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by ahelwer 4y ago
It kept some number of people from withdrawing their funds from FTX US yesterday, leaving more money in the pot to return to other stakeholders. This has nothing to do with game theory, what would that even mean!?
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by ahelwer 4y ago
If he comes out the other side massively wealthy, then what was there to be "mistaken" about? You're extending an incredibly generous quantity of sympathy to someone that has absolutely not earned even a little of it. Specula
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I guess in a way the Pirate Bay is just a pirate DNS for magnet links.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
So since this was done at the DNS level, not the hosting level, does this mean if you're running a pi-hole or AdGuardHome you can add some extra redirects for zlib to its actual IPs? I guess you could also just hardcode these in your c
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by ahelwer 4y ago
It is very funny watching people here not think about how federation works and then, instead of considering they might be missing something, go on a diatribe about how the way they imagined things work in their head doesn't work. Don&#
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Thankfully laypeople will always continually excel beyond your professional opinion that they can't understand how to log into one of several websites.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
This is unfortunately true and a reason I am finally installing linux at this very moment. The worst were those monthly post-login series of screens trying to override my consent for various options so some PM at Microsoft could hit their q
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I don't know how 30% overnight growth means it is in trouble. I don't know how a service that isn't geared toward profit is in trouble from a lot more people using it and learning about it. I really, honestly don't know
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Peoples' understanding grows and changes over time. There was a time when the concept of signing up for an interactive website was unknown to the entire world (the advent of this understanding was called Web 2.0). You can find similar
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by ahelwer 4y ago
The past few days' discussion of federated social networking have really brought out the... I don't know how to describe them, KPI-brained people? If you've worked in social networking UX for the past decade your entire profe
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Who cares about "winning the market". Join a server and talk with your friends, colleagues, and like-minded people. Have a good time. Kick a few bucks at your instance for hosting costs maybe. Let the back-alley knife fight for th
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Hmm, that seems correct then. This is interesting, would you consider extending the explanation and posting it as an answer to this question? https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/q/5459/4153
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I don't think that's quite true. The product state has exponential size so you'd also need some kind of tensor oracle that could manipulate an exponential quantity of information in linear time.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
This is indistinguishable from hoarder logic. Such things straight up don't matter on the scale of decades. The US DOJ has a policy of automatic declassification after 25 years.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
The list of things that have to be encrypted 30 years from now is very, very small. I doubt any (many?) people here have contact with any of it. I don't understand your analogy at all, sorry.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Cracking encryption is basically irrelevant as a quantum computing application. Post-quantum encryption algorithm development proceeds apace and the messaging is already "if you want this to still be encrypted 30 years from now, start
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by ahelwer 4y ago
As someone who has spent a fair bit of time figuring out how to explain quantum computing to people I've come to the conclusion that there are only two possible ways for people to understand it: (1) mathematically (2) as a finite list
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by ahelwer 4y ago
It's to stop people from building giant reservoirs on their property, which can actually affect the local watershed. There was a case in Oregon about a decade ago where a man built three huge reservoirs on his property.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Gaming is changing very rapidly now that Valve is investing real resources into the platform to support the steam deck.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
This has reached new heights when calling USCIS for immigration issues. You have to avoid certain trigger words or the callbot will shunt you into a loop that can only terminate with it sending you an email on how to do something on the web
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by ahelwer 4y ago
It struck me this is an entirely arbitrary level of knowledge and people have, culturally, learned quite a lot about online computing in the past few decades. You can easily imagine seeing this posted 20 years ago: "Right now I can sig
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I've never seen a complaint about scooters that doesn't just boil down to "they aren't obeying the rules". The rules shouldn't be that way! Riding scooters or bikes on the sidewalk is miles safer than riding it
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Of course, you bring this up and people will start talking about all the times they were "buzzed" by someone on a scooter, an event which might have led to some bruises or, at worst, a broken wrist. Never mind being buzzed by a ca
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Amazes me how closely these forms of transportation are policed when the average hood height of pickup trucks I see everywhere equals or surpasses the height of most women I know. If you had to design a machine to optimally kill pedestrians
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Just like phpbb is nazi friendly because nazis can run their own phpbb forum server.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
>the eye must focus at the screen even if the scene is very close or very far This is just literally untrue. Your eyes focus "into" the VR scene, not at the screens one inch from your eye.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
For the past few months I've been listening to Robert Caro's The Power Broker on audiobook (which has far and away the best narration I've ever heard - props to Robertson Dean!) and am about 40 hours in out of 65. The book
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What's the difference between a computer and a rock?(ahelwer.ca)
1 points by ahelwer 4y ago|0 comments
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I live in Atlanta and literally cannot think of a single car trip I've taken in the past two years that has not encountered traffic.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
They're all pretty much the same. You could choose any one at all and be much better off than using medium. It's easy to switch afterward anyway.

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