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by z3phyr 4y ago
Obscurity is a key ingredient to almost all the real world physical security in the world.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Yeah. RC cars can fit in your pockets. But you can't be the passengers.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Wealth is not the only variable, though people with wealth try to turn it into one. Can the richest person on earth in a free society, get a personal armed forces with the state of the art platforms directly under their control today? They
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by z3phyr 4y ago
> bail bond industry The fact that there is a bail bond industry sounds horrible to me.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Short answer: It is in space and relatively easier to get to than other planets in the system. It is a gateway to becoming space-faring civilization.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
More money attracts more eyes, hands, grey matter which they would otherwise focus on something with more money. But it is a long process.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
> At best, you've given unlimited, unsandboxed access to everything on your computer to the author of whatever piece of software you've just installed. That's the risk I take for very good returns and very high quality sof
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by z3phyr 4y ago
In the windows world I download the installer for whatever software I need, click next->next->next (or choose where I want my stuff in my filesystem, add it to the path, opt in or out of stuff) and it works out of the box. No stores.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
> For years I was mostly just confused that "crypto" was anything at all crypto is cryptography for me, a serious and posh discipline of applied mathematics, linguistics, analytics and computer science.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
That's not individualism, that's absence of scale.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
And people who work on transoceanic flights advertise unicorns to people.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
All the images with people in background have real faces so far
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by z3phyr 4y ago
> Why would you use windows nowadays. 1) PC Gaming is a big market mover. 2) (Underrated) As a systems developer, Visual Studio is one of the best development environments I have ever used. VS for windows is the real one, VS for mac is a
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Also, the original build code is extremely hard to read!
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by z3phyr 4y ago
> C++ devs already uses templates, smart pointers, RAII, etc. These are frowned upon in the game industry circles. Most of the game code is C style C++ with occasional function overloading and classes.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
There is a tremendous amount of human talent in the video game industry that usually does not bleed into the general tech industry or film industry. I wonder how well such talent is compensated by the incoming tech giants..
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by z3phyr 4y ago
There is a lot of money in video game publishing business, given how video games are slowly becoming persistent and ongoing. Companies like Microsoft and Amazon have the means to handle such publishing, and they would surely want control on
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Cosmic time considered, not much time has passed.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Both are focusing on different problems. The DL community is not actually working on general intelligence; they are working to automate, optimize and scale business cases while trying to reduce real costs. No corporation really wants anothe
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Video games follow the software dev model. I mean most software that is packaged does not explicitly name the lead developer on title. There are exceptions like vim by B. Moolenaar.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
The need is to understand quantum systems and advance our understanding of theoretical computer science. We do not dissuade particle physicists from performing physics because some bad people want atomic bombs; We do not dissuade Archimedes
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Routinely breaking the law and then paying fine? Jail is a good way to put routine offenders away from the civil society
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by z3phyr 4y ago
> There is no contempt of court for not paying these damages. Then how does the civil court function? If nobody follows the courts order, the court is redundantly illegitimate.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
APL seems like a great language for computer graphics! Has anyone tried their hands at the same?
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by z3phyr 4y ago
In the past, the power to set policy was in the hands of the few aristocrats, whose full time job was to discuss and fight over policy, while the lay people worked their fields. We fought hard to take that power from them. Now a company ask
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by z3phyr 4y ago
In one day, on statistcal average, ~90 overs are bowled. The day can be safely divided into 3 sessions equally. If spinners are bowling in majority, this number could extend to 100 overs per day as well. On a strategic aspect, the players h
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by z3phyr 4y ago
The aesthetics of a 1) mobile 2) rugged 3) cryptomachine straight out of cipherpunk universe.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Test cricket is also technically limited overs, but it has immensely more strategic aspect to it spanning 5 days with 2 innings each.
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by z3phyr 4y ago
Russia is still a military threat, despite their performance. There were a lot of instances of Roman millitary in their prime performing poorly (ex Septimus Severus's wars in Caledonia) for a long period of time. It's just 3 month
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by z3phyr 5y ago
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