simias

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by simias 4y ago
>It's always impossible to tell, for any given sequence, whether it was produced by a fair die. If the sequence is long enough you can model how likely it is to have been produced by a fair die. Are all numbers equally distributed
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by simias 4y ago
I don't think it's retroactive at all, unless you believe that the message in the origin block "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" is coincidental. Beyond that Bitcoin's
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by simias 4y ago
The problem is that while these topics are interesting (and even crucial these days) they're often used in bad faith by people who are just in it because of the get-rich-quick scheme. You'll often see people push some cryptotoken
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by simias 4y ago
We need to track large external projects (buildroot, the Linux kernel for instance) so the ability to include them as submodules and update them fairly easily is worth it IMO. If you're at the scale of Google it probably makes vastly m
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by simias 4y ago
Is it? I'm working for a small company and even at our scale, when the workflow is centralized, I find git a bit painful at times. I mean it's still an amazing tool, don't get me wrong, but when you have to deal with several
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by simias 4y ago
Unfortunately that's not usually a good enough motivation for most companies. To be clear, I'm not arguing that I don't think it would be a good thing for them to release the code (I most certainly would welcome a fully open
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by simias 4y ago
For many companies releasing their code is not something they would usually consider, regardless of whether it offers a competitive advantage or not. It's just not in the culture. They don't see what they have to gain by releasing
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by simias 5y ago
I remember that reading bash.org 15 or so years ago was pretty hard for me, because many puns and slang was confusing or ambiguous for me. I wish I remembered specific examples. Well actually I do have one from that time, but not from bash.
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by simias 5y ago
It's going to be a predictably nerdy reply but I feel like the issue of smoke signals is not complexity, it's bandwidth. Now maybe if you could put a dozen or so smoke signals in parallel and add error correction codes...
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by simias 5y ago
These translation issues will be familiar to anybody learning a current, very much alive language, especially if you're reading informal forums (say, Youtube comments). You have the same types of abbreviations, more-or-less voluntary m
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by simias 5y ago
I just moved to a new flat and, by design, the motorized shutters don't close fully and the top two or three rows of "holes" remain exposed when the motor disengages. I was a bit annoyed at first and considered tweaking the m
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by simias 5y ago
I wasn't making an argument at all really, just sharing my point of view. I also didn't think that the claim that many bad faith arguments regarding the utility of generics came from the Go community would be scrutinized and neede
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by simias 5y ago
I also couldn't help gloat a bit thinking about all these bad faith arguments I heard coming from the Go community over the years about how the lack of generics was not such a bit deal and generics sucked anyway. I especially remember
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by simias 5y ago
I always strongly disliked the kernel's approach to macros (especially how they try to masquerade as everything but macros with their lowercase names). More than once I wasted time debugging code because I didn't realize that a ma
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by simias 5y ago
I would argue that it may be a case of "less is more". Yes Markdown is limited, but the limits make the language trivial to learn, modify and understand. It also means that the format can be trivially displayed almost anywhere and
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by simias 5y ago
Anybody can run their own platform right now without involving any cryptononsense. That's how the net used to work after all. Anybody failing to understand what lead to the centralization is bound to reproduce the same mistakes. It&#x2
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by simias 5y ago
I don't necessarily agree with that. On IRC you could have a specific rule listed explicitly in the topic and newcomers would still ignore it. The idea that they would trudge through megabytes worth of text to find the info is... optim
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by simias 5y ago
I've been using IRC for decades at this point and Discord is, seemingly, a modern, proprietary version of IRC so I assumed I'd feel at home the few times I've been invited to participate on it, but in practice it was an overw
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by simias 5y ago
>1) Creating limited editions of generative art. I personally think that it's not really an interesting feature. Creating scarcity out of something that ought not to be scarce is just a way to infiltrate capitalism in every aspect o
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by simias 5y ago
Unless things have changed recently the big issue with LN is that it's fundamentally a centralizing force. The idea that everybody is going to open a million channels with every single counterparty (locking coins in the process) is rid
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by simias 5y ago
Yeah I'm an opponent and I feel the same. The talking points have been exhausted half a decade ago. On top of that as cryptocurrencies get more and more mainstream we have to deal with less sophisticated people who make it very hard to
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by simias 5y ago
On a modern architecture given that most integers are usually u32 by default but the underlying CPU deals with 64bits natively, I'd just cast to u64 and call it a day. Actually I was curious to see if GCC would be smart enough to autom
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by simias 5y ago
I agree, but it just confirms what we already know: fundamentals have no importance in the cryptocurrency world, it's all about hype and speculation. Now if they had a cute dog mascot maybe you could get Elon Musk to tweet about it...
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by simias 5y ago
Is CSS turing complete? If it were you could cross-compile SQLite into it. You'll probably want to have it run Doom first though.
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by simias 5y ago
>Or Linux but even that requires getting a PC anyway I'm not sure I understand what you mean here, if I buy, say, a Dell computer with Linux pre-installed then I don't think MS gets a cut? They don't own the PC platform. O
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by simias 5y ago
It's been a year, every single prediction made by the weird GME cult has been disproven and they keep digging a deeper hole with ever more far-fetched and all-encompassing conspiracies. Textbook flat-earth nonsense. >If you honestly
147.
by simias 5y ago
I completely reject this both side thing. Every data point out there shows that these conspiracy theories are unfounded. Even the redditors who believe this nonsense have debunked them themselves through their own experiments (the sharehold
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by simias 5y ago
I can completely understand using shorthand for complicated proofs (defining what they mean at the start). After all that's what I do in code as well: I often import and alias variables in the local scope, but it's limited to a ve
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by simias 5y ago
I'm not a computer scientist but as a programmer I enjoy dabbling in computer science papers and while I often do understand the underlying concepts (sometimes very well since I've been using these concepts daily for decades) I of
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by simias 5y ago
My deep dark secret is that I never take notes. Not for lack of trying, I just don't know how to do it. I never did it at school, never did it at work, never did it outside of work. I'm in my mid-thirties now, I just gave up on th

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