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random3

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About random3

Apply-focused indie lab researching computational foundations of systems across domains using math/CS. Ex-founder (fintech/infra), CS + big data/distributed systems

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    Comment #49190628

    I think conceptually, the deltas are exactly the type of “basics” Zed is built on.

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    Comment #49113149

    Cortical Labs has been doing work in this area. They had a Doom demo a while ago. I think it's a matter of tradeoffs. Perhaps you'd have biological version as a versatile all-aroun…

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    Comment #49112013

    Ha! Me too - my colleague/friend had a philosophy/political science degree. He was also the funniest person I’ve worked with. Given the volume of text philosophy wrangles, I’m not …

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    Comment #49073817

    Something I was told when started building in fintech was that the laws are in such a way that its impossible to be 100% compliant in every interpretation. The law is huge, complex…

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    Comment #49072097

    This is the formal comment for EPA https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OPPT-2026-1387-00... This is the manufacturer marketing copy on Opteon™, which is functionally compara…

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    Comment #49043917

    And what else, forbid running workloads outside of US so you can’t offshore workloads? What’s the rationale behind policies that can be detrimental only to US companies?

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    Comment #49029631

    To ensure agents are paid through them and maintain market position https://stripe.com/blog/giving-agents-the-ability-to-pay

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    Comment #48994227

    Because the European researchers and engineers are busy building models in the US

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    Comment #48931001

    A 767 servers KV store should be enough for everyone

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    Comment #48917327

    Can you elaborate on > But it also allows for a lot of hardware to be locked down just like ARM

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    Comment #48912919

    Meanwhile (seen while opening the referenced tweet) https://x.com/BlackHC/status/2077009476423647596 > I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public re…

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    Comment #48912904

    lol - because that's usually how it happens?

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    Comment #48907668

    It’s an advertisement by Yubikey - the hardware key manufacturer

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    Comment #48863780

    there's some thing between supa-power and sign-language I guess

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    Comment #48862416

    Please elaborate. There are literary step-by-step videos on how to build these. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3LT_b6K0Mc

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    Comment #48855374

    Are you Chinese, or do you just think it’s an easy thing to change worlds?

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    Comment #48855349

    A distributed system is slower than a laptop or phone by definition of “distributed” which entails a network which has a higher latency than your local system. It’s not about raw s…

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    Comment #48855312

    Games like quake are transient and have a small number of users sharing data and if it fails it doesn’t matter enough to need failover, although that could be done relatively easil…

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    Comment #48846128

    OK, but what does that have to do with the suggestion that saying “nothing will happen” adds no value to this conversation

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    Comment #48822411

    All I'm seeing when opening this is a big red warning > Deceptive Website Warning > This website may try to trick you into doing something dangerous, like installing software or di…

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    Comment #48811426

    Also forked for similar governance concerns :))

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    Comment #48809914

    Relevant thread from yesterday's thread on the original project this was forked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794575 https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps…

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    Comment #48800586

    Are you suggesting a Google/Apple Maps alternative with the differentiators being privacy-focused, "No ads. No tracking. Developed with love by the open-source community"hits #1 on…

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    Comment #48795777

    the finiteness, in a sense, makes it non-exponential. it boils down to the core characterstic of polynomials (equivalently "algebraic") of being finite series (compare with formal …