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541.
by beeflet 1y ago
Writing comments just takes too much time, which is why I don't do it anymore.
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by beeflet 1y ago
convergence
543.
by beeflet 1y ago
Great rebuttal! The government has existed for hundreds of years before these sophisticated mechanisms of surveilling the money system and the people were introduced. And it will continue to exist should they be removed.
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by beeflet 1y ago
Why is it the job of private institutions to regulate the life outcomes of key political demographics? Private institutions have the job of selecting the best candidates, and they don't have the right to discriminate against any candid
545.
by beeflet 1y ago
The necessity of making change is major usability/privacy/fungibility roadblock that shows up in more than just cash. For example, it presents a problem for chaumian e-cash or other private money systems like pre-MLSAG monero. If
546.
by beeflet 1y ago
Or you can extract the secrets from a smartcard using a variety of side-channels. But the juice is rarely worth the squeeze.
547.
by beeflet 1y ago
Not nessisarially because it can take advantage of TEEs in smart cards
548.
by beeflet 1y ago
Can you easily do keyword searches on your own handwritten notes?
549.
by beeflet 1y ago
I've come to the same conclusion. It's just easier, especially for things that involve diagrams. $10 worth of notebooks and pens is a much better value than something that is more fragile, has to be charged, etc and orders of magn
550.
by beeflet 1y ago
There is? You haven't proven anything
551.
by beeflet 1y ago
This was interesting. It reminded me how fork() is so weird and I found some explanation for its weirdness that loops back to this conversation about nommu: "Originally, fork() didn't do copy on write. Since this made fork() expen
552.
by beeflet 1y ago
ideal for who?
553.
by beeflet 1y ago
I think the problem is that you can't get the chips hot enough to drive an efficient industrial process unless you are using GaN or something. The carnot cycle on waste heat is bad
554.
by beeflet 1y ago
Maybe the tariff could encourage local manufacturing of solar? I have no idea, but I suppose that our local manufacturing could be getting killed by economies of scale abroad. Or I am overthinking it and solar is something that (D) politici
555.
by beeflet 1y ago
It's not eugenics, it's just nature and non-interventionism. There are many barriers to entry in modern society. If you can't read, if you can't drive, if you can't do algebra or arithmetic, you're screwed in t
556.
by beeflet 1y ago
Okay, but does it need to be deeply integrated into the OS or can it just interact with programs through their normal interfaces? The most effective way to get an LLM to control a computer right now is to just give it a unix terminal becaus
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by beeflet 1y ago
>And the solution to cavities is to increase self-dentistry literacy? This is what is done, in practice. You teach people at a young age how to take care of their own teeth and gums. The majority of the problem is preventative, you don&#
558.
by beeflet 1y ago
Really? They couldn't just use a website?
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by beeflet 1y ago
I think that the majority of the population can figure out how to stop installing software from untrustworthy sources, seeing as that was pretty much the norm 20 years ago. Everyone else can put on their loincloths and go back to living in
560.
by beeflet 1y ago
A very profitable instance of market segmentation
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by beeflet 1y ago
The non-programmer never going to meaningfully improve the review and production of the open technologies. The solution is to make a society where people are literate in the technology they rely on or suffer otherwise.
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by beeflet 1y ago
I think normal users will figure it out if you give them a couple of generations
563.
by beeflet 1y ago
Do we need the second option to exist? The world is dangerous place. If you can't figure out a computer perhaps you're just unfit to participate in the modern economy. The existence of locked-down hardware eliminates the feasibili
564.
by beeflet 1y ago
>It should be able to make an OS. It should be able to write drivers. How is it going to do that without testing (and potentially bricking) hardware in real life? >It should be able to transpile compiled binaries (which are just langu
565.
by beeflet 1y ago
With the right trusted computing modules, it will be impossible. As far as I am concerned, the asahi developers are building on a foundation of sand because Apple could just lock down the bootloader for the iMac laptops or whatever next ge
566.
by beeflet 1y ago
Perhaps the solution then is to invent a new bank that is more resistant to regulation and gives users more freedom to secure their own funds.
567.
by beeflet 1y ago
Maybe we must find individual solutions to each controlling application? Replace netflix with bittorrent, replace banks with bitcoin, etc?
568.
by beeflet 1y ago
Side channels are prevented through security audits. There is not an infinite well of bugs in any codebase that will always be exploitable. Once you patch the bugs, they are patched. You eventually reach a state where there is no more surfa
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by beeflet 1y ago
Ironic that crypto gives people the tools for provably fair gambling
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by beeflet 1y ago
If it's not OK then it's not the end

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