Comevius

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My feeling is that this does something to the discoverability problem, to music patronage that's completely superfluous and doesn't serve the artists or their audience. It's being pushed by NFT enthusiasts and a16z, but yet t
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The closest technology we have are verifiable databases, usually immutable ones. They can detect the server modifying the data, either with a Merkle or vector commitment tree, which blockchain technology also relies on. The difference is th
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I'm certainly open for suprises. There may be subjective value, but there is also fraud and exploitation. Calling it out is not wrong. I would be very interested in a16z honestly writing about the actual problems in this industry, how
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The point is that people would have the option to opt-out of or opt-in to privacy, when that makes sense. Not every company would offer those options, but no company can today, except for cloud storage where client-side encryption can be co
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"social networks that empower artists and creators (via NFTs)" That's totally what happened. We are in a renaissance of artistry, of artists creating meaningful art out of conviction, and making a living. "innovation in
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I have a feeling that my waste dumping company would have a better chance at owning that private police, and the people making the laws. And the media. There would be many ways to distract and exploit the people. Creating uncertainty and a
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It's 500 people on a tiny island demonstrating that 500 people don't need a government to function as a community. They say they can just make agreements between themselves, which is the purpose of the government, to solve that pr
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There is a difference between a side project, a company focusing on serving a corner of the market sustainably and a startup focusing on venture capital and growth. The later will be mentally taxing, more so if you are inexperienced. A side
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Cloudflare doesn't automatically block Tor exit nodes, they just tend to earn a bad reputation. As a site owner you can decide what to do with that, the basic protection level issues CAPTCHA challenges. Cloudflare also has it's ow
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VoldemortDB is not fake, it exists. https://www.project-voldemort.com/voldemort/
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His partner also said that he is living below the poverty line, so satire is dead, but the world is playing along with the self-driving cars, brain-computer chips and car tunnels, because our distruption fetish is very much alive. We asked
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Most of mainstream media reported this with a title indicating that Toyota is against electrification, when in fact they merely stated that there are unsolved challenges to be able to do it at scale. Just because EV exists as a luxury optio
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I would hire the guy who notices the CAS in the protocol rather than the one who forks memcached, creating a maintenance burden, and potentially introducing safety or liveness issues (although memcached is somewhat simple, most databases ar
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This is piss poor article featuring quantum mysticism. It's main argument is that dreams can't be the reason of randomly firing neurons (no one said that), it must be our ability to control space and time with our minds, since in
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Dwarkesh Patel's essay did not make much sense to me, and I don't get either how people like Jeff Bezos have time for something like this. Apparently Mark Andreessen and Paul Graham are paid to tweet all day, and they are experts
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It is very obvious that cryptocurrencies are an asset class, and can't be used as currencies. Not for the lack of trying either. There is an ongoing desparate attempt of trying to find a purpose for crypto (Web 3.0, NFTs) to justify in
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I should be mentioned that the popularity of these pathological financial assets is not solely due to social manipulation, the loss of faith in markets and institutions came first, then came the manipulation. The result is further wealth tr
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The problem might not be with mindfulness, but with our self-centered culture, which causes this secularized mindfulness to be a snake oil with a few personal benefits at best. It's more of a self-discipline or concentration tool when
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I wonder if this comes with side effects, like how mindfulness increases selfishness in those who think that their existence is independent from the existence of others, which is how most people in Western countries think. Playfulness is pr
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Nothing if unsafe Rust is considered, though Zig does not require you to fight the language nearly as much. This is especially obvious with embedded. Zig's philosophy of no hidden control flow or allocation makes things simple. Simplic
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SIMD is not a problem, it's hardware. Compilers tend to take advantage of the CPU-specific SIMD registers and instructions, or you can use them explicitly. Writing generic SIMD code is more portable. C has libraries, and Zig also has v
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Hot code reloading is nice to have, but incremental compilation is essential. Your compiler has forsaken you if you have to wait 30 minutes for changes to compile.
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The point of C and Zig is that you can solve any kind of problems with them. In particular there is much more to memory reclamation than garbage collectors or Rust's borrow checker. Some of the reclamation schemes offer wait-freedom, o
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When tail latency (high-percentile latency) is important GC is not a good choice. Wait-free (threads progress independently) concurrent algorithms also need wait-free memory reclamation with bounded memory usage to be able to guarantee prog
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Obviously not all jobs are remote-compatible, and obviously you would not do apprenticeship entirely asynchronously. Liveable is a subjective term, but water or air quality, or environmental footprint varies a great deal between countries.
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I'm not defending Facebook or Twitter, but they largely follow laws serving the public. The laws are not perfect, but the goal should be improving them, not free speech absolutism. Social media should be regulated, not given absolute p
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The middle and lower class is quickly outpriced of that liveable city or state experience. It would be better to spread our resources to more areas, instead of concentrating it to a few. We already know what wealth concentration, inequality
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I hope remote with asynchronous interactions is the future, because big cities are increasingly unlivable, and corporate culture is often a culture of distraction. Remote is hard to do right, but it's worth striving for. Remote also gr
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It's physics. Any system responding to a stochastic driving system can be considered computing. In fact any system that retains information about past environmental fluctuations must have information that is predictive of future ones f
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Emulating the CPU of those newer consoles would be quite slow. The practical approach would be a translation layer like Wine with many application-specific patches. The translation layer for the graphics would involve a lot of reverse engin

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