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14851.
by api 12y ago
I sort of disagree. Every tunable parameter ought to be computable . If it isn't, it's because I haven't been smart enough to figure out how to auto-tune it. At least that's the stick I bash myself over the head with. :
14852.
by api 12y ago
Pot smoking kills bees is my favorite... ought to make it into a t-shirt.
14853.
by api 12y ago
I think this low-hanging-fruit idea is generally true for all of science: after centuries of science as a profession, pretty much all the easy stuff has already been done. It's actually an argument for more cojones in science-- being w
14854.
by api 12y ago
My philosophy for a long time has been "every tunable parameter is a design weakness, and every one that must be tuned is a bug." It's hard to achieve this in practice, but I keep it in mind as a goal.
14855.
by api 12y ago
If your goal is just to "burn" the memory, why not write your own loop that copies some arbitrary piece of data that the compiler can't optimize out over the memory's contents? Do something like fill the buffer with its
14856.
by api 12y ago
TIL there is a .cat domain
14857.
by api 12y ago
Very good point. DC should be reaching outside its toxic beltway bandit ecosystem in general any time it wants anyone talented at anything other than milking the Federal cow.
14858.
by api 12y ago
I looked for Langton myself years ago when I was very into artificial life and evolutionary computing. IMHO he's one of the greatest unsung geniuses of the past 25 years. Here's what I consider his greatest work: http:/&#x2F
14859.
by api 12y ago
Both groups certainly exist, but one is larger than the other by a few orders of magnitude.
14860.
by api 12y ago
Read the comments to this blog post. The misogynistic mouth breathers are out in full force as usual.
14861.
by api 12y ago
IMHO you'd have to distribute the data and the computation so that there is no single point to find.
14862.
by api 12y ago
Who else has wondered whether SIGINT types might allow things like this to run in order to bolster the perception that Tor is not traceable? In WWII they allowed the enemy to sink whole ships to accomplish same.
14863.
by api 12y ago
... or "the most optimistic graph in the universe" (IMHO).
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Energy vs. Real GDP per Capita(i.imgur.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|2 comments
14865.
by api 12y ago
Everything has to be 100% relayed via a central server. Sigh. Not your fault of course. We've all lost kittens to NAT.
14866.
by api 12y ago
I personally don't see Apple or Microsoft as being that evil. Microsoft is less evil today than in the past. Google is kind of a complicated case. Facebook is sketchy but at least using them is a choice. Palantir is evil.
14867.
by api 12y ago
I've turned down a number of freelance gigs just from getting this kind of "smell." It's not worth it. If I smell... umm... certain intimate hygiene products... I run away. Red flags I've seen include: * Smarmy-look
14868.
by api 12y ago
The real question is: how much does it really cost to clear a transaction? And how much of that cost is being hidden via being subsidized through a speculative mining frenzy? What happens to real-world TX costs when mining isn't a ho
14869.
by api 12y ago
Facebook has revenue, so it's sort of immaterial to the Snapchat discussion... at least in the short term. Yet in the long term I'm not so sure. Facebook's revenue is built on doing things that cannibalize the value of their
14870.
by api 12y ago
If you own property in the SF Bay area that you purchased or mortgaged at current valuations, you're definitely exposed there.
14871.
by api 12y ago
The point was that an $8 billion valuation for a company with no revenue model is insane, and that this deal has been structured in such a way as to help inflate talked-about valuation numbers to those heights. The structure of the deal is
14872.
by api 12y ago
Conspiracy nuts have a way of being right about the particulars and pretty astute at spotting trends while simultaneously being bat-dookie bozo about the overarching mechanisms behind it. All the surveillance state stuff that the wacky Bill
14873.
by api 12y ago
One of the most depressing things I've heard in my life came from a VC type around 2007. He basically told me straight up that working hard to build a real business with real value was a sucker's game. Every example he'd seen
14874.
by api 12y ago
I'm the author and I'll take that as a complement... I think. My take on really slick polished valley hipster corporate pr is if you've got the resources to pull that off, sure, do it. But if you don't it's like a b
14875.
by api 12y ago
Yep. It pulls the actual config from a Redis database. A 16-digit (64-bit) network ID consists of two parts: the 40-bit ZeroTier address of the node responsible for serving network configuration to members, and an arbitrary 24-bit network I
14876.
by api 12y ago
It's more or less the same underlying approach as Hamachi: L2 virtualization. The execution is a bit different, and it's designed to be more sysadmin-friendly to enable its use as something like a cloud backplane network. As far a
14877.
by api 12y ago
Right now it's charging for the convenience of setup and administration on zerotier.com. You can run your own "netconf master" and create your own networks, but it requires some system administration and Redis database wrangl
14878.
by api 12y ago
Earth is slightly hidden because it's an experimental feature, but way back when I started the project it was the point. I found that most users wanted private networks, so I added network IDs and certificates of authorization. But I s
14879.
by api 12y ago
My guess would be that one is symmetric. Some symmetric-NAT-busting tricks are coming in future versions.
14880.
by api 12y ago
Look at the netconf-master/ subfolder -- you can make private networks without using the web UI. But it's hard right now. It'll probably be made easier in the future. As far as pure decentralization goes: that's very har

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