voldacar · HackerTrans

3 months agodiscuss

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 didn't believe the blocksize should be set in stone, the notion that he just casually changed his mind on that isn't impossible but deserves a closer look than the article gives it.

voldacar

5 months agodiscuss

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

voldacar

5 months agodiscuss

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?

voldacar

7 months agodiscuss

You could also chuck a bunch of ferrites on your PC power cord

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9 months agodiscuss

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?

voldacar

9 months agodiscuss

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.

voldacar

10 months agodiscuss

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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10 months agodiscuss

Instead of re-engineering complicated systems to be resilient to thieves, what if we just got rid of the thieves?

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10 months agodiscuss

A quantitative look which might interest you:

https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-...

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4 years agodiscuss

Their spending grows commensurately with their fundraising. The cost of maintaining wikipedia is more or less constant. It's a cancerous growth pattern.

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4 years agodiscuss

this has a beautiful stream of consciousness quality to it. do you write somewhere?

agreed on all points too

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5 years agodiscuss

> a blithe rejection of facts to embrace a narrative of victimization by a vague authority

actually I am victimized by the extra frame of latency. cool rant though

voldacar

7 years agodiscuss

> I would normally link to the wikipedia article on it but that's been defaced by capital-S Skeptics and reduced to a note crapping on the whole thing as "discredited".

a lot of Wikipedia is like this

voldacar

7 years agodiscuss

If the govt of your jurisdiction (American I assume?) commanded you to censor a certain domain or block of IPs with a court order, what exactly happens? I'm not sure if this has been done on the DNS level before but do you guys have a plan in case it ever does happen?

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