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Comment · 11 hours ago
UK is a First Past the Post system. It doesn't matter what their national polling is, if it's going to result with exactly 0 seats in the parliament.
Comment · 8 days ago
#4 is very interesting. Truly untethered (persistent) jailbreaks haven't been a thing for 10 years.
Comment · 8 days ago
Oh boy, what a week. Must be great working in cybersec right now.
Comment · 8 days ago
> use on a single home or portable console or computer.

Is this even legally enforceable? Technically I'd be in violation if I was playing the same copy of Skyrim on both my PC and my Steam Deck.

IANAL, but if it was ever tried, surely the clause would be struck down as invalid?

Comment · 26 days ago
A single suicide due to a massive data breach is, unfortunately, completely inconsequential. Especially if we consider what social media does to teenagers without needing any data breaches.
Comment · 29 days ago
I'll take a pallet of Nvidia DGX H200s for $200 + shipping. Let me know when I can order them by weight on ebay.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Or consider the fact that over 91% of hedge fund managers can’t beat the market, despite the fact that the entire purpose of hedge funds is to explicitly create better returns than the market.

This isn't strictly speaking true. While some hedge funds have the goal of beating the market, most of them have different investment philosophy. Not that long ago most of them were meant for what the name implies - hedging. The idea being that hedge funds optimized for consistency, not higher returns. Market up 20%? Your hedge fund might yield something like a 10% return. Market down 20%? Your hedge fund might be down only like 5%.

Comment · 1 month ago
> and the fact that you have radioactive material you need to securely and safely store for quite a bit (which no one has figured out yet)

It's perfectly figured out. Just entomb it in concrete and store it on site. All spent nuclear fuel to date combined would quite comfortably fit in an average Walmart parking lot. It's a complete non-issue. And if we'd get really desperate, the spent fuel could be re-enriched.

Comment · 1 month ago
"as low as reasonably possible" is a massive overkill.

US killing the linear no-threshold model is a good thing. LNT model assumes that absolutely no amount of radioactivity is safe, which is provably wrong.

It has nothing to do with safety if the model that required "as low as reasonably possible" is bullshit per se.

The maximum allowed annual radiation dose for US radiation workers is 50mSv/year. It's just 16x the global average background radiation. And that's the average. In reality it's more like 5x - 25x.

For cancer specifically we're seeing marginally increased risk at 100 mSv/year, but it doesn't really become worrying enough until we're at 300-500 mSv/year.

Comment · 2 months ago
This is awesome. I take it your plans for the next weekend include actually cleanrooming the driver so you can skip running it in a linux container? =P
Comment · 3 months ago
"humans can read"

lol. Barely.

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
>I was fascinated to learn while visiting they consider themselves ‘at war’

fun fact, Japan and Russia are technically in a state of war too. The World War II hasn't ended. They have never signed a treaty over the Kuril Islands, and they both claim them.

Comment · 3 months ago
Yes. I'm an avid Dota 2 player. I used to play the remastered CoD MWs too, and had a Counter-Strike phase as well.

Cheaters using external tools in Dota are rare. Smurfs are a much bigger problem than scripters/maphackers.

In my experience, MW and CS aren't that bad. I see a cheater only about once in 20 games.

I also play online chess. No kernel level anticheat is going to help you there.

Comment · 3 months ago
I’m actually surprised how a lot of commenters here are defending kernel-level anticheat.

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