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by mmazing 6y ago
Imagine being a civilization on the edge of a galaxy on the edge of the void. One direction, nothing whatsoever. The other direction, billions upon billions of galaxies. Would be neat!
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by mmazing 6y ago
It's really not clear cut in either way on the surface. On one side, you can argue that leaning people towards true random will cause unnecessary performance impact because the majority of cases don't need true random. On another
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by mmazing 6y ago
That's all great and makes sense, but ... What does that have to do with being verbose and letting developers know they are using an insecure method when it would apply to them? If I'm writing code and using rng for gameplay varie
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by mmazing 6y ago
Nah. It's stunning to be thrown directly into that map. Having to parse a bunch of text to find a tiny link at the bottom of that page kinda takes something away.
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by mmazing 6y ago
Or - there's tons of lottery winners and we're bad at finding them.
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by mmazing 6y ago
I get what you're saying as far as "practical" purposes go. It's also arguable that (in the spirit of your argument) the outer reaches of the Milky Way are also irrelvant. However, when people sit around and think about
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by mmazing 6y ago
Meh, in my opinion (and probably legally too) they can do whatever they want, it's their platform. Not that this was your intent but wanted to comment on what I've seen a few places around the internet - I've seen various com
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by mmazing 6y ago
I think the main difference is that software being open source (and maintained by a larger community!) provides wider accountability and visibility to code changes, thus reducing potential security flaws. You claim that open source is NOT s
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by mmazing 6y ago
It's terrible to see some of the disinformation that is out there regarding open source software. Time and time again open source is shown to be the way to go, and you still hear lies about how it's not safe. I can already hear th
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by mmazing 6y ago
Isn't putting something on Github to host it still a ready made SaaS platform?
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by mmazing 6y ago
Can you expand on that some more? Thanks
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by mmazing 6y ago
I feel like you are missing the point of this post (or maybe I am?) I think the point IS that you want things to be predictable and maintainable, so quit writing code that is supposed to be clever more than it gets the job done in a tidy an
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by mmazing 6y ago
I guess that depends - is it a frequent occurrence, historically?
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by mmazing 6y ago
Does that impact VPN providers?
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by mmazing 6y ago
While this is interesting, the article and graph within are misleading and clickbaity. This black hole is big enough to fall into a mass RANGE that shouldn't exist, but isn't the largest found (which I feel the title of the articl
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by mmazing 6y ago
I've had to juggle personal and professional AWS accounts for a while, I could see someone being confused about which account they were on and accidentally wiping out some stuff. Who knows though.
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by mmazing 6y ago
The paper is right, all impressive achievements amount to just curve fitting. But ... maybe that's why the human brain works so well. The 10s of billions of neurons in your brain are designed to adapt to patterns and adjust to external
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by mmazing 6y ago
I think that makes total sense in terms of coming up with a solution to a specific objective. However, since antibiotic resistance, and treatment of diseases in general (COVID, for example) is a moving target - it would be nice to have mach
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by mmazing 6y ago
I don't understand why we don't (as a society) fund more scientific research, in general. It seems like taxes could fund non-profits to be able to do this sort of research, and then pay for the vetting process and manufacturing. I
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by mmazing 6y ago
It cracks me up that I'm getting tons of ads for 3D printing on a website for impossible objects.
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by mmazing 6y ago
"I want off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride."
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by mmazing 6y ago
Great book :D sitting in my bathroom right now as I re-read it!
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by mmazing 6y ago
Throw everything else away. There are two possibilities - 1. There is something, and it has always existed. 2. There is something, and it once did not exist. Either one is weird. The author doesn't address this, and I feel, despite the
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by mmazing 6y ago
I've always thought of space-time as a convenience for modern thought about how the world works. We can think about the fact that while we look at a distant galaxy 2 million light years away, that galaxy is in fact at this current mome
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by mmazing 6y ago
Sorry, it's hard to get past the first section. The author TOTALLY misses the point of the question "why is there something rather than nothing". Of course there is something, hence why we are here talking about this at all.
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by mmazing 6y ago
Never attribute to malice what is easily explained by incompetence. Hanlon's Razor BOIIII
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by mmazing 6y ago
Also, let's presume that some dinosaurs in the past were really smart, and evolved some thinking skills before the asteroid wiped them all out. They just so happened to evolve the same scheme. How do you prove to them that you're
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by mmazing 6y ago
Ozymandias! My favorite poem.
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by mmazing 6y ago
It's not working out so well.
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by mmazing 6y ago
Well put.

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