BearsAreCool (u/BearsAreCool)

BearsAreCool commented on Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero cacm.acm.org/magazines/20... · Posted by u/joak

mlyle · 4 years ago

In addition to what my sibling comment says-- there's a whole lot of draws by agreement because the position is one that everyone knows becomes draws by insufficient material.

BearsAreCool · 4 years ago

While this is slightly nitpicky, from what I gather many of those draws are because neither side can make progress against the opponent. These are positions where in order for the game to move "forward" both sides would need to individually choose to weaken their position, leaving them playing non-moves until triggering threefold repetition or agreeing to a draw.

BearsAreCool commented on Node-Red github.com/naimo84/awesom... · Posted by u/tyrisflare

OJFord · 4 years ago

The one thing I want added to Node-Red is an editable, sanely git diff-able on-disk text format for its configuration. I want to be able to edit either in GUI or in text, and then view the result in the GUI (and have it work of course!).

Does anybody know if there's any plugin for or way of achieving that? When I last looked into it, people were checking in the config files (whatever format they were, perhaps proprietary) but they were a mess, may as well be binaries or PDFs etc. for all the value you'd get out of git for them.

BearsAreCool · 4 years ago

The on-disk text is still crazy but you can turn on version tracking in node-red that lets you track any changes made.

BearsAreCool commented on CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife gchq.github.io/CyberChef/... · Posted by u/simonpure

BearsAreCool · 4 years ago

I'm a big fan of CyberChef. One of its most useful features is "magic" and turning on "intensive mode". This will automatically detect the encoding used and can often detect 2-3 levels of encoding.

BearsAreCool commented on Doctors call out Spotify for letting Joe Rogan spread ‘false and harmful’ claims washingtonpost.com/arts-e... · Posted by u/Audiophilip

rajin444 · 4 years ago

> and that monoclonal antibodies are orders of magnitude more expensive and more difficult to make.

We’re in a global heath crisis and the average people have been convinced that they need to be concerned about big pharma’s “bottom line” instead of doing what’s best for humanity.

Millions of lives are being ruined by pandemic response measures and you’re arguing that we can’t give out life saving treatments because it’s too costly. We’re sacrificing the average person’s (already somewhat poor) quality of life to spare big corporations the cost of making a positive contribution to the world.

In a world where we have political leadership that is deserving of trust these corporations would have had their freedoms trampled first instead the common person. Instead they’re posting record profits while the rest of us suffer.

The hardest thing for me to swallow is millions of people are ok with this and support it! Without any personal gain they’ll preach the good word of our modern oligarchy and shame dissenters. Seemingly out of nowhere “big pharma” can do no wrong and is above reproach.

BearsAreCool · 4 years ago

I think the intention of the poster before you was to highlight that monoclonal antibodies (likely) actually make more money for big pharma than a course of vaccination. A lot of anti-vaccine rhetoric revolves around vaccines being a big pharma cash grab.

For context, each dose of most of the covid vaccines is about $40 while a round of monocolonal antibody treatment is around $1,500. The vaccine has a dramatic effect in limiting the affects of covid and (as far as I a non-doctor know) stack with monoclonal antibodies if needed. Its just dramatically cheaper if people are vaccinated and not as many people need this treatment.

BearsAreCool commented on Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda worldbeyondwar.org/the-pe... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

bgroat · 4 years ago

I'm holding out for a Breaking Bad style show about a software consultant who realizes how much money they can make by pivoting to running a malware ransom ring

BearsAreCool · 4 years ago

Its not exactly that, but Mr. Robot is excellent if you haven't seen it.

BearsAreCool commented on Cash Glut in Eurozone Drives Dollar Demand wsj.com/articles/cash-glu... · Posted by u/lxm

landemva · 4 years ago

The original loan is fixed, other than the -1% interest which is basically a loan paydown gift. They pay back the nominal they borrowed.

They are getting paid for risk-free paper shuffling.

BearsAreCool · 4 years ago

Doesn't this require conversion between currencies, inherently adding a ton of risk?

BearsAreCool commented on An Illustrated Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography Validation research.nccgroup.com/202... · Posted by u/alanfranz

noworriesnate · 4 years ago

Does anybody know if the concepts behind elliptic curve cryptography be applied to analog data?

BearsAreCool · 4 years ago

While elliptic curves may sound like they're related to analog data (sinusoidal curves etc), they're actually used in an incredibly discrete way. You have discrete points on an elliptic curves modulo a prime and use them in elliptic curve algebra by multiplying them by integer values, which correspond to drawing lines between different curve points.

BearsAreCool commented on As calls to ban books intensify, digital librarians offer perspective blog.archive.org/2021/11/... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

rayiner · 4 years ago

To be clear, we’re talking about books that have graphic images of sex. They wouldn’t be appropriate even if they involved straight sex. Don’t use LGBT acceptance to promote sexualization of minors.

BearsAreCool · 4 years ago

This is an easy excuse but one I find hard to believe as being at all legitimate. Out of all the things that lead to promoting sexualization of minors I highly doubt that anyone is going to look back on their chidlhood and blame a book. I also can't help but wonder if I was somehow super sexualized as a high schooler or not. Comments like this and people talking about banning books for high schoolers makes me wonder if somehow I'm the freak. Everyone I knew when I was that age had graphic (misconception filled) images of sex already, actual pornography was pretty easy to access. I almost wish I had instead gotten this from a book, maybe there would've been less damaging misconceptions.

That said, I've been trying to find an example of a book in the "book ban" discussion that contains problematic graphic sex content. I've tried looking and so far everything has turned up pretty empty.

BearsAreCool commented on Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam daniel.is-a.dev/blog/free... · Posted by u/hackermondev

BearsAreCool · 5 years ago

I use freenom for a small website I run, they're definitely weird. That said, I've never paid them anything. Freenom combined with 000webhost was the perfect tech stack to host a small website for a friends gaming guild. Weird stuff happens, but I've not paid a dime and I don't think anyone got malware. I keep regular backups of everything and if it goes down I can just rehost elsewhere and let my friends know.