tenthirtyam

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by tenthirtyam 9d ago
"Coding Machines" from 2009 is an excellent short story describing the Trusting Trust attack. https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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by tenthirtyam 28d ago
> ... have to remember that it's one day less in non-leap-years ... How about just remember January 2nd but for the following year as key days. i.e. if you consider January and February 2027 to be part of 2026's "key days
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by tenthirtyam 2mo ago
There's also the simpler 'atc' from BSD games. Text interface only.
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by tenthirtyam 2mo ago
Well, maybe information that is for sale on the open market to anybody that's willing to pay is no longer considered 'insider' information? i.e. trader Jane Doe can't complain that trader John Doe has this info - she cou
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by tenthirtyam 2mo ago
> ... opposite directions ... Yes, I'd forgotten that detail. Still, though, chaotic bifurcation could be present with Il Niño and La Niña driving high & low extremes. Same mean, maybe, but with a bimodal distribution?
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by tenthirtyam 2mo ago
> Some (e.g. right to repair, sadly) will achieve almost nothing at all. I'd be curious as to why you say that. I feel that, right now, you would be correct. But if we could move society to a new paradigm where right-to-repair were
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by tenthirtyam 2mo ago
I think a 3.5-sigma event being a 1/1000 probability is only under the assumption of random data - a constant climate would deliver more-or-less random data around some mean. The appearance of two 3.5-sigma events suggests that the dat
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by tenthirtyam 2mo ago
I think I'm one of those to whom you refer (except that I'm already "awake", or at least I like to think so). I'm normally pro-EU but this chat control is anathema to me. I'll be voting anti-EU in future I thin
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by tenthirtyam 2mo ago
There's a graphic novel by Cixin Liu "The Wandering Earth" where they not only stop Earth's rotation with this method, but also propel Earth out of the solar system (for what appear to be good reasons, I might add). Can&
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by tenthirtyam 3mo ago
I've often thought that the target* grid phase should be encoded into a high frequency signal, say at 50kHz. Generators without inertia can immediately switch to the required phase and inertial systems can work towards it or disconnect
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by tenthirtyam 3mo ago
> anyone who's using them to actually ship product without a human actually digging into it is opening themselves up to a world of risk. Maybe it's just me, but it seems that companies will happily take existential risks to get
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by tenthirtyam 5mo ago
Similar story from just a month or two ago: BBC tech reporter wins non existent competition "The Best Tech Journalists at Eating Hot Dogs." https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/this-bbc-...
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by tenthirtyam 5mo ago
I'm not aware of the composition of lunar regolith - but if it can be turned into many solar panels and batteries and a few large railguns then wouldn't it effectively be very economical to get any amount of regolith to earth orbi
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by tenthirtyam 5mo ago
Fund, but had my CPU maxing out (on firefox).
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by tenthirtyam 6mo ago
They're going back to the stone age, remember? The Geneva convention wasn't around then AFAICR.
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by tenthirtyam 6mo ago
IIRC nuclear doesn't really work well as the last 5-10%. Start-up and shut-down for nuclear reactors is a slow process. When it's generating, it needs to just keep on generating. Not so quick to dial down or up just because the wi
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by tenthirtyam 6mo ago
This is even more true with international grid connections. Europe in a cold spell? Solar countries import, wind & hydro export. Europe in a heat wave? Flip the switches the opposite direction.
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by tenthirtyam 6mo ago
I've commented elsewhere about an 4D maze ( https://urticator.net/maze/ - I am not the author) which mimics this by creating two 3D retinas in red/blue stereoscopic mode - when you cross your eyes just right y
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by tenthirtyam 6mo ago
I can't play this online (no webgpu) but from the description and comments here it sounds like the 4D Maze from 2002! https://urticator.net/maze/ The advantage of this one is that it offers a stereoscopic (red&#x2
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by tenthirtyam 6mo ago
Pure speculation here. Driving is a sedentary occupation which might increase the percentage of deaths attributable to a sedentary lifestyle, with consequent decrease for Alzheimers?
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by tenthirtyam 6mo ago
In most cases I agree with this, but maybe not for potentially dangerous things like cars? What if someone roots into their car and disables some essential safety feature - maybe even a legally mandated safety feature? More concretely, the
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by tenthirtyam 7mo ago
Umm, assuming you have the same opinion as grandparent comment, you don't want google tracking your payments but you'll happily trust google's pinky promise about your fingerprint being stored only on the phone?
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by tenthirtyam 7mo ago
I'd add oil as another dimension - sunflower oil, olive oil, butter, lard, whatever.
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by tenthirtyam 7mo ago
I always enjoyed the Terminator movie series, but I always struggled to suspend my disbelief that any humans would give an AI such power without having the ability to override or pull the plug at multiple levels. How wrong I was. N.B. the
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by tenthirtyam 7mo ago
I would much prefer to see a ZK system that, by design, CANNOT reveal info neither to the website nor to the authority. e.g. in the new EU system, it is (afaik) conceivable that the ID authority could collude with social network providers,
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by tenthirtyam 7mo ago
Hmm. There might be 10^80 atoms in the universe, however there are 2^(10^80) possible combinations, more than 2^800.
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by tenthirtyam 7mo ago
Replying to myself here. Maybe coding will eventually be simply learning how to give an AI the right prompt. e.g. instead of "Hey AI, create my new banking app with such-and-such functionality, appearance, properties, APIs, networ
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by tenthirtyam 7mo ago
> "AI" will probably lead to some kind of "digital cancer" Gosh I've just imagined someone asking an AI agent to code a computer virus to infect software "X". The virus' code will be wonderfully co
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by tenthirtyam 7mo ago
You're right, the TV was evil. I suppose I meant to say: such innocent times when we thought the TV was about as evil as it could get. More better? :-)
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by tenthirtyam 7mo ago
My expectation is that there'll never be a single bust-up moment, no line-in-the-sand beyond which we'll be able to say "it doesn't work anymore." Instead agent written code will get more and more complex, requiring

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