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by kibwen 9mo ago
As the article mentions, if you want to use NAT with IPv6, you can. The fact that it's optional doesn't mean that address obfuscation is suddenly impossible.
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by kibwen 9mo ago
The market can only resolve based on public information, so it could only incentivize revealing information that is already destined to be imminently revealed. Furthermore, it doesn't incentivize sharing that information with enough le
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by kibwen 9mo ago
The Pentagon has a ton of restaurants inside. There's literally an official mall-style map of all of them right here, I count almost 30: https://www.whs.mil/Services-and-Information/DoDCC/ The pizza index is
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by kibwen 9mo ago
If you're making nonzero profit that means that it's feasible for anyone else (literally anyone else, assuming zero barriers to entry, which we do assume for an efficient market) to make slightly less profit by selling the same pr
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by kibwen 9mo ago
> In prediction markets if the markets are fully efficiently priced, in the absence of transaction costs you WILL get 100% back in the long run. This is basically equivalent to the observation that, in a perfectly efficient market, no
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by kibwen 9mo ago
Why should Apple give a shit? Companies like Apple are sociopathic profit-maximizers, and users are cattle to be milked and slaughtered.
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by kibwen 10mo ago
Flight changed everything when it comes to warfare. But as far as individuals are concerned, the average human on the planet will take a handful of flights in their lifetime, at best, and nearly all flights that are taken are for recreati
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by kibwen 10mo ago
² By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. ³ Then the on-call tech, Lucifer, the Son of Dawn, was awoken at midnight because God did not renew the heavens' and
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by kibwen 10mo ago
Those are graphs of averages from across the benchmarking suite, which you can read much more information about here: https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2023/08/18/rustc-benchma...
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by kibwen 10mo ago
> bird killing turbines If you think wind turbines are a significant cause of bird deaths it shows that you have no clue what you're talking about. Please don't bother commenting on this topic again.
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by kibwen 10mo ago
People motivated exclusively by personal profit are systematically disincentivized from understanding the concept of externalities.
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by kibwen 10mo ago
The irony is that I feel like everyone here is just copping off of WolframAlpha, which for the past 15 years has featured the ability to display references of similar magnitude for any query you give. And in fact, typing in "500,000 to
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by kibwen 10mo ago
There's no Rust codebase that takes hours to compile cold unless 1) you're compiling a massive codebase in release mode with LTO enabled, in which case, you've asked for it, 2) you've ported Doom to the type system, or 3
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by kibwen 10mo ago
Rust's overflow behavior isn't platform-dependent. By default, Rust panics on overflow when compiled in debug mode and wraps on overflow when compiled in release mode, and either behavior can be selected in either mode by a compil
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by kibwen 10mo ago
Yes. V8 (and other Javascript JIT engines) are very good, with a lot of effort put into them by talented engineers. But there's a floor on performance imposed by the language's own semantics. Of course, if your program is I/O
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by kibwen 10mo ago
I like to say that there are two primary factors when we talk about how "fast" a language is: 1. What costs does the language actively inject into a program? 2. What optimizations does the language facilitate? Most of the time, it
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by kibwen 10mo ago
Despite what completely uninformed people may think, the field "computer science" is not about software development. It's a branch of mathematics. If you want an education in software development, those are offered by trade s
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by kibwen 10mo ago
A whole month of China's growth... to come fully online by 2036.
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by kibwen 10mo ago
In absolute terms, China installs about as much nuclear as the US does solar. So I can only assume you agree with the statement "the US is bringing on an insane amount of solar energy"? Because, once again in absolute terms, the U
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by kibwen 10mo ago
For reference, China installs about 1 GW of solar per day. By this time next week, they will have surpassed the output of this entire project.
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by kibwen 10mo ago
What it tells me is that humans are fallible, and that being a competent programmer has no correlation with having strong mental defenses against the brainrot that typifies the modern terminally-online internet user. I leverage LLMs where i
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by kibwen 10mo ago
I confess I don't really get this. Fish and Bash are different languages in the same way that Ruby and Perl are different languages. And if I want to run a Perl script, I don't try to run it in a Ruby interpreter, and I don't
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by kibwen 10mo ago
I'd recommend taking this even further. Start every meeting 30 minutes after the hour, and end it 30 minutes before the hour.
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by kibwen 10mo ago
To extend this to entire game histories, here's the Lichess blog post, "Compressing Chess Moves Even Further, To 3.7 Bits Per Move": https://lichess.org/@/marcusbuffett/blog/compressing-chess-m.
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by kibwen 10mo ago
> but then AFAICT Filippo or others chime in to explain how he is in fact not misunderstanding. I don't get this impression. Rather, as you say, I get the impression that people are talking past each other, a property which also e
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by kibwen 10mo ago
Ah, my mistake. I had read in the FAQ that it does not guarantee that data is stored forever, but overlooked the part about preserving checksums specifically.
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by kibwen 10mo ago
They may be an expert in Go, but from their writing they appear to be misunderstanding (or at least misrepresenting) how things work in other languages. See the previous discussion here: https://lobste.rs/s/exv2eq/
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by kibwen 10mo ago
> its stored forever in the proxy cache This is mistaken. The Go module proxy doesn't make any guarantee that it will permanently store the checksum for any given module. From the outside, we would expect that their policy is to o
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by kibwen 10mo ago
> We'll probably see this start to come together in 2026. Thus far I see no evidence that robot manipulation will come together by 2036, let alone 2026.
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by kibwen 10mo ago
> It’s a tool. Let’s stop judging it like it’s supposed to be one of us. Tech CEOs and their breathless AI hype have demonstrated to everyone how dreadfully effective it is to weaponize anthropomorphization and pareidolia.

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