dilippkumar

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by dilippkumar 9mo ago
I’m sorry you went through this. But I am interested in the monero aspect here. Should I treat this as some datapoint on monero’s security having held up well so far?
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by dilippkumar 10mo ago
Thanks for the pointer. I went down the rabbithole, and as far as I can tell, you have to axiomatically assume infinities are real in order to prove Goodstein’s theorem. I challenge the existence of ordinal numbers in the first place. I’m c
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by dilippkumar 10mo ago
I haven't studied math beyond what was needed for my engineering courses. However, I also am starting to believe that infinity doesn't exist. Or more specifically, I want to argue that infinity is not a number, it is a process. Wh
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by dilippkumar 10mo ago
> There are high speed police chases (100mph+) in Los Angeles — no exaggeration — on an almost daily basis. How is anyone driving at that speeds in LA traffic?
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by dilippkumar 10mo ago
Long time OpenBSD fan. Used it as my daily driver for years before standardizing all computers at home to macOS. I still think about going back to openBSD one day, but it's no longer very practical as a daily driver. I want to use Open
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by dilippkumar 10mo ago
I ended up having a work laptop that looks exactly like my personal laptop. After making an embarrassing mistake once, I picked up some stickers and stuck them on my office laptop. Now, my work laptop looks clearly distinct, not just from m
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by dilippkumar 1y ago
Yay! A tiny minuscule bit of my code is riding on these. While I no longer work there, I am absolutely thrilled at this milestone 1. Congratulations everyone! Yay! 2. I absolutely recommend Zoox as a great place to work. Believes me, I’ve s
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by dilippkumar 1y ago
sigh That nightmare level
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by dilippkumar 1y ago
So pornhub needs to see how many terabytes of content they host and use AI to generate 2x more terabytes of cat pictures and add them to a compliance tab on their home page now? Seems annoying but not impossible to do. Edit: I am happy to b
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by dilippkumar 1y ago
> I must say their 3-way merge tool is the best free software on Windows the only competing one, but less good, is p4merge, and it's closed source. A long time ago, I used Araxis Merge[1] and I can strongly recommend it[2]. It was s
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by dilippkumar 1y ago
This is really cool. But I want to talk about how much free headspace Graham Hancock has managed to acquire. I thought about him the moment I saw this title. I'm sure some of you came to the comments looking for his name too.
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by dilippkumar 1y ago
> There are already open-weight models that match OpenAI's best models (at the time of their release) Did I miss something? Do we now have o1-pro level performance in an open source model?
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
I use OpenBSD. I love it, but I recommend reading warnings on the label. I would say FreeBSD is somewhat like Ubuntu is to Linux - easy to get setup, works for more people. There isn’t anything like OpenBSD in the Linux world - where the pr
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
I wasted an inordinate amount of time trying to fight Apple Vision Pro to get it to read my Yubikey. I failed. My apple vision pro was rendered useless because of a single passkey. Dumbest tech ever.
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
> It is not on the auditor to guarantee that what they are looking at has no errors. Um, what then is the point of an auditor?
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
For those of us out of the loop, can someone please share a summary of the drama?
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
The absolute best for me: The Malazan book of the fallen. Book 1 is really hard to get into and doesn't reward as much. But if you stick with it, as early as the end of Book 2, you'll know what you're in for.
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
This looks stupid. If I am reading the legislation [0] correctly, teenagers now have to tell Spotify what song to play one after another, every single time one track ends. Unless someone has previously made a playlist (I think) - in which c
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
I’m curious - what is the motivation for the “offline only” requirement? Where are the boundaries of what’s negotiable and what’s not? For example, is it ok if it can connect to the internet but doesn’t? Or is the existence of a TCP/IP
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
This looks gorgeous. Here is my wishlist for my ideal watch: 1. Automatically adjusts to the timezone I'm in, including accounting for daylight saving time 2. Analog watch face with zero visible electronic displays 3. Connects to googl
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
I have been using a similar service from a different provider (feedbin) and can vouch for the usefulness of this approach. For a time, I used Android. The absence of a decent RSS reader on android made me jump back to iOS. My smartphone OS
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
Hey! Nice to see this here. My graduate thesis advisor was a coinventor of the DCT [0]. I miss my grad school days - he was a great advisor. [0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._R._Rao
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
My email is in my profile. Here's an offer. Let me build this thing for you. Exactly, to your specification, by sitting and working with you and your team, and solving exactly your problems. Once the solution is done, you can either bu
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
> You make the policy and then hand out exceptions (quietly) to the MVP's. This right here is exactly the kind of manipulation that's causing my generation to quit corpo jobs in record numbers. It's BS and everyone knows i
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
This is mostly a note to myself. It's interesting to consider "what next" once an OS project reaches this stage. There are soo many directions a team can take, but also, none of those direction lead to a clear path towards ma
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
I have found that one common element in the things I want to build or fix is that I am opinionated about that thing. I am going to claim that having opinions is a prerequisite to being motivated to shape the world to suit my opinions a li
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
> Can you show evidence of this strategy working somewhere else? The best example of this strategy in action would be the US Congress before the 1984 Chevron Deference ruling. Was Congress more effective back then? One way to check if pe
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
> When incompetence has more responsibility, the effect of incompetence is amplified. Correct. This is the desired effect. Today, Congress hides behind endless procedural votes and dramatic hearings and grandstanding against political op
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
> Now Congress is going to have to specify every possible consequence of laws in the statutes, otherwise a judge will decide. > So agencies will not have any power to actually regulate. This honestly sounds perfect. If this is the act
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by dilippkumar 2y ago
+1 I can not understate how much I agree with parent comment. The opposite of move fast, build a shitty prototype and iterate is a deliberate problem solving approach undertaken by the highest caliber of engineers. The actual challenges to

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