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NooneAtAll3··on An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot
doesn't help that it's the "moderate" parties that want to fight, while "extremists" proclaim the need for peace
NooneAtAll3··on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
then why are you commenting here if you don't care?
NooneAtAll3··on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
> or retaining drivers licence photos after test driving a car,

mind that there was a breach recently where all the data was being leaked *the moment it was collected*

so simply controlling retention is not enough. The very fact of data being taken is already a vulnerable part

NooneAtAll3··on Mystery Function
I feel like there's a missed opportunity for "Wason 2–4–6"-style gotchas

I'd love to see functions that are "obvious" when all your tests have the same quality you never tested without

like f.e. testing with all characters distinct ("abcd" or "123456789") seems like an obvious strategy to see where each character goes - but function may be grouping same letters together and you'll never know

NooneAtAll3··on Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
Loved it! Played all 20 levels

Some missions have mass budget so large it seems to imply a "go fast, crash fast" solutions, but there's no time-of-flight score :(

ha, now I want to see a leaderboard, with players' score distribution (mass/holes/time mb?), like the zachtronics games

I had a blast. Thank you!

NooneAtAll3··on With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
I only saw this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdxAmJsspcA

clickbait title and the bot isn't at "top players struggle to beat it" level - but it's no longer a casual walk in the park like the default ai is, so the progress is massive

NooneAtAll3··on On social reality in China
> And yet, in more than twenty years of my life interacting with people of different ages from all over China, I have never once heard of this supposedly “popular children’s song.”

how often have you talked about your own childhood songs?

I could have agreed with argument "children songs are regional/vary family-to-family", but personal second-hand experience is definitely not it

NooneAtAll3··on On social reality in China
> This flies in the face of my own experience travelling all over the world, where the poorest people would offer me extreme generosity and not accept anything in return.

orrrr maybe poor people you've encountered are poor exactly because they are generous in competitive environment - and non-generous became rich and successful

NooneAtAll3··on With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
recently we got Starcraft 1 RL bot and Advance Wars bot, both on upper human level
NooneAtAll3··on Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
you're not dead - you just stopped being current

just part of the riverbank :)

NooneAtAll3··on Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
It's half sarcasm, half my frustration in the way ai crash proponents behave in general

if you proclaim that there's an inevitable doom - propose preparations *people you're talking to* can take

when I hear about nuclear doom, I see preppers discussing bunkers and how rich people buy land in Argentina to evacuate to

when I hear about stock market crash, I see people discussing some famous super-investor moving his money into coca-cola, because food would always have a demand

even bloody "the end is nigh" apocalypse junkies continue with "go to church" (or smth similar) in the very next sentence

what can YOU suggest ME as the next action? not for the government to do something, not for the whole market - how do you suggest ME to prepare? what do you suggest *I* will experience?

at best, our approximation of ai bust is the dotcom - and that happened beyond current generation's memory. At best surviving context is "and the ruin left a lot of cheap fiber laid out all around the world", so... we'll get a lot of cheap ai then? good

NooneAtAll3··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

website doesn't work without webgl :/

NooneAtAll3··on Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
sure, collapse is inevitable, alright

how does one prepare for the moment it actually happens? what would it look like?

what were the immediate consequences of dotcom for the normal folk?

NooneAtAll3··on Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
better than being bad at math
NooneAtAll3··on What TLA+ can and can't check
> What is the Typst of formal modeling?

better question is "what's the markdown of formal modeling?"

the best outcome for everyone is to have something that's so easy it's ubiquitous

NooneAtAll3··on When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
it's classic "economists don't know what they're doing" case - traditionally they switch labels, with input variable on the y axis

why? no idea

NooneAtAll3··on Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
he is the default
NooneAtAll3··on Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
"they" is for multiple people
NooneAtAll3··on Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market
> Does your crystal ball also say when exactly?

last news I heard was end of 2027, when several new production lines from existing producers start operations

NooneAtAll3··on Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders
what about decoding speed?

just how much worse will it be for my old CPU?

NooneAtAll3··on 13 Months Sober (2025)
sober simply means "not drunk", so using it for "haven't been drunk for X amount of time" isn't that extraordinary

and looking at google ngram, teetotal is just a much rarer word out of the two (like 100x), so it's just more likely to not get transmitted down the generations (I certainly do not know how to use it)

NooneAtAll3··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
> so little activity, 55 comments

???

NooneAtAll3··on Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
> google

he specifically asked for non-LLM, tho :)

NooneAtAll3··on In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
at best it's related to origins of eucaryotic life, but definitely not whole life in general

we basically uncovered early network sending unencrypted html, and you expect to understand how compiler works - simply different levels of abstraction

NooneAtAll3··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
can you explain more about meta?
NooneAtAll3··on Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home
you have free constant k in front of the equation

any dimensional analysis gets consumed by its unknown dimensionality

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> q^2n = (-q)^2n which know is ruled out by experiment.

doesn't mean equation can't be using absolute values ("number of electrons/protons") and just applying needed sign at the end

NooneAtAll3··on Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home
> Supposedly, one way to make two equal charges is to charge one thing and then put it in contact with the other thing, so that the charge splits by symmetry. But then how would we check that indeed we have two equally charged things?

same as with making guaranteed flat surface - you make 3 and measure each pair

NooneAtAll3··on Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler
> After another half-an-hour I found that my malloc function always returned the same address!!! Wow! An unexpected bug in my operating system. When the memory space is full, the malloc routine simply fails to return a NULL pointer.

don't you love it when your investigation finds bugs in completely unrelated part of the system?

NooneAtAll3··on Tokens too cheap to meter
GrePU
NooneAtAll3··on A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
"scroll here" is achieved by hold'n'drag

pgup behaviour allows for intermediate speed when line-by-line is too slow, while dragging is imprecise

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