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by Kinrany 4y ago
Both are implementations of the same idea: not splitting the logic into two services deployed separately. Either store data directly on disk or in a general-purpose piece of infrastructure that needs no configuration.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
A big selling point of most games is that they're new somehow, you don't yet know how to play them. A mere possibility of analysis like this would probably constrain games to a solvable genre. This works with patterns used to crea
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by Kinrany 4y ago
Trying to do what evolution does but on purpose is like going downstairs to help gravity.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
Anyone tried using it, HN?
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by Kinrany 4y ago
The civic education in USSR was clearly not good if you look at the current state of Russia.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
> Streaming isn't a solution to that, the latency is unacceptable in shooters. What's the max latency that is low enough?
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by Kinrany 4y ago
Where does GP suggest any new restrictions at all?
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by Kinrany 4y ago
Perhaps a better response is that this seems like a fully general argument against listening to any warnings ever.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
Huh? In 1 he dies. In 2 and 3 he becomes irrelevant eventually and can only claim credit to the extent his predictions were true, while fighting off all the actual snake oil salesmen claiming that all of this was obvious.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
An open ecosystem can be used by more than one closed ecosystem.
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> It's like arguing that there is "lock-in" because one project is written in C# and the other in Javascript. Seems like stretching the concept of "lock-in" too thin. This is absolutely an instance of lock-in. An
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by Kinrany 4y ago
The Twitter example seems different from the rest. Verification as a service is exactly something you would do to create trust between people who aren't celebrities.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
LLMs are very good at translating, so the reverse seems more likely: LLMs interview domain experts and generate specifications.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
One problem that needs to be solved and standardized is escaping. It's extremely common for text formats to store text. Some characters always need to be escaped, but the set of characters is always unique to the host format.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
HTML and JSON are not good examples of text formats designed with security or performance in mind.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
> Very frequently updated laws everywhere (multiple orders of magnitude faster than today) This generally works by giving a government agency the ability to frequently redefine the placeholders in the laws > does not seem compatible w
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by Kinrany 4y ago
What do you mean? If package developers don't specify permissions correctly, their code doesn't work when sandboxed.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
> they really have done an excellent job with alignment In what way?
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by Kinrany 4y ago
Logistics and farming seem like poor examples: both can be solved with programming and a little hardware.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
Application authors can still maintain their own Nix packages.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
> This is why "power users" aren't an important user model. Arch, Gentoo, Nix, and others exist if you want to be a "power user". Otherwise, extremely naive assumptions about the amount of effort expended by dist
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by Kinrany 4y ago
> But I've seen no justification why that should be co-mingled with package management. Building sandboxing on top of package management makes a lot of sense because you want sandboxing to work by default, and for that you need to i
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by Kinrany 4y ago
The letter: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime... I don't see any way to verify the signatures. Though the mention of Sam Harris' signature disappearing suggests they're being m
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by Kinrany 4y ago
The partner can sell arms on a loan. There's a million of possible arrangements.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
I'm no expert, but restricting the flow of goods seems both necessary and sufficient. The war machine doesn't run on money. A state can always find a way to hide the transactions, on the other hand.
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NKeys(github.com)
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UN lists [1] the right to work as a human right. Payment services are irreplaceable for all kinds of businesses, so a blanket denial of payment services is arguably already a violation of human rights. [1]: https://www.un.org&#x2
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by Kinrany 4y ago
Mice shared among many studies at the same time
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This is an accounting question, no one intrinsically cares about identities except as entertainment or for sentimental reasons. If someone said that we Officially (TM) become a different person when we sleep and wake up, no one would care.
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by Kinrany 4y ago
Does Github know how to deal with stacks of PRs? That's another thing that Bitbucket is surprisingly okay at.

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