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by croddin 5y ago
Apparently the original plot was that humans were used for compute, which would make more sense, but the studio didn't think audiences would understand that as well. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817&
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by croddin 5y ago
This is not the epic case, but now couldn’t epic direct users of fortnite to add credits to their account on epic’s website and bypass the apple tax, which is part of what epic wants out of their case?
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by croddin 5y ago
I was just trying to debug something today and noticed how the referer HTTP header is spelled wrong and that is the spec while there are several other headers that spell it referrer. Crazy!
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by croddin 5y ago
> But "useful humanoid robot" is way more forward-looking than anything else he's done this with Other aspirational goals he has set include a colony of a million people on Mars and a neural lace. I think a humanoid robot
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by croddin 5y ago
Why do smart contracts require a total ordering of unrelated transactions?
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by croddin 5y ago
Syntax error. Unexpected end of line.
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by croddin 5y ago
That idea would be to cure it, prions are terrifying.
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by croddin 5y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to make a designer protein that latches onto prion “seed crystals” to neutralize it. Some of the recent advances in protein folding and crispr make it so this might be starting to be something in the realm o
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by croddin 5y ago
Similarly, many crypto exchanges don’t give you access to a wallet and don’t let you actually transact on the blockchain, but they sell an asset that matches the value of a coin and those coins are held in reserve by the exchanges.
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by croddin 5y ago
This is actually a similar idea to the latest novel by Andy Weir (Author of "The Martian"), "Project Hail Mary", which is great and I highly recommend if you liked "The Martian".
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by croddin 5y ago
If that is the case, what search engine do you currently use?
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by croddin 5y ago
If you expand to see the whole file named “doc_source/S3Torrent.md” that contains the changes mentioning the depreciation, that quote used to be on line 10 and is now on line 13
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by croddin 5y ago
It already says: > Amazon S3 does not support the BitTorrent protocol in AWS Regions launched after May 30, 2016\. So BitTorrent support has been sort of deprecated for a long time.
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by croddin 5y ago
I was thinking about trying to make a version that optimized for giving you four lines at once to be a real lovetris but then decided that would probably just almost always give the straight pieces so it wouldn’t be too interesting.
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by croddin 6y ago
> On that note, does anyone know how to upgrade libssl across my entire nervous system? ‘Inception’ shows someone who tries to do something like that, but there seems to be a vulnerability.
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by croddin 6y ago
Don't know what today's lucky 10,000 is? You are also one of today's lucky 10,000! https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by croddin 6y ago
I think it means Pumped Energy Storage
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by croddin 6y ago
How broken does this claim RSA is? SHA-1 was known to be broken for a long time before actually pulling off a collision was performed for example.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1#Attacks
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by croddin 6y ago
I've never seen anyone big enough to actually follow through on eating a hat. Props Peter Beck.
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by croddin 6y ago
This is awesome. It reminds me of the iOS app Calca[1], which is similar. [1] http://calca.io/
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by croddin 6y ago
Electric cars are starting to get cheaper than ICE cars and that should contribute to making cities quieter in general.
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by croddin 6y ago
The article says that 5% of the matter in the universe is normal matter but they can’t detect half of it. How do they know it is 5% normal matter then and not 2.5%?
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by croddin 6y ago
Yeah that took me a little bit too. It a garden-path sentence title.
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by croddin 6y ago
You must construct additional cubicles!
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by croddin 6y ago
I bet they are working on it.
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by croddin 6y ago
Here is one: https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3698
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by croddin 6y ago
Wow so 1/3 off all people on earth use at least one FB product every day.
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by croddin 6y ago
I think there is a good chance MagSafe chargers will last significantly longer. Lightning cables seem to eventually get damaged on the connector or with the cable bending if it is being used while charging. If wireless MagSafe uses more el
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by croddin 6y ago
A dictionary doesn’t give a prediction about what the next word in string will be. GPT-2 does and those predictions can be used so save space.
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by croddin 6y ago
Well speaking of trucks and not understanding technology, that is pretty much on the level of: “The internet is not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes...”

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