Rhapso

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by Rhapso 11mo ago
You have to cool memory when it reads or writes, so accessible memory scales with surface area, not volume. O(N^0.5) becomes the new floor. If it turns out the universe is holographic, then you have the same bound. This might just be enform
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by Rhapso 1y ago
That is wonderful to hear. Thank you for sharing this.
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by Rhapso 1y ago
Assuming this message is in good faith, I appreciate your concern for my mental health. I appear to have attracted the trolls, which is ok. That happens when you stand up to them. I don't tolerate bullies going ignored. I'm seriou
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by Rhapso 1y ago
If it is a joke, it seems more like mockery than good humor. > I understand humor might be too foreign and loose for people on HN but trust me, there was no maliciousness in their comment. Adding your own mockery doesn't help with m
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by Rhapso 1y ago
And i believe that so much that I don't even consider graceful shutdown in design. Components should be able to safely (and even frequently) hard-crash and so long as a critical percentage of the system is WAI then it shouldn't me
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by Rhapso 1y ago
Honestly is is just like Insurance. You understand the value of things you are protecting (and simple compliance has a value to you in penalties and liabilities avoided) and make sure it costs more than that to break into your system. At a
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by Rhapso 1y ago
Hey, make an artificial intelligent entity significantly more capable than any individual human, then be surprised you have a goal misalignment with your superagent. We gave AI legal personhood in the 1800s and we were doomed from there
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by Rhapso 1y ago
The poor delimiter special characters in the ascii table never get any love.
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by Rhapso 1y ago
More than that, "singularity" isn't even an exciting term. It is a boundary beyond which the model being used obviously cannot predict behavior. I personally think the singularity happened back in the 90s and its just been ve
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by Rhapso 2y ago
Lower quality is fine economically as long as it has a good enough reduction in cost to match
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by Rhapso 2y ago
As an immunocompromised person who lost measles resistance, this is terrifying. Vaccines don't only protect you. I went on an immunosuppressant during covid, i was suposed to re-up MMR beforehand, but we had a major nationwide vaccine
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by Rhapso 2y ago
I wish John Conway was still around to comment.
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by Rhapso 2y ago
Not fungible.
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by Rhapso 2y ago
Helium? Finite supply that is only going down until we get off planet. It seems like the actual value of gold is that it is useless, and thus not used up, and all the easy gold is extracted. We could just use numbers instead.
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by Rhapso 2y ago
With the current communication capacity, "transport" isn't horribly relevant. Free exchange of any currency backing substance would be as bad as bitcoin for fraud. So why bother moving it? Oil changes owners all the time with
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by Rhapso 2y ago
If you are trying to pin a currency to a standard, gold isn't great. Its value is almost entirely speculative and it lacks meaninful intrinsic value at this point. If you demand to leave fiat currency, an aluminum or steel standard mig
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by Rhapso 2y ago
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-... Is a start. It gets complicated because we are getting to the point where using signal is itself being seen as probably cause for investiga
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by Rhapso 2y ago
Right, but did they? It being easy doesn't mean data scientists moving fast and breaking things bothered while they were already doing something illegal.
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by Rhapso 2y ago
> (a) The term “energy” or “energy resources” means crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critica
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by Rhapso 2y ago
Unless they actively modified a bittorrent client, even leeches upload and share some chunks.
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by Rhapso 2y ago
I don't think you made it to the last paragraph either: > I know many interviewers also didn't get it, and it became just "do you know the trick to my puzzle". That pattern of failure is a good reason to deprecate whi
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by Rhapso 2y ago
Do I? yes. I also teach my students that the goal of an interview is to convince the interviewer you are a good candidate, not to answer the questions correctly. Sometimes they correlate. Give the customer what they need not what they asked
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by Rhapso 2y ago
Yeah, very bad fit. Surprised they made an offer. Folks getting mad about whiteboard interviews is a meme at this point. It misses the point. We CANT test you effectively on your programming skillbase. So we test on a more relevant job skil
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by Rhapso 2y ago
With that level of nihilism/skepticism why would paying for the privilege give confidence you are not a product? Only a similar pile of words keeps them from double-dipping and making you both customer and product.
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by Rhapso 2y ago
I think you missed the point. WhatsApp and Telegram don't offer the safety or security Signal does. They removed SMS to preserve that safety and security. It isn't a for profit business. We are the ones motivated to help them get
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by Rhapso 2y ago
Ironically, chronic pain drove me the other direction. Programming gave me "I forgot I have a body" levels of engagement with a problem. It was a way to actually find relief from pain. My addiction to programming was very useful i
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by Rhapso 2y ago
I enthusiastically recommend using signal for normal communication. So long as using a private messenger is reserved for "illicit" use cases, that meta information of using it is itself a dangerous to the users. https:/&#x2F
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by Rhapso 2y ago
It turns put you can generally trust banks... to follow laws!
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by Rhapso 2y ago
Sure, most Biden/Harris supporters are ultimately "centrists", like most trump supporters. They spend their life struggling to juggle costs of living and responsibilities of adulthood. They participate in a society that deman
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by Rhapso 2y ago
For me, asteroid belt settlement seems the most useful/reasonable. The motivation is simply that there is so much space for expansion. Space colonization is really just about humans keeping access to exponential population growth. Anta

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