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    Comment #42310486

    Any realist assessment of the power structure in SK (in general, and much more so in the military) has to acknowledge the history and presence of US military in Korea.

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    Comment #42310221

    Just Russia?

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    Comment #42302333

    The OP uses finite fields and fields are basically harmonic structures (think modular math). Assume the field is the numbers 0..n-1 MOD n. At (n-1) + 1 you will get n MOD n which i…

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    Comment #42295498

    There is a word for that: a 'recording'. There is no observer thus no observation.

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    Another reading would see this "lawfare" narrative as a device to fool the citizenry. Both sides know they will get pardoned but by having "lawfare" give the impression (to the imp…

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    Comment #42290764

    > it observes Observe implies sentience that, without question, a neural net simply does not possess. "It" certainly 'records', or more specifically it 'maps', but there is no obse…

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    Comment #42282946

    TIL "10 billion apples a year get picked by hand in the state of Washington". Interview question: estimate number of pickers and number of trees.

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    Comment #42282895

    Something really off imho with a food writer that manages to insert foul matter vulgarity into food reviews. It's moved beyond cute into the 'wonder what ails this guy' territory.

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    Comment #42276278

    Good to know. But does that also mean that e.g. splitting the full output to n 256 chunks would mean there is correlation between the chunks? (I always assumed one could grab any n…

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    Comment #42274392

    ? If I use something like Blake3 (which is super fast and emits gobs of good bits) and encode a node with say 512 bits of the hash, you are claiming that somehow I am vulnerable to…

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    Comment #42274331

    Theoretically they even have a better security environment (since it is internal and they control users, code base and network) so the consensus mechanism may not even require BFT.…

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    Comment #42245918

    > Help us stop this insanity and participate in our research The hyperbole here raised the possibility of OP being preparatory step for a sales pitch for a product.

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    Comment #42238045

    Is there an underlying assumption that the channels are containers and not streams?

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    Comment #42236416

    Good SWE can do all 3. The three distinct skill sets are orthogonal to individuals' skills.

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    Comment #42221235

    > how to organize software so that the complexity remains manageable as the size increases So John is missing the role of software architect here. Science, art, and development - 3…

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    Comment #42206237

    Leibniz wasn't saying that "rigorous thinking" is only available to mathematically trained or that Locke's reasoning was not "rigorous". His critique of Locke was that one can not …

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    Comment #42201073

    > the provocative claim Leibniz made that claim centuries ago in his critical remarks on John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding . Leibniz specifically said that Locke's lack of …

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    Comment #42200875

    what he actually said: "as long as the physical error probability ε is small enough" you can build a reliable system from unreliable parts. So it remains for you to show that AI.ε …

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    I was watching Kennedy's (RFKjr's daughter) interview with Tucker and she talked about her first day at work at C.I.A. and instructions on how to tag emails. She said there was a h…

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