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541.
by kadoban 2y ago
Scarse is good, for regal, but they do have to actually exist. Were there dyes that would work on leather at that time and yield the desired color and not wash off in 3 seconds and look like crap?
542.
by kadoban 2y ago
I suspect it was pretty good if you don't know or care about Turing. But yeah, it pissed me off pretty bad.
543.
by kadoban 2y ago
For stone age tools it would have been less for the aesthetics and more for: what else are you going to use? You can use stone to hit stone, but depending on the stones and the intent (and the technique), achieving the right results might b
544.
by kadoban 2y ago
Oh, woops. I thought the list went way higher, my bad. I did read that I think if you do up to 2*ln(n)^2 you're always good, but that's not _that_ short of a list. Probably better off just keeping it probabalistic, negating my ori
545.
by kadoban 2y ago
You are giving up a bit of entropy, yeah, but you still have 1022, it's probably safer than wondering if a 1020 bit prime is fine even if they asked for a 1024 bit one. Eg we usually don't consider 00042 a 5-digit number. Technica
546.
by kadoban 2y ago
> This is where things start to get interesting. At first, I found the concept of probabilistic primality tests strange and tried to look for deterministic algorithms that could handle huge numbers. I did find two - APR-CL and ECPP. Both
547.
by kadoban 3y ago
Ugh, I meant to say it's only acceptaple for unintended shortages. An extra "not" snuck in there.
548.
by kadoban 3y ago
> Then you quietly change the rule, and get years of success until it's widely gamed again. You won't though, unfortunately. Too many people know the rules to keep it a secret, especially given that corruption exists.
549.
by kadoban 3y ago
It should depend on the UPS, some I believe are indistinguishable from wall power, especially without actually trying. Even for the cheaper UPSes I wonder if the issue isn't the cycle rate, but the cycle shape? My understanding is that
550.
by kadoban 3y ago
> for an intentional shortage I would not say it's only acceptable for unintended shortages, or maybe very brief and rare shortages since those tend to be the kind you can't reasonably plan around. As for saying the AMA kills p
551.
by kadoban 3y ago
It shouldn't in general, but there are restricted cases where it's literally life and death and difficult/impossible to plan around.
552.
by kadoban 3y ago
If you use a higher constant, 10000 or 1000000 or something, you give yourself a good amount of more fleixibility.
553.
by kadoban 3y ago
Yes. Android even had some more fine-grained permissions some years back, but they "simplified" things and made it pretty close to useless.
554.
by kadoban 3y ago
You as a user can do that, but as a developer that's not where basically any of the users are. Alternative app stores exist as well, eg F-Droid, but that also misses the vast majority of users.
555.
by kadoban 3y ago
> There is nothing that screamed “not planet” about Pluto until some scientists preconceptions and emotional investment about the numbers of planets got challenged. > People now have to learn by rote that Pluto is not a planet. Becaus
556.
by kadoban 3y ago
The main issue is just that you have a limited number of rocks that normal people are going to care about. Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc. Should Pluto be in this list? If so, why? It's a boring tiny rock way the hell out, one of hundreds.
557.
by kadoban 3y ago
That doesn't really fix anything, because no matter what you call Pluto, it has to get demoted from the list of planet-like-things-whatever-we-call-them that school children learn. The issue is that there's hundreds of objects at
558.
by kadoban 3y ago
It is possible to have integrity. And if you show that for a long time, people notice and start to value your opinion.
559.
by kadoban 3y ago
Why can't they be? If you can't stop it, it's just a delayed threat.
560.
by kadoban 3y ago
> after all we’re the greatest things that will ever be on this planet so we have to make sure it’s well suited for us and only us forever and ever and ever”, here we would not be. So your contention would be that we should all die off s
561.
by kadoban 3y ago
> In crypto we are worried about the best case scenario (from the attacker’s perspective). That seems mistaken to me. The best case in most crypto, from an attacker's perspective, is "I tried one key and just happened to get it
562.
by kadoban 3y ago
I think you're underselling Disney's budget and reach. Yes, it's probably technically smaller than the US nuclear program, but even just Disney is worth $200 billion USD, ignoring all other studios and etc. Movies are big mon
563.
by kadoban 3y ago
Fair. But looking at that story (very interesting btw, thanks), they did recreate it. So incentive does mean a lot when $$ is also available, which I'd suspect it is in movies.
564.
by kadoban 3y ago
Yeah maybe it's something like the person choosing the camera process doesn't directly have to deal with 12 hours of roto per day, so practically it's just not something they think about.
565.
by kadoban 3y ago
> Chroma-keying is more tolerant to spill, only needs one camera with one film reel, and you don't need a special screen with special lamps and special cameras. Fair on the number of films/cameras. Is normal keying actually mor
566.
by kadoban 3y ago
> It lost because there were only 3 prisms made. But it seems so much better that that shouldn't have been a blocker. Like optics isn't magic, and knowing that someone did it before should be enough incentive? Not like movies a
567.
by kadoban 3y ago
> KataGo was trained with more knowledge of the game (feature engineering and loss engineering), so it trained faster. Not really important to your point, but it's not really just that it uses more game knowledge. Mostly it's t
568.
by kadoban 3y ago
Very interesting stuff. I'm curious if this means anything in terms of good vs perfect technology or what tech wins out in practice. This process seems just plain better than green-screen, so why did it lose out? Is is just that green
569.
by kadoban 3y ago
They stopped including headphone jacks at some point, IIRC after the 4a.
570.
by kadoban 3y ago
> I would be surprised if Asus even sends a lawyer to defend against small claims. Wouldn't that be a good reason to do small claims? I can't imagine why I'd want to wait for years in a class action when I can just do a sm

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