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by rocqua 1y ago
This worked great for me. It meant that I understood the scaffolding of the course: the broad goals of the subject, the main ways to tackle them, what is currently being explored, and why are we going in this direction at this moment. There
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by rocqua 1y ago
I'm annoyed every time I have to write $(which time). But the stats given by -v are just so much more valuable from gnu-time.
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by rocqua 1y ago
I'm saddend by how little I care. I used to follow this quite intensely, and wished space-X the best. But with the owners antics, I just can't get myself to care that much. At the very least, that is sad for all the hardworking pe
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by rocqua 1y ago
Tracking enforcement officials decreases their ability to enforce and makes them easier to target. ICE agents shouldn't be doing their enforcement. Deserve to be targeted, and given there is very little transparency to their actions, a
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by rocqua 1y ago
The underlying thought is that outside air (such as a forest) gets UV sterilized by the sun. So this would bring inside air up to the sterilization level of outside air.
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by rocqua 1y ago
Is the arbitrage you are describing just "buy in another country and ship more cheaply"?
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by rocqua 1y ago
This blog series by Bret Devraux keeps bringing me back to the black death, and how that reformed labor relations. I have heard about that a few times now. But this series really emphasizes how much surplus labor the rich could extract. And
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by rocqua 1y ago
For very similar reasons why the US has the 5th amendment, why blanket surveillance is not considered a good thing by functioning democracies, and why most people want their porn-viewing habits to remain private. There are plenty of bad thi
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by rocqua 1y ago
On- and off- ramps suck. And there isn't much speculative value. So it misses the main 'use case' of crypto. Its by far the best crypto-currency for making payments. But people care very little about making payments with cryp
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by rocqua 1y ago
See this very nice blog-post: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/kyc-and-aml-beyond-th... It explains how KYC and AML law function as a stochastic control on crime. How that is difficult to do through actual laws,
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by rocqua 1y ago
You forgot a few things on that list that people would like freedom for: advocating for (or against) trans rights, protesting against the deportation of migrants, advocate against gun-control, and donating to (anti) palestinian causes Are j
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by rocqua 1y ago
But with Monero, you see that it is effectively shut off from the Fiat ecosystem entirely. The proposal here clearly lays out how bad Bitcoin is for privacy. But it's not like the more private alternatives are actually allowed to be vi
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by rocqua 1y ago
Why would intel willingly join this cartel then? Their GPU business is a slow upstart. If they have a play that could massively disrupt the competition, and has a small chance of epic failure, that should be very attractive to them.
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by rocqua 1y ago
I believe that VRAM has massively shot up in price, so this is where a large part of the costs are. Besides I wouldn't be very surprised if Nvidia has such strong market share they can effectively tell suppliers to not let others sell
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by rocqua 1y ago
There is the timezone "Amsterdam". That isn't a fixed offset.
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by rocqua 1y ago
Looking through the original article, this date format is only available in the RFC, and then only with the Z (which makes it UTC). Is there a timezoned version of this that is standardized?
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by rocqua 1y ago
I would still have expected that going from 0-1K to 1-2K would allow a lot more people to bootstrap themselves out of poverty. At least under the hypothesis that Poverty is a symptom of a persons circumstances, with most notably a lack of a
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by rocqua 1y ago
UBI has many different defenses. One of them is that means tested benefits are harmful, and I think it's a really strong one. But another very common defense of UBI is that mass unemployment is inevitable, but because of technological
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by rocqua 1y ago
8601, when used fully according to spec sucks. It makes today 20250902. It doesn't have seperators. And for adding a time it gets even less readable. Its a serialization and machine communication format. And that makes me sad. Because
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by rocqua 1y ago
This is a good point, presuming the rate limiting is actually applied.
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by rocqua 1y ago
But then you rate limit that challenge. You could setup a system for parellelizing the creation of these Anubis PoW cookies independent of the crawling logic. That would probably work, but it's a pretty heavy lift compared to 'jus
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by rocqua 1y ago
My point was that AES and SHA are not the reason IOT cryptography is so often broken or missing. Instead its getting the keys onto the system in a halfway secure manner that is the blocking issue. Hence I'd be a lot more enthusiastic a
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by rocqua 1y ago
That feels too reductive. The point of these primitives is not to trade security for ease of computation. The point is to find alternatives that are just as strong as AES-128 but with less computation. The trade-off is in how long and hard
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by rocqua 1y ago
This is pretty cool. But IOT tends to fail hard on key agreement. And nothing here solves that. This seems to pretty much require a pre installed key, otherwise the overhead of securely installing a key would probably nullify the advantage
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by rocqua 1y ago
It doesn't take me 10000000 tokens to have the context "this was the general idea of the code, these were unimportant implementation details, and this is where lifetimes were tricky." And that context is the valuable bit for
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by rocqua 1y ago
I wonder why we can't have one LLM generate this understanding for another? Perhaps this is where teaming of LLMs gets its value. In managing high and low level context in different context windows.
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by rocqua 1y ago
The OPs point seems to be: it's very quick for LLMs to be a net benefit to your skills, if it is a benefit at all. That is, he's only speaking of the very beginning part of the learning curve.
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by rocqua 1y ago
When I asked experts on formal proofs a year ago, their intuition was that there isn't enough formal proofs out there for LLMs to be very good at the syntax. It's, as far as I know, quite hard to teach an LLM things it doesn'
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by rocqua 1y ago
That ship has sailed. DNSsec is not liked even a little bit. Given that control over DNS is how domain validated certs are handed out, it would make a lot of sense to cut out the middle man. But DNS does not have a good reliable authenticat
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by rocqua 1y ago
SharePoint is like exchange. It will likely never die, instead becoming a hidden layer that has been papered over 100 times.

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