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by AgentME 6y ago
Who are they trying to appease? Trump? What agenda are they pushing specifically? "Don't get yourself infected or do ridiculous dangerous things to try to cure yourself"? Is that specific agenda bad?
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by AgentME 6y ago
If a config file isn't deterministic (because it's executable and can read info from its environment), then it can be harder for tools to introspect on the full config (imagine an IDE showing your project's settings or a to
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by AgentME 6y ago
What do you think their real motivation is? Take advantage of this event to take their place as the Ministry of Truth and censor their way into being at the top of the New World Order? Or maybe they really just weren't happy with airin
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by AgentME 6y ago
>at some level almost all games could be reduced to a version of cookie clicker I can think of some interesting counterexamples: in games like Minecraft and Factorio, you create something and are left with an interesting artifact you&#x2
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by AgentME 6y ago
If AWS used Intel SGX, then it would be possible for them to offer VMs that ran inside of a secure enclave that AWS could not peer into as long as Intel didn't give them a backdoor. (Well, it seems like SGX is insecure right now with a
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by AgentME 6y ago
In git's case, by cryptographic agility I was imagining a Gitv2 which would produce SHA-256 hashes by default on new commits, and was able to still understand SHA-1 hashes on old commits so it could continue to read data produced by Gi
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by AgentME 6y ago
SHA1 was already found to be weak when git was made. Linus would have done better to use a strong hashing algorithm to begin with than to try to incorporate cryptographic agility. It was only found to be weak a few months before git's
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by AgentME 6y ago
Wouldn't patenting a performance optimization just work to prevent all browsers from adopting it?
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by AgentME 6y ago
Here's a video from Tyler (VNN) talking explaining the leak: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/599332362 tl;dr: A Valve employee in 2016 told Tyler about a few things Valve was working on. Tyler kept the chat log and s
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by AgentME 6y ago
A makefile works great when you have a pile of source files and you want to make a parallel pile of output files, and each source file is compiled individually. It's not so great when you have a compilation process where you have a fol
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by AgentME 6y ago
I think there's a big difference between the game downloading a DLL straight from the game developers (not all that different from an update) and a game downloading a DLL from a random server you join (that could be run by anyone that
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by AgentME 7y ago
There's a whole section at the end with his theories about why you could expect someone like him to get this better than the experts (the experts were too busy managing the intricacies of Plan A instead of constantly rigorously checkin
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by AgentME 7y ago
The game does introduce a few ways to deal with this: there's cars and trains for getting around fast, but also you can command construction bots from any distance if they're in an area with radar coverage. It is a bit limited, bu
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by AgentME 7y ago
The modern economy is a human invention. We can patch it with things like stimulus payments and eviction holds instead of blindly following it off a cliff into a worse health crisis. Sure we don't have infinite control over it, but we
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by AgentME 7y ago
People can take down their git repos, or remove branches/commits/tags.
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by AgentME 7y ago
In my experience, in the same cases that IPv4 would have multiple users behind one /32, IPv6 would have multiple users behind one /64.
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by AgentME 7y ago
>Starting from some entirely arbitrary simple formal system and working upwards and hoping you'll bump into reality along the way is very, shall we say, optimistic. Honestly, I think this is a great way of describing what they'
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by AgentME 7y ago
From the main article, it looks like they believe that relativity and quantum mechanics are both things that directly emerge as necessary consequences from the structure, not that those are arbitrary results that may be computed inside. It
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by AgentME 7y ago
>where Wolfram has branching from undeterministic applications of rules. I'm not sure how Wolfram can derive unitary evolution. I don't think it's right to call it nondeterministic: every possible sequence of rules happens
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by AgentME 7y ago
>[4] Why just one rule? Is a specific combination of rules not itself a rule? A lot of descriptions of Conway's Game of Life describe it as multiple rules, and other places refer to its whole setup as a "rule". Rule 30 is
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by AgentME 7y ago
I've always liked the idea that the universe worked something like a cellular automaton at its lowest level, but I was always uncomfortable with how that presupposed a specific grid and a very rigid system of time. This system of hyper
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by AgentME 7y ago
I'm only halfway through the page, but so far it looks like it's describing a system that's compatible with the Many-Worlds Interpretation, and MWI is local without violating Bell's theorem.
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by AgentME 7y ago
Is using nixos not enough to have a deterministic install?
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by AgentME 7y ago
>if not, one must necessarily accept that reality 'comes from' nothing. UDASSA ( http://fennetic.net/irc/finney.org/~hal/udassa/ ) is the closest thing I've seen to a believable idea abou
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by AgentME 7y ago
Bell's Theorem implies that if there is some kind of hidden variable controlling the outcome of a random quantum event like a seed, then it must work non-locally, which maybe doesn't completely rule it out, but it's really su
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by AgentME 7y ago
True, but I think this isn't a good response to the idea that determinism means you don't have control over your life. Reality having randomness doesn't give us more control over our lives. (If anything, I'd think that f
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by AgentME 7y ago
If I'm reading it right, the article agrees with you. It's saying that they want 230's protection, but the EARN IT act will take it away from people doing end-to-end protection like Signal.
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by AgentME 7y ago
The article here is about how the media can often help spread misinformation, which can be really bad in a pandemic, so going to guess that's what they're concerned about.
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by AgentME 7y ago
There was a book on computers I found in my childhood that inspired me to get into programming, and I'm really interested in finding it again. I'm convinced it was either an Usborne book or was somehow related to the Usborne books
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by AgentME 7y ago
NPM disallowed un-publishing modules within a few days of that incident. It's not a thing that happens any more. Also, NPM for years has defaulted to creating lockfiles with all the specific versions of dependencies pinned, so even if

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