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by frazbin 5y ago
Most likely there are microcode bugs being quietly exploited by powerful actors. Documenting/reversing/auditing the code in public makes it more likely white hats will find these bugs and mitigate them.. which takes a little powe
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by frazbin 5y ago
Wow, lot of pessimism in this thread about a problem that has been solved pretty well more than once. Here's how I see it: Computer keyboards have one major problem: they cause carpal tunnel because your fingers have to fly all around
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by frazbin 5y ago
An essay on the theme "compare and contrast SK/JP/CN educational cutthroatism with 21st century woke culture." Good enough if that's the question assigned but.. why? Aoparently to push the zero sum narrative of el
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by frazbin 5y ago
Hm is that really true? I thought that there was quite a lot of sharing from industry leaders at the research paper and dataset level, and that these could be used imitate production systems given some hacking. Kinda seemed like the major
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by frazbin 5y ago
The really scary thing is that this could be used as an excuse to hide production ML models and even the tech used to generate them. Sounds like we can expect the state-of-the-art AI techniques to be jealously guarded eventually. I guess
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by frazbin 5y ago
well basically you have to throw out proof of work and then it's fine. If that's a philosophical thing then you're constrained to highly inefficient systems that yeah, are designed to fork like you say. But if you're
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by frazbin 5y ago
oh man I wish! The thing about the elements necessary for life, is that by definition they're present in sufficient quantities in all life; and it's not like humans need any special elements. What's true is we spend 80+ yea
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by frazbin 5y ago
Being able to query arbitrary past blockchain history is kind of gross, because you can neither partition nor elide any of the data under consensus- your verifiers need to have a copy of everything. Leads to expensive nodes cause disk space
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by frazbin 5y ago
> just deploy a new version of the smart contract, and ask users to use that one instead. If it gets confirmed, then an honest majority of block producers will ensure that it stays confirmed. I can't see how the operation you descri
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by frazbin 5y ago
</sarcasm> <!-- apparently needed --!>
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by frazbin 5y ago
Step 1: throw away modern western democracies, those are obviously going away. Step 2: look, now we're so screwed almost anything looks better! Step 3: crypto profit. Luckily modern western democracies aren't so easily thrown away
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by frazbin 5y ago
I'd rather be liquified and injected into an oil well. The carbon cycle has enough carbon for now, no reason to delude ourselves into thinking we were ever actually helping this poor planet by existing.
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by frazbin 5y ago
What the hell are you saying? Is it "the existence of state censorship is a good countermeasure to online speech when applied at the platform level"? Because that would be sneaking some pretty authoritarian shit into your opinio
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by frazbin 5y ago
so 'hard' in fact, that ipfs/ethereum can't do it. Try for instance to discover the replication status of your data on the ipfs 'network'-- or to determine how you're partitioned relative to other actors.
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by frazbin 5y ago
idk it's not untrue. So far my time investment in distributed ledgers hasn't done a damn thing for anybody, but it has been fun (in a 'playing with your food' way, as someone said downthread). I suspect many here have
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by frazbin 5y ago
Ipfs is kinda junkware though, given its age and lack of basic features. I had a lot more patience with the unpolishedness 5 years ago, but at this point a greenfield implementation with none of the same people might be the best way forwar
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by frazbin 5y ago
Tea is amazing.. the fluoride content is a bit bothersome though: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808922/ shame-- "all" you need to do is grow it in soil w/o F
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by frazbin 5y ago
if this headline reads like clickbait, you might be a little jumpy.
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by frazbin 5y ago
only if you live in the technological present. They won't really have us until they can chase us out of the past and/or future
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by frazbin 5y ago
That's a good point. 500 gigawatts over 15 megameters gives 20kw/m of local heat to deal with, which sounds kind of yikes.. but then again a pool heater draws 5kw. Seems clear the biggest effect will be on the seabed-- but that
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by frazbin 5y ago
hmm, 500 gigawatts dissipated over 300k square gigameters of ocean surface gives a forcing effect of 1.6 milliwatts per square meter. Global warming right now is forcing 1w/sqm, so it's not a problem at this scale. But it's
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by frazbin 5y ago
In a very literal sense, we have been using the atmosphere as half of a battery since forever-- combustion on earth uses atmospheric oxygen as as an electron acceptor.
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by frazbin 5y ago
This is totally true, awesome, and under appreciated. Check out project vesta. Basically there's an infinite amount of magnesium silicate minerals, and they weather to absorb co2 and release magnesium. You get some iron for free, bu
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by frazbin 5y ago
Yep, California has raised the bar, and to do so it had to take risks. In particular, it risked looking silly-- and in penis-politics looking silly in front of your opponents is an existential risk. The good news is, some of these risks pa
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by frazbin 5y ago
And if it were, stop anyway! Humanities classes are sposed to help us engage with content like this, but stem students often don't take them seriously (
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by frazbin 5y ago
I think it's a profound fear of ambiguity that drives these behaviors: the urge is to move past the 'understanding' part by finding some single interpretation and then move on to the 'doing' part, which is the satis
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by frazbin 5y ago
Nope that's wrong about the livestock feed. Beef bioaccumulates pesticides in fatty tissue just like anything else. You can't test every steak (yet), but that doesn't mean organic is a scam-- just means it's scammable.
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by frazbin 5y ago
Jumping in to point out that while this stuff happens on linux, at least one doesn't feel so hand-wrigingly powerless when it does. I know it's a choice between starting a career in maintenance and complete learned helplessness..
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by frazbin 5y ago
Don't worry everyone, I'm not experiencing this issue. -- Apple flans
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by frazbin 5y ago
no, it's definitely "not right" -- mac os ships with ancient, crippled versions of the bsd utilities, afaict simply because it's bad for open source and because they can. E.g. `man sed` then check the date at the bottom

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