postultimate

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by postultimate 4y ago
The UK got the .gb domain because it's the correct country code. The .uk domain came about because it was in use on the Janet academic network, shortly before all the networks were smooshed together to make the internet. It was probabl
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by postultimate 4y ago
Brb, just writing a firefox plugin to do a p2p adverse optimization.
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by postultimate 4y ago
No subinterpreters in 3.11 ? If we had those, all this async idiocy would go away, no more code colours, no more single-core, even better isolation and protection against context-switching tangles. (the implementation not so nice though. Py
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by postultimate 4y ago
This one ? https://archive.ph/0iu7V
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by postultimate 4y ago
> buying up government debt, Can someone explain what this actually means ? Presumably it means that something that came from somewhere was exchanged for something else, but what exactly ?
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by postultimate 4y ago
The last 64 bits are derived from the MAC of the interface, which is quite a good idea (we probably won't see MAC exhausion because it's only two-level, and it's supposedly guaranteed unique). The stupidity lies eleswhere. (S
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by postultimate 4y ago
Does 'blackhole' imply that Zayo accepted packets for delivery and then threw them away ? Because if UPS had done that, someone would have gone to prison.
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by postultimate 4y ago
So, who wants to crowdfund a tortitious interference suit against Zayo ?
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by postultimate 4y ago
Against government it wouldn't help much. But against mega-corporations, it could be quite effective. How do you pull the plug when the logical and physical topologies don't match ?
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by postultimate 4y ago
Would there be any merit in rebuilding the internet inside the exising one, using it only as transport ? Rebuilding all of it, including DNS ?
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by postultimate 4y ago
I've been doing this, except I have a bath. It finally dawned on me that heating water and leaving it to cool was exactly the way the house is normally heated, so it was costing me nothing to bath as long as I liked. I live there now.
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by postultimate 4y ago
Drag story hour is involving children in your fetish.
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by postultimate 4y ago
This one is stupid even by halfbakery standards. So you're going to burn food in a 20% efficient process to heat food ? Rather than just burning the food directly at 90+% efficiency ?
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by postultimate 4y ago
> We don't know what qualia are Actually, no. This is the one part of the problem we are clear on. Since this is an adequate excuse to give a lecture, here we go: Suppose I say "I am fat", and suppose you say of me &quot
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by postultimate 4y ago
We can go back to saying "geometrically", which was the previous term for multiplicative increase. It even has the advantage of being confusing when misused.
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by postultimate 4y ago
I believe you meant "Technical fora that are not dominated by insufferable pedants"
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by postultimate 4y ago
There's no such thing as "AGI for the sake of AGI itself". AGI is synthetic and its goals are synthetic, it doesn't want anything that you didn't tell/construct it to want.