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New comment by plonk in "X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled"

plonk — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:25:04 +0000

Longforms from papers like the Economist actually really interest me, and I look forward to opening them even when my life is pretty happy already. But you need to find non-extreme papers that match your interests and keep reading time under control.

New comment by plonk in "X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled"

plonk — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:54:10 +0000

> The mental effect of 'its different from mainstream, thus better and look at me how clever I am for finding it out 5 minutes before most of group'.

It's not because of lag time, and it's not because it's different from mainstream, it's due to growing frustration with older media that I slowly developed before I even knew about Twitter and my experience following interesting people on there. It's gotten worse since Musk, some have moved to bsky or mastodon, but it's still the best source for me.

I understand your point of view but I don't find your assumption very charitable, there are real reasons for this that have been touched on.

New comment by plonk in "X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled"

plonk — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:52:07 +0000

Some are pretty verifiable accounts from actual academics, CTOs, journalists, that's the ones I'm interested in. You can get multiple sources on one website with fewer filters, that's what makes it a good source

New comment by plonk in "How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?"

plonk — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 06:42:01 +0000

They're fine where they are useful, I guess, but my undergrad put way too much emphasis on them when they're not intuitive, don't help (me) much with comprehension, and aren't useful in that many cases compared to the other techniques.

New comment by plonk in "X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled"

plonk — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 06:39:57 +0000

Other media is frustrating because it's always heavily filtered, has an agenda, and always talks like a PR release. It's like they're trying to keep some image of a respectable paper and so have to write in that stupid title - subtitle that repeats the title - first paragraph that repeats the subtitle - 30 paragraphs in complete disorder, half of which are a waste of time format

Edit: someone on Twitter obviously also has an agenda, but it's not hidden behind a supposedly impartial image (NYT, etc.), it's just some guy with known credentials posting opinions

New comment by plonk in "How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?"

plonk — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:57:43 +0000

Don't machine learning books kind of fill that gap? e.g. Bishop uses probabilistic reasoning, Elements of Statistical Learning seems to be heavy on frequentist stats (haven't read it though), etc.

New comment by plonk in "How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?"

plonk — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:56:32 +0000

I like that he leaves determinants to a later chapter and doesn't _start_ with them, I never understood why they were useful or made sense. His view, represented on the cover, is great for learning

New comment by plonk in "How to choose a textbook that is optimal for oneself?"

plonk — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:55:19 +0000

Big schools' curricula? Look at some top school's math undergrad courses and graph them

New comment by plonk in "Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?"

plonk — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:52:08 +0000

I've taken a position in CRWD and I'm retail, but take that as the opposite of investment advice. Worked well in the past, though.

New comment by plonk in "Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?"

plonk — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:42:59 +0000

It’s only market manipulation if you have the intention of making the stock go down, right? If answering the OP is illegal, then no employee of any listed company can ever say something bad about it, which sounds too restrictive?

New comment by plonk in "Ask HN: Can anyone from Crowdstrike explain the back story?"

plonk — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:40:56 +0000

Did a company ever get sentenced for a bug? Maybe in aviation or medical tech?

New comment by plonk in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

plonk — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 09:35:10 +0000

Sounds like this is hugely emotionally taxing, do you just get used to it after a while, or is it a constant weight?

This is why I'm impressed by anyone who works in a hospital, especially the more urgent/intensive care

New comment by plonk in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

plonk — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 09:32:55 +0000

yea I don't need an attack on a weak system, I mean the authorized legal normal way of unlocking BL from Windows when you have the right credentials. Windows might not be able to unlock BitLocker with just your password.

I don't know how common it is to disable TPM-stored keys in companies, but on personal licenses, you need group policy to even allow that.

Although this is moot if Windows recovery mode is accepted as the right system by the TPM. But aren't permissions/privileges a bit neutered in that mode?

New comment by plonk in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

plonk — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:49:50 +0000

Don’t you need more options if the key is in a TPM, or there is a password but it’s only part of the key?

Can you even get the secret from the TPM in recovery mode?

New comment by plonk in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

plonk — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:46:50 +0000

Did the person survive?

New comment by plonk in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

plonk — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:46:14 +0000

Billions in losses means a somewhat worse life for a huge number of people and potentially much worse healthcare problems down the line, the NHS was affected

Windows on Arm puts Intel on notice

plonk — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:24:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187343/intel-windows-on-arm-microsoft-qualcomm-notepad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40818990

Points: 3

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New comment by plonk in "How to prolong lithium based batteries"

plonk — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:04:00 +0000

"The battery is messed up after 2 years" is a complaint I've seen and it was pretty damaging to my buying intentions. Just one data point

New comment by plonk in "How The Economist’s presidential forecast works"

plonk — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:19:46 +0000

> heart attack risk

Not sure, but don't ECGs find cases of severe plaques or narrowed arteries? Or most cases of heart disease.

> aneurism risk

An angiography should find most cases, from some quick research. "The CTA sensitivity, specificity and accuracy was 80%, 43% and 73%, respectively. The CTA sensitivity for aneurysms < 3 mm and 3 mm – 5 mm in size was 30% and 81.5%, respectively (p = 0.024)." [1]

Agree on the rest though.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10244944/

New comment by plonk in "How The Economist’s presidential forecast works"

plonk — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:04:41 +0000

I wonder if he does CT/MRI/angiograms to find any vascular abnormalities. Seems to be a big cause of sudden death, but they don't talk about it. One CT for a 70-year-old head of state doesn't sound like too much?