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by norswap 2y ago
There's a new generation of defense contractors (Anduril, Ares) coming online that seem to promise order of magnitude improvement on the status quo.
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by norswap 2y ago
> FTX faced no such regulation and if you sent them crypto you no longer owned it. FTX did. This is at best only partially true, you own a claim on the underlying asset. This is not a matter of regulation, it's a matter of your co
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by norswap 2y ago
I don't know how bankruptcy documents work, but this is not a filling, it's a general-audience article. The truth is if you had one Bitcoin in FTX, that was worth 20k. You might have bought for more or less than that. Now it'
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by norswap 2y ago
Yup, you can notice some issues even in their picked example. e.g. the prompt for the video of the painting woman says "there is a bear cub at her feet" and it quite clearly is not "at her feet" in the video.
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by norswap 2y ago
True, but in this case we can simply judge based on the actions taken. The claims (trademark violation, no contributing anything back) seem pretty sensible and borne out in practice. WordPress is an open source project stewarded by a founda
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by norswap 2y ago
Hold your horses — this will only produce a fraction of the chips, and probably at a much higher cost. It's a step in the right direction for the policy goals, but they've really just entered the woods with this one.
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by norswap 2y ago
They don't — they just rewrite from scratch, usually using the original art assets from the game. You could decompile the game client if you wanted to, but that's probably more trouble than it's worth in most cases. Most of t
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by norswap 2y ago
Probably, but honestly servers are sort of in the same boat. I think Blizzard hasn't bothered going against the open source servers because even if there's just a 1% risk that a court would rule agains them, it would open the floo
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by norswap 2y ago
It has been attempted — I know of two efforts. One was in C++ and I don't remember the name or have the link handy, I'm pretty sure it's abandoned. The other is here: https://github.com/wowserhq/wowser ,
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by norswap 2y ago
> [...] telegram possessed a lot of content on their servers that they had been made aware was illegal and didn't cooperate. Do we know this for sure? What are the sources? If that were true — then it surely would be less surprising
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by norswap 2y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like much ado about nothing. Just use a timestamp — if you need to know the associated timezone, just store that as well. Done. But most often (when the timezone where the event was captured isn
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by norswap 2y ago
As someone that actually used JPlag as a university TA, I think if the students are smart enough to implement this, they're probably smart enough to do whatever assignment we've asked of them (unless there's a easy peasy prog
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by norswap 2y ago
I'm fairly familiar with Prolog, from its operations & implementation, having also thaught it to students. Something I never really grokked however is: when to reach for it? It seems like a powerful tool for a certain class of prob
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by norswap 2y ago
Interesting - do you know if they ever went after someone that violated these conditions?
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by norswap 2y ago
In CS, it's widely accepted that you can publish your "drafts" publicly. Basically just the real deal without the notices of publication (I guess maybe legally you have to leave some differences in? I never bothered, and I do
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by norswap 3y ago
To be entirely fair, the currency attempt was hampered by governments (predictable, maybe), and as for the metaverse... well he created something — technically it's impressive, commercially and in terms of product market fit, it's
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by norswap 3y ago
Hasn't there been a set of web components that tries to reproduce this?
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by norswap 3y ago
Haters gonna hate, but crypto solves this. Recent events show even in our liberal democracies, governments can't be trusted with the power they already have, and the enormous power that technology does and will afford them. (The most s
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by norswap 3y ago
The geographic, social, religious, ... distributions of demographic declines and increases will be the interesting thing to watch.
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by norswap 3y ago
GraalVM without native image is comparable or faster to Hotspot. The main point of native image is that it cuts drastically on launch and warmup time.
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by norswap 3y ago
The article addresses this point directly.
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by norswap 3y ago
Is that fair? The whole point of the tradeoffs made by HotSpot is that it's optimized for JITing. Imho there is no way to do a fair comparison, as both implementations have completely different goals. One thing that would be interestin
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by norswap 3y ago
> Your text prompts simply don't have enough semantic capacity. Mostly, current tools are abysmal at maxing the semantic capacity. Midjourney is great a generating things that look good, but terrible at piecing scenes together. Rece
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by norswap 3y ago
I read about stuff like this every month, but then people (on the internet) tell me there are no uses for blockchains and they're exlusively for scams (yes, scams exists, a lot of them).
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by norswap 3y ago
Often don't have it, my method this day is to copy the URL of the website to a feedreader. The first few times it didn't pick up a feed, I would inspect the page source, and sure enough, no `link` tag in the head for the feed (nor
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by norswap 3y ago
RSS maybe not be dead, but it's definitely less alive than it uses to be. The number of "blogs" these days that don't have a feed is absolutely tremendous. The decisions of the browser companies to remove the RSS icons &
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by norswap 3y ago
I understood it as it's an arbitrage because it enables the creation of a new system that reward arbitrageurs less (but still enough that they would perform the arbitrage). Though this is only true in a system where you don't face
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by norswap 3y ago
I was nodding my head along (fantastic answer) until the stab at crypto. Let me offer a (partial) defense of crypto if I can: Broadly, crypto is divided into crypto-currencies and applications. Let's tackled currencies first, some of w
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by norswap 3y ago
It's important to note that event for the projects creating new tokens, there is NO WAY to register. It exists, in theory. Many people have tried, nothing has progressed even an inch. It's not even a matter of the SEC putting out
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by norswap 3y ago
What keyboard / layout do you use to get the arrow keys? I have a Ultimate Hacking Keyboard ( https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ ) and while the arrow keys are easily accessible, they require pressing a modifier. This

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