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delroth

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About delroth

NixOS developer and infrastructure maintainer. Dolphin Emulator (https://dolphin-emu.org/) developer. Ex-infrastructure Security Engineer, now on a long break away from full time employment.

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    Comment #47360095

    FWIW, while Dolphin doesn't accept donations, the non-profit foundation behind it has been collecting money for almost 15 years via ads and referrals. All of the financials are tra…

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    Comment #45061868

    Don't use a user agent that sends signed headers identifying you as a bot? How are any of the failure modes you mention not /improved/ by the spec proposal this comment section is …

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    Comment #44808933

    Which is not something that happened, even according to Max Howell himself: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin... > I feel bad about my tweet, I don’t fee…

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    Comment #44797521

    It's nice to see TSMC's internal security teams are detecting these things, but it would be more surprising news if this kind of IP theft wasn't happening to be honest...

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    Comment #44567045

    The soft prediction metric seems especially ridiculous to me. If I'm not mistaken, just picking at random gets better results than their ML selection at >= 5 predictions (1-(2/3)*5…

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    Comment #44226839

    Google Reader was the last major user of the old social sharing stack at Google designed for Buzz, a product mostly remembered to these days for United States v. Google and the 201…

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    Comment #43856834

    There are several other programs like STF funded by the EU (often mediated via NLNet), and for example Servo gets some amount of its funding via NGI (an EU Commission initiative): …

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    Comment #43813815

    > HBC had to give up development HBC has not been under real development for 10+ years. This is mostly a performative act.

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    Comment #43813754

    > AFAIK it's software RE work, and nothing done in the console hacking scenes is truly cleanroom at all There's a wide gradient of how much effort people put into reverse engineeri…

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    Comment #43642262

    English has no literal word-to-word equivalent to this - this french "à" is used to describe the main property of a noun, and the translation in English when no original word exist…

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    Comment #43641463

    Except here it's not even a correct literal translation of "TGV", so you wouldn't be learning anything useful.

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    Comment #43448463

    > It's impressive how much internet censorship in Europe is currently being caused by this one group of extremely greedy people. How is this greedy? It's clearly illegal behavior, …

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    Comment #43341874

    The EU invests in Servo already, for example through NLNet grants.

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    Comment #43254817

    You're describing the IAEA, founded in 1957 and in activity since: https://www.iaea.org/topics/verification-and-other-safeguard...

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    Comment #43254713

    > As always with nuclear there are a few taboo topics. One of them being fuel supply. It's not taboo, the answer is just extremely simple: mining needs people willing to work in a …

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    Comment #43126395

    This is a common misconception: there are some exceptions for certain types of media, but for example downloading copyrighted software (including games) without authorization is no…

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    Comment #42843435

    > It’s not the case for big tech employers, who tend to have very clear “levels” and (from what I can tell on levels.fyi) it’s often a 25%+ jump in total comp. You're misinterpreti…

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    Comment #42829459

    Same in Switzerland, with the added quirk/bonus that shops in train stations are allowed to open on Sundays, when shops outside of train stations usually can't open due to employme…

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    Comment #42692144

    Those expats are residents though, and thus wouldn't be impacted by the proposal being discussed in the linked article.

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    Comment #42692124

    How does allowing *non-residents* to buy real estate help in attracting foreigners and cultivate growth?

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    Comment #42530817

    He was 2.5/3 the day he was fined (then forbidden to play) for his dress code violation, and was around rank 25 after game 8, one point behind first place. Not a winning performanc…

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    Comment #42525634

    Most game studios these days - including Nintendo - explicitly provide guidance and licensing terms for content creators. You can for example check out https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n…

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    Comment #41951111

    This has recently been challenged in courts and rejected: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-... > Integral to the Court’s decision was the conclusion that…

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    Comment #41293076

    I have no idea what you're talking about, since nowhere did I use solar capacity factor data nor did I look at number of reactors per plant.