vzcx

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by vzcx 6y ago
I honestly wish people did do this for these sorts of posts because it opens up a lot of solution space and would lead to interesting optimizations along the entire stack. The boundaries between all levels fade, the pieces ready for creativ
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by vzcx 6y ago
It needs to become commonplace to include your OS, external dependencies, and any language runtime code in this count. Otherwise it's just not going to evolve into a proper demoscene.
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by vzcx 6y ago
I help maximize production of thermodynamic entropy.
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by vzcx 7y ago
Intellectual property is more debatable, but investing and leaving wealth to your descendants seem like obviously good things to me. I suppose that just goes to show we all have our own different tablets of values...
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by vzcx 7y ago
Of course not.
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by vzcx 7y ago
Back to wsb with you! There are no tendies to be had here.
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by vzcx 7y ago
Founders are typically the first and primary owners, at least initially... Is the objection that founders and investors get a larger slice? People have a strange reaction to the word 'exploit.' It smells bad, and it gives the sens
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by vzcx 7y ago
Do you have a recommendation? Rockchip seems ok, with docs open source tools but I wish they were better, and it's still a proprietary SOC, of course.
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by vzcx 7y ago
On the other hand, the United States was created by people who preferred the former. The tree root, branch, leaf, metaphor is nice. It could just be that institutions, whether economic or civic, go through a lifecycle, and that notions of &
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by vzcx 7y ago
It is still true that most cloud-provider datacenters house racks of commodity hardware? If so, I could definitely imagine a shift to hardware that was designed to support running virtualized environments while keeping power and cooling cos
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by vzcx 7y ago
I don't know... After slogging through hundreds of thousands of years conquering, taming nature, accumulating capital, developing technology, and eventually making far enough to give life to the most powerful agent in the known univers
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by vzcx 7y ago
I think it's more that he is afraid of being misunderstood, and rightly so. It is also unclear to me how one could find a true scissor statement and know it until one unleashed it and saw the effects. It would just seem obviously true
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by vzcx 7y ago
Perhaps they will make some advances in pragmatic machine learning, AI techniques, and perhaps cluster/super computing that could be useful and marketable. They have a silly telos, but their path towards it might generate some producti
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by vzcx 7y ago
Shall we quietly let them burn their money at the altar of the Basilisk? Or perhaps encourage them, so as to put it into more hands?
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by vzcx 7y ago
Ah, but whose morals? It's as if these friendly AI hucksters have never read Nietzsche, and are asking their hypothetical God to make them into the last man. The only AGI I could ever respect would be one with a will to power and the a
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by vzcx 7y ago
Yes, you'd better... In case it wasn't clear (Poe's law, and all), I am speaking about myself and people like me, who get along just fine but find themselves quite at odds with the modern world and it's mythologies, and
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by vzcx 7y ago
I am not talking about conservatives.
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by vzcx 7y ago
Well, this world has formal boundaries we call borders. Beyond that, it's a big universe... I know this sounds a bit glib, but I'm deadly serious about this. There are geopolitical complications, yes, as well as some additional co
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by vzcx 7y ago
People don't go to radical groups for the ideology: They come for the emotional outlet and camaraderie. Some radicals will flip flop enormously during their "career." They are activists. The guy with anarchist and nazi symbol
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by vzcx 7y ago
Don't worry about the LARPers. There are so few of them, they are so dumb, they have so little power, and they never will. Worry instead about those quiet ones out there reading old and problematic books: the free spirits, burning fort
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by vzcx 7y ago
Oh, I don't mean to say that it is secretly uncritical of the alt-right. It's clear that the alt-right runs counter to the mother's morals, just that these morals are taken as given and assumed in the audience as well. It is
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by vzcx 7y ago
Excellent, excellent points. Antifa members are often just a sick with fears, insecurities, and vengeance, as alt-right members. They are both peddlers of resentment, just run by different priests, and aimed at different enemies. Self-exami
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by vzcx 7y ago
This is a little too... optimistic in my opinion. I dislike both nazis and commies, but it seems clear to me that there are deep and irreconcilable value and cultural conflicts at play in society. Ultimately, these groups do not "speak
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by vzcx 7y ago
Yes! This is an anti-public school administration article masquerading as an anti-alt-right article.
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by vzcx 7y ago
Do you mean memetic inoculation or memetic indoctrination? Children already get a whole lot of the latter, civics and ethics are entirely the latter, and it is the rebellion against this indoctrination that gets us this angsty memery. This
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by vzcx 8y ago
There were likely ongoing payments beyond the lump 100k since it seemed there were employees tasked with managing the cartel's network and thus ongoing costs.
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by vzcx 8y ago
I appreciate your mentioning overthewire and claiming that you'd hire someone on the basis of their ability to make it through these challenges. I do wish more CTFs kept their challenges online after the competition: good ones and thes
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by vzcx 8y ago
You would trust the OMS to do what exactly? Opine on computer science theory? Perhaps. Do solid work for you? That's a much closer call, in my opinion.
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by vzcx 8y ago
As non-degreed developer who is looking to transition to security work, I was initially excited to see this program but had a similar reaction after looking at the curriculum. Potential gems on the list might be the OS or networking course
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by vzcx 8y ago
Is there some route to naloxone that I am not aware of that doesn't start from some opiate or opium alkaloid? The morphine total syntheses I've read were rather involved and low-yield. Perhaps progress made on the biosynthetic ste

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