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thysultan commented on Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever   arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/jbredeche
thysultan · 4 years ago
We don't negotiate with crypto terrorists — Nvidia
thysultan commented on Fetch API has landed into Node.js   github.com/nodejs/node/co... · Posted by u/yamafaktory
ignoramous · 4 years ago
Hi there,

> ...we'd love to hear from the community what you'd like to see.

In our tests, fetch on Deno was wayy faster than undici fetch that now has been merged into nodejs.

I couldn't figure out why that was case, but forwarding requests over node's http2 client (instead of undici fetch) then had comparable (but not as fast) performance as Deno (presumably because our hand rolled impl lacked connection pooling).

thysultan · 4 years ago
Deno's is probably written in rust via the tokio rust crate. This version of fetch in NodeJS is written in JavaScript. It would probably get upgraded to C++ in due time once it's mature enough.
thysultan commented on Evaluating front end frameworks and not choosing any   michelenasti.com/evaluati... · Posted by u/musikele
thysultan · 4 years ago
Why are they using preacts gzip size(3kb) and not React's gzip size(~36kb).
thysultan commented on A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website   theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/4ndrewl
thysultan · 4 years ago
Accidentally started an honeypot for amateur assassins and assassin connoisseurs.
thysultan commented on Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address   twitter.com/tenacioustek/... · Posted by u/kdunglas
thysultan · 4 years ago
You're better of using some service in China that does log ip's if you're not living in China(not being part of the five eyes anglo sphere is the goal) and vice versa if you are living in China. Security via sovereign obscurity.
thysultan commented on Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (2018)   quantamagazine.org/teenag... · Posted by u/g42gregory
sugarkjube · 4 years ago
This makes me wonder. It occurs once in a while that a student (although in this case a particular bright mind) solves a complicated problem where experienced researchers haven't.

One well known example that comes to mind is the famous George Dantzig case (he mistook 2 open statistics problems for an assignment, and promptly solved them).

Also in this case Tang apparently was hesitating to approach his his mentor Aaronson about this. And Aaronson also wanted additional scrutiny like presenting to limited audience before publication.

Why is it ? Are people just smarter when they are young ? Or is it fear of failure ? Or prejudice - it's unsolvable ?

I remember myself in college, cryptology class, where a fellow student invented a shortcut for some calculations. Back then, we didn't know whether it was a known formula or not, or even whether it was correct; we searched but couldn't find it mentioned anywhere. He never dared to tell the prof, but most of us actually used it successfully during our exams to assist and validate our calculations.

thysultan · 4 years ago
Young minds have less systematic tunnel vision.
thysultan commented on Why pigeons mean peril for satellite broadband   bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/jonbaer
orbital-decay · 4 years ago
So... instead of a live pigeon blocking your signal, you now have a dead one doing the same.
thysultan · 4 years ago
sprinkling a few dead pigeons around the feet of the device as a warning to would-be trespasser is the darwinian end-game in all of this.
thysultan commented on Why pigeons mean peril for satellite broadband   bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/jonbaer
thysultan · 4 years ago
Embed a pressure sensor that detects when a pigeon parches on it, then activate the electrocution mechanism of foreign biological organisms, also known as EMFBO.
thysultan commented on Climate change will alter where many crops are grown   economist.com/internation... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
ClumsyPilot · 4 years ago
Siberia has just had the largest forest fires in recorded history anywhere on earth. Permafrost is meling causing sinkholes and collapse of building as the earth shifts. Swaths of forest are turning into swamos and releasing massive amount of CO2 in the process
thysultan · 4 years ago
Sounds like a win for Russia, new fertile area for farm land, more co2 presumably accelerates this thus providing new warm water ports across the arctic.
thysultan commented on Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?   bbc.co.uk/news/health-582... · Posted by u/Engineering-MD
gmuslera · 4 years ago
What about a third dose of a different vaccine? all the available ones targets the same and only protein?
thysultan · 4 years ago
We're already doing this with recent booster shots. So i think it's perfectly reasonable to also giga-vax.

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