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2 months later we have the "Spectre" - an aperiodic monotile (without reflections): https://aperiodical.com/2023/05/now-thats-what-i-call-an-ape... Edit - a visual explanation of t…

> Americans waste almost 40% of all the food that is produced in America, and for all sorts of reasons. Put another way, free markets produce 67% more than required. When it comes …

> There are any number of tools that will generate me a pretty and useful database schema diagram if I point them at a relational database. I'd even go so far as to design database…

> his companies were earning about $800,000 a day selling diet supplements, gun paraphernalia and survivalist equipment. It's almost as if Jones' show is a binary classification fi…

Sound decreases by 6dB for every doubling of distance: https://www.airbornedrones.co/drone-noise-levels/ So a typical 80db commercial drone flying at 300m (CAA minimum) would be 50…

Why is the pubkey "hash" sent to the server as a query, rather than staying client-side as a fragment? Why does "Regenerate Private Key" not actually regenerate private key? Why is…

I'd corrupt the quote slightly to factor informational effects of propaganda: "a wealth of [conflicting] information creates [an apathy] of attention and a need to [withdraw] that …

So the only hangover from bad parties is that the party ends? The biggest, baddest parties will always draw the popular crowd, and the same DJs will know better when to quietly sli…

> Life is filled with risk. Accept them or don't. Life is also filled with negligence. Companies (and people) have a duty of care to minimise risk or damage to others.

> Hardware is quite cheap. Enterprise has embraced a cloud-first stragegy. Suddenly, throwing hardware at a problem becomes throwing cash at the cloud.

Linux keeps track of "credit" for entrophy pool sources. Anyone can write to /dev/random - this mixes data into the entrophy pool but it won't be "credited" as securely increasing …

> Creating more money steals value from everyone who has traded their work for money, and creating less of it adds value. Conversely, creating more debt (as is with QE) adds value …

> Persistent inflation generally happens when an economy runs out of people. While there is a short run tradeoff between unemployment and inflation, it has not been observed in the…

> But they'll probably check some box for some security audit so they're used. A WAF is useful for when a zero-day is found for that legacy application you just can't get patches f…

The "Y2K bug" cost an estimated US$300 billion in remedial work, having been in production for ~40 years. Corollary: The most expensive bugs to fix are the oldest bugs.

Deep Neural Indifference - DNNs without emotional weights to guide behaviour and interactions. Leads to impaired empathy and lack of remorse.

Indeed, maybe it's about time advertisers got back to sponsoring quality content their target audience enjoys, rather than direct marketing through the back door on the lowest comm…

> Drug tests generally produce false-positive results in 5% to 10% of cases and false negatives in 10% to 15% of cases, new research shows. Most often, some tests have high sensiti…

> deploying a technology with obvious potential false positives "Okay, let's run this through the system." "What, no match? This system sucks." "Let's try the competitor's system."…

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough on this point: copyright of a derivative work is distinct (but not inseparable) to the copyright of the original work. So portions of a derivative wor…

> Where do you draw the line? My simplistic view is that the following is legally equivalent: input -> ai network -> output input -> huffman coding -> output So, whilst: * compress…

> There's also usually signage warning you to not do the running-through-the-nest thing. "No drones, no dogs, and no bikes. Those are the posted rules in the Bolsa Chica Ecological…

> 1. Capital Gain taxes are delayed until you actually sell the stock. By far, the greatest increase in wealth (and inequality) is due to capital gains. > [...] capital gains are e…

> If they want to sit out the development of this new tech it just gives everyone else the advantage. Au contraire- China is leapfrogging Western Banking with the DECP "digital yua…