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dude187 commented on The Collapse of the FDA   nytimes.com/2025/07/08/ma... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
Xss3 · a month ago
There are serious cyber security implications too.

A recent discovery was a heart rate monitor used in hospitals that sent all data, including full patient details, to Chinese servers, and would accept arbitrary code updates from said servers.

If you wanted to kill a diplomat, muting or spoofing heart rate data while they have a cardiac event in hospital would be a very sneaky way to do it.

dude187 · a month ago
But the FDA didn't stop that...
dude187 commented on The Collapse of the FDA   nytimes.com/2025/07/08/ma... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
CleaveIt2Beaver · a month ago
We get it, all lives matter.

The point they're making is that $currentAdministration ran specifically on a platform countering this behavior and have failed to keep those promises, whereas others which ignored it simply did not mention it.

dude187 · a month ago
> We get it, all lives matter.

I don't understand what you're getting at here

dude187 commented on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"    · Posted by u/bookofjoe
GZGavinZhao · a month ago
"tell me you like Haskell without telling me you like Haskell" moment
dude187 · a month ago
I mean, he basically said directly that he likes Haskell lol
dude187 commented on IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge   theregister.com/2025/04/1... · Posted by u/rntn
mcphage · 4 months ago
> By relying on quotas you have to dig deeper into the minority pool of candidates, and are more likely to get someone less skilled than if you hadn't used quotas.

What? By pulling from a larger pool of candidates, you’re more likely to get someone more skilled.

dude187 · 4 months ago
You're narrowing the pool by only hiring specific races or sexes. Not widening it.

Do you believe that hiring currently excludes those races and sexes? Because that's explicitly illegal, and has been for a long time

dude187 commented on How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/sipofwater
WorldPeas · 5 months ago
I'm surprised they'd let you do so in the claim luggage, but in this case it was carry-on. The story goes my mother just walked through customs and got on the plane with it.
dude187 · 5 months ago
Yeah carry on got the stupid liquid ban that's still around, but I don't think much if anything got banned from checked luggage after 9/11. Just the standard stuff like batteries and other things that could have issues in an unpressurized non temperature controlled hold.

Even carry on got a lot better than it used to be in the days right after that. Like I'm pretty sure they had banned lighters for a bit (and a lot of people assume they still are) but they're explicitly allowed and I throw mine right into the scanner bin every time I fly. Not even being able to carry in a sealed bottle of water and having to take your shoes off is stupid, but about the extent of what's left. No more keeping all liquids (what even counts as a liquid?) in a ziplock bag and having to take it out, and even laptops can stay in with the new scanners they're rolling out

I've carried on an inflatable life vest with an active CO2 cartridge and that's also listed as fine. Though it did get flagged and secondary screened because it was in my bag, even though they don't say you have to leave it out.

In general the more you fly if you pay attention, you can pretty much know what will trigger it if you put it in your bag. Metal water bottle in the bag? Your bag is getting pulled, every time. I've even told them right where to look lol. Left out and it goes right through.

dude187 commented on How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/sipofwater
WorldPeas · 5 months ago
My family has a large bottle of wine my mother took from Italy to New York in the 90s. Wild how the times change.
dude187 · 5 months ago
That hasn't changed, they could still bring a bottle back if they choose
dude187 commented on How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/sipofwater
wg0 · 5 months ago
Even Arab dictatorships don't search phones on entry. What's happening here?
dude187 · 5 months ago
Where did you get that idea? First one I picked to look up (Saudi Arabia) does, and I guarantee all the rest do as well

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...

dude187 commented on The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed"   sensible-med.com/p/the-ni... · Posted by u/SubiculumCode
amanaplanacanal · 6 months ago
> allowing professional male combat athletes to unfairly dominate female participants

Had this actually happened somewhere, or is it just a hypothetical? Like trans women assaulting cis women en masse in women's restrooms.

dude187 · 6 months ago
Both of those are real things that have real examples
dude187 commented on Nearly 25 years later, Terminator 2 is getting a new video game   gizmodo.com/nearly-25-yea... · Posted by u/ulrischa
turnsout · 6 months ago
Maybe if they repeat "25 years later" enough times they won't need to check the math on 2026-1991
dude187 · 6 months ago
I was really doubting my perception of time for a minute there lol. T2 already felt like an older movie when the new minimum hit
dude187 commented on There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer   byroot.github.io/ruby/per... · Posted by u/ciconia
atombender · 6 months ago
Most analyses I've read say the threshold is around the 80% mark [1], although it depends on how model the distribution, and there's nothing magical about the number. The main thing is to avoid getting close to 100%, because wait times go up exponentially as you get closer to the max.

Little's Law is fundamental to queueing theory, but there's also the less well-known Kingman's formula, which incorporates variability of arrival rate and task size [2].

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/01/30/server-utilization...

[2] https://taborsky.cz/posts/2021/kingman-formula/

dude187 · 6 months ago
Really both of those models show 60% as about the limit to where you're still effectively at the baseline for latency. 80% is just about the limit to where you're up there in the exponential rise, any higher and things become unusable.

0-60 and you're still at minimum latency. 60-80 you're at twice the latency but it's probably worth the cost savings of the extra compute density since it's still pretty low. Higher than 80 and things are already slowing down and getting exponentially worse by the request

u/dude187

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