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4,242 karma · joined December 29, 2014

not in china, not chinese, nope.
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chinathrow··on Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
Context?
chinathrow··on David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
You know what rubs me is that in Darios blog post he talks about "abundance", but what he really means is that Anthropic will bath in endless pools of hard curreny while the rest of the world will try to stay just barely afloat/alive.
chinathrow··on Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic
No shit.
chinathrow··on Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
The audacity.
chinathrow··on Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
Cry me a river, seriously.
chinathrow··on Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light
EDIT:

Got it, faster than light IN THAT MEDIUM.

chinathrow··on Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light
Thanks - but I fell over this sentence:

> but there are other particles that don’t slow down as much and end up moving faster than light.

Not slowing down as much I can understand but shouldn't it read as

"but there are other particles that don’t slow down as much OR EVEN end up moving faster than light."

chinathrow··on Cherenkov Radiation
> How can something travel faster than light?

> Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. However, in other mediums, particles can potentially move faster than light. For instance, while in water, light would instantly slow down to 75% of its normal speed, but there are other particles that don’t slow down as much and end up moving faster than light. Whenever that happens, a blue or violet glow occurs.

After reading this answer, I was not any wiser.

chinathrow··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
"Pathology"
chinathrow··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
Why insult the millions of users relying on Tailwind?
chinathrow··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Point is, CC as for closed circuit, is no longer the key here - the circuit is very much open and in the hands of providers, governments and tech providers.
chinathrow··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
> "If you don’t want me to be nice, then I don’t have to be nice."

Exhibit nr 8453324 to not trust Sam Altman and OpenAI.

chinathrow··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
If I were involved, I'd file suit and have them to at least not delete any proof.
chinathrow··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
> The chances of getting caught are 0

I'd say non-zero, as seen in the current state of affairs.

chinathrow··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Pre-IPO marketing?
chinathrow··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
The house is also mostly glass.
chinathrow··on We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
As someone without that much money at hand, I enjoyed reading the section further down the page. Well written and congrats on the success!
chinathrow··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Imagine being the lawyer signing this off. Imagine being the head of product signing this off.

What were they thinking? And most importantly: what TV are they using at home?

chinathrow··on Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
Neutral and lucky. Others (e.g. Belgium) not so much.
chinathrow··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Running Firefox on all my OSes. Nice.
chinathrow··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Not good enough in this case, no.
chinathrow··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
The admin should bill OpenAI for those hours in hard currency.
chinathrow··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
These guys did that / are trying to do:

https://www.weflywright.com/products/motor

But then again, they also ship now stuff for datacenters (facepalm):

https://www.weflywright.com/products/densegen-3750

chinathrow··on Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)
Context to the lawsuit brought up by Go2Sky: https://avherald.com/h?article=53c8958a
chinathrow··on Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes
Fuck them both.
chinathrow··on EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
At this point, they can just disband the EPA, what a bunch of crooks.
chinathrow··on Why did the CIA chief go to Moscow? We have to assume the worst-case scenario
> Ukraine has taken ~40% of Russia’s refinery capacity offline with drone strikes, not much more to go

What about the remaining 60%?

chinathrow··on Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022
> GLOF, glacial lake outburst flood.

Not sure this is confirmed at this time.

chinathrow··on Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022
By the amount of (some of it useless) tech we've come to build in the last 3 decades, we should have arrived at the stage where we can collectively control the CO2 levels in our atmosphere, by now. For ever.

We failed.

chinathrow··on Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War
They still produce the mainframe hardware ranges though.
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