shkkmo

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by shkkmo 1y ago
The way those work is primarily through a combination of obscurity (most people don't know they exist) and through a lack of real finacial incentive to break them at scale. I would also argue that those techniques do greatly reduce pri
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> It’s basically document signing with key pairs —- old tech that is known to work. I understand the technical side of the suggestion. The social and practical side is inevitably flawed. You need some sort of global registry of public ke
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by shkkmo 1y ago
That seems like a horrible blow to anonymity and psuedonymity that would also empower identity thieves.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
I would argue that you should only allow Claude to refactor code that you understand. Once that institutional knowledge is lost you would then have to regain it before you can safely refactor it, even with Claude's help. I also specifi
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by shkkmo 1y ago
I would argue that all of those theorems work with nameable sets of real numbers but not with any unnamable real numbers themselves.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> They're unphysical, and yet the very physical human mind can work with them just fine. Can it? We can only work with things we can name and the real numbers we can name are an infinitesimal fraction of the real numbers. (The namea
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> more economically efficient I suspect we'll find that the amount of technical debt and loss of institutional knowledge incured by misuse of these tools was initially underappreciated. I don't doubt that the industry will be t
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Same for me with the configure now button
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> No one in this thread is helping "spread hatred". What do you think partisanship is these days?
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> You should explain the active harm this causes, because your partisan celebrity worship is causing you to look goofy in front of strangers. I explained the active harm in the very sentence you quoted. >> he told me that a SWAT te
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> For example, we can all agree "schadenfreude" is not an English word, but it's in the dictionary. I don't agree. > Yes, we can borrow from German; that doesn't make it suddenly become English. It doesn'
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Is "salsa" an english word? In english, "salsa" means a spicy dip made from peppers and other vegetables. In spanish, "salsa" just mean a sauce. Loan words are a well estabished mechanism by which words enter a
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> religious people often conveniently shift goalposts It isn't "shifting goal posts"...It's called updating your beliefs when the evidence proves them wrong. Many religions have a strong history of doing this and it i
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Equating flat earthism with religion is just ignorant. They are not epistemologically equivalent. Normalizing flat earth beliefs like this is actively harmful.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
There were bad developers before there was vibe coding. They just have more output capacity now and something else to blame.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> Take any phenomena on a globe earth, describe the exact same thing in flat earth coordinates and then say that everything weird in the equations is a new physical effect you just discovered. You can't actually do that in an intern
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> it's trivial to prove there's no heaven or hell. You're conflating physics and metaphysics. > Flat earth is very similar to religion You seem to have a beef to pick with religion. There are religious groups that do fu
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by shkkmo 1y ago
We think flat earthers are crazy because it is a fairly trivial thing to prove them wrong. If you believe something that is that easily disproved AND widely understood to be so, there is clearly something wrong with you.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
I've spent years living abroad and have had many long discussions and friendships with non-native english speakers. This could be a non-native speaker, but the complexity of the attempted sentence structure leads me to think it is a na
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> See BlueSky just rolled out Terms ToS that the automated UN Safety (censorship) laws they will accept. This is an automated pipeline for the "censorship demand data notice" can be applied in an automated why. I feel like you
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by shkkmo 1y ago
The actual article is really interesting and informative. I've yet to see a single comment here that referrences any of the facts or ideas presented in the article. It is entirely composed of people responding to the headline. I found
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Learning isn't stealing, but learning can absolutely lead to stealing. (Edit: This is why bring able to demostrate that you did not learn from a copyrighted work when trying to replicate and compete with it can be an important defense.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> Courts (at least in the US) have already ruled that use of ingested data for training is transformative Yes, the training of the model itself is (or should be) a transformative act so you can train a model on whatever you have legal ac
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by shkkmo 1y ago
The undelying point is mentioned early in the article: > The traditional solution to blocking nuisance crawlers is to use a combination of rate limiting and CAPTCHAs. The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very diff
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Well, since they can get a unique token for every site every 6 minutes only using a free GCP VPS that doesn't really matter, scraping can easily be spread out across tokens or they can cheaply and quickly get a new one whenever the old
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by shkkmo 1y ago
You means stuff like "Any group that maintains a positive fertility rate will multiply indefinitely"?
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by shkkmo 1y ago
If you triple the difficulty, the cost of solving the PoW is still neglible to the crawlers but you've harmed real users even more. The reason why anubis works is not the PoW, it is that the dev time to implement the bypass takes out t
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Reconfiguring a battery pack with the same number of cells doesn't change the power contained in the pack. However lowering the voltage will lower your top speed (if not already artificially limited by the controller) and raising the a
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Slight mismatches in capacity can be OK in series too, as long as you have a BMS watching the cell voltages to make sure none get too low when discharging and none get too high when charging. The risk is that the lower capacity cells get to
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by shkkmo 1y ago
The explanation of how the estimate is made is more detailed, but here is the referenced conclusion: >> So (11508 websites * 2^16 sha256 operations) / 2^21, that’s about 6 minutes to mine enough tokens for every single Anubis dep

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