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New comment by pnpnp in "New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly"

pnpnp — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:03:34 +0000

I should have clarified - I meant the mechanism of action for the new treatment.

New comment by pnpnp in "The iOS option to charge battery to "80% Limit" shouldn't just be for iPhone 15"

pnpnp — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:02:26 +0000

Same. I have mine set to sit at ~50% while plugged in & still have 100% of my battery health.

It’s an M1 Pro MacBook that I’ve had since launch.

New comment by pnpnp in "New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly"

pnpnp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:04:31 +0000

Do we know what the mechanism of action is?

New comment by pnpnp in "Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users"

pnpnp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:10:02 +0000

I'm not defending blockchain, just pointing out that part of the example wasn't really a good one. Property ownership being something that's already completely public.

I have a public map overlay on my phone that gives me deed information for (AFAIK) every parcel I can see in the USA.

New comment by pnpnp in "Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users"

pnpnp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:08:51 +0000

Some of it is, but things like property ownership are completely open in some countries. I have a map overlay that lets me see ownership for parcels.

Granted you can have an LLC own property, but that's a different obfuscation mechanism.

New comment by pnpnp in "Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users"

pnpnp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:51:59 +0000

> So everyone you interact with knows where you work, how much you earn, what you own, where's your house, what you buy, what groups you belong to... and they can keep tracking you forever if you tell them who you are just once.

Granted public blockchain is a lot more discoverable, but a lot of this already is public. Property ownership is public (at least in the US), credit cards sell your data, facebook knows which groups you belong to, etc.

New comment by pnpnp in "OpenBSD 7.4"

pnpnp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:02:53 +0000

I won’t go over their history, but they’ve saved me in the past.

Here’s to hoping we get a modern FS soon!

New comment by pnpnp in "OpenBSD 7.4"

pnpnp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:20:06 +0000

It looks like some mirrors have packages going way back (http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/), but depending on your use-case, it may be more beneficial to focus on the base system upgrades (documented in the upgrade guide) and worry about the packages later.

That many years of package changes could be troublesome to deal with, and it may be better to fast-forward to whatever the modern tooling would be.

New comment by pnpnp in "OpenBSD 7.4"

pnpnp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:15:45 +0000

What are you using them for? I feel a lot more comfortable using OpenBSD in production than Linux for the long-term (my personal opinion). I've been using it since ~3.5, and the 6 months releases have been ticking along nearly flawlessly for a long, long time.

New comment by pnpnp in "OpenBSD 7.4"

pnpnp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:13:43 +0000

Did you have softupdates turned on?

New comment by pnpnp in "Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees"

pnpnp — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 17:33:37 +0000

Counter-point: it can also be extremely cheap.

I’m in a seemingly small subset of people that is very happy with AWS for side projects. Granted I’m not doing anything that requires many resources.

New comment by pnpnp in "The Army is planning for a conflict with China–including shoring up blood supply"

pnpnp — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 17:22:14 +0000

Playing devil’s advocate - this was thought to be a real possibility during the Cold War, and it seems like we came pretty close a few times during that period.

New comment by pnpnp in "The Army is planning for a conflict with China–including shoring up blood supply"

pnpnp — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:02:55 +0000

I’m not making predictions about anything, but part of their job is to prepare for worst-case scenarios.

New comment by pnpnp in "AI accurately predicted 70% of earthquakes a week in advance"

pnpnp — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 01:38:36 +0000

How does this statistic compare to experts?

New comment by pnpnp in "Ferrari to accept crypto as payment for its cars in the US"

pnpnp — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 18:15:08 +0000

Yes

It’s similar to how when I travel overseas, I have local currency in my account & that gets converted to local currency through an intermediary as I pay.

The intermediary usually charges a small fee. I only see local currency exit my account, and the seller only sees their local currency enter theirs.

New comment by pnpnp in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

pnpnp — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:43:48 +0000

We are much in the same boat :) Satellite has been a game changer for us as outdoor-oriented people.

New comment by pnpnp in ""Hallucinating" AIs sound creative, but let's not celebrate being wrong"

pnpnp — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 21:06:58 +0000

I’m not sure I agree with this one. My Google results have gotten pretty awful lately.

I’ll usually go to an LLM for a very specific search term, then Google to find a reference or validate.

New comment by pnpnp in "Study finds the gulf stream is warming and shifting closer to shore"

pnpnp — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:24:59 +0000

AI overlords to the rescue! /s

That sounds about like what I was expecting :(

New comment by pnpnp in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

pnpnp — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:21:22 +0000

Ah, that’s too bad. I think (please correct if I’m wrong) those have some trouble in canyons at higher latitudes. The nice thing about Iridium is if you wait a few minutes, a bird will usually show up overhead. It’s nice for SAR missions we help with in the mountains.

New comment by pnpnp in ""Full Self-Driving" doesn't imply autonomy, Tesla engineer says"

pnpnp — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:07:18 +0000

Exactly where Tesla’s marketing failed. It irritates me as a pilot that they have given it a new definition.

Autopilots have been around a long time, and have a very specific meaning. They require training, knowing what their limitations are, constant monitoring, and frequent manual input.

I’m not sure what Tesla thought they were doing by billing it as a “hands off” term.