frezik

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 117 points 2 months ago (2 children)

NIST generally knows what they're doing. Want to overwrite a hard drive securely? NIST 800-88 has you covered. Need a competition for a new block cipher? NIST ran that and AES came out of it. Same for a new hash with SHA3.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Goddamit, can Wisconsin have a lead quarterback that doesn't implode their image?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Welcome to 4chan.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 28 points 2 months ago

They used to have a "cache" link on search results. It occasionally came in handy when the original site was down or changed their link or something.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I have a little pet theory I've been stewing about when it comes to penny wise/pound foolish decisions from business owners of all types. From landlords, to local cafes, and all the way up to Fortune 500 CEOs. It comes down to bad accounting.

I've taken to setting aside money into buckets. There's a bucket that handles some filter replacements for our home furnace (it's a 5 inch thick HEPA filter, so it's bit pricey) and under sink RO system, for example. When it comes time to buy one, I just pull from that bucket. It doesn't feel like I'm losing anything off my usual budget for the month. The money is just there, and it feels nice to be able to pay without worry. It almost feels like a reward for good planning.

Companies do this, as well. In fact, I helped setup a similar system at my local community makerspace (which runs as a 501(c)3). We pay into buckets for things like insurance every month, and then we pay it when the bill comes due each year. Again, it doesn't feel like we're stressed for anything.

Not all companies do this, or if they do, they don't do it for everything. If you're not setting aside a little bucket for something that you know will come up, then it has to be paid out of your general funds. That's money you wanted to use for something more fun than furnace filters or insurance or a software package that can process navigation data automatically.

So when you see billionaires or landlords complain about something important being too expensive, it might be because they aren't tracking their accounting buckets properly. If this keeps happening, that's a good indication that they are anything but a glorious Captain of Industry.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago

90% of corporations aren't transcribing positioning data by hand every five minutes to figure out the sub's position.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

A fantastic example is the Verve's Bitter Sweet Symphony.

It samples a few seconds of a Rolling Stones song. For this, the former Stones manager Allen Klein sues them. The Verve gives up all royalties for the whole song. So the Stones are getting that money, right? No, Klein had the ownership of the piece in question go to himself.

Klein dies in 2009, and the rights to everything finally revert to the Stones in 2019. They think the whole sampling thing with the Verve is stupid, and relinquish the song's rights back to them.

For about 20 years, it was not only morally OK to pirate that song, but morally obligatory. The execs of the industry don't give a shit about the artists.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if the video said it was from him or not. It's been taken down, so I can't check, but I don't think it ever made that claim. Someone just noticed it sounded the same as Jeff.

It's copyright because they had to have fed the model with voice data from Jeff's videos.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Dumb shits in military management. And she was an admiral; near the top of that management.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago

Communism is, by definition, stateless. No, that's not a valid argument and never was.

That ML groups work that way tells a lot about ML, not communism.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's exponential.

https://www.livemint.com/industry/energy/the-exponential-growth-of-solar-power-will-change-the-world-11724312451921.html

To call solar power’s rise exponential is not hyperbole, but a statement of fact. Installed solar capacity doubles roughly every three years, and so grows ten-fold each decade. Such sustained growth is seldom seen in anything that matters. That makes it hard for people to get their heads round what is going on. When it was a tenth of its current size ten years ago, solar power was still seen as marginal even by experts who knew how fast it had grown. The next ten-fold increase will be equivalent to multiplying the world’s entire fleet of nuclear reactors by eight in less than the time it typically takes to build just a single one of them.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 23 points 2 months ago

According to libertarians, this means they have the right to shoot Elon Musk in the face.

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