spiorf

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by spiorf 16d ago
I did that with a cheap webcam years ago. All my black hoodies were white, and so were the leaves on trees.
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by spiorf 3mo ago
And companies have high awareness of this all. They have a way to decrease cost and probably increase token consumption, with gradual changes and no abrupt jump in capabilities, and users have no way to reliably detect it. Market will advan
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by spiorf 4mo ago
The verb "chooses" here does a lot of the heavy lifting, and implies a consciusness that chooses. It's making the answer circular and it means that we are just pre-filtering the possible answers for our preconceptions. My ca
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by spiorf 5mo ago
No, the process has impeded even higher standard of living, because it misallocates resources from value generation to value appropriation. It's the extreme short term profit maximization that makes the economy a zero sum game. Otherw
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by spiorf 1y ago
It's water that builds up limescale that it's harmful for the carnivorous plants. The peat moss substrate that carnivorous plants like is acidic and the limescale neutralizes that.
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by spiorf 2y ago
We know how the next token is selected, but not why doing that repeatedly brings all the capabilities it does. We really don't understand how the emergent behaviours emerge.
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by spiorf 3y ago
Bubblesort is the bestsort.
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by spiorf 3y ago
It works even on cheap webcams. Remove the piece of blue glass and replace it with the black plastic that covers the ir leds from an old remote.
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by spiorf 3y ago
Playbook files are password protected archives. Anyone cares to reverse engineer the password from the executable?
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by spiorf 4y ago
What he means is that while the models tags code as code, for the model itself this is just relationship between tokens,like the code open and close tags,same as parenthesis, commas, uppercase or verbs and conjunctions... What you say is ac
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by spiorf 4y ago
When you run signature verification on that text with that signature and that address, it checks out. It wouldn't otherwise. The text links the two.
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by spiorf 4y ago
Can confirm. Did a double withdrawal (of about 10$ at the time) on an exchange years ago by blocking a POST request and firing two at the same time. I alerted the exchange operator and he let me keep the 10$.
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by spiorf 4y ago
This reminds me of an episode of "Person of Interest" where a teacher tries to spark interest in his students by telling that all their life past and future events are already "encoded" in PI digits. https://y
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by spiorf 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
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by spiorf 5y ago
And we know about it. The backdoor methods have been generalized and now researchers can check for that too. For example bitcoin's elliptic curve secp256k1 was choosen because its constants were chosen in a predictable way and that red
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by spiorf 5y ago
Years ago i found a poem in apache access logs. 151.217.177.200 - - [30/Dec/2015:06:00:36 +0100] "DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean. Walk out into the path of cherry blossom trees and let
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by spiorf 5y ago
> accidentally tab into some app I think in most systems you don't even need to do that. The app should be able to get the clipboard while in the background.
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by spiorf 5y ago
Are nuclear shaped explosive charges a thing?
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by spiorf 5y ago
Zoom out. Drops of that magnitude are frequent. And why christmas should make it drop, while on the 1 jan was at all-time-high? Should holidays make it drop or grow? The drop in may-july 2021 is significant.
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by spiorf 5y ago
A change of 12% over 24 hours is well within the fluctuation caused by the probabilistic nature of mining. Looking at the charts I can't see any clear drop: https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/hashrate-cha
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by spiorf 5y ago
> How much crypto is traded to avoid corrupt regimes and hyperinflation? 1%? 0.1%? You can't know, and that's the point. You can leave a country carrying nothing but a seed phrase in your brain and with it all your wealth, if y
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by spiorf 5y ago
It did happen, and bitcoins were stolen. https://tradeblock.com/blog/javascript-random-number-flaw-le...
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by spiorf 5y ago
> with the expectation of getting a positive return With the expectation of increasing the counter. Exactly my point.
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by spiorf 5y ago
The author looks at this from the perspective of making money. Bitcoin is a form of money. It's like HTTP/HTTPS vs IPv4/IPv6. Bitcoin operates at a lower level than stocks, looking at it from that perspective is like lookin
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by spiorf 5y ago
Exactly. Since making money is the real point, someone bypassed all the bullshit about purpose and literally made a new form of money with properties different from any form of money before. You can like it or not, but it is not going to ju
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by spiorf 5y ago
> government or industry backed digital currency That's your bank account and credit cards etc.. The whole point of cryptocurrency is to not to be backed or controlled by any single entity.
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by spiorf 5y ago
It wouldn't work without greed. Same as any other form of money.
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by spiorf 5y ago
But that wouldn't exist in isolation. A less inflationary cryptocurrency would be more desiderable to traders, miners would flee too and the system wouldn't be secure against attacks. You would end up with the same situation as no
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by spiorf 5y ago
Motivation of participants is irrelevant. Bitcoin is working because its participants are greedy and behave as such.
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by spiorf 5y ago
> Couldn't we run the methane through one of those electric generators used in farming for cows' feces ? You get back the co2 and the energy you expended to make methane in the first place.

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