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And yet, Amazon Prime is inspired by Costco membership.

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> They've got, ballpark, $5t to $10t to make back in the next 5 years, or the hardware buildouts will start getting written down.

Depreciation and write-offs are about accounting models. Hardware will still be running after five years and still be making money. They may not be as efficient as the new hardware, but they will still be making real money even though they are valued at $0 in the books.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

gogcli is good for this purpose. You can use it with openclaw or with coding agents like Codex or Claude code.

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Same happens to me, but I don't think it's the T-shirts that are shrinking.

7 maanden geledendiscuss

We don't want a rebellion sparked by 'Taxation without representation'. Do we?

8 maanden geledendiscuss

The strongest arugument made is that hybrid is more complex, more work and therefore more risky.

As someone who has been implementing such systems for 20 years, I don't buy this. In my mind, it's equivalent to saying "Seatbelts add complexity to the safety system, and it's more work. So let's get rid of it."

In this argument, the benefits of hybrid/seatbelts are not factored in adequately.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

Especially when anyone can buy the product off the shelf, remove the casing to see what they are trying to redact in these images.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

You are absolutely right that it is easy to rule out obviously bad choices, such as 3 of 3. However, determining the actual quorum to use is a qualitative risk analysis exercise.

Considering that this is an election for a professional organization with thousands of members, I am going to go out on a limb and say that it should be easily possible to assemble a group of 5 people that the community/board trusts woudn't largely collude to break their privacy. If I were in the room, I would have advocated for 3 of 5 quorum.

But the lifecycle of the key is only a few months. That limits the availability risk a little bit, so I can be convinced to support a 2 of 3 quorum, if others feel strongly that the incremental privacy risk introduced by 3 of 5 quorum is unacceptable.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

Few lessons to relearn here:

- Availability is a security requirement. "Availability" of critical assets just as important as "Confidentiality". While this seems like a truism, it is not uncommon to come across system designs, or even NSA/NIST specifications/points-of-view, that contradict this principle.

- Security is more than cryptography. Most secure systems fail or get compromised, not due to cryptanalytic attacks, but due to implementation and OPSEC issues.

Lastly, I am disappointed that IACR is publicly framing the root cause as an "unfortunate human mistake", and thereby throwing a distinguished member of the community under the bus. This is a system design issue; no critical system should have 3 of 3 quorum requirement. Devices die. Backups fail. People quit. People forget. People die. Anyone who has worked with computers or people know that this is what they do sometimes.

IACR's system design should have accounted for this. I wish IACR took accountability for the system design failure. I am glad that IACR is addressing this "human mistake" by making a "system design change" to 2 of 3 quorum.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

Spot on. Defending simplicity takes a lot of energy and commitment. It is not sexy. It is a thankless job. But doing it well takes a lot of skill, skill that is often disparaged by many communities as "political non sense"[1]. It is not a surprise that free software world has this problem.

But it is not a uniquely free software world problem. It is there in the industry as well. But the marketplace serves as a reality check, and kills egregious cases.

[1] Granted, "Political non sense" is a dual-purpose skill. In our context, it can be used both for "defending simplicity", as well as "resisting meaningful progress". It's not easy to tell the difference.

9 maanden geledendiscuss

Precisely defining what "Intelligence" is will get us 95% of the way in defining "Artificial General Intelligence". I don't think we are there yet.

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Something along these lines, as part of the prompt, has worked for me.

               # User-Defined Dictionary
                Always use the following exact terms if they sound similar in the audio:

                ```json
                {{jsonDictionary}}
                ```

9 maanden geledendiscuss

Refers to Conway's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

9 maanden geledendiscuss

I read the title as "massage me", and was very confused for a few seconds.

9 maanden geledendiscuss

I agree. I use this approach in my coding agent, and it works wonderfully to keep context across sessions: https://docs.cline.bot/prompting/cline-memory-bank

Even though the above link is from Cline, you can use this approach with any coding agent.

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No, it is a known problem. It will get fixed in time.

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Quantum is a known threat. There is enough time to fix it. Folks are working on the fixes.

Cryptocurrencies would be the last thing I worry about w.r.t Quantum crypto attacks. Everything would be broken. Think banks, brokerage accounts, email, text messages - everything.

9 maanden geledendiscuss

I am sure by AI they mean Apple Intelligence:-)

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"Momentary masters of a fraction of a dot"

- Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot

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Me too. Kudos to the team.