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Comment · 1 month ago
i already countered that argument, but to spell it out: sun synchronous orbits which see the sun all the time are a 1d manifold (approximately) and quite busy already, so they won't come to the rescue.
Comment · 1 month ago
google: orbit

it does not see the sun half of the time

polar orbits don't come to the rescue, they are quite busy already

Comment · 8 months ago
Society depends on variance of thought and action to be able to course-correct. genAI is destroying that variance by design.

LLMs have difficulties in representing out of distribution viewpoints, lines of thinking and conlusions. Original thought is out-of-distribution by definition.

I wrote up why i think this matters more than most people realize as I believe the boring, routine, daily application of generative AI will be enough to detoriate society as a whole - self goverment on autopilot basically with strong attractors to default outcomes.

Comment · 1 year ago
perhaps something to chuckle at: Assembler AMQP

While working on the integration of a complex distributed task queue in a design-by-committee meeting, I wondered out loud why we parse AMQP messages more or less directly instead of using higher-level abstractions like Spring Integration or Celery."

A colleague argued that it wasn't a problem, and also it would be easy to integrate multiple languages, and the target programming languages would be able to handle everything just fine."

I begged to differ and pushed the whole thing up a notch: "technically, one could even parse AMQP messages in assembler if one were inclined to".

So long story short: this project was born as proof that low-level messaging integration is possible, even close to bare metal. Because who wouldn't need that?

Comment · 1 year ago
it was 0.5 ns .. 1s was the FHE case
Comment · 1 year ago
people like me contributed their freetime afterwards still
Comment · 1 year ago
the point being that there was a time (some greybeards might remember) where contributing to the linux kernel wasn't "work" but a fun hobby
Comment · 3 years ago
unfortunately this doesn't work if the user doesn't have write permissions for /etc/hosts already.

perhaps: echo "127.0.0.1 reddit.com # The real blackout" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts ?

Comment · 5 years ago
there is another possible, more charitable explanation for the wait period for device unlocking: as a cooldown period to help people avoid being scammed into unlocking their phones
Comment · 5 years ago
yes thanks a lot! also retrospectively for implementing basic auth in ffsend!
Comment · 5 years ago
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