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by meowface 3y ago
He also has a PhD in physics and was the person who designed and engineered the product: https://www.machinepix.com/p/machinepix-weekly-30-dr-steve-g... >Gass: I was out in my shop one day, and I looked over at my t
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by meowface 3y ago
For anyone else curious: that's 3,260 light years.
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by meowface 3y ago
I know I may get downvoted for this - and I know pre-emptively whining about downvotes is incredibly lame and deservedly frowned upon - and I know self-awareness of that fact doesn't make it any better - but: I'm sorry, this is ju
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by meowface 3y ago
Nah, it was actually a nightmare. The small number of people who understood this and exploited it lived like Gods. It gave malevolent people far too much power. And while a smaller percentage than today were in it for the money, a lot still
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by meowface 3y ago
It's the epitome of "do things that don't scale". (Just, after enough years and size, you eventually need to scale.)
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by meowface 3y ago
As a burnt out creator of open source projects with thousands of GitHub stars who's received numerous questionable maintainership requests: either very carefully vet people or let it stagnate. I chose the latter and just waited until o
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by meowface 3y ago
https://epicbeatz.ytmnd.com
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by meowface 3y ago
https://cosbyclassic.ytmnd.com https://cosbybebop.ytmnd.com http://chococosby.ytmnd.com
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by meowface 3y ago
That's a fascinating extra detail. They really tried to cover all their bases. There's some plausible evidence here that they may've tried to use alter egos to encourage Debian to update the package: https://twitte
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by meowface 3y ago
It's really interesting to think what might've happened if they could've implemented this with much less performance overhead. How long might it have lasted for? Years?
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by meowface 3y ago
>But if that was the case they wouldn't bother with the key. It'd be a one-and-done situation. It would be a stop-the-world event. Why not? It's possible someone else could've discovered the exploit before the big att
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by meowface 3y ago
People need to make money somehow. Developers who spend years creating, maintaining, and continually improving an open source database (or other project) used by millions deserve compensation. This doesn't apply as much to Redis Labs s
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by meowface 3y ago
Many people feel he whitewashed him and continued to defend him and minimize his misconduct long after his arrest.
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by meowface 3y ago
What does "going public" mean in this context?
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by meowface 3y ago
If true, kind of funny. If they weren't so incompetent they may've been able to skate past it without the public realizing what was going on.
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by meowface 3y ago
>the fact that they intentionally faked reserve balances and treated alameda like a piggy bank and did gymnastics to hide it can't be ignored. To be clear, they also gambled with normal FTX customer funds. People who were just buyin
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by meowface 3y ago
>and then insist that every decision and line of code they make runs through a giant Rube Goldberg machine before they type it. If you've ever used Copilot, it's surprisingly fast. It definitely leads to net less time spent typ
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by meowface 3y ago
What about it is wrong?
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by meowface 3y ago
Y Combinator is an investment firm, Reddit is a Y Combinator-funded company, Paul Graham is an essayist who had Y Combinator invest in Reddit, and this is news.ycombinator.com (where people often like to read things written by Paul Graham a
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by meowface 3y ago
Another semi-summary of the core part of the article: >"echo '60016000526001601ff3' | xxd -r -p | zig build run -Doptimize=ReleaseFast" is much faster than "echo '60016000526001601ff3' | xxd -r -p | .&#
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by meowface 3y ago
For IQ, the average is also the median.
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by meowface 3y ago
I'm a big fan of Connor Leahy, but his reaction feels a bit over-the-top, there. Noticing anomalies or inferring why an anomaly might be present doesn't imply self-awareness.
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by meowface 3y ago
And a companion law: the more they string together, the more of an antithesis it is.
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by meowface 3y ago
They were closed source from the start. And he invested in one NFT startup (among many other startups).
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by meowface 3y ago
Yes. I liked him when he was head of YC, I liked him when he was head of reddit for a few days, I like him now. I've never had any issue with him. When they made a capped-profit portion of OpenAI, they explained their reasoning, and I
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by meowface 3y ago
Upvoted in the hopes a DO exec sees this and pushes for at least something beyond keeping it frozen forever.
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by meowface 3y ago
I think there's no chance they intentionally want users to wait 20 seconds to see their latest notifications.
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by meowface 3y ago
What do you think of all the people who believe he was Satoshi Nakamoto? I think he almost certainly wasn't, but it's hard to dissuade people once they have their own pet suspect.
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by meowface 3y ago
And that service will very likely be automatically scraping different marketplaces to detect the fake products each time they pop up again.
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by meowface 3y ago
They're talking about rate limiting based on destination, not source.

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