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Yeah, I fully believe independent invention by mapping "the dark forest" onto the internet is very possible.

Might just be independent discovery, but the main idea of this blog post is more or less the exact theory advanced in the recent book "The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet" by Bo…

Like the author said this is completely unoptimized. The natural next step in optimization might be to profile and then SIMD optimize the slow bits in compression and decompression…

What you're looking for exists today and is called a stable-coin (for example, USDC).

Agree with this and I think it's the crucial point. Where I've had the most success with UML-like tools and diagrams is early on in a project since its much faster to rip up and re…

But it links to the Coinbase blog post in the "Inspirations" section on the front page?

Cars aren't killing people though, it's the drivers of those cars. Such an odd headline. Better title: "Why are drivers killing more pedestrians?"

Type generic expressions [1] already exist in C11. You can do this without a special compiler front-end if you need it, you would just need to define each variant by hand. These ar…

It should work fine in the examples, but it won't work if you also attempt to use the -1 in the next slot to tell you which items are non-free.

> This way you don't need to worry about keeping track of size and capacity either. The only reason you don't have to worry about this is because std::vector handles it for you, at…

Update: I was indeed missing something. I think I've figured out roughly what the author intended, code below [0]. First, it looks like he's relying implicitly on data stored in st…

I wanted to like this article because I'm been thinking about this a lot in the context of game development, noticed a few things. One thing I'll say from briefly playing with this…

I think the strong counter-argument to this is in [1]. Quite simply we need to make sure we don't get fooled by randomness and see bias where there is none, thereby making good alg…

Initial thought. This reads largely like a recapitulation of Boehm's 2003 book "Balance Agility and Discipline" [1]. Have you read this and did this provide any inspiration for the…

^ This is pretty much standard at any startup in my experience.

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Pure click-bait headline. It's not bacon that's killing us it's the nitrates used to process it. You can buy uncured, nitrate free bacon.

Can't help but think we'd learn a lot if other industries were as mature in tracking these things as the safety critical ones.

Counterpoint, on the thermodynamics of PoW: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf

To be fair, many many authors have posted books of their own aphorisms while still alive. For exmaple Nietzsche, Cioran, de La Rochefoucauld, et al. See this wikipedia page for a l…

That's fine, but you're not going to change social mores overnight (perhaps ever). The fact that ride sharing apps are helping is a huge plus in my book.

Another one of these? Bad estimation techniques - eg. guesses without a basis in historical data (most developers don't collect historical data) - are usually wrong. No one would a…

With all these competing, possibly contradictory moralities, how do you see this reliably making the world a better place? PS. Understandably, we might not all even agree on what a…

I worked on a government defense contract a few years back that used an Arduino to raise a 100-ft tower on a mobile command station.

There we go, just wanted you to backpeddle on this "majority" thing.