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by oleganza 4d ago
So much communism is being unleashed lately on the news. First amendment provides for freedom from coerced speech. Also: releasing just the weights is like releasing some source code without makefiles or configuration scripts. Sounds half-b
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by oleganza 14d ago
You just demonstrated a _preference_: ability to choose between options and therefore ranking them. That's the single distinctive feature between NPCs and main characters: ability to have preferences. The author of the article also dem
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by oleganza 21d ago
Are we going to build a dyson sphere some day or are we not? That's some hell of a "increasing our energy usage".
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by oleganza 28d ago
This is big if huge!
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by oleganza 2mo ago
It may very well turn out that probabilistic approximation would be 1000000x cheaper to compute than the deterministic precise theory. Or even better, even formulating the deterministic theory would require 1000000x energy than approximatio
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by oleganza 3mo ago
I don't think your comment is fair to the author. If there was not such caveat, then there would not be a need to write that article.
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by oleganza 4mo ago
Sorry for the irony, but the article is so long, i asked gpt to extract key points. I think what'd be a stronger point is talking about centralization of the quality models. Modern AI tools are inherently centralized around huge shared
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by oleganza 4mo ago
Your response was more correct in a professional sense than producing the piece of knowledge you've been asked for. I'd prefer to work with people who value everyone's time and write programs accordingly. If the interviewer w
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by oleganza 6mo ago
It's just not cool to have kids. There are many more ways to have fun and status in society, so having kids is either coming as a social burden ("i am expected to by my spouse/relatives"), or a religious thing. Rationall
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by oleganza 6mo ago
These seem like particularly specific excuses. If you are not into having kids, there are many different ways to rationalize that (but why?). If you are into kids, you'd have to overcome all sorts of pain and suffering, car culture is
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by oleganza 6mo ago
As a father of four (2+2: third one was born after 8 years since the second one), I thought all the trouble in the world would come and go, but what'll stay is us having a second life with kids when older ones get all independent teena
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by oleganza 6mo ago
Correct. These kind of metrics invite fraud exactly because they are not rooted in reality. "Money circulation" is a bad metaphor. https://oleganza.com/all/money-does-not-circulate/
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by oleganza 6mo ago
TV examples show that Apple simply has done their scrolling right, while everyone else did not work out the necessary details.
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by oleganza 8mo ago
Maybe it means "LOCs changed"?
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by oleganza 9mo ago
I asked ChatGPT what traits should vibe-oriented programming language have and oh boy did it deliver. ( https://chatgpt.com/share/693891af-d608-8002-8b9b-91e984bb13... ) * boring and straightforward syntax and file struc
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by oleganza 10mo ago
ECDSA is a horrible workaround for patent on Schnorr signatures. Here's my talk from 2019 about the issue. https://www.youtube.com/live/2IpZWSWUIVE?si=-LRRbU2mJgL9LiNP...
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by oleganza 11mo ago
exactly my thought. I never made it to Vista. In 2007 I changed WinXP (always used it with the classic grey theme) for OS X Tiger on a MacBook and never went back to Windows since then. I wonder where a decent alternative will be lurking in
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by oleganza 1y ago
You don't have to play this game - you can always write within unsafe { ... } like in plain old C or C++. But people do choose to play this game because it helps them to write code that is also correct, where "correct" has an
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by oleganza 1y ago
Magic prefix (similar to byte-order-mark, BOM) is also killing the idea. The reason for success of any standard is the ability to establish consensus while navigating existing constraints. UTF-8 won over codepages, and UTF-16/32 by bei
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by oleganza 1y ago
That’s a “hot take” that people take as an axiom. What if it isn’t? What is the precise definition of “participating in society”? What level of earning and spending is considered morally good and who’s to decide that? (Meta questions arise
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by oleganza 1y ago
I love how people bring up deflationary spiral as a "peril" while the prerequisite for it is the universal and smashing success of Bitcoin. The only "problem" Bitcoin poses for economies is for governments to fine-tune t
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by oleganza 1y ago
Get married, make a couple of children and a lot of life issues go away — you'll always have something to actually get done ASAP instead of just staring at a todo list and wandering around.
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by oleganza 1y ago
Thank you Jimmy, great article. My 23+ year experience in computer science and programming is a zebra of black-or-white moments. For the most time, things are mostly obscure, complicated, dark and daunting. Until suddenly you stumble upon a
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by oleganza 1y ago
Sorry for lack of clarity, but i was saying “Keccak” and not “sha3” for that specific reason: it’s a permutation building block suitable for a whole range of constructions - cshake, kangaroo etc. sha3 specifically is an overkill and unneces
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by oleganza 1y ago
That's a valid point. However, modern hardware and crypto algorithms are fast enough that it pays off to have "do it all" protocols, with as little tradeoffs as possible. Example: Git users do need both corruption protection
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by oleganza 1y ago
The tradeoff is not that simple (I wish it was :-). Usually it goes like that: someone made something useful optimised for a specific use-case with certain time (or competence) constraints, within a total lack of decent alternatives. Then p
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by oleganza 1y ago
When I learned crypto 5-10 years ago, it turned out that a lot of "building blocks" are mostly hacks. Looking back from 2020s we see that some of the standards that we use for the last 20-30 years can in principle be thrown out of
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by oleganza 1y ago
what's ironic about that?
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by oleganza 2y ago
BTC saved the value over the years for all its holders, including even those who bought during the height of mania and have suffered temporary setback for a few months. For an asset where no one promised anything but uncertainty, that'
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by oleganza 2y ago
We did it with our kids 7-8 years ago and it worked perfectly. They were riding bikes with pedals within a week or so. The article does not mention the important difference in the steering wheel behavior: when you ride with trainer wheels (

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