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by beeflet 11mo ago
How would the government mandate a backdoor of such a hardware/software system without attracting eyeballs?
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Perhaps competition in the cold war reinvigorated the USA or expedited the fall of Soviet Union by forcing them into expensive competition? Imagine a boat has a hole in it, and is sinking. Some of the crew-members make a big deal about it,
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by beeflet 11mo ago
There isn't a major political party in the USA willing to undergo the reforms needed to compete. I don't know what voting does, other than produce a false air of approval around the administration. I think that if voter turnout wa
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by beeflet 11mo ago
what was the mistake? it seems like the cards are stacked against anyone trying to build in the USA vs China.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
> 16. That sleep, that probably evolution first made a low-energy mode so we don’t starve so fast and then layered on some maintenance processes, but the effect is that we live in a cycle and when things aren’t going your way it’s comfor
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by beeflet 11mo ago
The slow AIs are driven by consumer behavior. Paperclip optimizers die pretty quickly without demand for paperclips. The inputs and the outputs of the AI are always human-facing, so the goals vaguely resemble human values (even if the value
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by beeflet 11mo ago
The PC ecosystem is the exception to the rule. 20 year lifetimes are typical, but in the smartphone world 10 years is treated as an impossibility. It is all disposable by design
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Computer, experience this tragic irony for me
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by beeflet 11mo ago
The real-world conditions are beneficial to israel. I don't think yapping about it will resolve the conflict any more than it did for tibet. What more can be said about the matter? Some pro-palestine organization will accuse Israel of
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I don't think it's a terrible idea. You could make the keys some sort of amiibo-like NFC device or trading card. There is probably some way you could toy-ify it and sell a lot of units
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by beeflet 11mo ago
this is a really flimsy method and it would be trivial to write something that works around this.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I don't even think it is about shyness. Some professors do not respond well to being challenged on every possible exam question. The time spent challenging exam grades is usually better spent studying for the next exam. I've never
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I agree, it isn't hard! Watch: Computer, show "my" work and explain to the teacher why "I" wrote what "I" did, describe why that particular approach to the narrative appealed to "me" and "I&
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I am skeptical of the narrative that crypto caused GPU demand to meaningfully increase. I think it was always AI
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I found this: https://docs.microcad.xyz/language/book/intro/preface.html >While OpenSCAD is easy to learn and has a syntax reminiscent of C, we felt the language could be improved in several ways: > - m
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by beeflet 11mo ago
wow, this is really neat. I always noticed how, when panning around with ortho view, it didn't need to re-render
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Interesting project, I will look into it. This site sucks. Why does it use php, and why is every link a query? Just make it a static page.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
So much money flows through the government that I would say it is already a planned economy
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I am pretty skeptical of rent-control like policies, but if is being proposed for somewhere else I completely support it. Also, removing the option to have multiple jobs?
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by beeflet 11mo ago
reminds me of the book "ready player one" in which world-builders would insert terrible smells to troll the minority of VR players with a smell-o-vision device
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by beeflet 11mo ago
There are already drug dealers on whatsapp
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by beeflet 11mo ago
People have been hacking on this "if" for a while, and I suspect we will break through to the other side eventually, probably by the end of the decade. The problem is really just that cryptocurrencies like monero want to minimize
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I think it is a technical problem. If you could integrate payment channels on top of private cryptocurrencies that would be enough. Even without the lightning network and just direct 1-to-1 payment channels, it would work. The article you l
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by beeflet 11mo ago
WebGL and WebRTC are hardly useless, but they allow you to collect way too much fingerprinting data based on the way they've been designed.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
The PPV model can at least cover the cost of bandwidth. If you are loading the page, it must be at least some value to the user, say 1/10th of a cent.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
No one uses the PPV model because there isn't sufficient payment infrastructure (402 payment required). The friction for entering your credit card information into a website is ridiculous, you might as well target the high end of the m
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by beeflet 11mo ago
The Ad model is exactly the problem. If you had anonymous, cheap micropayments where you pay 1 cent per pageview it would not just solve the surveillance problem but it would solve the DDoS problem too (you set up a web server where the pri
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I like OpenGL ES but the support for compute shaders sucks. I hate transform feedbacks. I am in the process of trying out WebGPU now, but it doesn't have good native support everywhere like OpenGL ES 3 does.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Why not use normal printing techniques with low or no infill? Or just design the parts with internal cavities
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Flock is already doing facial recognition

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