milkey_mouse

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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
> Their core motivation to benefit at others’ expense is to me indicative of mental health issues, possibly caused by insecurity and upbringing trauma. Could we avoid armchair diagnoses? For society to function we need to maintain the po
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
Intellectual property makes sense to us because it's existed for our whole lives. I think it would surprise someone who'd never heard of it. If I were told I own a pogo stick but not its "bounceright", I'd be as con
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
Why does a giant condo building have to be high-end? Wouldn't that be the most efficient way to house people even if they weren't focused on profit?
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
If the free market were one entity that could coordinate and say "nobody build more housing, let's squeeze as much money from what we have already", sure, that would be pretty profitable. But if there are enough participants
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
There was a fun game for the Zune HD reminiscent of this called Dr. Optics Light Lab. The only record of it seems to be these poor-quality YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKvLCDMe2Og https://www.y
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
There are a couple reasons why I think it's important for cheating not to be widespread. I've seen The Case Against Education, signalling theory, and all the usual stuff along those lines (well, maybe it's only usual if you h
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
Urbit has not put much effort into security, for some reason. To be fair, they don't claim their runtime is secure (yet)[1]. The process downloading and executing code from the network is not sandboxed with seccomp or anything similar,
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
That's pretty cool. Are you sure it's trying to read the signs, as opposed to consulting a pre-made map of speed limits at the current GPS location?
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
The Tuskegee Experiment ended 50 years ago. One would have to have had a rather long career to have been employed at the CDC both then and now.
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
I'd imagine one can only lengthen their limbs so much before they end up looking like a Japanese spider crab.
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
I suppose you'd have to write your resolution as "apnews.com will at some point publish a page with the <title> tag containing '49ers', 'win', 'Super Bowl'" and hope the possibility of some
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
Much like Signed HTTP Exchanges/Web Bundles, the value of an opt-in protocol such as TLS-n is much less than one that would work with all the HTTPS sites already out there. I doubt the Associated Press wants to get into the blockchai
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
> As long as AP cryptographically signs the outcome of the game (as they do for all HTTPS served content) I looked into this use case before and came to the conclusion that it can't work because TLS is not non-repudiable. Once the i
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by milkey_mouse 4y ago
It's funny that we've gotten to the point that a "graphics-less GPU" is actually useful. Perhaps they should call it something else...
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
Each block contains a commitment to the state of the chain in the form of a Merkle tree. In that regard it's not that different from Bitcoin's MAST or Ethereum's (WIP) stateless clients. To prove something (say, an account ba
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
I realized this is misleading as an answer to your question, but it's too late to edit. Block producers (i.e. miners) don't need to keep track of chain state, but provers need to know the state of block n-1 to generate a proof
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
Yes. The proof of block n's validity proves both that the state transition from block n-1 to block n is valid and that the previous block's proof was valid. The arithmetic circuit for a state transition proof actually encodes a pr
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
You could use a lookup table to turn the nth letter of the alphabet into the nth prime number, then multiply those primes together. This "hash" would be unique up to reordering of the primes/letters.
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
I keep it disabled on one of my systems for exactly that reason: I want to make sure my own code works with overcommit disabled, as it'll always be on Windows or OpenBSD.
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
(Disclaimer: I hold Mina.) There is no need for Mina archival nodes to exist outside of running services like block explorers (which are admittedly nice to have). The Mina SNARK proof proves two properties at once: a) the state transitions
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
I've found overcommit useful for some scientific computing applications, but you're right it's not the most intuitive default. You can disable memory overcommit on Linux for the same behavior as Windows, if you want. https
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
This site probably predates SVG, or at least its widespread support!
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
It could just as easily have been a quote from Foucault. Not sure that makes it any less edgy though.
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
Signal didn't back up contacts and settings to their servers until they implemented "Secure Value Recovery", which relies on SGX to rate-limit guesses of a weak PIN. If SGX is broken and Signal's database falls into the
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
Might I ask where you found a $16/year VPS, and whether you'd recommend the provider?
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
Evidently not very good, seeing how long some of them take to load.
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
> if you mainly live in a web browser and don't do GPGPU For what it's worth, I use Guix and I've been able to do everything but CUDA just fine. (CUDA will never be supported in Guix as it requires proprietary drivers to f
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
> Could you please link to any documentation or HOWTO? Here you go: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation... > if I attempted to re-install software with Guix in parallel, would t
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
> your test would take so long to run I think GP's test would probably be implemented with property testing (or even better, symbolic execution). It wouldn't necessarily take super long to run.
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by milkey_mouse 5y ago
The question is, will it take the crown for "best book about combinator calculi" from To Mock a Mockingbird ? At least, Raymond Smullyan's writing style is much more enjoyable than Wolfram's. As fun as the puzzles and w

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