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Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by idiotsecant »

pkoiralap wrote: post #87
jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

So if we can somehow preserve the signal and make it go round and round, can we get long term storage out of nothing?

You're still storing your data in the same EM field, just in a slightly different non-inertial reference frame.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by ajcp »

-> Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster.

I love these and I know this is all in good fun, but I feel like this one is a little unfair to Jeff. He's a content creator and he didn't actually buy the rig. If he's rich it's because he creates content like this.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by lxgr »

jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

Indeed: https://qntm.org/transi

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by phantasmish »

bombcar wrote: post #61
ok123456 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There hasn't been since n-gate stopped posting.

Comparing this with n-gate really shows the difference between AI and real work. Superficially, they're the same, but digging in shows the real difference.

N-gate was by far the best thing about HN.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by idiotsecant »

publicdebates wrote: post #104

"Show HN: I implemented generics in my programming language" does not deserve the roast "I built a language nobody will use just to learn generics" It's not fair to assume the author didn't know how to implement generics before this project. It's also not fair to assume the project won't gain traction. Zig and Rust started out small too! This just goes a little too far for my tastes.

still funny.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by lxgr »

Sharlin wrote: post #79
jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

It's just a fancy form of delay-line memory [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

In a universe with mass–energy equivalence, show me a storage medium that isn’t effectively a delay line :)
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