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by Chabsff 4y ago
Why does it have to be a separate group? What makes you think that the AI researchers who perform these breakthroughs can't possibly be the ones who are concerned with collateral damage and harm that the tech they are developing could
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by Chabsff 4y ago
That doesn't work because it's not the ads themselves that serve the malware, but the page the ads point to. Changing that after the review is done is trivial, and asking landing pages to never change is simply unreasonable for a
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by Chabsff 4y ago
It works the other way around too: We read this is a self-deprecating joke because we are anthropomorphising the author.
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by Chabsff 4y ago
The reaction to this doesn't surprise me, but honestly? I think twitch did the right thing here (though probably for the wrong reasons). Was this joke punishable? Not by itself. However, it is strongly indicative that the safety nets r
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by Chabsff 4y ago
You have to put it in context. That stream is/was something very particular. The AI is terrible at making jokes, so the stream is funny to watch because it's a non-stop torrent of repeated failed attempts at telling jokes. "R
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Each Tether, on paper, represents a single US dollar locked into the crypto ecosystem. It's kind of like a company's war chest bank account: no matter what happens, the value of the asset is worth at least that much. But it's
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by Chabsff 4y ago
A tether collapse would instantly reduce the USD market cap of crypto by 80 billion, and that's without any investor behavior added on top. On top of that, Coinbase needs a stable coin to operate at any non-trivial scale. I'd say
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Centralized exchanges provide a lot more essential facility than fiat to bitcoin conversion. In particular, they provide acceptable transaction fees and acceptably fast transaction turnaround time.
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Revolutionise what? Sure, we can hand-wave away that it'll revolutionise *something*, but there's no direct candidate on the horizon. As of today, at best we can hope that more accurate quantum simulations could lead to some break
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Consider that the Jeopardy stunt was basically a sales pitch saying: "If it can do that for Jeopardy, then just imagine what it can do for you!" There is definitely an argument to be made that this was an empty promise. Not necess
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Kinda-Sorta. It depends on what you mean by "success". IBM has been doing a commendable job at managing expectations wrt/ quantum computing. e.g. from this very article: "The new 433 qubit 'Osprey' processor br
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Their point is that the current decentralised Bitcoin is functionally unusable and simply not ready for mass use. In that sense, a truly decentralized Bitcoin that people can actually make use of doesn't exist.
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Learning to code is ultimately not about learning a pile of information. It's about learning how to react when faced with a wall. There is definitely something to be said in favour of presenting students with small walls to face before
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by Chabsff 4y ago
the Brave browser could have been Chromium with uBlock Origin pre-packaged with it. That's it. That's all it ever needed to be. Looking around the codebase, it's filled with eyebrow-raising things like direct integration wi
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Maybe it's simply just not commercially viable in any way shape or form to build an ethically responsible web browser and distribute it for free.
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Sounds about right. Thank you.
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Early on in this debacle, I remember someone pointing out that Niemann's performance could be explained relatively easily by him having forward knowledge that Carlsen intended to use the unusual opening he went for. This would amount t
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Just in case you posted this as a counterpoint to what I'm saying... This blog effectively agrees with my position: Undefined Behavior is just "Stuff the compiler is allowed to assume never happens". And C++'s set of Und
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Strict aliasing is what prevents compilers from having to sprinkle Load-Hit-Stores all over the place. This is not a marginal performance difference, and doubly-so for CPUs with deep execution pipelines. It also has massive code-reorderin
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by Chabsff 4y ago
That's not even particularly good advice, which just goes to show how subtle the pitfalls are. The rule really should be "If it is at all possible to delete instances from a pointer to the base class, then you need a virtual destr
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by Chabsff 4y ago
C++ without strict aliasing is not C++ anymore. Furthermore, that was just an example. There are other such concepts, such as the illegality of accessing memory as anything else than raw bytes or the type of the object that resides there (w
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by Chabsff 4y ago
And this half of my main beef with the language. To be clear, I absolutely agree that this aspect of it is wonderful, but it is a double-edged sword, and the edge pointing at the programmer's face is very sharp. The second half of that
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Two things are wrong here: 1) The reason it can't be done with EVE is not because EVE is not on the blockchain. It just happens to not be possible because the devs didn't make it so. They could have, but they chose not to. 2) Some
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Sure, but my point is that the lack of blockchain technology is not what's preventing most games from featuring this, it's only the developer's willingness to do so.
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Thank you for the verbose answer, though I disagree with most points. 1) "having everything trading for essentially real money doesn't change that underlying level of engagement." It has been long established that this is abs
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by Chabsff 4y ago
This is not inherently made possible by the blockchain itself though. The mechanisms to transfer a Kitty to the HyperDragons lie within the CryptoKitty Smart Contract. This is not particularly different than a regular API, where the availa
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by Chabsff 4y ago
You cannot have a conversation about "crypto games" without addressing how crypto makes the game better. For the sake of this conversation, it doesn't particularly matter how fun CryptoKitties is. What matters is how does the
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by Chabsff 4y ago
If CO2 reduction was the only goal, then yes, that would be a very steep number. That's obviously not the case though.
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by Chabsff 4y ago
Hard disagree as far as the portions of it that are part of the user-facing public interface are concerned. But granted, as a general rule you are correct. I was referring specifically to API interfaces.
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by Chabsff 4y ago
In strongly-typed programming languages, which includes Typescript, figuring out the types *of the interface* is not something that's done after the fact. `@types/*` is an exceptional project meant to back-port JS libraries to Typ

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