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Comment · 8 months ago
What a head-in-the-sand comment. Are you very wealthy? Congrats! You can ignore the flames for a little longer than the rest of us.
Comment · 8 months ago
lol, I would love to hear how you arrived at this conclusion.
Comment · 9 months ago
This was a great post, one of the best I've seen on this topic at HN.

But why is the cost never discussed or disclosed in these conversations? I feel like I'm going crazy, there is so much written extolling the virtues of these tools but with no mention of what it costs to run them now. It will surely only get more expensive from here!

Comment · 11 months ago
It's worse than that, BF6's anticheat is kernel level and requires the Windows-only version secure boot to be enabled, at least on my motherboard. There is no way I'm going to faff about with my BIOS when rebooting just to play this game.
Comment · 1 year ago
I play around with a Guix install in a VM, and with less than half of my system resources, a `guix pull` with a `guix system reconfigure ...` takes about 10 minutes. That said, if a pull happens to include a kernel update it can take much longer. I think pinning large packages (like the kernel) that may not need incidental updating is key to keeping pull times lower.
Comment · 1 year ago
Brand loyalty might matter when the cost of a good is relatively low and the availability high. I can basically choose between coke or Pepsi anywhere, and they cost about the same, so why not go with my favorite?

For airlines availability with a preferred carrier is not guaranteed, and prices can vary wildly. Do I have so much brand loyalty that I will pay perhaps 2x the cost? Like most people, I wouldn't.

In terms of availability and cost, LLM providers are much closer to Coke than to an airline.

Comment · 2 years ago
Not entirely true, there are other PKE and DSA algorithms that were/are a part of the competition that used problems not related to lattices. However, the lattice-based options were often among the fastest and smallest.
Comment · 3 years ago
This sounds interesting, would you be willing to share what you have so far?
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Comment · 5 years ago
I've implemented a toy version of a 3+ MPC protocol for graduate school, specifically private set intersection. Would you mind sharing what kind of MPC protocols you design and if you can for what types of applications? I don't often see this discussed on HN and my curiosity is piqued!
Comment · 6 years ago
Does the pen still work? What about multi-touch and pressure sensitivity?
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Would you mind mentioning who you use for hosting/email/domain registration? I'm doing research for a large migration and I love hearing what works for others in similar situations.

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