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acoye··on uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
GDPR much?
acoye··on An Apple I Emulator in shader language
So I'm running macOS in KVM with pcie passthrough (Vega64) in order to emulate an Apple I on the GPU. What a tremendous era we live in ;D
acoye··on Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor
If politics works like it is said in "The Prince" (ie. Machiavelli), then I do not see any easily transferable skill set from renowned mathematician to politician.

Except for game theory maybe?

acoye··on Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor
He was commissioned for a report on AI while been part of the french parliament. You can found it here in EN : https://www.aiforhumanity.fr/pdfs/MissionVillani_Report_ENG-...
acoye··on Unfork()
You could build an entire new array of malware with this :D
acoye··on What costs are exponentially dropping?
Hopefully soon in Europe too, but some of us have an aversion for stocks so I'm not sure.
acoye··on Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet
If you consider the internet as a reflection of mankind, then maybe seen it as wrong and broken is only a measure of your belief system against what is society in its crudest form?

Also I disagree on the "create a new crypto system" to solve our issues trope. When talking about stolen databases I would argue it is a problem of not using state of the art to protect privacy as there is realistically no incentive to do so.

acoye··on Lessons from the first fully automated hotel
I am not convinced the limiting factor is the computing power on device or the price of computing. I would rather bet on current "AI" not been good at general purpose tasks.

Coherent thinking and creativity (AGI) is way above and away from the neural nets we got now. And I'd argue that's what needed to make robots super helpful with random human tasks.

acoye··on Beyond Good and Evil (1886) [pdf]
No dogmatic POV will stay untouched in this book.

Kind of a tough medicine, but it may help you out from the depth of depression. I know Jordan Peterson refers to it in a couple of talks.

Also it is so sharp and so linked to modern identity politics.

acoye··on YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos
I saw a gold comment on YT "Live Overflow" a while back …

> guess we'll have to publish on YT all project zero's news and see how they react.

acoye··on The collapse of Dyson's electric car dream
> It's hard building cars... it's hard surviving building cars ... it's hard surviving building cars while scaling.

I think you nailed it right there.

acoye··on The collapse of Dyson's electric car dream
> They already know electric motors and batteries. That gives them at least an edge.

I'd like to argue batteries and mass production are the issue and genuinely hard to solve. Not async motors and inverter circuits.

To my knowledge they use 3rd party batteries for applications where it is not a limiting factor that need to be pushed over but I could be wrong.

acoye··on The collapse of Dyson's electric car dream
Agreed, given their product line, been more about good looking plastic toys than actual 'good' things a car was really a moon shot.

OK they may have ended licensing something to Daimler or the like but still doubtful.

acoye··on Spain jails Catalan separatist leaders, protesters take to streets
Where is Calexit now btw?
acoye··on Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
… without the openness. Soon RIP OpenCL, and OGL. Also non existing bare metal Vulkan kext. (I know about moltenVK … but this is 3rd party metal wrapper)
acoye··on How does music streaming websites earn money?
They only get only a small cut on prices set by "majors" Some streaming companies try to rollout the netflix model (producing artists / cut the middle man) but it is david v goliath.
acoye··on No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy
But could it differ for "affective empathy" then?
acoye··on No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy
What is "cognitive empathy"? Is it a subtype of empathy where the brain is making a conscious work, or just a fancy way to say it ?
acoye··on 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20896032

Went under the radar on HN like 3 days ago

acoye··on A Message about iOS Security
> targetting the Uighur community

I read between the lines "A state actor was actively tracking a group based on religion"

acoye··on Why Java is so hot right now
> Honestly, I think it is because of Minecraft.
acoye··on Transaction: 4410c8d14ff9f87ceeed1d65cb58e7c7b2422b2d7529afc675208ce2ce09ed7d
Satoshi is cashing out maybe ;D
acoye··on Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back
Another pragmatic aspect of Python as I see it.
acoye··on Host Protected Area
I mean if you wanted to go full tinfoil hat, that thing hits the spot.
acoye··on Finally an image of X-37B/OTV-5, US Air Force's secretive space plane, in orbit
You are right, yet the `constellation` / `mesh` / `starlink` type telecom service could be the new norm if it works out. Amazon made an FCC request recently to launch its own thing.

Also, if sent to space with a more powerful launcher, technically it could probably reach a Lagrangian point, even (slowly but efficiently) leave it. It would then probably burn out on re-entry with to much velocity, that would be the issue I'd say.

acoye··on Finally an image of X-37B/OTV-5, US Air Force's secretive space plane, in orbit
This is the perfect tool to physically temper with telecom satellites.
acoye··on Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
So death sentence is publicly a possibility now right?
acoye··on Speedrunning Windows 95
Can you speedrun something that is not locked to specific hardware like a console game would be? Feels like hardware is most of the "speed"
acoye··on Model Metropolis
LGR just released a video retrospective on the subject, 30 years later. You can find it here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrScy1icWjI
acoye··on Voltaire's Luck: The French Philosopher Outsmarts the Lottery
[…] France had nearly gone bankrupt. The bankers were to blame, having devised financial instruments that magicked debt away, only for it to return multiplied once it was discovered that the collateral wasn’t there. […]

History does rhyme …

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