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by debatem1 3y ago
Unfortunately, this is an urban legend. While titanium is amazing stuff a normal ring cutter can go through it.
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by debatem1 3y ago
This is excellent advice for arts businesses as well. If you have the relationships you have a business, even if it's subcritical for you. If you don't have the relationships you just have debt in disguise.
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by debatem1 3y ago
IME, many people want a very simple "sign this file" interface with a few complicating bells and whistles tacked on: certificate chains (maybe authorities, maybe TOFU/HPKP-style pinning), weak cipher rejection, and crypto har
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by debatem1 3y ago
Yes. Rent will eventually approach the profitability of the most profitable business that can be put on that land. In a large and rapidly growing city, "eventually" is very quick.
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by debatem1 3y ago
Super popular here in Seattle. I was talking with a friend the other day about how to start a small metal venue in the area and their advice was to teach dogs to like metal because there's no way you compete with a dog lounge on revenu
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by debatem1 3y ago
Sounds like inverted hash chains. Generate a hash chain h_i = sha(h_i-1) for a random h_0 up to h_N. Each message m_i becomes (agent_id, state, hmac(h_(N-i+1), state), h_(N-i)). Upon receipt of message m_(i+1) the receiver can verify the hm
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by debatem1 3y ago
The 2**64 example given here is exactly right. You don't need undefined behavior or language lawyering to hit the difference; you just need a 65 element bitset.
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by debatem1 3y ago
It is trivially easy to write a codon program which runs in both Codon and Python but behaves differently in a way that is not considered a bug in either language. That means it is not a subset, unless by that you mean that each language ha
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by debatem1 3y ago
Codon can't even run the whole python standard library. It changes integer semantic from arbitrary width to fixed width. Exaloop's own docs refer to the process of converting code between the two as "porting". Seems like
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by debatem1 3y ago
Last I heard Codon was a python-like language rather than actual Python and the author suggests something similar. Headline seems pretty misleading.
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by debatem1 3y ago
I think the reaction varies a lot based on two things: 1. How much actual knowledge people have of Elon. Speaking from personal experience there is very much a "familiarity breeds contempt" thing going on here, and I suspect the s
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by debatem1 3y ago
> whose lives were vastly, immeasurably worse than any research animal. You say this very confidently, but my own experience has been the opposite. Are you speaking knowledgeably here?
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by debatem1 3y ago
> Just about every mainstream source, from the History Channel to Wikipedia, cites Nightingale, an upper-class lady of Victorian England, as the founder of modern nursing. Emphasis mine. The article then elides this detail in order to
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by debatem1 3y ago
What does "touch grass" in this context mean? If you mean "every time I am smoking a joint and talking about Elon" I guess I'm not surprised. If you mean "every time I go outside and talk to people about Elon&q
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by debatem1 3y ago
I do public art and events all the time and that looks pretty feasible to me. At least, I'm pretty confident we could have it roam around Seattle.
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by debatem1 3y ago
Looks like a great trip and with all that disassembly I can imagine it not being an easy one, especially for a one day thing. Still, if you change your mind or want to chat about someday relocating it with all the other space-themed art in
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by debatem1 3y ago
Hey, amazing work! It'd be awesome to see this in the solstice parade, or as an installation at the end site for Solstice or Luminata. I help run both events and we would be happy to help move it and put it back if you're open to
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by debatem1 4y ago
Exactly. Whenever I see this argument I keep thinking "can you prove that I am not a stochastic parrot?".
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by debatem1 4y ago
In the same meaning of the word, yes. That's what an interrogation is: take a person who understands that they should not do or say certain things, then get them to say/do those things anyway. Works every day.
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by debatem1 4y ago
> The system’s brilliance turns out to be the result less of a ghost in the machine than of the relentless churning of endless multiplications. Isn't this the very "machine" being referenced?
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by debatem1 4y ago
I didn't say "competent and qualified engineers". I said "experts". I won't waste any more words on someone who willfully misunderstands them.
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by debatem1 4y ago
> Get this, say a project takes a year to complete. The concept is saying a 10x engineer can do this in about month. You've really never met this person? Feels like more or less everyone with real expertise should be able to do this
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by debatem1 4y ago
Doesn't change disk usage. The file is still on disk. The difference is between reading a file and memory mapping (mmap'ing) it. If you read a 1TB file into memory you use 1TB of disk and 1TB of physical memory. If you then access
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by debatem1 4y ago
Because even if Ubuntu knows that, users often want conflicting things. User A may want a weather app preinstalled; user B may not want their computer knowing their location. User A and user B might even be the same person. And that's
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by debatem1 4y ago
Suggesting that black people need "more discipline" to learn because of "selective breeding" is plain-as-day racism.
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by debatem1 4y ago
The Pixel line was rebranded from the Nexus phones, which started in 2010.
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by debatem1 4y ago
CPUs too. And RAM, no way that goes wrong. Hey, hard disks are infallible right? Yeah, nothing is 100%, and if it were nothing could prove it was.
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by debatem1 4y ago
Weird argument. Excel is one of the most popular and profitable programs of all time. If your argument is that LLMs are like Excel, the logical conclusion would be that they would be wildly successful.
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by debatem1 4y ago
This is a thing I've started at pretty hard. Embedding a signal that survives basic postprocessing isn't that hard, but doing it in such a way that it stays well below the noise floor and survives extensive editing is not easy. If
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by debatem1 4y ago
Washington state brought in >$500M in revenue on marijuana taxes last year. You can say that you don't understand why people pay it, but empirically the question of whether they will pay the tax is settled.

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