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portaouflop commented on Buypass Discontinues Issuance of TLS/SSL Certificates   buypass.com/products/tls-... · Posted by u/gpi
bapak · 3 days ago
> "From a sysadmin and operations perspective: What a stupid change. In the perfect cloud native, fully automated fantasy land, this might work and not even generate that much overhead work. In the real world, this will generate lots of manual work. At least, until folks replace their legacy hardware and manufacturers patch their shit."

Give me a break. This is your literal job description, something you should be able to do blind.

If any random FE developer can put a proxy in front of their servers so can you.

portaouflop · 3 days ago
Wrong thread?
portaouflop commented on Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]   unicode.org/L2/L2019/1931... · Posted by u/michalc
saw-lau · 6 days ago
How do I switch to the timeline where emojis, crypto, NFTs and generative AI weren't invented?
portaouflop · 6 days ago
Lumping together emojis with these other nightmare technologies is wild.

Name 1 bad thing that came from the invention of emojis that is comparable to the others

portaouflop commented on Calling Their Bluff   anguscheng.com/post/2025-... · Posted by u/4pkjai
YZF · 8 days ago
There are many countries where just having a standard-ish license with English is perfectly fine. I think last time we had a thread on this topic someone mentioned a few countries where that wasn't true but most of Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, (edit: UK), and a bunch of other countries will just take your local plastic license as long as it has English on it.
portaouflop · 8 days ago
There are many countries outside of the Anglosphere though…
portaouflop commented on In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip   hitachi.com/New/cnews/060... · Posted by u/julkali
nutjob2 · 8 days ago
For those not familiar with using powered drugs nasally, a credit or debit card is also usually a part of the drug taking toolkit. Its one of those odd occasions when you need both cash and credit.
portaouflop · 8 days ago
You usually keep the credit card though and not hand it to someone for a drink 5 minutes later. Using banknotes is not advisable anyway. If you need to do this shit be smart about it.
portaouflop commented on Pfeilstorch   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfe... · Posted by u/gyomu
procgen · 11 days ago
Reminds me of the theory that insects like flies spontaneously emerge from decaying matter and dung. I wonder what magical thoughts we're taking for granted today.
portaouflop · 11 days ago
“We are building thinking machines”
portaouflop commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness   yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
vkou · 13 days ago
> But what is the "best outcome" when you have your house paid off and ample savings?

I don't know, you'd probably have to ask a billionaire that's ruining the lives of other people to earn their second (or tenth) billion.

Not all of them actively do that, but a large number very actively pursue that sort of thing.

portaouflop · 13 days ago
Humans like number go up
portaouflop commented on Tokens are getting more expensive   ethanding.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/admp
marcus_holmes · 24 days ago
There is no "pay $25/month for unlimited electricity" option. And if there was, everyone would use that and all metered options would go broke overnight. Followed fairly shortly by the company offering unlimited flat-rate deals.

Which is what TFA describes, and is why there is no unlimited flat-rate deal for utilities. But that's a mature market that is not relying on growth for valuations, and isn't appealing to VCs trained on net/mobile/crypto bubbles.

portaouflop · 24 days ago
I don’t know about you but where I live the electricity companies definitely offer a “flat rate” for electricity.

But those contracts are so much more expensive that virtually no one gets them.

portaouflop commented on Fast   catherinejue.com/fast... · Posted by u/gaplong
KPGv2 · a month ago
The one and only thing I'd do is make the font bigger and increase padding. There's overwhelming consensus that you should have (for English) about 50–70 characters per line of text for the best, fastest, most accurate readability. That's why newspapers pair a small font with multiple columns: to limit number of characters per line of text.

HN might have over 100 chars per line of text. It could be better. I know I could do it myself, and I do. But "I fixed it for me" doesn't fix it for anyone else.

portaouflop · a month ago
There are dozens of alternative HN front ends that would satisfy your needs
portaouflop commented on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria   science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/A_D_E_P_T
bsenftner · a month ago
I'm curious how the few famous people that do not sleep at all, what's going on in their biochemestry? I don't mean celebrities, there are a few people who became famous because they do not sleep. They hold 2 complete careers, one during the day and one at night to keep from getting bored.
portaouflop · a month ago
They have a different gene expression which leads to them needing less sleep.
portaouflop commented on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/sxv
ants_everywhere · a month ago
> How far back do I have to look

The earliest reference I know off the top of my head is Aristotle, which would be the 4th century BCE

> I can start with theorem provers

If you're going to talk about theorem provers, you may want to include the medieval theory of obligations and their game-semantic-like nature. Or the Socratic notion of a dialogue in which arguments are arrived at via a back and forth. Or you may want to consider that "logos" from which we get logic means "word". And if you contemplate these things for a minute or two you'll realize that logic since ancient times has been a model of speech and often specifically of speaking with another human. It's a way of having words (and later written symbols) constrain thought to increase the signal to noise ratio.

Chess is another kind of game played between two people. In this case it's a war game, but that seems not so essential. The essential thing is that chess is a game and games are relatively constrained forms of reasoning. They're modeling a human activity.

By 1950, Alan Turing had already written about the imitation game (or Turing test) that evaluated whether a computer could be said to be thinking based on its ability to hold a natural language conversation with humans. He also built an early chess system and was explicitly thinking about artificial intelligence as a model of what humans could do.

> Attention is misleadingly called that, reasoning is ill-defined,

None of this dismissiveness bears on the point. If you want to argue that humans are not the benchmark and model of intelligence (which frankly I think is a completely indefensible position, but that's up to you) then you have to argue that these things were not named or modeled after human activities. It's not sufficient that you think their names are poorly chosen.

> Producing artificial humans or imitating real ones was never the goal nor the point.

Artificial humans is exactly the concept of androids or humanoid robots. You are claiming that nobody has ever wanted to make humanoid robots? I'm sure you can't believe that but I'm at a loss for what point you're trying to make.

> 1950s is to produce systems that do something that is considered only doable by humans.

Unless this is a typo and you meant to write that this was NOT the goal, then you're conceding my point that humans are the benchmark and model for AI systems. They are, after all, the most intelligent beings we know to exist at present.

And so to reiterate my original point, talking about AI with the constraint that you can't compare them to humans is totally insane.

portaouflop · a month ago
You can compare them to humans but it’s kind of boring. Maybe more interesting if you are an “ai” researcher

u/portaouflop

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