voldacar

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by voldacar 5mo ago
The common linguistic quirks are interesting and extremely convincing at first glance, but the article doesn't investigate C++ coding style, which as others have mentioned, seems quite different between Back and Satoshi. And Satoshi di
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by voldacar 8mo ago
Thank you! Despite being older than me, those books look really thorough and well written. It's sort of crazy that these APIs are still as usable today as they were in 1998
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by voldacar 8mo ago
What's the best way to get into MFC or Win32 in current year? Is there a canonically best book or tutorial for those wanting to learn?
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by voldacar 10mo ago
You could also chuck a bunch of ferrites on your PC power cord
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by voldacar 11mo ago
Instead of "surgically adjusting" logits within an existing model, couldn't you just build the slop detector into the loss function during the initial training stage?
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by voldacar 11mo ago
The EU tries something like this every few years. If you don't want this to happen, you have to win every time, while they only have to win once. It's an unsustainable situation.
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by voldacar 1y ago
Most TV tubes aren't too valuable. Now if your TV was made by telefunken, that might be a different story
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by voldacar 1y ago
Instead of re-engineering complicated systems to be resilient to thieves, what if we just got rid of the thieves?
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by voldacar 1y ago
A quantitative look which might interest you: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-...
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by voldacar 1y ago
Seems misleading or at the very least incomplete to blame these fees on "the power of the free market" when the visa / mastercard duopoly exists due to regulations making the entry barrier to creating a new card network essen
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by voldacar 1y ago
Taking bets?
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by voldacar 2y ago
The loss of DEI programs is good, as it reduces the pressure for these companies to discriminate against white and asian men in hiring.
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by voldacar 2y ago
Wearing a t-shirt with a prefabricated group identity marker, whether purchased or self-manufactured, makes one a curious sort of "non-conformist".
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by voldacar 2y ago
IIRC they have never defined "substantially similar" and they don't actually go after people who sell etf X and immediately buy etf Y with an identical price graph
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by voldacar 2y ago
Are you kidding? Even if you're a very skilled sculptor, you don't get an extremely accurate sculpture of a human body without a living reference in front of you. A muscular person doesn't look like a non-muscular person with
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by voldacar 2y ago
It's worth noting that the anatomic accuracy of classical statues like Laocoon, the Farnese Hercules, etc. indicates that there were at least some men walking around in antiquity with an amount of muscle mass that could only be devel
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by voldacar 2y ago
The key assumption is that T and H may not have the same probability, but each flip isn't correlated with past or future flips. Therefore, TH and HT have the same probability. So you can think of TH as "A" and HT as "B&q
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by voldacar 2y ago
Isn't this a huge security vulnerability for the client?
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by voldacar 2y ago
So it's a Caesar cipher, which is trivial to break. You don't need OCR or any computationally intensive solution.
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by voldacar 2y ago
https://monerica.com/ ctrl-f for web hosting
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by voldacar 2y ago
I'm not an exit node. You can buy a vps with xmr if you're worried about privacy from law enforcement.
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by voldacar 2y ago
I started a tor relay on a spare vps about a month ago and it got guard status around 2-3 weeks in, so that info seems to be out of date.
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by voldacar 2y ago
With v3 hidden services, relays can no longer see the plaintext of the hidden service's url.
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by voldacar 2y ago
This is an "argument" against demolishing any building ever.
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by voldacar 2y ago
Cool. How necessary is the type system? Could you make something similar for lispy languages?
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by voldacar 2y ago
AM sounds painfully awful
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by voldacar 2y ago
You have some very confused ideas about risk and the concept of voluntary behavior.
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by voldacar 2y ago
If they're aware of that, I don't see the problem?
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by voldacar 2y ago
My favorite part is "The derivative resembles the rhythm of a heartbeat."
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by voldacar 2y ago
The part in which FLT is derived from the binomial theorem, lol.

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