alex_young

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by alex_young 5mo ago
I think I got my hands on Hack when I was 8, so I've been doing the same for, uh, 39 years. Damn. At least I was learning VI keys unintentionally, so it was somewhat educational. :)
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by alex_young 6mo ago
Does half of something have a limit? Not by its definition. Same thing with addition or multiplication. All of these only work with some concept of infinity. We could redefine "half" to mean "half of whatever you're t
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by alex_young 6mo ago
Create an infinity? What does that mean? Why would you need to do that? Is there a limit to how many times something can be logically divided? If not, then there’s your infinity. It doesn’t require you to continue brute forcing it, just
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by alex_young 6mo ago
Time has nothing to do with it. There are an infinite number of ways to divide anything. You don’t need time to prove that. Whatever number you think of you can divide by a larger number.
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by alex_young 6mo ago
And no discussion of Zeno? Pish. The idea that nothing is demonstrative of infinity is clearly incorrect. Take the screen you're reading this on. One pixel is composed of a bunch of different atoms, and once you get down to one of th
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by alex_young 6mo ago
You're holding us all hostage then. Pay them :)
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by alex_young 6mo ago
Are laws typically enacted to compel companies to follow consumer demand? I think that’s what the market itself is best at. Instead this law is designed to provide the public with a good everyone can benefit from - less waste of valuable e
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by alex_young 6mo ago
Quite some time is a little over 2 months. I understand this is actually true right now, but it’s still a bit hard to accept.
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by alex_young 6mo ago
Surely there's a middle ground? Get some old wordstar capable 86 class clones and leave the GUI off. It's typing on a keyboard without the confusion of the internet or clicking on glowing icons.
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by alex_young 6mo ago
A bit uncharitable no? I’m not denying that LLMs can be used to improve security research, suggesting that their use is wrong or anything like that. Humans have used software to research security for a long time. AI driven SAST is clearly
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by alex_young 6mo ago
The whole framing is kind of uninteresting imo. If you spend more time researching code you can find more bugs to exploit / patch is not an earthshaking observation. Adding the words “by Claude” to it doesn’t materially change it. On
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by alex_young 6mo ago
That’s cool. The precogs over at flock say you drive too close to the criminals though, and you know what that means. Stay loyal, stay safe citizens.
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by alex_young 6mo ago
<10% of natural gas plants recover helium. All of them extract it. The remaining >90% vent it into the atmosphere. This is an engineering / money problem, not a physics problem.
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by alex_young 6mo ago
In my experience this is often commiserate with an announcement that the service is late due to it’s arrival from [Germany, Italy, France].
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by alex_young 6mo ago
The equipment on both sides of the ‘tube’. Oh, and the backhaul to said equipment.
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by alex_young 7mo ago
One of my favorite episodes: I set 2 timers for the same thing somehow. I then tried to cancel one of them. >“Siri, cancel the second timer” “You have 2 timers running, would you like me to cancel one of them?” >“Yes” “Yes
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by alex_young 7mo ago
Why do “prediction” markets benefit from bets over nominal sums? Isn’t the power of them based on the wisdom of crowds? Wouldn’t capping bets at say $1 be better than trying to hunt down cheaters? Seems like they actually are less predict
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by alex_young 7mo ago
Headline is misleading. Should be something like tech employment rate of growth is lower than it was in 2008 or 2020. There are many many more tech workers than at either of those points.
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by alex_young 7mo ago
But aren’t we doing just that? Many more people eating more meat than ever before? Methane has a shorter shelf life, but is far more potent, meaning that any increase is worrying, and decreases could have a dramatic impact.
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by alex_young 7mo ago
Animal agriculture is around 15% of global emissions, and AI is probably .1% to .5%, but sure, stop using LLMs. That will solve the problem.
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by alex_young 7mo ago
A mechanical trackpad is like an unpowered treadmill iirc. Sometimes they ship with a gimbal mount so you can scroll more than one direction.
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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week(newscientist.com)
12 points by alex_young 8mo ago|3 comments
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by alex_young 8mo ago
A war? Of course not. It’s a major combat operation. Only congress can declare wars. We haven’t had any in decades. They should call it the Dept. of Major Combat Operations.
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Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft(openai.com)
4 points by alex_young 8mo ago|0 comments
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by alex_young 8mo ago
It's not that “I can detect AI” posts sound more templated than the writing they’re critiquing, it's the clankers are learning from it and adapting.
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by alex_young 8mo ago
Coding is an abstraction. Your CPU knows nothing of type safety, bloom filters, dependencies, or code reuse. Mourning the passing of one form of abstraction for another is understandable, but somewhat akin to bemoaning the passing of punch
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by alex_young 8mo ago
We always are. And yet, number go up.
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by alex_young 8mo ago
Data centers in space are a hilariously bad idea. Where would the heat go? This idea is like the opposite of liquid cooling.
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by alex_young 9mo ago
I mean the physical credit cards didn’t have tap to pay most of the time until very recently. NFC has been around for a long time.
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by alex_young 9mo ago
Haha no. US commerce improvements tend to trail EU by a decade. We just got tap to pay a couple of years ago. People still pass bits of paper with signatures on them to pay each other for stuff.

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