elcritch

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by elcritch 2y ago
Commercial VPNs are often blocked too. I found a p2p vpn to my home network + ssh socks5 proxy to work well.
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by elcritch 2y ago
Lots of companies do this on their websites now using cloud flare or something similar. It’s practical. Still it’s frustrating as a user when you’re traveling over in Europe and can’t access your accounts to pay bills or whatnot.
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by elcritch 2y ago
While I agree with the sentiments, there is a societal need for gatekeepers in some professions. The engineer title often comes with legal liabilities. It’s not necessarily just about talent. Of course it often becomes misused as well.
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by elcritch 2y ago
See the neo-feudalism comment below. Land and even vertical farming will be controlled by nobility / corporates in the neo-feudalism era.
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by elcritch 2y ago
> Today, the poorest 20% can still afford smartphones and flat screen TVs, clothes and even vacations. Well 1940’s being a wartime era would be a bad time to compare to. It’d be best to compare to compare to just before globalization, pr
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by elcritch 2y ago
I’m all for poorer countries getting a slice of the pie. Long term I’m not convinced it’s beneficial for the whole population of richer countries to continue, but rather only the elites of those countries. The amount income inequality has s
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by elcritch 2y ago
Plus a strip mall with Waffle Houses and 7-11’s would be the universes best defense anyways!
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by elcritch 2y ago
IPv6 always seemed to me to be driven by a certain class of purist networking geeks. Then some corporations started getting on board like you said, but many couldn't care less.
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by elcritch 2y ago
Only if the cafe is nearly full. Many cafes are empty outside peak hours.
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by elcritch 2y ago
What are other barriers in transformers? Or is the normalization layer the primary one?
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by elcritch 2y ago
Alright hear me out, a drone "cannon" that shoots the food onto the balcony. It's perfect for covering that last distance. Works best for food packaged in discrete boxes. ;)
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by elcritch 2y ago
Nah, one day we'll just have flat societies with AIs to replace the beaurocracy and elites and manage everything for us. Nothing could go wrong with that! </sarcasm>.
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by elcritch 2y ago
Well even docker only runs on Linux with some magic to make it look local. Probably the closest similar thing would be WASM stuff.
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by elcritch 2y ago
Nim is pretty close to that for me. It’s more pascal-ish inherited but has a sophisticated type system including case types similar to ML sum types and compile time.
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by elcritch 2y ago
The elites leaving common folk relatively alone would be a best case scenario. If people are free to build and supply for themselves with UBI then life wouldn’t be bad. Problem is elites usually want control. Oh you’re running small scale m
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by elcritch 2y ago
Reminds me of an article by Yanis Varoufakis - a leftist economist / politician - I saw posted in an HN comment recently [1]. My interpretation of it was that the petrodollar effectively undermines middle class Americans by artificiall
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by elcritch 2y ago
That’s an interesting resource: > In an interview with CNN in April 2024, American Sunlight Project executive director Nina Jankowicz claimed that investigations into so-called disinformation researchers make the U.S. less safe. 14 Short
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by elcritch 2y ago
Very excited for this! I donated on open collective already. The team is full of talented people. A nice interface to time travel debugging, with Nim support soon nonetheless. Though if it uses rr it won’t be able to run on macOS. Bummer, m
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by elcritch 2y ago
Seems like something LLMs should be good at. Take the new user info and ask it to vet the account or raise it to a human.
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by elcritch 2y ago
> 2. Reviews are not just about the code's potential mechanics, but inferring and comparing the intent and approach of the writer. For LLMs, that ranges between non-existent and schizoid, and writing it yourself skips that cost. Wit
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by elcritch 2y ago
> To me it looks more like Markdown vs. CommonMark disputes; John Gruber repeatedly refused to standardize Markdown or even any subset in spite of huge needs because he somehow believes that standardization ruins simplicity. I don't
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by elcritch 2y ago
The mechanics of failure are both very well understood in some domains and applications whilst other fields languish. Various aviation materials have 10 of thousands of papers studying fatigue failure. The area of my PhD research program wa
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by elcritch 2y ago
> America is experiencing a decapitation strike, and our military is not defending us from these domestic enemies. There we go, democracy is fine until it goes against the "liberal" zeitgeist. It's not really liberalism ju
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by elcritch 2y ago
The Japanese figured this out already! We just say moshi-moshi when you start a phone call [1]. Originally it was believed ghosts couldn't say moshi-moshi (I can speak; I can speak). Now we can apply it to the ghosts in our machines. W
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by elcritch 2y ago
At some point it seems like we just need to start passing laws requiring (major) internet services to provide all services on IPv6. Routers could then intercept ipv4 only devices and their dns locally and translate it to ipv6. Still lame th
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by elcritch 2y ago
Nope, a companies purpose is to fulfill it's charter. Profit is generally a goal of for profit companies, but they usually have others too. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-c
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by elcritch 2y ago
> The reason these tests are administered is to understand if there is perhaps a learning disability. If you score low overall, or low in a particular area that is then used as a diagnostic tool. For example, a normal score overall with
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by elcritch 2y ago
> Bungling the response to the next pandemic, due to haphazardly firing people, cutting science funding and deleting inconvenient data. That’s possible, however, it’s possible it’ll give a chance to remove autocrats who have suppressed t
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by elcritch 2y ago
There’s also SkiffOS ( https://github.com/skiffos/SkiffOS ). It’s a project that uses buildroot to create a small Linux for a specific device that’s only used to start a container. I’ve wanted to try it sometime after ge
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by elcritch 2y ago
That’d be interesting to learn more about. What I’ve seen always leans toward regulation driving costs. Though I guess some of that infrastructure could be overbuilt due to excessive regulation. Also much of the concrete and steel is needed

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