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by kibwen 5mo ago
> People are typically more reticent to remove things that were hard to implement, even if that's the right thing to do. Careful. The sunk cost fallacy isn't just about time, it's also about money, and people may natural
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The notion of Turing completeness isn't relevant here, it encompasses almost none of the interesting distinctions between programming languages in practice. And yes, simplicity alone isn't what matters here, or else we'd all
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Datacenters are extremely loud, you definitely don't want one in your approximate backyard. Ever considered fan noise while shopping for laptops? If so, then you don't want to live within a mile of a datacenter.
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An elegant language is one that achieves a lot with very little. Forth and Scheme are elegant languages. You're free to like working in C++, and you can sure achieve a lot with it, but I don't think it's controversial to say
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> But all this smoke will eventually clear. I wish I could be so optimistic. Our lives are ruled by distorted, irrational, inefficient, failed markets, and the markets can remain distorted, irrational, inefficient, and failed for longe
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Ironic. The best way to turn 1x engineers into 100x engineers is to reduce the median skill level by 100x.
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There are numerous advantages of microkernels over monoliths, but even if Linux were a microkernel it wouldn't necessarily change the review pressure that the above commenter is talking about, because you still have the same number of
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by kibwen 5mo ago
US fertility rates first fell below replacement in 1972, falling to 1.8 by 1984, then rising back above replacement by 2007, then falling to 1.79 today. Despite being below replacement for 53 of the last 54 years, overall US population has
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by kibwen 5mo ago
> The industry is shifting from rigid industrial arms to general-purpose robots powered by advanced AI It is not, if by "general-purpose robots" we mean humanoid robots, and by "AI" we mean LLMs. Factories will cont
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> Manual contains only 2.5 percent of its own G-code in its first version. That low figure is part of the point. Current FFF 3D printing resolution and text scale place limits on how much code can fit onto the object while also describi
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> An additional thing we use to do a lot of thinking tasks. Which is to say, an additional thing you're going to be forced to pay a lifelong tithe to a trillion-dollar company in order to do a lot of thinking tasks.
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I'd be inherently suspicious of any website in the wild attempting to contact a bare IP address. Aside from localhost, my default assumption would be that such a website is either trying to circumvent my hosts file (or circumvent my ot
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I would say that SSS is a generalization of OTP, but OTP in practice is so dramatically and unbelievably simpler than SSS that it's not practically useful to consider it as "just" a special-case of SSS. Which is to say, if yo
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> But if "cracking cryptography" wasn't one of those problems I'm not sure it would have the popular attention it does. I think it's very funny to consider that if you were a time traveler tasked with making su
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This is precisely the uncertainty that the commenter above was referring to when they mentioned complexity classes like BQP. We don't necessarily know the precise relationship between quantum complexity classes and their classical coun
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> except for pre-shared one time pads when used correctly The relevant property here is known as "information-theoretic security", and I'm not sure if one-time pads are the only way to achieve it, e.g. Shamir's se
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> In the common case, the entire authentication path in an MTC handshake is one signature, one public key, and one inclusion proof. That’s smaller than today’s Web PKI handshake, even though MTCs use post-quantum algorithms. [...] There
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I don't discount that it's possible that NYT headline policy could have changed in the last decade, but sensationalism when it comes to newspaper headlines is the historical norm. "Clickbait" is an ancient phenomenon: &
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> If the NYT is the same as British newspapers, the person who wrote the article doesn't write the headline. This has been the case for essentially all newspapers since time immemorial. Reporters write the articles, editors write
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by kibwen 5mo ago
Looking at the way the stock market rewards companies that brainlessly shove AI into everything under the sun, I know it's inevitable.
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> how the heck is this getting allowed When it comes to dealing with the abuse of power by those who hold power, the question is not "who's allowing them to do this?", it's "who's going to stop them?"
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The fact that Tesla's stock price is so evidently detached from the performance of the company itself makes me wonder whether or not a public SpaceX will cause those investors who are just trying to ride the Musk train to exit Tesla st
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> every accessible local is effectively a T& No, I'm not sure where you heard this but this is certainly not the case. If I have an i32 on the stack in Rust, there are no aliasing invariants that need to be upheld. You do, in
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Neither Rust nor Zig give you any more control than the other. If you want raw pointers or inline assembly, Rust supports that.
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There is no such thing as a self-sufficient version of any industry in space, and you should expect this to remain the case for approximately the next 10,000 years. Until then, everything that happens in space will have a supply chain roote
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Except unlike Roko's basilisk, this is not absurd pseudo-game-theory extrapolation based on the hypothetical existence of a supreme superintelligence that is simultaneously infinitely vengeful, infinitely omniscient, and infintely omni
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> While $500k 90m movie done in two weeks is an accomplishment Is it, though? If all you want is a movie, you can make it for both less money and less time. And if you actually have some modicum of talent, you can make it higher-qualit
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by kibwen 5mo ago
I encourage you to relieve yourself of your naivete. Your default stance needs to be that every company on the planet would feed you feet-first and screaming into a woodchipper if they thought they could make a dollar from it.

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