__MatrixMan__

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1. 61.▲
   by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

   In a zero sum game, resources are neither created or destroyed, just fought over by competing parties or converted losslessly from one type into another. So far, this industry is negative sum by a long shot. Maybe one day AI will make a con
2. 62.▲
   by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

   Sure, it can go either way, and so which version to use is a decision to be made by the user, not on their behalf by a vendor. Consider the CrowdStrike debacle. It wouldn't have been a big deal if they could just boot to yesterday&#x2
3. 63.▲
   by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

   When I look at the state of software engineering, "fine" is not the word that comes to mind https://xkcd.com/2030/ . If we're going to be the last generation that understands code at this level, we need l
4. 64.▲
   by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

   This seems largely to be about security by obscurity. I was hoping it was gonna be about how our modern practices are making things less secure. For instance, we claim we need to be able to rapidly update clients so that we can patch securi
5. 65.▲
   by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

   I think this how modern CPUs work also.
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   by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

   Good points, but I think we can expect the AI space to be more tumultuous. What most people want from mobile technology is for it to work, not too expensively, and for it to get out of their way. What most people want out of AI is for no le
7. 67.▲
   by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

   Hmm, that makes sense. I'm not sure if understanding this thing I hate will make me hate it any less, but thanks for the explanation!
8. 68.▲
   by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

   Huh, I figured there had to be AC in there somewhere because otherwise where is the frequency coming from? Or is there a conversion to AC somewhere in the middle of a DC-DC conversion? I had assumed you could achieve it with just resistor
9. 69.▲
   by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

   Me too. Like maybe we could convert to DC at the breaker box so I didn't have to be haunted by the squealing capacitors in all of the power supplies that are scattered around my house.
10. 70.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

    > The shareholders give all authority over actions and property of the company to the executives. Who picks the executives? Who fires them when they misbehave?
11. 71.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

    Interesting. Is this common? Like, is there some way to enable it on my LAN so that when I become disconnected from the internet I can still browse pages which were cached by other devices on that LAN?
12. 72.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

    Without content addressing how do I know that whoever holds the cache hasn't tampered with the content?
13. 73.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

    Right, but my browser doesn't interpret that. The site tells me to run some code which interprets it. I should be able to get the lay of the land without trusting the site enough to blindly execute whatever code it points me at. It&#x
14. 74.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

    Its not stored separately, so: 1. You need write access to the server if you want to add one 2. The server could change its behavior at any time and there's no way to know that caches now need to be invalidated 3. If something goes wro
15. 75.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

    We need to set a precedent for holding shareholders accountable. I could go to jail if my dog hurts somebody, it should be no different with a company.
16. 76.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

    Can next.js give me a page's links without requiring that I execute any code that I didn't have prior to visiting that page? The .js part makes me think not.
17. 77.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 1mo ago

    If we stored the edges (links) and nodes (pages) separately, rather than requiring you to blindly run a node's code just to discover what its edges might be, then you could skip the prediction and instead pre-cache the next hop for al
18. 78.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    I wish there was some kind of EFF-curated "privacy/internet freedom" pass that I could buy. Kagi is great, but it's not everything. Brave is great, but it's not everything. Signal, GrapheneOS, Tor... this is a bat
19. 79.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    This is part 3. I found it hard to figure out what was going on without first scanning part 1: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/06/29/obfuscation1.htm...
20. 80.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    I prefer to share a video, ask people to watch it, and have them send me questions. That way I can spend time preparing answers to those questions, and then then meeting can be about discussion, not information delivery or recall. Asking p
21. 81.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    It provides a legal justification for censorship. Originally used by The Church to prevent the wrong sort of bible from being printed. It has always been about insulating monopolists and gatekeepers against change. We desperately need to
22. 82.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    Given that people use that info to decide how to spend their money on influencing political outcomes, aren't we better off if it's as inaccurate as possible?
23. 83.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    I suspect that the money taxpayers used to spend on humanities professors in women's studies is a pittance compared to the money they're now wasting because grab-em-by-the-***** regime never took one of those classes. Ignoring ha
24. 84.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    It was a mistake to normalize blindly executing whatever code the server sends your browser. One day we'll look back on this era and wish we had pulled the plug sooner.
25. 85.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    Bluetooth is such a mess. You know what didn't have this problem? Cables.
26. 86.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    There are a variety of political tensions in the US associated with whether academia has its head up it's ass (a right leaning perspective), or whether it's populated by experts that need to be supported and listened to (a left le
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    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    This seems to be mostly from the perspective of what makes the most sense to use at an API boundary. Rather than trying to agree on the best meaning the various integers or floats that we're passing around, maybe we should instead buil
28. 88.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    Yeah I'm not sure that the web is worth saving. But the internet is ok, and we can build a new web on top of it. The alternative is doing nothing while the world gets less and less safe for our children. So let's try.
29. 89.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    Worse even than Palantir?
30. 90.▲
    by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago

    Some say it's being pushed by investors of Axon, its biggest competitor. I'm not sure I buy it though, the rage translates across brands too easily.