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ff317 commented on Getting ready to issue IP address certificates   community.letsencrypt.org... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
mocko · 2 months ago
I can see how this would work on a technical level but what's the intended use case?
ff317 · 2 months ago
It might be interesting for "opportunistic" DoTLS towards authdns servers, which might listen on the DoTLS port with a cert containing a SAN that matches the public IP of the authdns server. (You can do this now with authdns server hostnames, but there could be many varied names for one public authdns IP, and this kinda ties things together more-clearly and directly).
ff317 commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts   fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
omnimus · 3 months ago
It’s more question of how it does what it does. By making statistical model out of work of humans that it now aims to replace.

I think graphic designers would be a lot less angry if AIs were trained on licensed work… thats how the system worked up until now after all.

ff317 · 3 months ago
I like this argument, but it does somewhat apply to software development as well! The only real difference is that the bulk of the "licensed work" the LLMs are consuming to learn to generate code happened to use some open source license that didn't specifically exclude use of the code as training data for an AI.

For some of the free-er licenses this might mostly be just a lack-of-attribution issue, but in the case of some stronger licenses like GPL/AGPL, I'd argue that training a commercial AI codegen tool (which is then used to generate commercial closed-source code) on licensed code is against the spirit of the license, even if it's not against the letter of the license (probably mostly because the license authors didn't predict this future we live in).

ff317 commented on F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video]   fosdem.org/2025/schedule/... · Posted by u/mpweiher
codr7 · 6 months ago
I'm pretty sure the second there is a significantly better alternative that offers the same flexibility and control, plenty of people will jump.

Same for C++.

Assuming everyone else is an idiot leads nowhere worth going.

ff317 · 6 months ago
https://ziglang.org/ is a solid future C-replacement, IMHO. There's pretty much no downsides and all upsides from a C hacker's perspective. It just hasn't reached 1.0 yet!

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ff317 commented on Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond   ft.com/content/5122706e-3... · Posted by u/pseudolus
rvba · 8 months ago
What you write is theory from economic books.

Reality is that the bank just indexes your loan with inflation, so you have to pay more.

Inflation is just a hidden tax on everyone - and people should protest against it. Great way of the rich (who are heavily invested in assets, not cash) and government (who gets cash inflows from the central bank - and central bank makes money by printing money) to screw the poor.

ff317 · 8 months ago
The hole in the system, though, is fixed-rate loans over the long term, and the ability to refinance relatively-cheaply. If you buy a house when rates and inflation are low, then over the life of the loan you'll win on inflation. All you have to do is hang on to that low-interest loan. If you happen to buy when rates are high, then you refinance the next time they're low and hold that loan. It's the ability to (worst-case, "eventually") lock in a low rate for decades that lets you win from inflation in the long term. There are a lot of people that were holding onto real estate loans at ~2-4% throughout the pandemic monetary+housing inflation cycle that made out very well. They didn't have to predict it or time it, they just grabbed a low-rate loan some time back whenever they could, and then waited for the inevitable to eventually happen.
ff317 commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
nemo44x · 10 months ago
I don’t think it’s as tribal as you think. At the margins yes, there are wing nuts both ways. But Trump got a lot of votes he didn’t get before and Kamala got fewer than Biden.

Inflation has been a shocker. The border being flooded is terrifying. The economy is and has been struggling in many peoples lives. And the democrats want to still focus on identity politics.

I think they can easily win in 4 years but they need to change their ways. They need to abandon the poisoned ideology that Obama inspired.

ff317 · 10 months ago
Inflation being a years-long painful problem to wrestle with was inevitable with all the stimulus pumped in to keep us afloat through the pandemic. We could have fared far worse, and many countries did. I don't know why the left didn't push on this argument harder to defend themselves.
ff317 commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
tekknik · 10 months ago
This has already been covered. Any Dr too scared to read and interpret a law needs to give up their license because they’re pushing a political agenda.

If you don’t want to get pregnant it’s quite easy even if you don’t use contraceptives. Mistaken pregnancies need to go back to health class.

ff317 · 10 months ago
The laws in question are ambiguously worded and untested-yet in courts. They promise severe financial penalties and prison terms for offenders. I don't blame a doctor for being scared.
ff317 commented on New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike   washingtonpost.com/style/... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
feedforward · 10 months ago
When the wealth created by those who work at the New York Times is sent out in dividends to those who do no work or create wealth there, what is performance of these rentiers?

You're arguing on the side of the rentiers and parasites who do not work, and lecturing about "low performance".

It's the people doing the work's purview to discuss performance, not the parasites.

ff317 · 10 months ago
Why were those "rentiers and parasites" ever involved? Why wasn't the NYT (or any other Thing) just created by the workers without their involvement? The answer in practice is that they provided value by providing the necessary capital to build the thing, and they did so in return for a cut of the future wealth earned by the thing. It's arguable that the wealth inequality that set the initial conditions for this is out of hand, but given the starting conditions, how else do you make big things?
ff317 commented on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
rconti · 10 months ago
(reply really meant for @arrowleaf)

Man, I'm so turned off by the entire cast iron hype cult. I've tried so hard to make it work for me, and it just doesn't, and everyone's advice is totally different so it's impossible to know what to do. Wash it. Don't wash it. Scrub the shit out of it. Just remove the chunks and leave the rest.

The reply will inevitably be "it's simple, just...." where the words following "just" are different from anything ever written on the topic before.

ff317 · 10 months ago
I cook on cast iron multiple times a week. Have for years, using a very antique pan from a dead relative. My rules are fairly straightforward. I don't do any other maintenance or cleaning than this after-care routine:

* Let the pan cool (if I'm lazy or it's late, possibly this is overnight and then I do the rest in the morning).

* Scrape out any easy solid waste (burnt food bits, etc) with a wood spatula edge and throw the waste in the trash.

* Toss a healthy amount of salt into the pan and scrub the pan using the salt, with your hands/fingers. The salt is a great abrasive, like sand, but I don't want sand ground into my cookware, while salt is fine for food.

* Rinse out the dirty-salt-mess with plain water from the sink.

* Occasionally, if stuck-on things are particularly stubborn, repeat some of the above steps as necessary until the pan surface is smooth and clean.

* Wipe off most of the remaining wetness with a paper towel (the towel will probably look pretty dirty, that's ok).

* Throw the pan back on the cooktop, pour a few tbsp of cheap olive oil in the middle, and turn the burner on as high as it goes. Wait a few minutes for the oil to thin, spread, and smoke. Once it's smoking pretty well, shut off the fire and leave the pan to cool again.

* Later when it's cooled off again (possibly overnight or hours later, whatever), gently wipe off any excess liquid oil with a paper towel and store the pan back in the cabinet, ready for next use.

ff317 commented on Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board   investors.23andme.com/new... · Posted by u/LarsDu88
fastball · a year ago
For example?
ff317 · a year ago
What if they live in a country in which genetic evidence of a disease can deny or significantly increase the cost of health coverage? Even if you're clear of those for now, a new marker may be discovered tomorrow. Apparently (according another commenter) Life Insurance /can/ legally look at this even in the US. What about employers? What if it puts them on the DNA-evidence hook for a "crime" in their jurisdiction which you and they don't think is an ethical law (evidence of homosexual activity in a country that imprisons for it, or worse).

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