Yeah, just gimme the NP6 terminal, I’ll figure it out.

And it ended up posting significantly faster speeds in dense areas where they actually deploy the technology. My phone has hit 4Gb/s on it.

It’s a different world, there isn’t much driving VVC like there was for AVC and HEVC. There isn’t a new physical media format, and even the latest OTA TV specification is stuck on HEVC.

It’s going to be up to streaming platforms what wins the next codec race, and a lot of them are betting on AV1 and AV2 for obvious reasons. I don’t see VVC really getting widespread adoption.

The biggest concern I have for these crackdowns is how uncalibrated the exams and material now are. When a significant portion of the student body cheats, the exam difficulties are pushed up, and the study/teaching material gets worse in quality.

The result is anyone not cheating is put at a disadvantage, and if you roll this out suddenly across the classes, you’re probably gonna fail a bunch of people.

This is the reason. Deserts are hotter, but also dryer, so it makes evaporative chillers ridiculously efficient. That’s how and why they build datacenters out here. Go look at any DC facility in the state and you’ll see evapco equipment being used.

There’s often a tacit acknowledgment to the poor quality of AI output, but that they do not care, the strategy is to flood the zone with so much garbage as to make it irrelevant. It’s a grift-conomy mindset, the focus is on “velocity” and “productivity” to the detriment of all else.

It’s just a punycode domain, it ought be rendered in Japanese:

マリウス.com

Edit: I swear those replies weren’t there when I typed mine.

Not beating the association between AI and scams with this one.

The cheaper it is to produce slop code, the less the demand there will be to buy it. Companies will self-vend instead of buying the slop being sold. Your profit margins are someone else’s inefficiency.

When the cost to ship trash code trends toward zero, then there will not be value in shipping trash code. Companies will need to focus on software that is actually competitive (in a qualitative way) because otherwise their customers will just self-vend the slop code.

It’s was a pretty specific non standard port on UDP. It’s not even doing proper scanning since the byte sequence used isn’t one that would trigger a response challenge/ack. My guess is someone trying to DOS using an older byte sequence that used to choke/kill the server software on older versions.

The Belgian traffic? Almost entirely from a single residential IP — one box that sent over 156,000 login attempts, more than the entire country of Germany. It just sat there, hammering echo “\x6F\x6B” over and over, every single second, for weeks. Relentless.

Had a funny similar thing, there’s some weird person/people that randomly probe and attack a specific game’s community hosted dedicated servers; and one week this specific IP address out of Virginia was just hammering one of mine, with what amounts to a specific byte sequence, then an incrementing number of the packet (until it wrapped around). Then it stopped. Weird shit.

The course I’m in uses Algorithms (Fourth Edition) by Sedgwick and Wayne^[1], and I consider it pretty good. A large focus is on clear implementations that demonstrate the core parts of each algorithm, without getting bogged down in specialization, which I can appreciate. The book also has very good visualizations (they call them traces) if you learn better visually. The only real downside is it’s entirely Java oriented material. But since you’re working with C# this probably isn’t a deal breaker.

The other recommendation in the thread is Introduction to Algorithms, which I’ve read chapters of (used as reference) — personally it’s ok, definitely more abstract and math heavy, so if that’s something you want or appreciate then it’s a good option.

There’s also The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth, which to me is grad level stuff, very very math heavy, but also brilliant, if you can keep up.

Honestly probably a good thing long-term, lots of platforms have been dragging their heels in adopting better newer codecs, so maybe this will finally give the justification required to put in the engineering hours.

Ultimately Email is old technology, all the web frontends just get in the way more or less.

I use an email host that has roadmapped switching their frontend to one I don’t really like, so figured I’d get ahead of the curve and switch to a client that was open source and compatible with the typical standards — so I could learn it and never have to deal with another client again.

Ended up using Thunderbird, even for my old inboxes at the typical web companies

One client, all my emails in one spot, don’t have to deal with stupid UX changes being forced on users.

Not a fan of this model broadly. It discourages diverse membership and promotes cliques.

I thought LG was still manufacturing burners?

Saying that though, the price of those is like $200+ now apparently, which is crazy since I have two I originally got for about $80.

My issue with tape is ultimately the cost of drives, most of the time you’re just as well of buying an actual library device.

Plus managing the tape contents seems difficult.

If HDD prices ever go back down I’ll probably have to just make a NAS storage appliance.

Few manufacturers of burnable BD media these days. Sony left the market uh, I think last year.

Verbatim has said they’ll continue making them, as far as I can tell they’re the only company doing BDXLs — some are doing single layer.

For WORM backup media Blu-Ray is basically what we’ve got, and it’s concerning basically only one company is making it. Pioneer also left the player market so the quality of reading/writing devices is also getting questionable.

And what about when the AI owning class introduce intended bias?

It’s one the scariest outcomes possible. If people forego their reasoning and critical faculties for chat-bots. If you aren’t even the one thinking your own thoughts, who is?

It’s almost necessary at this point. At least some form of AI scraper prevention.

I had to take my public repos down a couple days ago, individuals and belligerents using botnets make blocking scrapers via normal means (user-agent/CIDR block) ineffective. So things like CloudFlare or Anubis are becoming necessary.