znyboy

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by znyboy 3mo ago
I think you missed the point entirely. All of these "prediction market" gambling platforms are actively predatory to their users, with very little (if any) regulatory oversight.
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by znyboy 1y ago
That quote also stuck out to me. It'd be more accurate to say a dozen laptops.
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by znyboy 1y ago
Crabs are already quite susceptible to ants, due to ants being small enough to swarm and attack the joints and gaps of the crab's carapace.
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by znyboy 2y ago
I personally welcome this change. Anecdotally, I experienced unimpeded and unsupervised internet access throughout my younger teenage years, and was exposed to some truly horrendous material courtesy of the bigger social platforms. My paren
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by znyboy 2y ago
Monkeys with typewriters, or teenagers with MacBooks?
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by znyboy 2y ago
Considering that 300 light-nanoseconds is about 90m, getting a response (or even just one-way) in that time is essentially running right at the limits of physics/causality.
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by znyboy 2y ago
I made an art program I titled PixelSmoosh: https://gitlab.com/zanehenderson/pixelsmoosh You give it a set of source images and a target image. For each pixel in the target image, it will look at the same pixel in each
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by znyboy 2y ago
This particular robot was revealed back in 2022. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190875
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by znyboy 2y ago
That seems to be the installer for Asahi Linux: https://asahilinux.org/
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by znyboy 4y ago
It's not you, it seems any site that forces HTTPS will fail.
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by znyboy 4y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's all a gigantic fraud, as there are some small worthwhile innovations in distributed cryptographic verification. However, almost every single addition to that point is riddled with corruptio
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by znyboy 4y ago
For what it's worth, the work of an few engineers implementing the business decisions of their employer does not make those people inherently evil. It is their job, and they need to pay the bills somehow. This change is highly anti-con
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by znyboy 5y ago
The first name that stood out to me was Ron Rivest, of RSA, MD5, and public-key cryptography fame.
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by znyboy 5y ago
I've seen a lot of complaints about the minimum requirement of TPM 2.0, and many computers not having one. In my case on a Z270 PC from 2017, a BIOS update enabled the dormant and otherwise unadvertised TPM.
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by znyboy 5y ago
As a correction, they were aiming to replace the usage of Chalk with Nanocolors on the grounds of (questionable) performance improvements.
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by znyboy 6y ago
As a person with minimal academic physics experience, I've occasionally wondered if the action of passing mass through a wormhole would violate the conservation of energy. Say if one side of a wormhole is near an astronomical object, a