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by toomim 4y ago
You can handle bank deposits with a counter CRDT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
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by toomim 4y ago
By that logic the cold war wasn't a war.
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by toomim 4y ago
Note that the pupil is almost always at the very edge of the eyeball. It's actually more realistic-looking to simulate the cursor being some number of inches above the screen, so that it more smoothly transitions from center to edge.
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by toomim 4y ago
In 2010, I was a PhD student inspired by Herb Simon, Goldhaber, and others, and decided to focus my dissertation on this topic: https://invisible.college/attention/dissertation.html This was the first approach to meas
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by toomim 4y ago
Can you please clarify your sentence?
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by toomim 4y ago
> If you look at the paper objectively ... He may have the credentials but his social media activities So did you read the paper and come up with a substantive scientific critique, or did you judge him on his social media activities and
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by toomim 4y ago
Those features are not what defines content addressing. Content addressing is defined as an address for a document that is a function of its content . If your address is a function of a public key, then you're using "agent key
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by toomim 4y ago
Oh my god, this looks so sane.
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by toomim 4y ago
Because it's no-longer content addressing: if you are addressing your content by a name, to allow it to mutate, then you aren't addressing it by its content. You're addressing it by a name. And not to beat a dead horse, but
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by toomim 4y ago
Then it's no longer content-addressing. It's now "public key plus a signed pointer referencing a name-that-has-yet-to-be-specified" addressing. I think that's a fine road to go down for addressing data, but it&#x27
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by toomim 4y ago
And works great until your content changes, and then the address changes, and you end up wanting to have a way to name and address your content across the changes, and then you aren't using content addressing anymore.
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by toomim 4y ago
That particular article's censorial bias is described in detail here: https://quillette.com/2022/07/18/cognitive-distortions/
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by toomim 4y ago
That is the #9 most controversial article in wikipedia, historically: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-ten-most-contr... It is heavily censored with wikipedia's left-leaning bias. Go read the talk pag
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by toomim 4y ago
The similarity with tor is that you can connect to any other computer via its public key, which corresponds to a .onion address. If your computer's public key is xx73u2, then I can access it at https://xx73u2.onion/and&
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by toomim 4y ago
Is this an alternative to: - ngrok - ssh tunnel - tor - libp2p ?
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by toomim 4y ago
What does "zero-trust" mean? I'd presume I want a network I can trust.
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by toomim 4y ago
I think so. Some of us in the braid.org group have been discussing how to add OS syscalls to do so.
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by toomim 4y ago
When you don't understand them, that's how you know you're in a bubble. Try getting out and talking to them.
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by toomim 4y ago
That doesn't make it "insincere." It just means that the creators of this archive have different priorities than you. I doubt that the people who hate Steve Jobs are willing to make something called "The Steve Jobs Arch
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by toomim 4y ago
Buuuuurn!
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by toomim 4y ago
For some reason, people considering PAXOS/RAFT don't tend to consider CRDT/OT synchronization. I think this is a big oversight. We should start considering CRDT/OT/VCS/Diffsync approaches to distributed system
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by toomim 4y ago
I'm also working in this area; and your work is impressive! I find your thinking to be very clear, and thank you very much for taking the time to articulate this space so clearly. Your idea is diligently thought-through, with admirabl
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by toomim 4y ago
Ah, this is important new information for me! I just visited the website, and looked for a virtual DOM API that I can use inside of my library. Unfortunately, when I read the actual "getting started", it showed me how to import r
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by toomim 4y ago
What do you do about the battery life on old SE's from ebay? Do you upgrade the battery?
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by toomim 4y ago
Does a screen reader actually care about <article> vs. <section>? I think they just ignore those tags.
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by toomim 4y ago
Here's a cool guy who's entire homepage is one giant stretchtext! https://andrewcantino.com/ It starts with three short sentences, but expands into three full pages once you've stretched it all out.
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by toomim 4y ago
Thank you for saying so!
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by toomim 4y ago
I wrote a PhD dissertation that made this point in 2013, and proposed a new "helocentric" economic model. The key shift is to move the utility function from evaluating a future state of the world to evaluating the utility of an
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by toomim 4y ago
You're ignoring ventilation, air filtration, sanitization, quarantining, and a bunch of other things.
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by toomim 4y ago
If I could choose between a society where 80% of people can read faces, vs. one where 90% can read faces, I'd choose the one where more people can read faces. It makes everyone's life easier when more people can read each other&#x

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