cowthulhu

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by cowthulhu 5mo ago
Once you’ve got root, you don’t need to exploit compromised code to do whatever you want.
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by cowthulhu 5mo ago
This was a lot lower-tech than I was expecting. Very cool!
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by cowthulhu 5mo ago
Wow, that’s ~13 mph, basically a full-on sprint for a mere mortal. Absolutely insane.
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
I quite liked this article. That said, I think it misses the two big advantages of denormalized (one big table) data - It’s much easier for people to use, especially non-technical stakeholders who tend to just not understand joins. It does
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
The author really lucked out that the government employee was not actually malicious. I can think of a good few ways she could have made life much more difficult for the author, even if he was likely to ultimately succeed.
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
Lumen, Nanite, Substrate, Metahumans, and Chaos Physics all come to mind as major innovations driven by Epic. Nanite specifically has pretty much no alternatives. Additionally, the developer UX on UE5 gets better from release to release - f
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by cowthulhu 7mo ago
The author is trying very hard to look like they are not trying at all.
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by cowthulhu 7mo ago
One comment I found interesting basically argued that if the billionaires are so scared of over the top wealth taxes, they should be pushing/lobbying for more reasonable wealth taxes as a blocking play, otherwise they can’t really comp
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by cowthulhu 7mo ago
I don’t think that’s a fair take - his argument is primarily that the ballot measure is fundamentally flawed, and likely put forward in bad faith by a group who’s CEO literally admits to using bad faith/destructive ballot measures to f
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by cowthulhu 7mo ago
Matt Levine has a fairly reasonable take on this: '[…] if you go to Jump Trading and Jane Street and say “hello, I have an unregulated poorly designed mechanism that could lead to $50 billion of market value collapsing overnight, would
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by cowthulhu 7mo ago
Prediction markets should be accurate, not fair. If people want to gamble without doing the work of finding some alpha, they should head to a casino, not a prediction market.
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by cowthulhu 8mo ago
28/hr is closer to 60k/yr. 130k/yr is more like 65/hr.
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by cowthulhu 8mo ago
Until someone has a heart attack and needs to call 911… these are super illegal for a reason!
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by cowthulhu 8mo ago
Great idea! A tweet providing thoughtful commentary on a competitors ads will surely set the record straight, people always respect CEOs that are willing to publicly talk about touchy topics. Would you like me to draft one for you?
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by cowthulhu 8mo ago
What is the real-world advantage of putting datacenters in space?
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by cowthulhu 9mo ago
This is completely wrong - the entire point of the Nash equilibrium solution (in the context of poker, at least) is that it is, at worst, EV-neutral even when your opponent has perfect knowledge of your strategy. Your 72o comment indicates
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by cowthulhu 9mo ago
To expand on this - an LLM will try to play (and reason) like a person would, while a solver simply crunches the possibility space for the mathematically optimal move. It’s similar to how an LLM can sometimes play chess on a reasonably high
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by cowthulhu 11mo ago
Last sentence completely undercuts the other sentiments you shared in your comment… probably best to cut stuff like that out in the future IMHO, even if it’s how you feel.
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by cowthulhu 11mo ago
This doesn’t seem plausible. Leading edge lithography requires you to be at (or beyond) the cutting edge in many realms - even with a breakthrough in one realm, I don’t understand how a startup could expect to catch up to ASML across the bo
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
I don’t think that is a practical framework for situations where people aren’t already very closely aligned. What happens when a few people are very vocal (and firm) in opposition to basically every change? Having dissenting views is valua
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
It’s unclear to me what you are even accusing them of, could you clarify?
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
I think you could say the same about self checkout vs “regular” checkout in a grocery store.
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
Well, I know whose company I’ll be defrauding!
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
What about the employees you had to let go to cover the shortfall? No damages there either?
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
In CO we have automatic traffic cameras, and to my knowledge they just mail you the ticket, which is usually only a fine (and no license points). Its one of those “automatic plea” tickets where if you fight it, you fight (and risk convictio
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
My understanding is that in most jurisdictions a laser jammer is a magic device that transmutes a speeding ticket into a complementary trip to jail
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
I suspect decreasing tips also has a lot to do with tip exhaustion, I think it's becoming increasingly acceptable (at least in my circles) to hit the "custom" option and put in a smaller-that-suggested tip (or even nothing at
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
Are you making the argument that they should have a default API route? I don't think that's very common.
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
I think the moderation is almost all automated, Valve has was too few employees to do much manual moderation. Totally agree Steam is a great platform, I just hope for more competition from other great platforms.
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by cowthulhu 1y ago
I disagree with the statement "The reason game developers are willing to give Valve 30% of their revenue is because the Steam marketplace is packed with super gamers who throw money at games they have no intention of playing." I b

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