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by femto113 4y ago
I assume that by "get them out" the parent meant "move your crypto from an exchange to a wallet you control". If your end goal is to be out of crypto altogether it would make far more sense to just sell while the exchan
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by femto113 4y ago
Sure, but only if you'll send me the pizza without waiting for the transaction to be confirmed, I'm too hungry to wait.
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by femto113 4y ago
> If you have assets in an un-audited exchange, get them out now. This is Mexican standoff. The only "value" crypto assets have comes from exchanges that will trade them for fiat. If crypto holders stop trusting exchanges and
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by femto113 4y ago
Funding for NIF is 100% about weapons, it's never been about energy. After '97 (when Clinton signed the CTBT and the US agreed to stop testing new weapons) the national labs were in a panic until some clever DOE wonk invented the
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by femto113 4y ago
Scientifically it's potentially very interesting: close up observation of what's going on in the center of a star and all that. I'd ignore all "the future of free clean energy is upon us at last!" hype. That'
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by femto113 4y ago
Scaling the NIF's approach (laser inertial confinement) isn't about more reaction mass per pulse, it's about more frequent pulses, and is probably not going to be practical or cost effective in the foreseeable future. The fu
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by femto113 4y ago
My favorite so far was a company I founded about 20 years ago with a friend who worked in the film sound industry. He had an idea for a hyper-niche tool for automatically syncing changes from video to sound (industry term is "conformi
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by femto113 4y ago
Among its other endeavors, FTX created FTT, a token that had a peak notional market cap just under $10B, and that value seems to have been used to paper over massive holes in the FTX balance sheet. Massive, unexplained movements of FTT bet
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by femto113 4y ago
IMO of the three examples only the last one is a clear case of a company policy that can and should be followed even at the expense of productivity, and if their argument is really "how would anyone find out" you need to kick that
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by femto113 4y ago
Fear it happening or fear its consequences? Doxxing already happens all the time, but the main tools are things like account names or image search, this sort of tool could take it to a new level. A simple experiment would be to run this s
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by femto113 4y ago
I remember a few years ago some more dynamic presentation modes making a bit of a splash. I used one of them[1] to good reception in at least one talk, but ultimately it felt more like really slick slide-to-slide transitions than a fundame
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by femto113 4y ago
Cloud providers aren't guessing at demand to plan capacity, they're literally building new data centers and then wheeling new racks into them as fast as they physically can (short-term decisions are more likely made at the other e
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The value of their inventory is plummeting and those margins will continue to contract for however long it takes the last couple of bubble years to work their way through the system. Maybe the brand would survive a bankruptcy, but the equi
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by femto113 4y ago
I was once pitched a startup by some Amazon vets whose elevator pitch was "Apollo for everyone". I literally laughed out loud, which was followed by some very awkward assurances from them that they were not, in fact, trying to be
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by femto113 4y ago
If you really want to write C just do it--most popular languages have a defined way to interface with C code, and if not you can almost always find a way to communicate with a C program via stdin/out. You can always justify to your te
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by femto113 4y ago
I think the path is more clearly thought of as HTML+CSS -> display list -> *. The display list is some abstract definition of what needs to be drawn by a renderer. In theory anything that fully describes all possible operations work
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by femto113 4y ago
The 80% less CO2 number is BS, since the claimed savings are only after "water boiling phase excluded". Guessing this is more like 10% overall, assuming you turn your stove down to a low boil after the pasta is in.
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by femto113 4y ago
Here's the thing about being an engineer who isn't "dead weight": you can always find a new job. To keep that 5% (or 20% or whatever the real number is) of truly productive engineers you need to make the company a place
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by femto113 4y ago
Internet scale companies like Google happily embrace intellectual property laws when it's their IP on the line, they just don't care about anyone else's. And it's not an issue of "can't scale": Google&#x2
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LANL's plutonium facility is also the only place that can safely dismantle the nuclear weapons that already exist.
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Ironically, despite the elaborate spec most participants will wind up just using an ad hoc convention of embedding critical information in non-semantic text fields (or "note segments") with bespoke codes & delimiters.
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by femto113 4y ago
This guy should return the prize and apologize for deceiving the judges. The rules state: "All items entered for the competition must be entered in the name of the person who created the entry." If Allen had hired 100 humans to cr
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by femto113 4y ago
AI that imitates well-known composers goes back much further, I remember attending a concert of "virtual mozart" works at UC Santa Cruz back in the late 80s/early 90s https://www.theguardian.com/technology&#x2
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by femto113 4y ago
It's kind of a trolley problem: I'm not "fine" with 480p, but also not fine with throwing away stuff that still works. That seems to mean the status quo wins until the thing stops working.
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by femto113 4y ago
Nothing happened to them. Nothing ever happens to them! There's a now twenty year old Panasonic still hanging on my wall that refuses to stop working flawlessly and thus allow me to guiltlessly replace its 480 fat & smugly glow
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by femto113 4y ago
The real problem here is browsers treating recently "expired" (but otherwise still perfectly "valid") certificates as comparable in danger to visiting a known malware den. This is absolutely the sort of thing that could
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by femto113 4y ago
Many years ago people (including me [1]) started using the Skipjack cipher for the purpose of obfuscating sequential numbers when they needed to be externalized (e.g. putting auto-incremented ids in urls). Since it was originally designed
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by femto113 4y ago
It's much like the difference between "how" and "what". SQL select statements are my favored example of declarative: you simply "declare" what you want ("all rows from this table with these values in
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I'm not worried about the ad supported free storage providers. On YouTube the ratio is something like 10,000 views for every 1 upload, so they amortize that storage cost across a lot of other users, not just the person who uploads it.
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by femto113 4y ago
This headline is egregiously misleading clickbait, since it is based on an absurd and self contradictory hypothetical: "If my product had 10,000 daily active users generating 100 events per day, I’d easily hit that size in less than a

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