Comevius

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by Comevius 4y ago
It's a casual interview, not a dissertation. Beside the tone is the right one, crypto does a lot of damage to the planet and society for the benefit of a few already wealthy people, while pretending to be doing the opposite.
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by Comevius 4y ago
I found it informative, Nicholas Weaver knows what he is talking about. He calls these criminal enterprises for what they are.
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by Comevius 4y ago
Crypto attracts people with dark tetrad (machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism) personalities. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...
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by Comevius 4y ago
I don't see how blockchain technologies could help. The economies they create are profoundly unfair, inequal and adversarial. And I really don't want this new internet where everything is commodified.
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by Comevius 4y ago
Kleppman's Designing Data-Intensive Applications book should be able to hook you up with the basics.
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by Comevius 4y ago
Information thermodynamics is a fertile research field that gave us a lot of insight into physics, and also chemistry and biology. Beyond solving Maxwell's daemon (one of the early clues that information is physical and intricately lin
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by Comevius 4y ago
Doom became my favorite game lately since I started going down Doom history with Doomworld. https://www.doomworld.com/25years/ The AI is certainly limited, but the maps too, Doom not being a true 3D engine. The core me
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by Comevius 4y ago
This is a big rabbit hole to go down, but you can't entirely ignore Everett's many-worlds interpretation with a "not falsifiable" claim. The nature of probability is an important one to ponder. https://arxiv.o
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by Comevius 4y ago
Those damn C preprocessor macros. You have to become a compiler to understand C code. The elegant metaprogramming approach is what Zig does with comptime.
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by Comevius 4y ago
Garbage collectors and preemptively scheduled virtual threads require a runtime. Even GraalVM Native Image has a large runtime for this reason. There is no free lunch here.
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by Comevius 4y ago
Machine learning stuff. I never got around to that, because you ain't gonna need it, and I never did, but as a generalist it's a bind spot.
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by Comevius 4y ago
FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
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by Comevius 4y ago
Most game engines are probably written in C++, with scripting done in C#, Python, Lua or a custom language. But all languages are used. Minecraft was written in Java. A guy called Michal Ziulek is working on game development ecosystem for
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by Comevius 4y ago
Also related: https://media.handmade-seattle.com/practical-data-oriented-d...
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by Comevius 5y ago
They use public-key cryptography. Your device generates an RSA key pair. The private key is encrypted with your vault encryption key, and the public key is given to everyone who wants to share information with you. The information they encr
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by Comevius 5y ago
Personally I think the picture display is not user friendly (requiring a HTTP endpoint with a 800x480 monochrome bmp image). I like the calendar display, but concerned about the limitations and the price. Who is the customer? Decide that an
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by Comevius 5y ago
They mean blockchain technologies that can be vulnerable to governance attacks and oracle manipulation attacks. Blockchain technologies can increase confidence, but the confidence in them depends on their governance structure and the distri
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by Comevius 5y ago
My 5 cents on HN's civility is that people want to have an impact with their posts. On large forums (large subreddits, Twitter) you have to be very loud to be heard. Being outrageous, knee-jerk reactions easily get eyeballs, and don&#x
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by Comevius 5y ago
To get somewhere you have to be able to take risks, gather quality feedback (feedback tethered to reality) and create knowledge out of it. For the poor there are scarcely any opportunities, because they can't afford to take risks. For
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by Comevius 5y ago
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Switch emulators are very much CPU bottlenecked. Simulator games too, though many of those are memory performance bottlenecked.
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by Comevius 5y ago
I have a feeling that it will be challenging to revolutionize the world when most people have a hard time understanding what an NFT is. The problem could be that most of these projects are hastily put together to attract investors. You can
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by Comevius 5y ago
You kind of trivialized this by saying that if there is no problem there is no need for a solution. But in real life we are interdependent in non-obvious ways, and need more sophisticated solutions than shooting each other. The need for sop
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by Comevius 5y ago
Are we going to run into some kind of fundamental limit at around 500 million transistors per square millimeter or how long this can go on? Not complaining, just genuinely wondering. The M1 Ultra is at 130 million transistors per square mil
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by Comevius 5y ago
Defeating death would ironically cause us to die out. Death is essential to avoid stratification. Our minds are not compatible with living forever. In a way we are illusions, we don't exist without each other, so there is no reason kee
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by Comevius 5y ago
This is pretty cool, having the option to get paid out in USDC will create opportunity for many to hold the payout in USD without the cost of exchanging back and forth, provided that USDC is adequately backed and managed, and there are no c
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by Comevius 5y ago
The Russians shot 410 civilians just in Bucha alone. When they are not shooting and raping civilians, they use unguided munitions against cities.
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by Comevius 5y ago
The devil is in the details, words like socialism or capitalism long lost their meaning. The world is more complicated than that.
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by Comevius 5y ago
It would be awesome if this existed, but they said that they have self-driving already, so the change would be minimal. This thing won't even have a steering wheel, so it's either going to run preprogrammed routes, or Tesla manage
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by Comevius 5y ago
Storj is genuinely useful. It is however regular cloud storage, except the storage nodes that must be trusted will survive the company somehow. However the authenticated client-side encryption will protect your data, so the safety claim che
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by Comevius 5y ago
Youtube or Netflix content that's publicly shared would not have privacy protections aside from encryption in transit. The same goes for Facebook content that's publicly shared. But running a service like Youtube that keeps Google

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