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by gojomo 3y ago
If current top submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39535800 ) turns out to be a meaningful advance, this old intro to ternary notation & its potential efficacy for computing may be of renewed interest.
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by gojomo 3y ago
That's not a 'bit' ("Binary digIT"). It's closer to a 'trit' ("TeRnary-digIT"). Specifically, ternary digits spanning {-1, 0, 1} (rather than the usual {0, 1, 2} in a base-3 numbering system
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by gojomo 3y ago
'Bubbles' and 'gold rushes' are different things.
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by gojomo 3y ago
Sheer cost of "hundreds of billions"? Within another couple years, automated systems that are descendants of today's rapidly-advancing coding-assistant LLMs will be able to do amazing things. For example, it's plausible
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by gojomo 3y ago
Would be hilarious to see Harvard & MIT relocate (in part or in full) to a friendlier tax jurisdiction – New Hampshire? SBF's Bahamas? – to avoid or lessen this tax.
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by gojomo 3y ago
Signal or any surveillor surrounding their servers (with or without Signal's cooperation) almost certainly has enough timing/traffic-shape info to reconstruct who-to-who logs. "Sealed sender" (and some of Signal's o
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by gojomo 3y ago
If they ever want to shoot an 'Even Blacker Mirror' TV anthology, they should adapt Egan's short stories. 'Axiomatic', especially. Two stories in that collection from before the modern social internet (1992), with n
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by gojomo 3y ago
Notably: the article text, and referenced source (US Energy Information Administration), contradict the headline's claim. In the text, we see the "over 2%" (specifically "2.3%") number is based on a survey and the c
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by gojomo 3y ago
I understand tradeoffs & 'technical reasons'. But, a web framework that makes specifying tiny useful HTML edits noticeably harder in code than similar changes would be in plain-text strikes me as defective. That's especia
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by gojomo 3y ago
Are there any residential refrigerators that offer that? Seems that'd mainly be desirable in uncomfortably warm climates. In cooler spots, a refrigerator's waste heat may be a welcome addition to indoor heating.
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by gojomo 3y ago
I can understand remaining minimal, and not shuttling lookie-loos to an active thread. But remaining mysterious kinda works against the "memorial" aspect, and making the editorial decision "this passing is worth noting".
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by gojomo 3y ago
That's currently false - no mention is on the 1st 2 pages. So another suggestion: keep the death news on the front page for as long as the black bar is up. Otherwise the bar becomes a kind of unfriendly cryptic ingroup signal – "s
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by gojomo 3y ago
Nope. 2^64 is the number of tries needed for a 50% chance of a collision between two of the tries. You don't have to stay poorly read on this, and groundlessly allege wrongness: https://auth0.com/blog/amp/birt
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by gojomo 3y ago
Conventional analysis of non-contrived files would suggest only a 50% chance of an MD5 collision among 2^64 (18 quintillion) files. So any SO account of "hash collisions in MD5 (128 bit) after hashing around 20k files" may be indi
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by gojomo 3y ago
MD5 is already not "fine" or "safe, even" against malicious actors who might pre-prepare collisions, or pre-seed their documents with the special constructs that make MD5 manipulable to collision-attacks. Even if your
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by gojomo 3y ago
Second preimage attacks aren't the only threat in a forensics environment. Also, hand-wavy extrapolations from Bitcoin miners aren't a reliable estimate of how fast & energy-efficient dedicated MD5 hardware could become.
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by gojomo 3y ago
Up-down instead of right-left would still be a "single tunnel", "no off-shoots", "1D", "can't turn", etc.
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by gojomo 3y ago
Another thought: have the 1D RGB strip spin around its long-axis to enable rapid LED cycling to stroboscopically plot the domain in 2D, despite the action & rendering array being "only 1D".
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by gojomo 3y ago
The `1D Pac Man' game reminded me of this curious chapter of videogames-on-TV history. Here's a better look at some of the alternate (bowling, baseball, space dogfight) variants that were offered: https://www.youtube.co
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TV Pixx – the benefits of screaming at your TV to win prizes(chuckthewriter.blog)
2 points by gojomo 3y ago|1 comments
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by gojomo 3y ago
Alternatively, the one dimension of movement could be up-down.
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by gojomo 3y ago
Your comment reminded me… Long ago – early 80s – UHF & cable-syndicated TV station WPIX (NY) offered live broadcast call-in videogames controlled by the caller's voice yelling "pixx!". Here's a peek of some of the fo
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by gojomo 3y ago
Was eager to try but found it buggy - or at least, confusingly arcane in how guesses are scored. Today's 'transportation' puzzle had 4 consonants & 4 vowels. I got to a guess (nonsense string) whose feedback was 4 vowels
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by gojomo 3y ago
If shipping something requires a 'team' – coordination between specialists (or worse, multiple 'owners') – it'll be harder than when each cross-cutting feature can be done by a broadly-capable/empowered 'f
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by gojomo 3y ago
Brave's shields against ad & tracking inserts seem to help against many of the cycle-stealers that affect standard Chrome… except for the occasional times where they perhaps trigger cycle-consumptive bugs by breaking assumptions of
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by gojomo 3y ago
As I understand it, no one has come close to the claimed results in s3.1 ("Sentiment Analysis with the Stanford Sentiment Treebank Dataset") and people have come closer but still not matched those in s3.2 ("Beyond One Sentenc
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by gojomo 3y ago
Seems another example of Apple pretending it can't (or never would) do something related to stolen equipment – that they can & actually do if you just reach the right person with the right request. My related story of someone l
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by gojomo 3y ago
Expert patent language typically covers every foreseeable usable variant, and any subset of features likely to provide the core benefits, as 'claims'.
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by gojomo 3y ago
None I know of - YT's own 'Share' popup doesn't have the usual option.
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by gojomo 3y ago
Not really. While there's danger to local infrustructure, this area & eruption is more likely to remain a (series of) ground lava flows, without explosive ejection of ash to high altitudes, at high volumes – as would be required to

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