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I don’t think Rust needs this; Rust has done great for the last decade with the coherence rules it has. I am glad to not have to worry about this, and to not have to worry about an…

> you're arguing semantics here Yes, semantics — what do things mean, exactly? — is the subject of the discussion here and is actually quite important in general.

It’s odd that the article identifies Apple’s hardware as a limitation for AI. I don’t think this is the case. If anything it’s the opposite, and makes Apple’s lack of execution mor…

The example you are discussing starts with the following user query: how should recent semiconductor export restrictions affect our investment strategy in tech companies? make a re…

Yes, I would

> We don’t know who placed the trades. We don’t know what they knew. Actually, “we”, collectively, do know, because the SEC maintains an “XKEYSCORE for equities” called CAT. If the…

When the government is acting badly, yeah

This is a bad solution because now method resolution is suddenly unpredictable and can change out from under you based on changes to remote crates

Rust just doesn’t really have linker errors. After 8 years of programming ~exclusively in Rust it’s easy for me to take this for granted by forgetting that linker errors even exist…

This article lists international money transfers as a non-useful application of blockchains. USDT on Tron alone is now settling 1.25T$ (1/3 of Visa’s annual settlement volume). Cle…

That seems like a them problem?

If you don’t live in the EU why are you concerned about the application of European law? Why would it apply to you?

> by mitming the bus between the iris scanner and the rest of the unit, and making it report fresh unique scans Hmm, I wonder if the worldcoin team also thought of that possibility…

I can’t recommend that anyone would be Dan’s student.

I haven't paid close attention recently but that doesn't seem that far off of performance available via (hardware accelerated) AES? Looking at https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/392.pdf …

A lot of discussion about async Rust assumes that the reason one would want to use async/Futures is for performance and scalability reasons. Personally, though, I would strongly pr…

Yes, that’s exactly the issue. You trade that friction for not having the friction of type errors in queries at runtime. Whether that tradeoff is a good one depends on your situati…

Is Fastly planning to make their OHTTP service generally available (rather than just to specific deals)?

I wrote it while waiting to board in the airport, sorry

One use case for generating group elements with verifiably unknown discrete logs is for a commitment scheme, like a Pedersen commitment. In a Pedersen commitment, you have two gene…

I’m a coauthor of Ristretto. There is a much more concise explanation than in the linked post: in Ristretto, the encoding of group elements was constructed so that the encoding of …

It’s not strange at all. The “all zero public key” is the encoding of the zero element (identity element) of the group. Finding the private key corresponding to a public key A is f…

Correct, there’s no actual problem here, just a potential performance pitfall, but that pitfall is no worse than a naive synchronous implementation would be. There’s no big problem…

> If yall want everyone to use Tokio then tell me why … it's the de-facto community standard. > I want some group with authority to bless a core async runtime implementation… Hmm, …

Unfortunately for those who care about noise reduction, LL patented the design, preventing its widespread use.