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by tennysont 10mo ago
My understanding is that this non-reciprocity is why international law often feels so permissive of seemingly bad actions. It generally aims to forbid only strategies that are the highly destructive and non-effective at winning wars. The
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by tennysont 11mo ago
I prefer the `price = value = relative wealth != wealth = resources` paradigm. Thus, wars destroy wealth and tech advances create wealth, but that's just me
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by tennysont 1y ago
I was under the impression that most supply chain attacks target source code, not binaries, especially for large projects like OpenBSD. Does StageX audit source code to the same extend that OpenBSD does? If not, then how would you compare t
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by tennysont 1y ago
The Haskell compiler creates a slightly different output every time you compile a program[1]. This makes it difficult to ensure that the binary that is free-to-download downloaded is actually malware free. If it were easy to check, then you
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by tennysont 1y ago
I understood this as a tool to fight bot-net scraping. I imagined that this would add accountability to clients for how many requests they make. I know that phrasing it like "large company cloudflare wants to increase internet accounta
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by tennysont 1y ago
I think the idea would be that you ask your credit card to convert $10 into 10 untraceable tokens, and then spend them one at a time. You do a handshake dance with the credit card company so you walk away with tokens that only you know, and
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by tennysont 1y ago
It seems like the tl;dr is: Cloudflare is helping to develop & eager to implement an open protocol called ARC (Anonymous Rate-Limited Credentials) What is ARC? You can read the proposal here: https://www.ietf.org/archi
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by tennysont 1y ago
Gemini is an LLM with toolcalls (including tools that, approximately, perform a google searchs and read the top results) Not all chatbots are LLMs with toolcalls, and LLMs are perfectly capable of answering without using such toolcalls (and
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by tennysont 1y ago
It was intended. Since my original comment, I have learned that the output of `iptables -L` is incomplete when using `iptables-nft`. Specifically, if hide that the rule ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere is configure
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by tennysont 1y ago
I recently noticed an issue where tailscale was placing its iptables rules above my system firewall (`ts-input all -- anywhere anywhere` before `nixos-fw`). The tailscale input chain looked like this: Chain ts-input (1 references) tar
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by tennysont 1y ago
(I know that you understand this, but just highlighting it) In fairness, the original Bitcoin white paper referenced both (1) distributed compute and (2) the self-defeating nature of a Byzantine attack as the means of protection. It's
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by tennysont 1y ago
Out of curiosity, why don't/didn't you start a new version of nixpkgs with hardened source? You could forgo the build server, forcing users to build from scratch (at least to start). You could leverage the plentiful, albeit,
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by tennysont 1y ago
> in nixpkgs that would have allowed us to pwn pretty much the entire nix ecosystem and inject malicious code into nixpkg Isn't that what happens when a build server or source code is compromised? I'm not sure if the existence
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by tennysont 1y ago
In my experience, yes and no. Homelabs seem work because they let you experiment while striving towards goals (normally hosting something). That means that the organic problems that arise are the best teachers, since you're honestly mo
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by tennysont 1y ago
Put another way: price is determined by need and supply (aka, demand curve meets supply curve). I would pay anything for air if I needed it, but I will gladly sell air in my yard for $1/m^3 because that air is worthless to me. Is air
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by tennysont 1y ago
You're right, but all lines of sight are mutual, so we will notice this oversight when checking the other peak. This seems poorly explained, but I think the author was in a hurry to get to the main algorithm, and sped through the intro
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by tennysont 1y ago
I think that I have a specific cable-device-orientation that is broken. Meaning, I think a particular USB C cable won't charge my phone if it's plugged in 'backwards'. I always assumed that USB C cables use different pin
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by tennysont 1y ago
For those not keeping count, total hardware spend is in the 13k-20k USD ballpark, by my count. The thing that I like about this post is that it touches on many of the difficulties of running a homelab with many physical hosts. You might not
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by tennysont 1y ago
Interesting! The nix package for ghostty is broken/unavailable on MacOS at the moment, but installing the brew cask (`brew install --cask ghostty`) and a basic config file: ``` font-family = Monaco theme = dark:Catppuccin Frappe,light:
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by tennysont 1y ago
I very much agree with this. I'm sure that dev culture as a whole has gotten less curious as it has gotten more mainstream. However, I think that the absolute number of curious devs has grown. There are ways to convert that advantage
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by tennysont 1y ago
Fascinating---I appreciate you raising awareness. This information was a big update for me, so I looked for a source and found roughly the same numbers (though my numbers were 1/1000, possibly because newer CT exams seem to be slightly
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by tennysont 1y ago
Thank you for writing out these answers! Your patience was noticed and appreciated. It feels like things are further ahead in synthetic biology than I realized and that so so so exciting! (yes, I meant "out of distribution"---but
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by tennysont 1y ago
Fun to see talk of "a compiler for DNA"---I've been hoping for that for a long time. I have to admit, at a _glance_ this feels like a promising idea with few results and lots of marketing. I'll try to be clear about my c
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by tennysont 1y ago
> The ability to send bits across parallel universes is just insane in terms of economic and experimentation value. For example, pharmaceutical companies can do $100 billion trials for all sorts of novel drugs, and trade the results of t
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by tennysont 1y ago
A lot of passion was put into this article. I appreciate that. And I do think that there are several huge themes that need to be periodically grappled with. Just to pick one, the ego hit when jumping into a new field is real (I'm curre
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by tennysont 1y ago
Fix! Ty! P.S. I once calculated the mass of the sun as 0.7kg and got 9/10 points on the questions.
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Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots(tennysontbardwell.com)
163 points by tennysont 1y ago|68 comments
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Response to: A puzzle of two unreliable sensors(tennysontbardwell.com)
2 points by tennysont 1y ago|1 comments
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by tennysont 1y ago
Jacob Brazeal posted about "A puzzle of two unreliable sensors" a few days ago. I thought that it was interesting, and wanted to try to dig into it deeper; I wanted to find where the non-linearity came from such that the optimal l
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by tennysont 1y ago
I appreciate https://lucb1e.com/randomprojects/js/testformula.html , it's a cool idea!

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