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Comment · 15 days ago
By default Anthropic's token cache TTL is 5 minutes. If your tests take >5m to execute, when the LLM resumes your entire context is a cache miss
Comment · 21 days ago
When cache is disabled, then typically exclusive ops are passed as is direct to the interconnect the core is plugged into. In this case it appears that the SOC doesn't implement an exclusive monitor, but did at least remember to generate aborts for these operations
Comment · 1 month ago
The rates you're quoting are far higher than you get without negotiation from various providers these days . SumUp, as one random example, quote a flat 1.39% _on their free plan_.
Comment · 2 months ago
If you're using a hardware device, you can't extract them, because that's the point.

If you're using a password manager to store your passkeys, there are protocols to move them between password managers.

Comment · 4 months ago
When the EU legislates compliance with a standard into law, they pay the standards body for a license covering all EU residents and citizens
Comment · 4 months ago
A single ~50MW facility dropping off the grid suddenly is something the grid can absorb fine.

The problem is with facility-level grid-responsive safety mechanisms. If the grid sags a bit and several DCs ~simultaneously disconnect, you have a problem. If the DCs going offline causes further instability that causes other facilities to disconnect or grid protection breakers to open, you have a cascading chain reaction

Comment · 5 months ago
You can find copies of the Mastercard and Visa chargeback manuals online if you do a search, some of them (mildly redacted) from the networks themselves.
Comment · 5 months ago
I've seen lots of pretty terrible experiences with the i40e and newer Intel drivers.

For newer NICs than the X520s I'd probably grab a Connect-X card.

Comment · 5 months ago
No, Stripe did. It is a common misconception that chargebacks are decided by the customer's bank. Actually, there is a multiple cycle back-and-forth process after which they are finally decided by _the network_.

I have worked in card issuing for years and I have seen various submissions by merchants I know that use Stripe where I _know_ that they have an absolute winning case under the network rules that Stripe refuse to contest.

Stripe have decided that fighting most chargebacks is not worth the money, probably becasue they can just pass the costs onto the merchants and let them eat them and the merchants will not go elsewhere.

Comment · 6 months ago
Scaleway's equivalent only allows connections from ports <1024. This is cute and means only processes with CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE can retrieve the tokens.

You can do similar with vsock(7) sockets. This also has the advantage that it's harder to trick an application into making a connection to a vsock socket.

Both of these have the weakness that it is not entirely atypical to give processes CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE so they can listen on "privileged" sockets, but they work against anything without that.

Even better, you could put bootstrap credentials in DMI data or similar, where it'll end up (on Linux) inside a sysfs directory which can only be read by root.

Comment · 6 months ago
You can fix it by switching to one of the grounded charger heads. Unfortunately in most locales those are only available with an integrated extension cable (or as everyone seems to call them, the "gooseneck" cables)

It happens with other 2-pin chargers on both MacBooks and other laptops, but it depends upon various factors how strong the leakage is

Comment · 11 months ago
> Sure some few adults can learn languages as fast as kids, but you completely missed my main points around gatekeeping that language skills always has on adults and less so on kids.

Adults in general are actually way faster at learning languages than kids if you control for time actually spent learning the language, but generally adults are required to fit language learning in around a full time job (and are also full of shame/embarrassment)

Comment · 11 months ago
On the contrary, an object moving across your field of vision will produce a level of motion blur in your eyes. The same object recorded at 24fps and then projected or displayed in front of your eyes will produce a different level of motion blur, because the object is no longer moving continuously across your vision but instead moving in discrete steps. The exact character of this motion blur can be influenced by controlling what fraction of that 1/24th of a second the image is exposed for (vs. having the screen black)

The most natural level of motion blur for a moving picture to exhibit is not that traditionally exhibited by 24fps film, but it is equally not none (unless your motion picture is recorded at such high frame rate that it substantially exceeds the reaction time of your eyes, which is rather infeasible)

Comment · 1 year ago
Chrony can do NTP encapsulated inside PTP packets so as to combine the best parts of both protocols
Comment · 1 year ago
Was it actually repeating packets or was it sending out pause frames?

In my experience USB ethernet adapters send out pause frames which shit-tier switches replicate to all ports in direct contravention of the ethernet specifications.

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