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false reports.

Are you sure they're false?

The paper has plenty of pictures. You do have to click through to the PDF.

I'm confused.

The simplest case: no transaction, just a SELECT and an UPDATE with a barrier between them:

There is no context where you do not have a transaction. Postgres requires them.

It's likely that the library the author is using is doing automatic implicit transactions, but it seems like the author needs to understand their tools a bit better.

You don't even need an AI.

This is such a core misunderstanding that Asimov seems to have, and it kind of kills his entire analysis for me.

The assumption is that only some small fraction of a fraction of the people who could be surveilled at any time are being surveilled.

The crux of the thing is that everyone COULD be under surveillance at any time, so in effect everyone must behave as if they are being observed because they do not know they are not.

If you read the article, the OP points out that static analysis for this platform is not supported in Ghidra.

Also, reading between the lines, I think it's safe to assume the author did dump the flash.

Using the strings command on the firmware dump reveals a lot of interesting details about the webserver itself, but nothing obvious hints us to the password.

Maybe include the next part?

It goes:

We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply. We are to follow the admonitions of the good apostle, who said, ''Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low degree." And generally, with respect to these high things, all that we shall try to do is just to create presently about these country homes an atmosphere and conditions such, that, if by chance a child of genius should spring up from the soil, that genius will surely bud and not be blighted.

It's almost like you're using a deliberately malicious selective quote that completely changes what the author is trying to say.

Author is a quack. There is deliberate mis-quoting in the article that completely warps the source material.

From their quoted section:

We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embr}-o great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply.

And then the removed section, which effectively negates the (facial) point of the previous statement:

We are to follow the admonitions of the good apostle, who said, ''Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low degree." And generally, with respect to these high things, all that we shall try to do is just to create presently about these country homes an atmosphere and conditions such, that, if by chance a child of genius should spring up from the soil, that genius will surely bud and not be blighted.

This is a really, REALLY common quote (with the latter part deliberately omitted) in lots of places complaining about the way the US education system works, as well as antigovernment movement people.

I certainly will not claim the US education system isn't broken, but using such a deliberate, malicious out-of-context quote casts a pall over anything else the author has to say, particularly given it's long, storied history in antigovernment propaganda.

They do!

Basically anything that consumes solar power incorporates what's called a "MPPT", or maximum power point tracker.

Basically, it's a smart DC-DC converter that continually tracks the voltage/current output of a solar panel and adjusts the load to extract the maximum available power from the panel.

It's not uncommon to have issues with extremely high panel voltages in snowy climates, when they're first illuminated in the morning. If you are close to the maximum voltage your MPPT charger can handle in normal circumstances, extreme cold can even damage things during the initial morning transient. You then have to do oddball things like use a crowbar system to prevent blowing up your MPPT system.

(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_point_tracking )

A.K.A. "The UK's stupid legislation is going to prevent anyone from using non-locally-hosted services, let's try to get in on the ground floor and have a position like amazon in the US."

“Younger kids do not have the same work ethic,” says RM’s Morreau. The immediate satisfaction normalized by cell phones and social media is antithetical to the know-how required for fabricating, say, the burled walnut dashboard of a pre-war Rolls-Royce.

Oooooor, the pay is crap and the work environment is abusive.

Any time someone trots out the "kids don't have the same work ethic" argument, they can immediately be ignored. People have been literally saying that continuously since people have been around to write the complaint down, and it's been exactly as true then as it is now.

- ptr isn't declared in the class body

- ptr is not being deallocated in the destructor

(personal preference - use of class member without explicit `this->`)

It looks like they're trying to be "linux for apple ex-pats".

Flatpak, Snap, appimage, etc...

I have pretty fastidiously avoided ever using any of the "package everything into the image" projects, and my life has been considerably better off.

All these things serve to do is make the developer experience easier, at the cost of delivering a much worse user experience.

I can't think of any reason a user would ever prefer packaged variant of something.

Uh, you are describing gouging, you've just handed it off to an algorithm so you can pretend it's not exactly what it is.

The ATmega328 (i.e. arduino without the garbage) is that microprocessor.

It can sleep and only use ~66 microamps at 5V with the watchdog timer enabled. That's 330 microwatts. A 1000 mA lithium cell (3.6 watt-hours) could then run it for ~10909 hours, or 454 days (~1 1/3 years).

Almost every microprocessor made these days has some sort of low-power sleep. The ATmega series aren't even particularly good at being low-power.

Of course, you then realize the "arduino" is really just a badly designed development board for an atmega, and they went and used cheap voltage regulators that have an idle current consumption of > 1 mA, and give up on the whole project.

To be fair, wikipedia generally tries to represent reality, which _also_ has a "left leaning bias", so maybe it's just you?

I mean, that's a distinction without a difference.

I've not written nix, but javascript is a ugly, terrible language. It would make sense that if nix derives from it (whyyyyyy) it would also be terrible.

This is ENORMOUSLY variable based on the specific group you wind up with.

It can be extremely christian, it can be not substantially christian.

You missed where I said it's the act that matters.

So trump /says/ one thing, but his actions say something very different.

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So, if you say nothing and do nothing, you cannot be defined.

If you say fascist things (even if you're "joking"), but do nothing, you are a fascist.

If you say non-fascist things but /do/ fascist things, the thing with the most active action defines you (i.e. the person doing the fascist things is a fascist).

Words mean little in the face of taking active actions.

if he believes the terrible things he's posting or is just ironically posting them.

The thing is, as I get older, I realize more and more that this is a distinction without a difference.

If you "ironically" stab someone, does it matter what your motivation?

The same is true for edgelord stuff. Whether you believe it internally is irrelevant, the active act of the posting is the only part that matters.

If you post fascist content to be "edgy", you're a fascist.

Maybe we can't do your idea without the quoted idea.

These are intended to implement things like specialized communication protocols, or other IO behaviour. Basically, it lets you push a variety of things you'd normally do via CPU polling to the hardware.

You could easily do SPI (or something similar, like BiSS-C) in 32 LUTs.

The Raspberry Pi Pico modules have something similar (their PIO modules, which support up to 32 instructions - https://dev.to/blues/a-practical-look-at-pio-on-the-raspberr...).

TI also have a CLB module that's actually even smaller (though they document theirs) - https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruir8b/spruir8b.pdf

Basically, this is a pretty broadly available IO abstraction.

How do you host a app with Claude. Did they release the weights?

Synthesis results can vary from run to run on the exact same code with the same parameters, with real world impacts on performance.

This is because some of the challenges for the synthesis/routing process are effectively NP-hard. Instead, the compiler uses heuristics and a random process to try to find a valid solution that meets the timing constraints, rather then the best possible solution.

I believe you can control the synthesis seed to make things repeatable, I believe that the stochastic nature of the process means that any change to the input can substantially change the output.

Reddit isn't far right, except some esoteric subs either.

Reddit is generally fairly centrist-left for the most part.

You think HN is left?

Ha.

HN is at best center-right.

It's trivial to normalise the various formats,

Ha. Ha. ha ha ha.

As someone who as pretty broadly tried to normalize a pile of books and documents I have legitimate access to, no it is not.

You can get good results 80% of the time, usable but messy results 18% of the time, and complete garbage the remaining 2%. More effort seems to only result in marginal improvements.

* if you're doing cloud stuff.

Otherwise, continue as normal.

It turns out that local drives continue to be faster then remote drives. Who would have thought?

For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

I have a rather ideosyncratic opinion here:

For Open-Source projects, human readable file formats are actively harmful.

This mostly is motivated by my experience with KiCad. Principally, there are multiple things that the UI does not expose at all (slots in PCB footprint files) where the only way to add them is to manually edit the footprint file in a text editor.

There are some other similar annoyances in the same vein.

Basically, human readable (and therefore editable) file formats wind up being a way for some things to never be exposed thru the UI. This actively leads to the software being less capable.