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by pravus 3y ago
> Can you give me an example of how a bit-flip would blow up a cryptographic merkle tree, but not blow up a non-cryptographic file system? Any bit changes anywhere in the merkle tree immediately destroy its ability to self-verify because
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by pravus 3y ago
> If a judge ordered you to unlock your phone and hand over all your messages, you’d probably be sour but you should also be morally ok with complying. No. It is not my moral obligation to obey the orders of other human beings. Ever. I
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by pravus 3y ago
Much of the land in Texas is privately owned so you don't have many of the same issues in other states where there are arguments over where to build. It's a very easy decision for land owners in Texas because they get paid monthl
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by pravus 3y ago
No, this is different. What you are talking about are things like bump keys which exploit known physical limitations in those types of locks in general. There is no way to fix this other than switching to an entirely different internal mec
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by pravus 3y ago
> Is there a reasonable way to effectively keep rebasing on top of multiple upstream branches? This is the problem. You cannot rebase with a stacked PR flow. The correct way to do this is use the merge command as intended. One of the m
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by pravus 3y ago
The logical end-game of direct democracy is the death of Socrates.
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by pravus 3y ago
I generate children faster than the birth registry can issue certificates and Cronus eats them before it could be issued anyway. Nesting namespaces doesn't solve the problem of scale within a single namespace.
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by pravus 3y ago
I'll also have the need to make namespaces dynamic and centrally coordinate their lifecycle along with the rest of my infrastructure as I stand up anything that needs some sort of coordinated ID. So I've just moved this issue to
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by pravus 3y ago
> We can have registrars for global ids, and we can nest local ids inside them, we can have a hierarchy, and we can have local compact ids, 32, 64 or 128 bit, which will never collide, and be locally cohesive. We have this. It's ca
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by pravus 3y ago
> There's something just morally wrong about wanting to exist in an endgame society that decides its best to give zero credit to creators of ideas. > I refuse that and actually would go to war over it. It is absolutely morally de
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by pravus 3y ago
Find what works for your body without doing anything that makes you hate life. I tried the "eat less, exercise more" routine for two years straight when I weighed over 340 lbs. Calorie restriction and walking everyday. I lost 50
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by pravus 3y ago
I use a technique I call "runtime comments": if false { ... stuff I don't want to run right now but the compiler still has to deal with it ... }
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by pravus 3y ago
The only way to negotiate with animals is on their terms. When in Rome as they say...
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by pravus 3y ago
> First, why do you even need HTTPS on a trusted network. PCI compliance among many other regulatory issues. You will be required to show that data is not only encrypted at rest but is encrypted through your entire transport chain regar
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by pravus 3y ago
My understanding is that the Higgs field should be simpler than gravity because it's just a static value whereas gravity is SU(1)? At least to me it seems logical that if the Higgs is quantized, surely more complicated fields would be
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by pravus 3y ago
It has worked great for me for decades and I currently stream live video over X11 on my LAN. And no, I don't think the developers are incompetent, they obviously have different priorities than I do. Being able to shift an entire deskt
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by pravus 3y ago
> Yeah, please repeat the same bullshit for the umpteenth time. I'm currently streaming X11 over my LAN which is something I can't do with Wayland. Give me a fucking solution instead of telling me I'm doing it wrong. Yes,
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by pravus 3y ago
> C is full of quirks. From cryptic "undefined behaviors" to a type system that isn't really a type system (more like "size hints for the compiler"), the language doesn't feel easy to use/debug. I guess
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by pravus 3y ago
People take it too seriously and don't realize that you can't realistically categorize every single change neatly into 3 separate breakage categories. Arguments abound about how to manage this properly with all sorts of schemes.
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by pravus 3y ago
Any civilization that would use violence against non-violent offenders cannot be defined as advanced.
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by pravus 3y ago
James Tabor released a translation of Genesis that has me very interested because he states that he stays as true to the original Hebrew meaning as possible and it reads completely differently than everything I've ever known.
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by pravus 3y ago
They asked for the resource. You are free to give it to them.
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by pravus 3y ago
I got tired of this sort of thing recently and now my web server returns 402 for everything that doesn't exist or has an invalid request. Most of what I do involves API and static data so I just serve everything from memory and avoid
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by pravus 3y ago
URLs refer to resources, not files.
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by pravus 3y ago
How did the URL not exist? An empty resource is still a valid resource and 200 is an appropriate response. You can argue that Prometheus has a broken data model, but the request and response are actually valid in my book.
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by pravus 3y ago
> Weights are literally numbers computed as output. They are not instructions. They are instructions if you consider the LLM system itself to be a kind of weird, indirect virtual machine. Each number can be mapped to a set of instructi
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by pravus 3y ago
The problem is that a URL isn't actually a path. It's an abstract address to a resource which can be a directory or file (or an executable or stream or ...). In this case part of the URL is being interpreted by nginx as a directo
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by pravus 3y ago
Yay, more bolt-ons. Like I said, I left all this behind.
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by pravus 3y ago
I didn't say they were correct. I said be aware of them.
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by pravus 3y ago
From my perspective (over a decade of Perl programming now doing Go): * It has no concurrency primitives that are anywhere close to other popular languages * Tooling is good and works but is archaic, slow, and cumbersome * The commu

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