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by blackle 3y ago
author here: this is correct. the opus protocol is so efficient, you can fill a packet with random data and it will still decompress into a sensible sound. this is where all the sounds come from
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Opus Databending Drumkit(suricrasia.online)
106 points by blackle 3y ago|18 comments
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by blackle 3y ago
If you're trying to build a world where a person's iris is their unique proof of personhood, then you are building a world where people without eyes are not people. I cannot see a way around this.
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by blackle 3y ago
What if you don't have eyes? I've been scrolling this thread for ten minutes and also read through the worldcoin website. Nobody seems to have asked this. If they want this to be a true proof of personhood it needs to work for eve
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Making Amulets with Llama 2(suricrasia.online)
3 points by blackle 3y ago|0 comments
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by blackle 3y ago
Self-plug, but demoscene on linux is very possible. I got into the scene around 2015 and submitted my first entry to an IRL demoparty in 2018. All of my prods are linux and open source. Most are 4k exegfx, which means they are still images,
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by blackle 3y ago
9/11 was not a systemic injustice, it was perpetrated by a small group of extremists in a single act. Racial discrimination was a systemic injustice perpetrated by lawmakers, enabled by an unjust society, with country-wide effects las
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by blackle 3y ago
USD holds value because the government says it does. The government holds authority because they have a monopoly on violence. Or, if your less pessimistic, it's because people believe in the government.
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by blackle 3y ago
Classic hug of death, I think. Works on and off for me.
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Ask HN: Old Knuth Development Journal
3 points by blackle 3y ago|1 comments
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A Latent Space Theory for Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models(arxiv.org)
2 points by blackle 3y ago|1 comments
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by blackle 3y ago
These are not reasonable restrictions. If any of the clauses in section two are found to be true, then the care is considered unlawful. Many of these clauses are extremely broad, for example "Fails to ensure (at least annually) that
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by blackle 3y ago
The linked Missouri Independent articles mention that the Missouri Attorney General belives that transgender therapies are "experimental." I'd like to point out that hormone replacement for trans people is older than heart tr
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A puzzle box made entirely out of inline CSS(cohost.org)
1 points by blackle 4y ago|0 comments
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by blackle 4y ago
nope. that was around before I got this name.
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by blackle 4y ago
author here. the website that hosts this is a new social media website that allows a limited amount of html (only inline css, no js or <style> elements), and a small subculture/arms race has developed to see who can make the wild
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No-Knowledge Proofs: A useless cryptographic diversion(suricrasia.online)
1 points by blackle 6y ago|1 comments
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Basilisk Collection – A Hard Sci-Fi Story About SHA-256(suricrasia.online)
22 points by blackle 6y ago|2 comments
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by blackle 11y ago
Yeah, inflection is really interesting. Now I'm reading the examples for this programming language and putting emphasis on random words, lol
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by blackle 11y ago
In my opinion making a programming language more like a spoken language will just add more confusion. To an english speaker, the phrase "take every number in the list X and add five" means the same as "add five to each number
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by blackle 11y ago
I'm going to guess all of it
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by blackle 11y ago
I'm thinking it's just raw pixel data, and the description of each eigendress's meaning was author's interpretation
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by blackle 11y ago
This reminds me of the time I unlocked the premium version of a trial fractal making program by bugging one of the shared libraries it came with. The shared library in question was libcrypto, which is open source software. It wasn't ha
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by blackle 11y ago
I've done this before with perl and POE::Component::Omegle. IIRC a large majority of the conversations were insta-disconnects, and those that lasted longer than that were very, very boring.
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by blackle 11y ago
Doesn't help that the title is misspelled
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by blackle 11y ago
Its actually because I hate gtk3 theming. Every update seems to break something & figuring out what css rule to change is hell and a half. So my knee-jerk reaction to say 'oh no' is just frustration that yet another app is goi
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by blackle 11y ago
Hm... http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/dice...
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by blackle 11y ago
Ok, I'll start now.
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by blackle 11y ago
Wow, nine million. At its current rate, this fanfiction will surpass that tome in 8 or 9 years: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4112682/1/The-Subspace-Emissary...
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by blackle 11y ago
I have to work for these kinds of "idea people" every day, and all the shifting constraints and scope problems that come with them

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