?
wang_li··on Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one
It's not a competition thing, it's a size thing.
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