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gorkish commented on People who know the formula for WD-40   wsj.com/business/the-secr... · Posted by u/fortran77
Spooky23 · 18 days ago
That was our theory in the office when we taste tested the various cokes. The favorite by far was kosher for Passover coke. At first we thought it was the sugar vs. HFCS, but bottled Mexican coke didn’t fare as well — blind most people thought Coke Zero (which is my favorite coke) was Mexican Coke.

My theory was that the carbonation was perfect and the product was fresher, as the bottler requires rabbinical supervision and they probably make it for a limited run.

gorkish · 18 days ago
There is essentially zero chemical difference whatsoever in sugar vs corn syrup coke. sucrose disassociates in the presence of an acid into glucose+fructose simple sugars. Just being carbonated will disassociate the sucrose.
gorkish commented on JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back   nproject.io/blog/juicessh... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
gorkish · 18 days ago
Just a cynical observation here, but its funny how the author still hangs onto the notion that it is "the best" despite that it de facto cannot be "the best."

Also, maybe dont rely on a poorly maintained app for making secure connections to your systems? Just me?

gorkish commented on     · Posted by u/auraham
guiltyf · 18 days ago
> You didn't just write code. You built a living intelligence.

This tagline at the end of the website is one of those formulas that I can't help but link to language models.

I'm not saying it couldn't come from a human but since I started noticing it, I find it so cheesy and patronizing, it gets on my nerves.

gorkish · 18 days ago
It is kinda weird how all the chat type tools all spit out such cheeseball language despite that the raw models almost never generate stuff like that. It honestly just makes me feel like the people making this shit are so caught up in their own hype bubble that it doesn't even register to them as abhorrent.
gorkish commented on NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power   lists.nanog.org/archives/... · Posted by u/lpage
puzzlingcaptcha · 2 months ago
I think people have a wrong idea of what a modern atomic clock looks like. These are readily available commercially, Microchip for example will happily sell you hydrogen, cesium or rubidium atomic clocks. Hydrogen masers are rather unwieldy, but you can get a rubidium clock in a 1U format and cesium ones are not much bigger. I think their cesium freq standards are formerly a HP business they acquired.

Example: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/co...

gorkish · 2 months ago
woah hold on a sec. that's not how these clocks are actually used though.

It's a huge huge huge misconception that you can just plunk down an "atomic clock", discipline an NTP server with it and get perfect wallclock time out of it forever. That is just not how it works. Two hydrogen masers sitting next to each other will drift. Two globally distributed networks of hydrogen masers will drift. They cannot NOT drift. The universe just be that way.

UTC is by definition a consensus; there is no clock in the entire world that one could say is exactly tracking it.

Google probably has the gear and the global distribution that they could probably keep pretty close over 30-60 days, but they are assuredly not trying to keep their own independent time standard. Their goal is to keep events correlated on their own network, and for that they just need good internal distribution and consensus, and they are at the point where doing that internally makes sense. But this is the same problem on any size network.

Honestly for just NTP, I've never really seen evidence that anything better than a good GPS disciplined TCXO even matters. The reason they offer these oscillators in such devices is because they usually do additional duties like running PtP or distributing a local 10mhz reference where their specific performance characteristics are more useful. Rubidium, for instance, is very stable at short timescales but has awful long term stability.

gorkish commented on Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua   galileo.ai/blog/how-we-bo... · Posted by u/lneiman
PunchyHamster · 2 months ago
I'm gonna guess just switching from round-robin to leastconn (most balancers offer that option) would solve that just fine. You can then go to dynamically tune server weights if you have servers of unequal size or some other issues.
gorkish · 2 months ago
Yeah I really don't understand why they went this direction as it builds considerable additional complexity directly into the application to solve a problem with an external component

I would have probably approached this by implementing a fix for the misbehaving part of k8s, though since there isnt a default LoadBalancer in k8s, I can't really can't speculate further as to the root cause of the initial problem. But most CNI or cloud providers that implement LB do have a way to take feedback from an external metric. I'd be curious why doing it this way wasn't considered, at least.

gorkish commented on FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices   fex-emu.com/... · Posted by u/open-paren
astrange · 3 months ago
If you mean FEAT_FlagM, that's standard in ARMv8.4. (There's also FlagM2 and AFP that are optional.)

The JavaScript instruction is cooler though.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/g/A64-Floati...

gorkish · 3 months ago
RISC is dead; long live RISC
gorkish commented on NanoMi: Source-available transmission electron microscope   nanomi.org/... · Posted by u/pillars
gorkish · 4 months ago
I had a look and this project is most definitely not open source. Nobody should be making that claim.

Changing the HN headline to soften the project's own bombastic claim isn't really the point of the argument. It would bhe better to highlight any project that is actually working on open source microscopy of which there are many. Flagged

gorkish commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
mastercheif · 6 months ago
In my experience, web search often tanks the quality of the output.

I don't know if it's because of context clogging or that the model can't tell what's a high quality source from garbage.

I've defaulted to web search off and turn it on via the tools menu as needed.

gorkish · 6 months ago
Web search often tanks the quality of MY output these days too. Context clogging seems a reasonable description of what I experience when I try to use the normal web.
gorkish commented on Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos   news.cornell.edu/stories/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
mustyoshi · 6 months ago
Doesn't this just fall apart if a video is reencoded? Something fairly common on all video platforms.
gorkish · 6 months ago
No, unsafe-yt
gorkish commented on Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos   news.cornell.edu/stories/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
mpascale00 · 6 months ago
Without having read into this deeper, it sounds like someone could take an original video which has this code embedded as small fluctuations in luminance over time and edit it or produce a new video, simply applying the same luminance changes to the edited areas/generated video, no? It seems for a system like this every pixel would need to be digitally signed by the producer for it to be non-repudiable.
gorkish · 6 months ago
So what if your adversary relays your encrypted message along another channel?

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