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It may very well turn out that probabilistic approximation would be 1000000x cheaper to compute than the deterministic precise theory. Or even better, even formulating the determin…

I don't think your comment is fair to the author. If there was not such caveat, then there would not be a need to write that article.

Sorry for the irony, but the article is so long, i asked gpt to extract key points. I think what'd be a stronger point is talking about centralization of the quality models. Modern…

Your response was more correct in a professional sense than producing the piece of knowledge you've been asked for. I'd prefer to work with people who value everyone's time and wri…

It's just not cool to have kids. There are many more ways to have fun and status in society, so having kids is either coming as a social burden ("i am expected to by my spouse/rela…

These seem like particularly specific excuses. If you are not into having kids, there are many different ways to rationalize that (but why?). If you are into kids, you'd have to ov…

As a father of four (2+2: third one was born after 8 years since the second one), I thought all the trouble in the world would come and go, but what'll stay is us having a second l…

Correct. These kind of metrics invite fraud exactly because they are not rooted in reality. "Money circulation" is a bad metaphor. https://oleganza.com/all/money-does-not-circulate…

TV examples show that Apple simply has done their scrolling right, while everyone else did not work out the necessary details.

Maybe it means "LOCs changed"?

I asked ChatGPT what traits should vibe-oriented programming language have and oh boy did it deliver. ( https://chatgpt.com/share/693891af-d608-8002-8b9b-91e984bb13... ) * boring a…

ECDSA is a horrible workaround for patent on Schnorr signatures. Here's my talk from 2019 about the issue. https://www.youtube.com/live/2IpZWSWUIVE?si=-LRRbU2mJgL9LiNP...

exactly my thought. I never made it to Vista. In 2007 I changed WinXP (always used it with the classic grey theme) for OS X Tiger on a MacBook and never went back to Windows since …

You don't have to play this game - you can always write within unsafe { ... } like in plain old C or C++. But people do choose to play this game because it helps them to write code…

Magic prefix (similar to byte-order-mark, BOM) is also killing the idea. The reason for success of any standard is the ability to establish consensus while navigating existing cons…

That’s a “hot take” that people take as an axiom. What if it isn’t? What is the precise definition of “participating in society”? What level of earning and spending is considered m…

I love how people bring up deflationary spiral as a "peril" while the prerequisite for it is the universal and smashing success of Bitcoin. The only "problem" Bitcoin poses for eco…

Get married, make a couple of children and a lot of life issues go away — you'll always have something to actually get done ASAP instead of just staring at a todo list and wanderin…

Thank you Jimmy, great article. My 23+ year experience in computer science and programming is a zebra of black-or-white moments. For the most time, things are mostly obscure, compl…

Sorry for lack of clarity, but i was saying “Keccak” and not “sha3” for that specific reason: it’s a permutation building block suitable for a whole range of constructions - cshake…

That's a valid point. However, modern hardware and crypto algorithms are fast enough that it pays off to have "do it all" protocols, with as little tradeoffs as possible. Example: …

The tradeoff is not that simple (I wish it was :-). Usually it goes like that: someone made something useful optimised for a specific use-case with certain time (or competence) con…

When I learned crypto 5-10 years ago, it turned out that a lot of "building blocks" are mostly hacks. Looking back from 2020s we see that some of the standards that we use for the …

what's ironic about that?

BTC saved the value over the years for all its holders, including even those who bought during the height of mania and have suffered temporary setback for a few months. For an asse…