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Software dev, 2yr out of uni
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Comment · 20 hours ago
General Number Field Sieve is the fastest general-purpose algorithm for factoring huge numbers, and is what most record factorizations use (exceptions exist for special classes of numbers). It already meets the N^o(1) bound this purports to prove, but it does so non-deterministically. The main result here is that there also exists a deterministic factoring algorithm that meets roughly the same complexity bounds as GNFS.
Comment · 2 days ago
A convincing argument.
Comment · 5 days ago
How is it patronizing to say "You've never worked this job and clearly have no idea if it truly is good or not"?

If anything it's patronizing to say that staring at disturbing content all day is preferable to agricultural jobs, you know, the jobs people have been working and enjoying for literally tens of thousands of years.

Comment · 5 days ago
Spoken like someone who's never had to do it.
Comment · 5 days ago
Are you taking this single congressman's word as fact?
Comment · 5 days ago
The amount of mental gymnastics people will do to support fascist dictator wannabes is truly insane. For your sake I hope you find reality.
Comment · 8 days ago
Perhaps trying to "both sides" an incident where a cop killed a literal toddler is not the best idea.
Comment · 9 days ago
When the CEO of the company starts ranting and raving about "sentient cars", it's time to look somewhere else for your purchase.
Comment · 15 days ago
Is it stalking if there is no ill intent? (No, trying to get your bike back is not ill intent)
Comment · 15 days ago
It's really a miracle that any judicial system considers "clicking accept without reading" to be a valid form of binding contract in the first place.
Comment · 18 days ago
I expected this to be a title typo ($2m instead of $2) but no, that's the correct number. I'm not informed on this case so I have to wonder why, the article doesn't say.
Comment · 18 days ago
I agree. The primary gotcha about game development, that differentiates it from ordinary software development, is that the desired outcome is "fun" / "entertainment". That is not a verifiable outcome. You cannot make a unit test for fun. LLMs don't understand what "Fun" is because they've never been taught what code is and isn't fun.
Comment · 20 days ago
They also ride into work on Polar Bears.

I can make stuff up too!

Comment · 23 days ago
You know, just because it's in an RFC doesn't mean it's actually practical. 'home.arpa' is significantly worse than every other option.
Comment · 29 days ago
That doesn't matter because companies who use AI art in their projects either proudly proclaim they're using it, or actively hide it and get found out by someone and face significant backlash for hiding it. Labeling laws in the EU also make it extremely difficult to do the latter if you want to have an audience outside NA.

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