FabHK

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by FabHK 4mo ago
> it borders on bad advice (e.g. "Balance is never stored. It’s derived from the movements of money.") Don't think that's bad advice, in particular as the article clarifies: > Derived state can be cached. Balances
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by FabHK 4mo ago
There's a fairly obscure T-shirt designed by FT Alphaville that just cryptically says "Allen, Ben, Janet, Jay" ;-)
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Sorry, that strikes me as the norm. Graduation is predicated on passing certain courses, and obviously you can't take it an arbitrary number of times. So fail an exam twice, and you're out. (Some universities offer a final oral ex
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Indeed. Early to mid 1990's, that's where it was at. FTP, telnet, gopher were awesome, and then, in short order: HTML, Mosaic, Netscape - the WWW. Really useful. Then AOL etc. offered cheap dial-up, and suddenly you had all those
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by FabHK 4mo ago
That might be an instance of Berkson‘s paradox. You’ll hear about deadly small plane accidents, and about accidents of large planes, but are unlikely to hear about harmless accidents with small planes. Just not interesting. But they happen
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Note that here „commercial“ is commercial general aviation (so, not military and not scheduled airliners). Airliners are far safer still.
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Similar in aviation, where it’s known as „the killing zone“.
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by FabHK 4mo ago
> But I can also teach a game designer or artist who has never heard of source control how to correctly and safely use P4 in about 15 minutes. Meanwhile you can tell Git is badly designed because there are 10,000+ tutorials explaining ho
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by FabHK 4mo ago
I'm in HK, most HKers use ApplePay with NFC, and don't use QR codes. Over in mainland China, however, it's all QR codes (with AliPay, WePay).
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Or maybe government AI regulation and international cooperation is the only thing that can break the arms race dynamics and is necessary to save us from a substantial chance of doom?
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by FabHK 4mo ago
The scary part is not so much that the doomers give the extinction scenario 50% (Hinton) to 95%+ chance (Yampolskiy, Yudkowsky), but that the optimists (Amodei, Bengio) give it a 10%+ chance. And everyone keeps dancing.
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by FabHK 4mo ago
I was responding to > I think the cited weight loss comes from energy efficiency gains leading to less battery capacity needed. So, no, the efficiency gains of electrical engines do not lead to significantly less battery capacity needed.
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Electric engines are already very efficient (particularly compared to internal combustion). If you go from 90% to 95% efficiency, you don't save much in terms of battery. ETA: Internal combustion engines half a century ago had an effic
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by FabHK 4mo ago
My highlights: > In the Coupé, the engine on the front axis is 9 cm (3.5 inch) wide, the two engines on the rear axis are 8 cm wide each (<3.2 inch). > The fully electric "Performance" model accelerates from 0 to 100 km&#
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Any parliamentary system with a proportional vote (or semi-proportional as in Germany with its 5% bar) has more parties and viewpoints represented than a first-past-the-post system such as the UK or USA. That's well understood.
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Indeed. When Germany unified, the birth rate in the formerly socialist East dropped by half. Certainly increasing uncertainty played a role, but there was also speculation that there wasn't much to do in the East except read, drink, an
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by FabHK 4mo ago
It is reasonable to be skeptical, absolutely. But responding to a study like this with "haha what about if only rich people got iPhones" or "bro don't you know that correlation does not imply causation" is juvenile.
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by FabHK 4mo ago
I suggest you read the abstract, at least. The fact that only AT&T had the iPhone back then resulted in a natural experiment: It was only available in certain regions. You can thus compare regions where it was available and where it was
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Yes. And while the law sometimes gets things wrong, in general it is good that it tries do distinguish between useful and harmful things, morally right and morally wrong. And a tool that serves only to subvert the law (at enormous expense)
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by FabHK 4mo ago
That is complete nonsense, indicative of your lack of knowledge, and utterly typical of crypto hype: mendacious or ignorant or both. The State Machine Replication problem in distributed computing has been studied since the 1960s or so, and
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Crypto has no technological merit compared to earlier solutions, except "permissonlessness", which enables the circumvention of rules and regulations (at huge expense). But, sure, enabling crime is "doing something".
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by FabHK 4mo ago
You click on the Unlock button, and it tells you pricing for monthly, annual, or lifetime. Not exactly rocket science.
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Moravec's paradox: > "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to
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by FabHK 4mo ago
I mean, there is nothing wrong with state, per se, and yes, this Excel-ish paradigm is awesome. Although: Most Excel power users have automatic calculations disabled. Why? They want to control when full calculations. If you know that you wa
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by FabHK 4mo ago
BTW, one more thing where Google thinks I'm stupid: Increasingly, it tries to tie your phone number to your accounts. Fair enough, problems with fake accounts and all that, I don't like it but I understand it. However, the prompt
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by FabHK 4mo ago
Ah, fair enough, thanks everyone. So basically the argument is if that we have a deterministic function taking a pair (x_1, x_2) with x_i in X with |X| = M, then the function can produce at most M^2 outputs. And knowing that the function i
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by FabHK 4mo ago
> Multiplication doesn't care about order so you're instantly cutting 2^64 possibilities down to about 2^63. Not sure I understand. Adding two 32 bit integers takes you to 33 bit integers. (1111 + 1111 = 11110). Addition doesn&
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by FabHK 5mo ago
and marketing something is the answer?
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by FabHK 5mo ago
That's a thought-provoking and somewhat resigned point. My response is this: Over time (say 20 years later) you will have gotten certain dividends, and the firm will be in a new position in terms of price and earnings. If I'm righ
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by FabHK 5mo ago
Top comment on FT: > And he’s not the first German to have found sanctuary in Argentina!

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