SamBam

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by SamBam 3y ago
I mean, you're free to make up your own definition, but it won't be shared by the vast majority of other people. From the Wikipedia article: [1] > Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting tha
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by SamBam 3y ago
I don't think it's just "neon lights and robots" that make it cyberpunk. It's the combination of high tech and lowlife, the grungy city streets, the street food, the rain, and the urban East Asian elements. All of t
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by SamBam 3y ago
Set a calendar notification for Friday, January 15, 2027 8:00:00 AM GMT. Woah, is that weird that it's exactly on the hour? ...I guess not so weird, since 180 is divisible by 60.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Sure it's targeted, it's targeted at buyers of cheap pulp fiction. You say you don't think the readers are "more bewitched by the charms of powdered soup," but do you notice them selling river cruises through France
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by SamBam 3y ago
I feel like if you're in a situation where you're reduced to bartering with someone with your gold wedding ring, chances are reasonably high that you're also in a situation where you don't get a say in whether they take
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by SamBam 3y ago
That the diamond industry has convinced people that the amount of money you spend show the worth of your love? Tell you what, I can set up a website that sells moissanite for 10x their retail price if you like. Give me a day to set up a Squ
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by SamBam 3y ago
Because it's numbers, which are sortable, you can ask which is the least member of a set. If a set of positive numbers doesn't have a least member, does the set exist? There's a similar paradox which asks what the smallest nu
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by SamBam 3y ago
I've always felt 2 was the most important as well, if only because for there to be something (1) there has to be nothing (0), and thus the existence of anything defines 2 states, being and non-being. Without the pair (0, 1) there is no
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by SamBam 3y ago
You keep mentioning Rhodes scholars. I think you have a very different idea about the purpose of a Rhodes scholarship than most of the scholars.
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by SamBam 3y ago
What? The idea that chess engines have stopped improving is ridiculous. StockFish is continuously improving. And is not just better hardware. For instance, just a couple of years ago StockFish added NNUE. This actually decreased the number
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by SamBam 3y ago
I don't see how this is in any way contacting the article. It seems to be confirming it. The article just said that the cars needed a "remote human intervention" every few miles. Well, what you described was exactly that, an
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by SamBam 3y ago
Chess isn't remotely solved. AlphaZero trounced StockFish, playing moves that StockFish never thought possible. Meanwhile, some say that StockFish has since caught up. But regardless, if cheese engines keep getting better and bearing p
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by SamBam 3y ago
"Bowling is a game played by American males to develop social skills." Doesn't that sentence sound bizarre to you? Is that why people bowl? And isn't the implication that American males need help learning social skills?
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by SamBam 3y ago
I don't know. To the extent that Musk had a plan at all with his $44B Twitter purchase, a big part of his idea seems to be that he wants X to be the next banking app/Venmo. Venmo is valuated at something like 40 billion dollars, a
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by SamBam 3y ago
I think it could only ever change the meaning, if that really is the algorithm.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I think I agree with you there. But again, the idea of a "salt" is then overcomplicating things. It's exactly the same to have the client generate a GUUID and just send that up, no salting or hashing required.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm not sure the distinction is meaningful. If the police demand your logs to find out whether a certain IP address visited in the past year, they'd be able to find that out pretty quickly given what's stored. So how is priva
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by SamBam 3y ago
EU's consent requirements don't distinguish between cookies and localStorage, as far as I understand. And a salt that is only used for analytics would not count as “strictly necessary” data, so I think you'd have to put up a
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by SamBam 3y ago
That's precisely all that OP is storing in the original article. They're just getting a list of hashes per day, and associated client info. They have no idea if the same user visit them on multiple days, because the hashes will be
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by SamBam 3y ago
How does the client generate the same salt every time they visit the page, without using cookies?
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by SamBam 3y ago
Did you miss the second half where GP asked why the client doesn't just send up a UUID, instead of generating their own salt and hash?
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by SamBam 3y ago
> You have to have the concept and structure in your head, it's just writing the code for it. I wonder how far you'd get with the technique of asking ChatGPT to lay out its plans first, kind of like the improvements in math que
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by SamBam 3y ago
I was referring to the recent case against the artist Stephen Thaler, which people interpreted [1] as saying that works created by AI could not be copyrighted. This wasn't what was shown, though. Rather, the judge was ruling about a st
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by SamBam 3y ago
I think you're right. Just apply a transform equal to the speed and direction of the wind.
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by SamBam 3y ago
There was a widely-misunderstood lawsuit recently that lots of people interpreted this way, but it wasn't what the lawsuit concluded at all. "Creations of a machine" is meaningless. Machines are tools we use to be creative, e
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by SamBam 3y ago
I also don't seem to have access. It seems that it's being slowly rolled out to subscribers, and maybe you and I are on the tail end.
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by SamBam 3y ago
That video animation is bizarre, because it seems like the asteroid changes the direction of its orbit around the sun. But am I right in interpreting this from the perspective of the Earth being stationary, and actually the asteroid keeps o
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by SamBam 3y ago
> "How many times the Church has decanted the new wine of Christianity into the old bottles of heathendom." Maybe I'm not good at metaphor, but I feel like this should be the other way round: "How many times the Chu
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by SamBam 3y ago
I don't understand the "you'll be the Xth billionth person the be alive in the world" at all. How does this number go up over time? When you're born, how can you be the "first" person to be alive? How am I
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by SamBam 3y ago
GP didn't say "infinite," they said "normal" [1]. If Pi is normal, as conjectured, then it does contain every possible sequence. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

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