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by AgentME 4y ago
The web tries very hard to avoid backwards incompatibilities. I don't expect the WASM standard to ever directly get any backwards incompatibilities, unless they're opt-in (like how using JS modules stops you from using with-statem
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by AgentME 5y ago
I think given that humans evolved to make trade-offs in order to have large brains is a sign that humans generally having large brains is useful, but the usual idea that a large brain is strictly necessary for human intelligence doesn'
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by AgentME 5y ago
It definitely helped for getting into college, which helped me out a lot, though fittingly I did end up dropping out of college years into it because of more projects I picked up on my own which then helped get me a job. I think a lot of ho
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by AgentME 5y ago
The model of game where there's a big shared goal among the playerbase that they can work together in is fun and can include stuff like easter-egg hunting, solving unsolved puzzles, figuring out speedrun strategies, etc. It's exci
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by AgentME 5y ago
I used to be really into the Doom modding community and the ZDoom forums specifically 10-15 years ago, so it's really funny to me seeing a reference to this here now. Back then I got invited into helping on a big custom map pack projec
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by AgentME 5y ago
I spend a lot of time hiding whole comment subtrees when browsing Reddit threads, especially on mobile. I'd do that on HN too except HN's UI is completely mobile-hostile with how tiny its buttons are. I don't fault Twitter fo
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by AgentME 5y ago
Luddites get panned today as just being reflexively anti-technology, but they were acting in their self-interest: they were the textile workers whose expertise and careers were threatened by machines. They lost their livelihoods. It's
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by AgentME 5y ago
It takes decades of training to make new humans useful enough to participate in many subjects of research. Having AGI researchers means being able to duplicate any expert researcher at any time. Getting more computing equipment to run more
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by AgentME 5y ago
Anything with much greater capabilities than us that would find our resources useful and that doesn't explicitly have our best values at heart would be a danger to us. European settlers were not good news for the Native Americans. Earl
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by AgentME 5y ago
If we make an AGI at anything like human level, then even without any real progress past that, it will become superhuman just by removing biological limits (like being able to duplicate itself instead of having to convince and train other h
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by AgentME 5y ago
This seems like saying since a person's individual neurons can't understand Chinese, then a person can't actually understand Chinese either.
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by AgentME 5y ago
Human ancestors evolved larger and larger brain sizes until they reached the limits of what we can calorically support and by what fits through the birth canal. It seems unlikely to me that these limits just happen to line up with general l
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by AgentME 5y ago
You've got it: this is purely an issue during boot-up before enough quality entropy has been gathered. If a malicious userspace program writes predictable data to /dev/random immediately on boot, and the system counts it towa
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by AgentME 5y ago
>Consider the case of a crypto mine being established in a remote and isolated location in the desert (or on the moon) with plenty of sunshine and solar power. As long as the mine has an internet connection, it can use the available sola
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by AgentME 5y ago
Third-party cookies seem to be on the way out thankfully. I agree that there should be a permission necessary (or at least some much better heuristic) for allowing a webpage to use too much CPU/memory.
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by AgentME 5y ago
Isn't fluoride in drinking water a massive public health success? Bringing that example up makes me wonder if our laws are right to enable more success stories like that. (Not staking any position on whether the OP story about contagio
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by AgentME 5y ago
If web apps are fully sandboxed by default as today, then presenting the user a UI for a web page wanting to upgrade to a (still sandboxed permissionless) web app seems like a waste of the user's attention. Why should the user see a pr
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by AgentME 5y ago
This API can allow applications that work with files to be made as strongly-sandboxed web apps instead of unsandboxed applications. If the API didn't exist and the user had to download an unsandboxed application to work with a file, th
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by AgentME 5y ago
React is a great way to do progressive enhancement: you can have the same component code run on the server and client. On the server, it will only be used for creating static html. On the client, the component code will bind to the already
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by AgentME 5y ago
Awesome! I had actually been considering starting a library for using QuickJS+WASM for sandboxing soon.
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by AgentME 5y ago
Gridcoin (the cryptocurrency you're referring to) doesn't actually use the scientific computation as proof-of-work. It's built on proof-of-stake. It just also happens to have minting set up so new coins go to people doing sci
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by AgentME 5y ago
JSX doesn't have loops. When using React, you use regular not-React-specific Javascript tools to do loops and create lists of React elements.
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by AgentME 5y ago
Are we talking about the risk of the company being entirely destroyed, or the risk of it being made inconvenient for them to serve Russian customers? I figure this thread is about the second one since those are the consequences that are hap
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by AgentME 5y ago
Are US businesses even going to be able to keep doing business with Russia? Is it a mistake for any businesses to be based in the US when there's a risk of losing access to Russia? Is it a mistake for businesses to be based in the US w
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by AgentME 5y ago
And with all of the sanctions against the financial connections to Russia, it seems like there will probably be lots of complications in even doing business with Russians. Purely from a business standpoint I can understand cutting off the m
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by AgentME 5y ago
Why should NameCheap have done anything differently? The idea that they should have run their company differently so that they could keep doing business with a hostile country presumes that it's more desirable for them to do that than
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by AgentME 5y ago
Saying that the situation with Apple refusing standards now is good in order to possibly protect us from Google pushing harmful non-standards later feels like a bad excuse for them.
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by AgentME 5y ago
(going off-topic, talking about language) >So it should be blocked. Upd: many commenters here clearly misread my comment, or maybe it's my poor English. "It should be blocked" means that it is in Putin's interest to b
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by AgentME 5y ago
It's a super massive stretch to imagine this invalidates Ethereum. Only some specific types of contracts are vulnerable to front-running issues and there are workarounds. The article is about the difficulty of being the first to take f
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by AgentME 5y ago
When I saw this comment, my first thought was "this explanation must be useful for people who don't get internet references, like old people". And then I remembered the movie is from 2006. Oh god we're the old people mak

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