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by javajosh 3y ago
As an aside, I'd be curious to now how your VPS failed. Memory? Bandwidth?
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by javajosh 3y ago
coldtea has never once engaged with me, and now two threads in two days...I've read his comments and I find them of very low value (including this one) and frankly I'd like to discourage him.
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by javajosh 3y ago
And actually Boole is only dealing with two distinguishable states. Any two distinguishable physical states can be used to define binary 1 and 0. But in general, any N distinguishable states can be used to form an algebra. N=2 is just the s
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by javajosh 3y ago
I always thought it would be interesting to a) live on a boat and b) use the water for various things. Cooling computers. Cooling beer. But also marinading things at high pressure. You could use a long stick to push a ziploc bag down, or us
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by javajosh 3y ago
I have to say that excitedly waiting for Amazon to deliver 16 lbs of bacteria makes me want to laugh/puke/write a screenplay for black mirror.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think I'll bookmark this comment and come back to it the next time I feel annoyed by tracking down a software bug.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I'm not worried about dead mice; I'm worried about tampering. I would have hoped there'd be more guidance than "just look and see if anything looks weird". A determined threat actor can easily side-step that check w
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by javajosh 3y ago
I'm particularly impressed with their anti-tamper measures. "For each server sled, shine a light into the cubby to look for any physical tampering or damage." https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/system&#x2
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by javajosh 3y ago
Anyone wishing to control a network of computers must choose either the tube or the box. That is, either you break the tubes and intercept traffic between opaque boxes, or you break into the boxes and leave the tubes opaque. If you assume o
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by javajosh 3y ago
I wonder if there is an encryption scheme that could be visualized to look like that.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Sometimes not having key people like welders, electricians I would add to this list the specialized construction workers and engineers who can build the buildings required to house a fab. This is similarly specialized, I imagine, as
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by javajosh 3y ago
It depends on what's available. If you grew up in abject poverty on a rural farm then getting a job in doors, in air conditioning, without requiring brutal, repetitive physical labor is like heaven - requiring you to work 15 hour days
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by javajosh 3y ago
This isn't about recruitment, it's about PR. If the CIA is friendly and fun and cool, then you'll keep it funded. Period.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Wow, this comment is the most profound thing I've read in a while on HN. I find myself a) intuitively agreeing and b) trying to pick it apart. Society as a whole seems to have a very complicated love/hate relationship with rebelli
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by javajosh 3y ago
I should have been clearer. BS jobs had to be created. They had to be created as a kind of UBI that can exist without challenging neoliberal economic orthodoxy. If that is the case, then increasing those worker's productivity is actual
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's a nice thought. However in practice it will require a great transfer of wealth from AI providers to the public. E.g. if MS office copilot eliminates 10M jobs, and they make some fraction of those wages in revenue, only tax laws on
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by javajosh 3y ago
One other possibility is that I know what scroll lag is, don't see it in Firefox on my devices, and you really don't want to accept that for some reason. So much so you double-down on your out-of-the-blue speculation about my ment
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes! Their grid layout/comprehension tool is first-rate.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Don't worry, next year Microsoft will offer an AI CEO for only $50/month.
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by javajosh 3y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" This generalizes. Good luck funding research into a question to which people really don't want an answer to. There
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by javajosh 3y ago
No-one does real intelligence studies in humans because it's such a third-rail in academia. Think "The Bell Curve". Some scientists seem to believe that intelligence is intrinsic. The analogy with dog breeds, with their diffe
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Harrison Bergeron is a dystopia, not a training manual There are people, many people, who disagree with you. In good faith. They want the best for everyone, and they see inequality as the source of much suffering, and does it not make
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by javajosh 3y ago
As an aside, I am very much against this trend of accusing people of "internalizing" a bad thing such that they aren't aware of it. It's using therapy-speak as an ad hominem attack, and in my view reflects poorly on the
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by javajosh 3y ago
I don't find them lacking - I just don't use them regularly so it feels awkward when I do use them.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Firefox is a great browser and Mozilla is a (generally) great organization. It's my daily driver on all my devices (except my TV ha), it's fast and has great plugins that also work in mobile. Philosophically I'm very much a &
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by javajosh 3y ago
Strange. Whenever I use a debugger I always get a lot out of it. The code never quite executes exactly the way you envision, even with passing tests. In Java, there is a strange emphasis on classes but I've always felt objects are more
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by javajosh 3y ago
Out of (morbid) curiosity - what was his objection to using a debugger?
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by javajosh 3y ago
$475k TC for a product manager role? I am clearly doing something wrong in my career.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Twice as expensive and non rechargeable but 4 times the capacity (per unit volume)? Great for pacemakers! And bombs. When it comes to energy density, be careful what you wish for.
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by javajosh 3y ago
This looks like this will use twice the disk.

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