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It's not really about money or profit.

Society has found out money is a good way to encourage/discourage certain behavior in a predictable, deterministic, and quantifiable way. It really sucks that it has to be money, and maybe this can be solved with some other universal token that cannot be bought with wealth but equitably distributed some other way.

For example the dynamic fees in express lanes in California aren't really for the purposes of paying for the roads. They dynamically adjust it such that the traffic in the lane is operating at peak efficiency. Too few people using it obviously reduces throughput, so the price cheapens to have people using it, and too many people using it causes a collapse in efficiency so the price increases. Having some kind of adjustable cost on it lets the control system appropriately change the demand to keep it efficient.

Ti-84 Evo 3 months ago

Forgot what menu-3-1 is lol, I would use solve() all the time though. Got super good at typing that with my thumbs really fast

Ti-84 Evo 3 months ago

Wow, they used to be allowed back when I was in high school. It came in super clutch for SAT but much more importantly AP. Our school mandated the original CS CAS and drilled us on how to use it effectively and I got good mileage out of it through high school testing and college.

I lost it at some point and got the version 2 and I would occasionally use it for work. I wish it had USB-C because who has a mini-B cable for charging these days

Meta Ray-Ban Display 10 months ago

Well for cars, you do need to be on the active lookout for pedestrians, other cars, etc, but for planes generally you are mostly looking at instruments. You only really look outside if you expect something is coming, and the HUD isn't really a distraction there.

My interpretation of entropy is that if you have X states that are equally probable, but not all states are distinct from each other in some sense, then the next state will likely be one where the states satisfying that condition is most numerous.

For example, if you flip N coins, there are 2^N states available once the flip is done. Each outcome has an 1/2^N probability of outcome. There's only one state where all of the states show all heads. While there's only one state where coins numbers 1-N/2 are heads, and N/2-N are tails, so that particular outcome is 1/2^N, if all we care is the macroscopic behavior of "how many heads did we get"--we'll see that we got "roughly" N/2 heads especially as N gets larger.

Entropy is simply saying there's a tendency towards these macroscopically likely groups of states.

Is there any workflow that can output HDR photos (like the real HDR kind, with metadata to tell the display to go into HDR mode) for photos shot with a mirrorless and not an iPhone?

My experience is that 4chan is obscure and annoying enough to browse and participate that it keeps the lowest of low effort posts down. Like if you look at websites that are easy to participate, like Facebook or reddit, you're just gonna see the worst of the worst.

This is nonsense.

- Crypto building blocks are important basic research because it underpins everything.

- Good crypto (this exists btw) is impossible to beat, unless QC is available. That's why PQC is being researched. Think about what kind of crypto NSA wants to break, it's not your bank of america passwords.

- IDK why this guy thinks we need to shut down Los Alamos to do crypto, does he not think the NSA has datacenters of its own?

- The problem with "well, it's not a problem now, why are we preparing for it" is that nation states are storing everything that is going on in the internet, waiting for when QC becomes active. This essentially means you can assume every secret you have will not be secret in 10/20/50 years. Your password is probably fine, but if you sent secret diplomatic cable today, it might be unlocked for your adversaries some years later. These secret nation-state comms are designed to be unlocked after N years normally since keeping them secret forever is expensive; PQC is simply designed to withhold that number N.

- The NSA is generally known to be several decades ahead of the academia. They infamously knew and corrected a differential cryptography vulnerability in DES long before differential cryptanalysis was known in the public community. Saying QC isn't growing fast enough doesn't mean much.

- The 2008 financial crisis metaphor is the only one that seemed poignant

I really really hope people saying this is a nothingburger is actually right, because I do have a P1S, use orcaslicer, and would like it to continue to work. Hoping this is just a miscommunication.

Conveniently left out that the Prusa definitely cannot do a lot of things that the popular Bambu models can do quite well, like filaments beyond PETG and PLA, multimaterial printing, etc.

The bambu cloud service has a very low value-add and they are trying to make it mandatory. the speculation is that they are trying to add a subscription model for print farms, which 3rd party slicers enable.