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by aeturnum 6y ago
It seems like the "proper" solution to this problem would be to make all random number generators pull from the cryptographically secure randomness pool by default. If your random number needs are within what can be provided with
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by aeturnum 6y ago
My read on the situation is they saw the opportunity to get subsidies and so negotiated to maximize what they were given. I imagine it comes from some maximalist position that says that if you plan to do X, you need to say you'll do 10
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by aeturnum 6y ago
>The tone is not more important than the facts. It never is I think this framing is wrong. Tone and facts are both important (often equally so) and must both be addressed in parallel tracks. If someone rudely raises concerns about the se
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I agree with you about the potential that we're at the end of usefulness for our current system of professionalization. It's easy to forget how recently we've developed technology to cheaply distribute information about the p
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think your critiques of regulation are fair, but I think regulation and competition are closer together than your post suggests. >Ordinary people like you don't have access to these meetings and by and large don't participate
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I agree that blockchain isn't great for currencies (as we understand them). It seems potentially great for tracking rights in situations where there are multiple parties and those parties may be adversarial. Imagine a blockchain system
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I didn't think saying GCC is a C compiler was saying it was a 'specialized' tool. It's a tool that compiles C code. It'll compile any valid C program on any supported architecture, but it's not trying to be bet
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Generally I think the blockchain is dumb, but I think recording property ownership would be a good usecase. Don't think about it as a highly structured database, think about it like a filing cabinet that can be accessed from the intern
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Yah...I just don't see that developers have much incentive to use Stadia? Like, you can't rely on an established 'Stadia playerbase' right now, so there's no natural incentive for studios to integrate with it. Other
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Could you explain how either snippet you quoted translates, to you, into MongoDB calling themselves "the best database"? For me, they appear to claim to be popular and focused on developer productivity. Those quotes don't see
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Given Goog's history on this, I read this announcement as them soft-killing Stadia. They aren't going to admit defeat, but unless they put real resources behind paying people to use it, they aren't going to see any use of it
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by aeturnum 6y ago
> It's impossible for EVERY tool to be good. What does 'good' mean? Gcc is a good C compiler and a bad Java compiler. It's even worse at being a document database. I don't think 01acheru was saying that all tools
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by aeturnum 6y ago
For any given area, you will always be able to find an answer to "who's in charge here?," but I think there needs to be some degree of comprehensiveness and inclusion to call that authority "society." For instance -
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I don't know that human rights can create good government, but it seems pretty reliable that societies without strong human rights protections will turn into a weird pyramid scheme for someone and then collapse in relatively short
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I'm of two minds. It's absolutely true that unpopular minorities (of whatever kind) should be able to talk. It's also absolutely true that virality can create dangerous situations which are difficult to control. Instead of ba
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I mean, this feels like a classic example of not choosing the best technology for the situation. Picking a more opinionated (or more batteries included) framework likely would have streamlined a lot of the problems he described. That doesn&
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by aeturnum 6y ago
As they point out, the paper is not anonymous. It is pseudonymous. "Satoshi" is a person or persons whose communications are validated through a public key (Qanon folks take note). Anyone claiming to be Satoshi can simply sign som
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by aeturnum 6y ago
As is standard most serious writing formats, the answer to the question(s) posed at the start can be found in the conclusion. You are free to read the conclusion any time you want. For example, I've heard that the best way to read acad
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Apple's approach to ports is bad design. I think they were envisioning a USB-C revolution that hasn't come yet. You can buy new devices or buy adapters, but either way the computer is asking the user to adapt to it. I have a Raz
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Oh Penlight looks great! It seems like it's six years old, making it 4 years in the future for me in my first job. I was more talking about how frustrating I find the "less is better" attitude than complaining about the speci
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by aeturnum 6y ago
My first real job after school was working on Lua (5.1a mostly) in an embedded context. It was much faster than iterating on the QT C++ application that the Lua was embedded in. It would, eventually, even allow us to do custom targeted push
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Nice! As a side note, I think it's very cool that Raku supports multiple quote characters. It's unusual to see that in source code and, while I code mostly in English, I imagine it would be nice for people writing in other languag
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Maybe? I haven't seen any reactions like that to MacKenzie Scott's contributions.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Thank you for the notes about stock availability and the impacts of that! I hadn't thought about how the volume of available shared affects the price. Though it feels like market makers would feel this the most? I guess I'm not su
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by aeturnum 6y ago
> if he tried to sell a large number those shares, they'd plummet in value as he was selling them I think this is a good starting point to understanding the "real" value of Bezos' and Musk's fortunes, but I'
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by aeturnum 6y ago
This language looks cool! I also really like the page-by-page format for the tutorial, which strikes exactly the right balance (for me) between giving too little and too much info. As a side note, I noticed that the "Notes on using Uni
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I suppose I was going off the examples in the post I was replying to. Comparing Google Drive sync to Dropbox and Google Keep to Evernote.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think OP's point about building huge systems with pipes is well taken. They can become confusing when the break and over-use can be a code smell. Their power, as you point it, is in the ability to jump into any statement and add anot
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Yah, it's definitely not "the one perfect idea to fix the problem." Tho, FWIW, I think that Uber and Amazon and the Xbox division were all working towards profitability the entire time. By contrast, I don't believe Goo
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think it's absolutely correct that, for Google, it doesn't make sense to charge for sync. I also think that anyone who's ever relied on sync knows that there is a lot of value in doing it well - especially in a B2B context.

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