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OpenAI reports new misalignment incidents(openai.com)
1 points by greg7mdp 2d ago|0 comments
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by greg7mdp 2mo ago
Got the shingrix vaccine for free at my county health center, even though it was not covered by my insurance. Worth checking.
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Lessons from Zig(vinniefalco.com)
27 points by greg7mdp 7mo ago|27 comments
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by greg7mdp 9mo ago
The OOM killer strikes again.
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by greg7mdp 1y ago
> All of this is packaged up into a single zero-dependency C API (it doesn't even rely on libc), allowing it to be easily embedded into any popular language ecosystem. @mitchellh That's super exciting. I'm wondering how ea
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by greg7mdp 2y ago
They didn't sign a transaction for 1 billion dollars. They all signed what they thought was a routine transfer, but in reality what they signed gave the hacker full control of the smart contract (the Gnosis Safe) in which the 1.4B $ of
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by greg7mdp 2y ago
They didn't sign a transaction for 1 billion dollars. They all signed what they thought was a routine transfer, but in reality what they signed gave the hacker full control of the smart contract (the Gnosis Safe) in which the 1.4B $ of
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by greg7mdp 2y ago
What you should do is sign the transaction on an offline computer (which is booted from a linux OS on a flash drive with only the essential software), simulate the transaction to verify it does what you expect, and then save the signed tran
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"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."(threadreaderapp.com)
8 points by greg7mdp 2y ago|2 comments
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I tried C++. Maybe there is something there even for Rust developers(chadnauseam.com)
5 points by greg7mdp 2y ago|1 comments
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by greg7mdp 2y ago
> for exponent 1, 10 and 11 you then have the same Right. But the exponent is signed as well, so you have the same number of exponent values mapping to values between -1 and 1 (roughly exponent values from -127 to -1) as to all other val
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by greg7mdp 3y ago
Nothing really compare to a well made daguerreotype.
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by greg7mdp 3y ago
Elon Musk says idiotic stuff all the time and people revere him.
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by greg7mdp 3y ago
I'm surprised Intuit allowed this to happen. It almost look as if the govt is working for the people.
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by greg7mdp 3y ago
Unless they pretended being a man :-)
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by greg7mdp 3y ago
This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc
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by greg7mdp 4y ago
Makes me remember how fun it was to read Byte in the 1980s! https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-05/page/n219/...
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by greg7mdp 4y ago
Page and Brin's original crawler had the issue, but they were unable to fix it, and it was Jeff Dean and Sanjay Gupta that rewrote the crawler so that it and the index storage would be hardware fault tolerant.
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by greg7mdp 4y ago
There was a lot less googling for sure.
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by greg7mdp 4y ago
I remember reading this issue cover to cover. Good times. The August issues of Byte were always a treat!
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by greg7mdp 5y ago
Both are named after Ada Lovelace, mathematician and first computer programmer.
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by greg7mdp 5y ago
The writer obviously does not understand the benefit of curved sensors. They will make the lenses cheaper and smaller - they will not change the way photographs look.
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by greg7mdp 5y ago
That would be an amazing transformation from a dumpster.
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by greg7mdp 5y ago
Looking forward to the bright future where we rely on centralized exchanges and banks!
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by greg7mdp 5y ago
Most GPUs are used to mine ETH. It is by far the most profitable. Unless another POW coin becomes as valuable as ETH, demand for GPUs will drop precipitously.
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by greg7mdp 5y ago
Have you heard of DEFI (decentralized finance)?
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by greg7mdp 5y ago
Ethereum will solve both issues, removing miners and the energy use by moving to Proof of Stake at the end on this year, and increasing the transaction throughput by 100x factors with level 2 solutions.
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Mushrooms on Mars – and Proof of Life(popularmechanics.com)
5 points by greg7mdp 5y ago|1 comments
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by greg7mdp 5y ago
I don't see any reason to be skeptical of proof-of-stake. The ethereum beacon network has been up and running fine for months. And POS negates the power usage objection to POW.
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by greg7mdp 5y ago
Thomas and Alito dissented - these two are always on the wrong side of history.

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