syzygyhack (u/syzygyhack)

syzygyhack commented on Nine things I learned in ninety years edwardpackard.com/wp-cont... · Posted by u/coderintherye

syzygyhack · 6 months ago

"seek an eternal perspective" is such a beautifully open way to posit that concept.

There's a lot of nihilism in the world, and this is the way beyond it, whatever flavour your salvation happens to come in.

syzygyhack commented on Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography amazon.science/blog/bette... · Posted by u/lemaudit

SEJeff · 2 years ago

The firedancer team at one of the better HFT firms wrote an AVX512 optimized implementation of ed25519 and X25519 that’s significantly faster than OpenSSL.

https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer/pull/716

Ditto for sha256: https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer/pull/778

And sha512: https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer/pull/760

If you’re an optimization nerd, this codebase is wild.

syzygyhack · 2 years ago

I laughed a little at calling Firedancer contributors "a team at a HFT firm".

Not that you are technically wrong, not at all, that's where Jump came from. It's just that this is all completely blockchain-driven optimization, but the b-word is so dirty now that we've gotta go back to using TradFi for the rep.

syzygyhack commented on Becoming Rustacean: Resources to Learn Rust Programming nativebyx.dev/rust/becomi... · Posted by u/abelhn

syzygyhack · 3 years ago

Some great resources here. One thing I want to point out: Rustlings follows the path of The Book and provides references for each section where appropriate. So I would not advise treating them as separate learning paths. They work best when used to reinforce each other.

syzygyhack commented on Tell HN: Coinbase is a joke (product and support) · Posted by u/e40

syzygyhack · 3 years ago

You want to use Bitcoin to make international payments without headaches... so you open an account on a custodial service? I don't understand what you expected to happen.

All you had to do is download a wallet and transfer your Bitcoin directly.

syzygyhack commented on Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

syzygyhack · 3 years ago

That's news to me. Looks like the US is speaking for the world again. You have bigger problems with your food than whether or not it is plant-based, I promise you that.

In the UK and the rest of Europe, plant-based meat alternatives have been growing in popularity, quality, and variety over the last decade. It's never been easier for someone to go vegan without "giving up" their favourite foods.

syzygyhack commented on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries nytimes.com/2022/11/21/bu... · Posted by u/stephc_int13

syzygyhack · 3 years ago

Lot of nonsense in the comments, absolutely nothing wrong with the taste of Beyond. Problem is that it is outrageously expensive and the market has become saturated with plenty of more cost-effective alternatives, many of which taste even better. There was a time when Beyond was the only really "good" option, that is simply not the case anymore.

When I see those 2-packs of Beyond Burgers on the shelves in the supermarket, they are marked down 40%, and they are still more expensive than a 4 pack from other brands. Makes zero sense to buy them.

syzygyhack commented on SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed sourcehut.org/blog/2022-1... · Posted by u/ddevault

Herbstluft · 3 years ago

> Just like you don't own anything digital

True. But blockchain tech changes absolutely nothing about that in the realm of games and media, having a flag in a decentralized database does not protect me from a (game) server owner banning me, a drm system choosing to ignore said flag, or shutting down the whole game and refusing distribution. In these situation only piracy would help, and we don't need snakeoil for that.

In the end there will be a centralized entity with the power to deny my access.

Neither do cryptocurrencies change anything about this in the realms of finance as long as their complete existence builds on top of banks and exchanges, which it very much does.

Cryptocurrencies are not an alternative, they are an addon at best.

syzygyhack · 3 years ago

It's not a magic wand. It facilitates new decentralized systems, it doesn't somehow fix the old ones.

You're assuming a world where digital content is administrated and supported by a centralized organization. If they stop respecting the license, it becomes worthless, no one can argue otherwise and no one is trying to.

A world where digital content is administrated by anyone (including by the user themselves) and interops with other services (games, social apps, or otherwise) does not see the assets suffer or lose value when one such service shuts its doors. They can just be taken elsewhere. One game goes down, a fork goes up, etc.

Blockchain does absolutely nothing to fix what's broken with today's systems, it provides the infrastructure for the alternative.

syzygyhack commented on SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed sourcehut.org/blog/2022-1... · Posted by u/ddevault

_aavaa_ · 3 years ago

My point was that it’s easy for them to ban cryptocurrencies and NFTs while saying that it’s for the good of the users, while they themselves keep supporting almost identical things on their platform. They only difference being that Valve gets a cut of the non-NFT transactions

syzygyhack · 3 years ago

That's not the only difference, it's not even the most significant difference. The difference is you don't own anything on Steam. Just like you don't own anything digital you buy on Amazon. If they want to revoke your ability to access content you paid for, they can and do.

In principle (not always in practice), crypto protects you from that.