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by greiskul 3y ago
Yeah, with the QML example, if the programmer instead had used a raw pointer, he would still have a problem. Since if he chose to call free, he would have the same crash that the example had. And if he chose to just never call free, he woul
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by greiskul 3y ago
What is the return for all the kids that saw it and because of that decided to become scientists or engineers, and all the technology that they developed? I have no idea how to quantify that, but I can guarantee you that there was an effect
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by greiskul 3y ago
> like WhatsApp are less secure WhatsApp uses end to end encryption by default. In fact, it uses the library that Signal developed. It is much more secure than Telegram, unless proved otherwise (which would need some backdoor in the appl
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by greiskul 3y ago
> Brains can also generalize from a single example, unlike neural networks which require thousands if not millions of examples. Since the other comment already went for the evolution and structure angle, I'll go for the other part.
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by greiskul 3y ago
> contains contradictions It definitely does not say that. Only that we cannot make a proof of consistency of them. It is possible, and believed, that the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms we use for set theory for example are consistent. But we c
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by greiskul 3y ago
There probably wouldn't exist any type of inteligent animal to wonder about it, since life and the evolution of life kind of requires chemestry to be a thing.
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by greiskul 3y ago
We don't know, and mathematics is not the tool for that. The consistency of nature is considered by some to be one of the few things science has to take by faith. Same thing with "brain-in-a-jar" arguments, we cannot ever pro
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by greiskul 3y ago
> Yes, but it makes it all the more complicated because the scalper has to figure out how to process the rebate, which opens up all sorts of issues. Not really. Restaurant charges 50 dollars for reservation, which gets added as credit at
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by greiskul 3y ago
You can accuse people of daydreaming of Utopia, and you might be right. But honestly? The future you are painting? That's doom dreaming. With the exception of global warming, whose effects can be so big we cannot really predict, 100 ye
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by greiskul 3y ago
What other times? People did not live in car centric societies before the 20th century. This is a relatively new problem, why do you think there were multiple attempts at solving it that did not work? The US has only gotten into this mess t
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yeah, getting political will for that in the US is probably a harder problem to solve them full on strong AI.
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by greiskul 3y ago
> a reasonable timeframe and level of investment Compared to the time-frame and investments on which alternatives? It might take 40 years for self driving cars to improve and have enough deployments to significantly reduce the number of
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yeah, but let's be realistic. The US car dependency is something that to change would both require major reconstructions of multiple cities, and a cultural shift that is just not happening. It is easier to solve fully self driving cars
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by greiskul 3y ago
> Miss me with the bullshit "AI drivers will usher in a new era of road safety", you can trap an AV with a fucking ring of salt on the road if you're clever about how it's arranged. :P How many people die when you do
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by greiskul 3y ago
> owns the device in question Users owns the device. Why would you think Apple does? And Apple forbids users from using devices that the user owns in ways that the user wants to. Why are users forbidden from programming html rendering?
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by greiskul 3y ago
Why? Who goes to jail if a child trips and falls down stairs? Should we ban stairs? If there were no negligence from the owner in maintaining the car, and no negligence in the manufacturer, why do you care if anyone goes to jail? It won&#x2
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by greiskul 3y ago
How about we make suburbs pay for the infrastructure they use? Most suburbs have urbans level of infrastructure with a tax base that is not enough to maintain it due to the lower density, and end up being paid for by city centers. Is that a
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yeah, if Netflix wants to do short shows, they should follow the British model of TV series. Short series but with a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. Not this bunch of half started stories that just stop.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yup, and I am curious about the math on collisions with this scheme. Cause 128 bits is a lot of entropy, and I would expect this scheme to have similar collision resistance of "it never happens with good RNG" as regular uuids, but
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by greiskul 3y ago
I have never seen this strategy described. Is there any literature on it? Cause it does seem to be that this would be as good as the other algorithms for generating UUIDs, but faster and with the benefit of compression. It would make result
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by greiskul 3y ago
I wonder if using the rsync algorithm would also help? From looking at the state changes done in one CRDT in one machine and another, both states still share a lot of things in common. So to merge A in machine 1, with B in machine 2, you ca
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by greiskul 3y ago
When you launch the server. Idea is that you want to catch errors as early as possible in the development process, and by crashing the server, the programmer that wrote it will catch it.
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by greiskul 3y ago
This work, the panic is only triggered when the precedence rules can't fix a conflict. The behaviour documented here is actually extremely sensible and is best practices for anyone calling themselves a software engineer. Fail as early
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by greiskul 3y ago
> Why does the US need to repair our reputation? Unless by repair you mean remind the world who to be afraid of. We do not live in a nice world where everyone gets along. The US government and military (and the CIA) have no obligation to
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yup. Inteligence agencies are something that when you start doing serious research on, you end up being very paranoid. Cause the most sucessful operations leave no traces, and if the people responsible don't happen to leave behind docu
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by greiskul 3y ago
> At least crypto is trying to fix this problem It is not. It is pretending to do that. But every single person still in crypto is there mostly for speculation, get rich quick schemes. Or they are holding bags that they hope will go back
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by greiskul 3y ago
Trying to access the 20th element in an array of 2 elements in C, or objective C for that matter, may instead of crashing, print out a security key, or give someone access to your credit card information. Security bugs are order of magnitud
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yeah, people that shit on memory safety don't understand that memory bugs don't just lead to your program crashing. That has never been a problem. The problem is that they lead to you having to roll out fixes in a hurry in a race
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yup. If you read Bitcoins white paper again, you realize that it proposes a micro transaction system for the web. And it has failed absolutely as that. And without a natural demand for it, the speculation around it is gibberish. It is waiti
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yeah, bad code doesn't stop being bad code just because it is correct. Good code not only is correct, but it is obviously so. There are zero excuses in a case like this to write it in the unsafe way. Just because you know a gun is not

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