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by gabesullice 3y ago
Agreed. Looking at the timeline on the Wikipedia page, a new 100K ambient pressure SC material is nothing to scoff at. It means LK99 is about as good as the other materials, at minimum. However , its chemical composition is different than
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by gabesullice 3y ago
Yeah. Seems like Doom may qualify as a kind of early digital monument.
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by gabesullice 3y ago
Without directly answering my own question, I'll share my thinking about its potential design requirements. I think it should be "inhabitable" as in, people should be able to have experiences (plural) while using the software
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by gabesullice 3y ago
I think this misses the spirit of the question. One could argue the space station is far more impressive than a grand cathedral. Our engineering disciplines are far, far more advanced. Many cathedrals are sublime nonetheless. In fact, maybe
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by gabesullice 3y ago
I think these fall into the Linux kernel territory since they're never complete, even if they're very impressive.
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by gabesullice 3y ago
I think the reddit thing is more like the linux kernel. It's an ever evolving piece that's never really done. I'm imagining something more like the original lunar lander's flight computer software, but also intentionally
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Ask HN: Could we build a digital monument? If so, what would it be?
6 points by gabesullice 3y ago|11 comments
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by gabesullice 3y ago
I don't know the answer, so I'm purely speculating for the fun of it. I guess that hash function outputs aren't perfectly uniformly distributed. E.g. if a toy hash function (a) produces a 2-bit output for a gajillion random i
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by gabesullice 3y ago
If you're interested in this, I recommend this video[0] as a follow up. It goes into the history of pad 39 in Florida as well. [0]: https://youtu.be/xfFhKqGrNYg
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by gabesullice 3y ago
My guess is that US surveillance and intelligence agencies operate like many other large government beaurocracies: with high levels of administrative incompetence, mismanagement of resources, unscrupulous decisions in the service of individ
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by gabesullice 3y ago
https://archive.is/LzTBT
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by gabesullice 4y ago
Good points to ponder and a good conversation, thanks!
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by gabesullice 4y ago
Something like this actually played a significant role in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. The prosecution tried to enter some low resolution images into the record and his defense argued it shouldn't be admissable because it had been up
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by gabesullice 4y ago
I don't disagree with you. Maybe a more nuanced way of putting it than "not my job" is to ask "what is my role to play here?" In a smaller company/start up, your role might well be to look for things that need
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by gabesullice 4y ago
> ... as a tech lead you're told to bring the most technical value possible to your team. This feels like a rationalization for a crusade. This falls into the "write a memo" bucket. You notice a trend (like all application
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by gabesullice 4y ago
I think that advice was meant for different audiences. If you're a W2 employee who has modest savings, you're in the class of people who can safely choose not to add/remove/change any of your banking relationships. You a
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by gabesullice 4y ago
> From hiring practices … [to] where the lobbying money goes.… What in a workplace is _not_ political? These are all great examples of "not your job" precisely because the people responsible for these concerns are the owners, a
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by gabesullice 4y ago
Interesting hobby! What sort of hobby requires FPGA designs and MATLAB? (And to clarify, I didn't mean long-running background processes while idling, so your answer was perfect)
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How do you utilize your personal computing power?
4 points by gabesullice 4y ago|4 comments
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by gabesullice 4y ago
I think they are. When a crash happens, the cause is identified, we patch the bug, and redeploy the system. After that, the software cannot fail for the same reason again—it's less fragile than before. A fragile thing is like a wine gl
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by gabesullice 4y ago
You're right, that was poorly worded.
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by gabesullice 4y ago
Honestly, this was a good observation that forced me to think more deeply about why the distinction matters. I disagree that it's irrelevant. If the game is zero sum, the winners must succeed at the expense of everyone else. The game m
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by gabesullice 4y ago
Gold very rarely falls on your head while you're reclining on the sofa.
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by gabesullice 4y ago
No, because new resources don't materialize like manna from heaven. Someone, somewhere needs to reorganize resources in a more efficient way or discover new ones. If you benefit "equally" from that change in dynamics to the p
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by gabesullice 4y ago
I didn't. The interesting and difficult part would be that every agent could play a different strategy. It's fine to take $0.30 every round, you can play forever. Some people with a $1.00 would bet three times in a row, lose, and
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by gabesullice 4y ago
This is a dishonest piece. It ignores that it's based on a zero-sum game and the world isn't zero sum. The quoted economists know that very well. I like that the coin flip game illustrates the concept of compounding interest, but
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by gabesullice 4y ago
After the Wright brother's first demonstration of powered flight, I like to imagine all the pessimists in this thread would have said that commercial air transport would never be viable because wood and fabric don't have the mater
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by gabesullice 4y ago
My impression is that the research efforts have been focused on "can we do it?" Then, if the answer is yes, they'll focus on "how do we do it efficiently?" Where efficiency can mean anything from capital efficient,
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by gabesullice 4y ago
Pessimists were saying solar panels and batteries were too expensive too, not so long ago. If we discover fusion power to be viable in our lifetime, it will be a breathtaking accomplishment to witness. It's a fork in the timeline with
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by gabesullice 4y ago
My understanding is that she feels like the pseudonymous internet is a black hole from which we can't escape and we've already passed the event horizon. - Some people don't know it yet. - Some people choose to pretend it hasn

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