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by praptak 1y ago
To me it is very strange how many companies do not internally mirror every single dependency of their builds. You should be able to do a clean build fully offline (and not count on luck with the download caches).
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by praptak 1y ago
Fraud is a tiny sliver and it would be unfair to judge crypto on that alone. There's also ransomware, extortion, payments for drugs and theft by North Korea hackers.
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by praptak 1y ago
"pick the path you sampled most" is misleading. What you actually do is model every node (a game state) as a multi armed bandit. Moves are levers and the final game results are payoffs. So you basically keep a tree of multi-armed
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by praptak 1y ago
> Are you not the same person? If you want to prevent a philosophical debate, that's a very risky question to ask :)
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by praptak 1y ago
The first sentence screams LLM: "It sounds like you’re at an important crossroads with your TrueNAS Mini 3.0-X+ system as it transitions from the traditional BSD-based OS to the Linux-based SCALE platform..."
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by praptak 1y ago
Yes, this design was intentional. Moreover, Monopoly as we know it today was intended to be one of two rulesets, the sucky one. The good one was intended to demonstrate a better alternative.
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by praptak 1y ago
It doesn't hurt for them to make it easier for the more paranoid players to inspect stuff. Also there's the scenario of an employee colluding with a player.
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by praptak 1y ago
First of all, it was probably a descriptivist move. What I think happened is that people wrote 'ff' because 'fff' looked like a typo or was less convenient to write, so the linguistics codified that. Also, there are port
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by praptak 1y ago
I don't remember many events from 1996 but my German boss walking into the office excited about the spelling reform of "Schiffahrt" certainly stood out as a memorable event. (They added the third f or maybe re-added it)
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by praptak 1y ago
I prefer "antifeatures" as more precise. https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2007/fall/antifeatures/
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by praptak 1y ago
Google switched from exploration to exploitation. At least this is what I found at the root of every particular inconvenience that used to wear me down at Google until I finally left in August.
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by praptak 1y ago
To me "to exist in the body" Vs "to exist in the head" is a bit about where your point of view is when your mind is processing reality. I'm not talking about the literal visual point of view but rather the metaphori
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by praptak 1y ago
It probably doesn't make sense to cram a whole Lisp into a constrained environment like a microcontroller. What some people do instead is define a smaller Lisp which acts as a DSL and is compiled to run on the constrained platform. ht
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by praptak 1y ago
Yeah I guess there's a continuum between a) hiring someone impartial and not entangled politically to advise on an important decision and break the deadlock and b) paying someone to justify an obviously crappy decision while providing
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by praptak 1y ago
Ah yes, ass cover as a service. There's a classic article (2010) about it: https://thetech.com/2010/04/09/dubai-v130-n18 (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1257644 ) The difference
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by praptak 1y ago
Labour issues? I'm afraid that most tech workers still believe that improving the technology is enough for the society to thrive, not rethinking capitalism (or at least its current implementation).
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by praptak 1y ago
"If you strip the effects of having all limbs off, I'm actually well above the top fighting condition" -- the Black Knight
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by praptak 1y ago
Peter Navarro on CNBC reacts to the shrinking GDP number by insisting it's actually good news because if you strip out the effect of tariffs "you have 3 percent growth. So we really like where we're at now." [0] https:&
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by praptak 1y ago
A good reason to reconsider using their services if you are outside US or even just potentially undesirable in the eyes of US administration.
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by praptak 1y ago
Dear sysadmin for YCOMBINATOR, Critical vulnerability on port 80: an attacker could exfiltrate all comments posted therein. Please provide a bug bounty for this critical vulnerability.
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by praptak 1y ago
My experience from the academia is that there just isn't enough research topics. It wasn't as bad as in this article but I can't imagine how bad it would be if somebody dumped hundreds of millions of EUR into it to mass produ
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by praptak 1y ago
It would say "we all know how it went" :)
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by praptak 1y ago
A million monkeys with a million typewrites will statistically have one lucky monkey who creates an extremely successful product which also looks very dumb and very unconvincing ("Srsly? You want to make money from random people hostin
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by praptak 1y ago
I draw the line at working for a US company. I am aware that it still doesn't make me "removed from this". My guess is that I'm not more than 4 invoices away from Palantir-alikes but at least I'm not directly proppi
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by praptak 1y ago
Gold will work without the internet though. > What do you mean by "takeover"? I meant a 51% attack by a state actor.
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by praptak 1y ago
DDoS on Bitcoin via combination of a war chest of zero-days and physical destruction of internet infrastructure. Maybe combined with a takeover by spinning up enough of own miners.
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by praptak 1y ago
Nobody has enough certainty that Bitcoin is resilient against a determined state actor in case of war.
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by praptak 1y ago
Energy preservation doesn't work by default in physics simulations unless you specifically code for it (e.g. by periodic explicit adjustment). It's not only the rounding error, it's also quantisation of time and other minor e
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by praptak 1y ago
Internet payments infrastructure provides more than cash can provide. It's also more than Bitcoin alone can provide. I'm talking about having at least some recourse against fraud and at least some attempt at resolving disputes
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by praptak 1y ago
To the first approximation, yes. But there are different standards for oil and they trade at different prices (e.g. Brent is more expensive than Urals).

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