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> 'tapping phones' gimmick strikes me as something that sounds cute but will become an annoying chore

That 'tapping phones' could also be used to facilitate key exchange verification, making that chore technically useful.

Then again, that would be better done in an open-source app and not tied to any particular domain.


Arguably, that's exactly the one action that will need to be hash-pinned, since all the consecutive actions will at least be verified against the lockfile.


Right, completely agree! By "must run unpinned" I meant "no way it can make itself run pinned, since it's already running"


> any notable increase in PM2.5 particles

What's your PM2.5 baseline, and did you measure TDS in the water?


Since Nov it's been fluctuating between 5-7 ug/mg, with a few spikes hitting 9 and 10. At this moment its a 6.

I haven't checked the TDS but when I used a water test strip for an aquarium early this year it was in the hard water range.


Thanks to this post, I checked my ultrasonic filled with tap water. With it running all night in a bedroom with an open door, morning pm2.5 readings are ~30 and the meter is in the kitchen.


If you have a privilege to replace the kernel or bootloader, you effectively have all privileges on that system. Therefore, there's no need to complicate the access limitations when you get full access anyway.


Sounds like their "FL1 -> FL2" transition is involved in both.


It was involved in the previous one, but not in this latest one. All FL2 did was prevent the outage being even wider spread than it was. None of this had anything to do with migration.


If FL2 didn't have the outage, and FL1 did, the pace of the migration did have an impact.

Though this is showing the problem with these things: Migrating faster could have reduced the impact of this outage, while increasing the impact of the last outage. Migrating slower could have reduced the impact of the last outage, while increasing the impact of this outage.

This is a hard problem: How fast do you rip old working infrastructure out and risk finding new problems in the new stack, yet, how long do you tolerate shortcomings of the old stack that caused you to build the new stack?


> Tesseract (which is the best I have so far)

Have you looked at EasyOCR?


EasyOCR is significantly worse than Tesseract for clean printed text and , while being orders of magnitude slower; far better than Tesseract for low-quality clean scans and extracting text from pictures (e.g. comics), which Tesseract does not as well.


Have you tried Abbyy FineReader? It's the best OCR package I've seen.


It doesn't seem to have a Linux version; I don't have a mac or windows machine.


> how all the popular dynamic languages have slowly become statically typed

Count the amount of `Any` / `unknown` / `cast` / `var::type` in those codebases, and you'll notice that they aren't particularly statically typed.

The types in dynamic languages are useful for checking validity in majority of the cases, but can easily be circumvented when the types become too complicated.

It is somewhat surprising that dynamic languages didn't go the pylint way, i.e. checking the codebase by auto-determined types (determined based on actual usage).


Julia (by default) does the latter, and its terrible. It makes it a) slow, because you have to do nonlocal inference through entire programs, b) impossible to type check generic library code where you have no actual usage, c) very hard to test that some code works generically, as opposed to just with these concrete types, and finally d) break whenever you have an Any anywhere in the code so the chain of type information is broken.


> With a physical SIM, I can pry my card out of one phone and put it into another, and expect it to work

Is anything preventing the provider from denying a SIM swap based on IMEI?


> the client is not packaging up all its logic and sending a single blob that describes the fully-chained logic to the server on its initial request. Right

See "But how do we solve arrays" part:

> > .map() is special. It does not send JavaScript code to the server, but it does send something like "code", restricted to a domain-specific, non-Turing-complete language. The "code" is a list of instructions that the server should carry out for each member of the array


Tangential: is "without requiring knowledge of data patterns" a frequently useful requirement? I.e. isn't knowledge of data patterns basically required for any performance optimization?


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