zakk

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by zakk 3y ago
> The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late ‘90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA. I find this deeply troubling. So the seeds were provided by the NSA and they said "don't wo
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by zakk 4y ago
Protons are non-perturbative, indeed, but this does not mean that there are no virtual particles exchanged inside a proton. It seems like your comment implies that, sorry if I misunderstood. On the contrary, this means that there are too ma
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by zakk 4y ago
Part of these renewables are the so-called "biomass", which leads to pretty substantial CO2 emissions. So basically they replaced a CO2-neutral energy source, with another which is pretty CO2-intensive. Renewable does not mean goo
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by zakk 4y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by zakk 4y ago
Still, cheating at chess is not murdering someone!
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by zakk 4y ago
Nuclear wastes are incredibly small, the whole energy you would need in your life would fill a soda can of wastes, if only nuclear was used. Geological repositories are an excellent solution. Those place are geologically stable, and can con
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by zakk 4y ago
Please, please, please stop with the waste management taking point! There are super-safe and rather cheap ways of treating and storing nuclear waste! It’s essentially a scaremongering talking point.
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by zakk 4y ago
> researchers invented a fundamentally new kind of problem that a quantum computer should be able to solve exponentially faster Telling of the status of the field.
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by zakk 4y ago
It’s very cool, but every update of mac OS resets it! After a while I didn’t bother to reactivate it… Is there a permanent solution, that does not involve cron scripts or other hacks?
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by zakk 4y ago
Why does every company need to try to take over the world? They make toy bricks, they actually make the freaking best toy bricks ever… Just stick to that! I know I might be exceedingly idealistic, and as soon as MBAs and consultants take ov
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by zakk 4y ago
You look forward to mozzarella? That’s a very good thing to do, probably best food ever! :)
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by zakk 4y ago
You’ll have my mozzarella from my dead hands!
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by zakk 4y ago
Are you joking? You can easily find a very long list of conservative/right wing personalities banned from Twitter.
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by zakk 4y ago
The problem is that the alternative is way worse… You have to create some authority that decides what constitutes a nasty opinion and what doesn’t. And the moral of the history is: in 2020 the COVID lab-leak hypothesis was considered a nast
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by zakk 4y ago
I sincerely hope you are joking. People can discuss things that are not law. One can point out, for instance, that Twitter is not a free speech platform, and this is bad for many reasons. One can comment on laws, proposing to extend legal p
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by zakk 4y ago
Yes, you are mixing up two different ideas. Free speech is a very well defined concept, as done by literally hundreds of political science scholars. The fact that the US Constitution applies it only to the Government does not mean it cannot
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by zakk 4y ago
Elon’s flight records are public, but the account aggregated them and made them available to the public in a different form. A better example would be: a Twitter account reports your position when you are in a public space every five minute
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by zakk 4y ago
Your are mixing up the first amendment with the broader idea of free speech. The 1A (roughly speaking) limits the scope of the Government as not too limit free speech. Twitter, as a private company, is not restricted by the first amendment.
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by zakk 4y ago
Free speech does not mean that private and personal data can be made public. Posting your bank account statement on Twitter is not free speech.
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by zakk 6y ago
Reminds me of Mikutap: https://aidn.jp/mikutap/
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by zakk 6y ago
I suggest "What Is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Mathematics%3F
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by zakk 6y ago
I cannot see any difference besides the icons in the Dock looking like those of iPhone apps.
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by zakk 6y ago
I love Mato Jelic's channel.
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by zakk 6y ago
> Unironically chess is an e-sport and this recent explosion is because Hikaru, Botez, Hess et al. have woken up to that idea and embraced it. Let me also mention Mato Jelic. His videos got me hooked!
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by zakk 6y ago
I remember when DirectX was a huge obstacle to porting games to Linux. This feels like a great, great victory for Linux to me!
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by zakk 6y ago
Try Quiver!
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by zakk 6y ago
Did you read the full article? They give a detailed explanation of why the project is controversial. You might agree, you might disagree, you might want to sit on either side of the controversy, but the article substantiates quite well the
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by zakk 6y ago
> Platform has ubiquitous and wonderful package manager (Homewbrew) Probably "wonderful" is subjective (Homebrew to me is far from being a wonderful piece of software), but "ubiquitous" is factually wrong. MacPorts, e
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by zakk 6y ago
This is absolutely fascinating. Even just a demonstration that rule application on hypergraphs is expressive enough to potentially describe (for some rule yet to be found) Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity is incredibly exciting in m
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by zakk 6y ago
Estimating a cost of 1 cent per core-hour, this cost more than 200k€. Since INRIA is a national research institute, I am guessing at least part of this has been paid with taxpayer money, either directly from the Institute or from grants. I

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