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It is hardly better though. Aside from MCP support (with rather poor UX, just compare it with anything else out there) it really has nothing to offer.

I appreciate the work you've put into this, but if someone gets into this they are likely to be looking for a next puzzle immediately. They are unlikely to become a recurring visitor; not with just a single puzzle a day. 5 or 10 might work better.

That feels overly broad. Where is the boundary? Is it a network if you receive a USB drive after making a phone call to order something? Send a physical letter via pigeon?

In general case I think it might be hard to sue a company for any fixed amount of money due: it is hard to measure this, and companies are likely to low-ball the figure anyway.

Yet Meta has given a convenient, fixed number here, so perhaps such a lawsuit has a chance to succeed.

Why Git Is Hard 3 years ago

I think of branches as variables pointing at immutable points in the commit tree. Git commit creates a new node in the tree and updates the pointer. You can manually move pointer around if needed.

The contributors are expected to follow code of conduct: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/.github/CODE_OF_C...

At least these lines sounds reasonable:

Examples of behavior that contribute to creating a positive environment include:

- Using welcoming and inclusive language.

- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences.

- Gracefully accepting constructive criticism.

- Helping another person accomplish their own goals.

- Showing empathy towards others.

- Showing appreciation for others' work.

- Validating someone else's experience, skills, insight, and use cases.

A pity the leadership doesn't appear to hold themselves to the same standard.

I didn't have anything but a passing interest in Zig before, but this is a huge red flag about the project.

Finally, encrypting each bit of a plaintext message comes with major tax on space usage. Each encryption of a single bit corresponds to a list of roughly 700 32-bit integers. If you want to encrypt a 100×100 pixel greyscale image, each pixel of which is an 8-bit integer (0-255), it will cost you 218 MiB to store all the pixels in memory. It’s roughly a 20,000x overhead. For comparison, the music video for Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” at 360p is about 9 MiB (pretty small for a 3 minute video!), but encrypted in FHE would be 188 GiB, which (generously) corresponds to 20 feature-length films at 1080p.

Ouch.

Privacy policy for searched strings?

"Rutkowski" returns a bunch of book covers, repeated a lot. Can you ensure images returned have diverse embeddings? I expected digital art, not detective stories.

Do you use CLIP or just metadata?

What is intended process that starts after you get artist's email (for either of purposes).

I wonder how refund works. What if one buys the code, copies it and then ships the voucher back asking for refund? How do you invalidate the code without linking the code to the purchase?

You can totally insulate old buildings. Not super cheap, but cheaper than heating, perfectly doable.

I don't see the goals stated anywhere. I see solutions, but they have implied assumptions with an agenda. And how do you evaluate a particular solution against the alternatives without any goals or metrics?

I can definitely get behind some of the solutions they propose! But it is important to give a truthful rationale for these. Otherwise this is a slippery slope, like lying to your children about medicine because they will get better if they take it.

I stand by my assertion that the methodology they picked ("pick a subset of civilization, make a prediction as if everything was it") is fallacious. Imagine a sustainable, closed-loop civilization, satisfying all the goals you can dream of. It is inevitable that not every part of the system will be balanced when looked at in isolation. If you are allowed to cherry-pick a subset of that civilization and scale it arbitrarily, you are guaranteed to arrive at the same unreasonable conclusion as they give us.

To make it less abstract, let us consider nature itself. There are siberian tigers which eat 9 kg of food a day. This is a lot! If every animal were to eat that much, all animals would quickly starve. Clearly, nature is not sustainable!

This exercise of "if everyone/everything was like X" is very fallacious. There is no path that takes the current world we are living in all the way to this simulated reality that makes no sense. "If everyone were like Elon Musk..." reads like a start of a joke or a horror story, but never a feasible reality.

The truth is that, once resources become scarce, various optimization mechanisms kick in. For example, Israel produces a lot of food in the desert thanks to various water usage optimization techniques.

Human civilization uses a tiny percentage of the total energy delivered to Earth. This again is tiny percentage of power generated by Sun. There are abundant resources all around us that we simply need to learn how to effectively utilise. This is not sci-fi stuff, these are "merely" engineering problems.

The challenge is to get to that "post-scarcity" (or whatever you call it) future sustainably, without killing ourselves or making Earth a toxic hellhole. This requires cooperation, but you won't get that by going around and claiming falsehoods or persuading people with fallacies.