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by uneventual 2y ago
funny to think that there was a blip of people downloading software over the radio in the 80s, then the internet happened and it was all over hardwire, and now virtually all software is downloaded over the radio again
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by uneventual 2y ago
my friend pointed out that Q5_K_M quantization used for the open source models probably substantially reduces the quality of play. o1 mini's poor performance is puzzling, though.
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by uneventual 4y ago
They do some monkey business with sgx to make brute forcing harder but yeah it's worrisome. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-th... https://signal.org/blog/se
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by uneventual 4y ago
It’s basically the exact same pricing as the US. $1 ≈ €1 today and $1200 * 1.25 for VAT equals $1500.
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by uneventual 4y ago
I don’t think so! Even permanent and supposedly non-arbitrary boundaries are subject to intense political contestation. Observe how in the first decades of this country’s history states were often admitted in pairs, one slave and one free (
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by uneventual 4y ago
Well to take the most obvious problem, each California congressional district has to have roughly 750k people but Los Angeles County has 9.9 million.
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by uneventual 4y ago
I continue to think that /the/ critical problem with web3 as pitched is that users cannot be trusted to maintain private keys in the long run. Either the keys need to be in HSMs and easy to rotate (à la Urbit's identity-as-NF
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by uneventual 4y ago
It's a mixed picture, but to me the fact that irangov.ir still resolves in spite of an all-out siege by OFAC tells me that it's decentralized enough for almost anyone.
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by uneventual 4y ago
Oh that's awesome, I'm so glad people are hacking away at this :)
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by uneventual 4y ago
This is a solved problem, but nobody realizes it yet. We already have a decentralized system of unique identities, and we have since the '80s. It's called the domain name system. They're human-readable, they have strong guara