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vor 7 Stundendiscuss

> Steve declared thermonuclear war on Google because Android re-skinned to use BUTTONS.

Was there ever a point in time where Google was not the default search engine on iOS?

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vor 3 Tagendiscuss

sqli is easily and fully mitigated and has generally been a non-issue for any half-serious project, especially if you use any kind of SAST. Your link actually subsumes any type of injection, not just sqli. Some of them are marginally harder to fix than sqli, most aren't.

In contrast, we don't know how to solve prompt injection.

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vor 3 Tagendiscuss

Console vs PC is a red herring since UE games still stutter on consoles, people just notice that less because most games run at 30 fps anyway. You can read Unreal's own blog posts on this and they'll actually explain that this is mostly down to their material system (and game logic/scripts reaching into it) being designed to create nearly infinite shader variations on the fly in response to arbitrary world/game states. This design choice separates engines which have shader stutters from those which do not.

https://www.unrealengine.com/tech-blog/game-engines-and-shad... https://medium.com/@GroundZer0/what-unreal-doesnt-tell-you-a... https://therealmjp.github.io/posts/shader-permutations-part1...

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vor 3 Tagendiscuss

UE is also just not a good engine. If you reduce "what is a 3D game engine" really hard it is "framework for running an input-process-output loop while consistently rendering audio and video". UE fails at the latter (factually unfixable shadder stuttering issues). A pragmatist might consider the taxonomy and say UE is therefore not a game engine. Unreal seems to be a great framework for assembling and generating content, though. Maybe Unreal Free was the metaverse all along?

Meanwhile idTech certainly had issues, mostly in regards to dynamic levels, especially in older iterations, but "consistently rendering audio and video" was certainly never among them. It is well above the industry mean when it comes to the core of what a game engine is.

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vor 5 Tagendiscuss

Most of the time people are not asking for domains which don't resolve. Also, think about what DNSSEC is actually having to do when signing an NXDOMAIN. It needs to prove a negative with offline signing keys, DNSSEC does this by basically making a linked list of each zone and signing the links.

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vor 7 Tagendiscuss

> It leveled a huge stretch of coast, but didn't make it uninhabitable.

This is not actually true, because it deleted around 120 km² of habitable land (https://www.forbes.com/sites/oshadavidson/2011/04/29/japan-e...). Engineering just to reclaim that land continues to this day and has already cost trillions of Yen. The damage the tsunami did to other structures and people (without literally sinking the ground into the sea) were much more expensive than that.

> I remember not being able to buy milk in Europe (Switzerland and Germany) in the 1980s because of Chernobyl. The increase in radioactivity in milk was orders of magnitude, due to fallout from Cesium 134 and 137 as well as isotopes of strontium and plutonium.

Circling back to the easy to measure part, dividing most numbers by something close to zero tends to turn out big, the ratio says fairly little about whether that's dangerous (https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/accident-management/emergen... "To date, there is no evidence that the reactor accident has caused adverse health effects due to radiation in Germany"). I'm also fairly certain neither strontium nor plutonium particles (plural) made it that far.

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vor 8 Tagendiscuss

> I find text useful for repo-specific conventions, especially skills.

formerly_proven

vor 9 Tagendiscuss

Pure slop.

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vor 9 Tagendiscuss

> The irrational fear-factor associated with anything nuclear is highlighted by how much attention Fukushima, the nuclear disaster, which gravely injured like a dozen people, gets relative to the earthquake and tsunami causing it, which killed 20k people and leveled a huge stretch of coast.

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vor 9 Tagendiscuss

This is the most Opus-looking website I've ever seen.

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vor 11 Tagendiscuss

Thousands of times of that area is lost permanently every year to climate change, extractive industries, desertification, pollution etc. (just desertification is estimated at around 2500x that number). With nuclear we always proceed with extreme to absurd levels of caution, in no small part because radiation is extremely easy to measure - unlike almost every other contaminant we put in the environment, which are harder to quantify and our risk response is generally "oh it's totes fine". See: PFAS, microplastics, endocrine-disrupting chemicals dropping sperm count and reproductive health indicators on the entire planet, PM air pollution, UPFs, blood lead levels, military chemicals etc. etc.

But if the Geiger counter ticks too fast once everyone in a 100 mile radius loses their mind. Nuclear accidents are not fine. Obviously. The impact is dramatically, comically overstated compared to literally any other environmental concern.

formerly_proven

vor 11 Tagendiscuss

Building a "NN with similar capability as the brain" is not modelling its physical structure. The assumption is not made.

formerly_proven

vor 11 Tagendiscuss

You're talking about a philosophical debate whether the brain is computable, the other commenters are pointing out that even conservative estimates point to a brain-like NN requiring over a quadrillion parameters.

formerly_proven

vor 11 Tagendiscuss

Around 98% of Fukushima is inhabited again, unless of course you meant the NPP itself, but people were not living in a power plant to begin with.

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vor 12 Tagendiscuss

https://i.imgur.com/t5jDXrt.png

"Why don't we unpack malware in the kernel" - "And so the search for intelligent life continues..."

formerly_proven

vor 13 Tagendiscuss

Wireshark dissectors (protocol decoders) are basically all written in C, and anyone sending packets can pick a dissector.

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vor 13 Tagendiscuss

That sounds apocryphal but there was a noted paper describing a frequency discriminator implemented using a genetic algorithm and it ended up tied to the exact piece of silicon used to evolve it, with logic cells not connected to anything still changing the output.

https://osmarks.net/assets/misc/evolved-circuit.pdf

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vor 15 Tagendiscuss

> It's a physical quantity per some unit of spatial measurement so the units still don't match up b/c in one case the transistors are stacked per volume & in the other case per area.

"Planar" and "3D" in this context refers to the shape of the transistors themselves. In a planar transistor the functional structure is spread out in the area, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MOSFET_functioning_body.s... while 3D transistors spread into the volume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigate_device#/media/File:D...

However the active devices are still just one layer. This isn't like 3D NAND where you actually have transistors on top of each other. So the comparison only considers the area for both kinds of transistors.

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vor 15 Tagendiscuss

> Continuing the well established trend of making bold claims about physical dimensions that have nothing to do with any of the structures in the chip, and the name scales better than the tech.

We care about PPA (power, performance, area) and not how large or not-large features actually are. Comparing gate lengths between a 1980s planar transistor and a 2010s 3D FinFET or GAA transistor is obviously nonsense, the relatively aligned node names of the industry actually do make sense as a shortcut here.

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vor 16 Tagendiscuss

This isn't Broadcom's first design.

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