My understanding is that all of the codecs we are discussing are deterministic. If you have evidence to the contrary I’d love to see it.
My understanding is that all of the codecs we are discussing are deterministic. If you have evidence to the contrary I’d love to see it.
You can boot from USB with UEFI, that’s not a showstopper. Unless I’m missing something?
It’s still a bad idea. If they have some really nasty malware installed it could rootkit your device, and vice versa - and you never really know. Just build a small portable computer (eg. Raspberry pi, NUC, etc) and use their KB/mouse/display.
Other peeps are saying just connect to a remote desktop you have hosted somewhere using your friend’s PC - don’t do that, you can’t trust their software/hardware.
After a brief search I can’t find any mention of any punishment for Sisyphus if he stopped pushing the boulder up the hill. That said, this is all taking place in Tartarus so there probably isn’t much else to do and endlessly push a boulder up hill might be the better option lol. I can relate.
Are you negging him cos you want him to be your man baby?
And my axe!
Plato’s “the cave” thought experiment (circa 400 BC) is basically a suggestion of simulation. Modern science agrees - human perception of reality is limited and effectively a simulation. You don’t need modern digital technology to imagine living in a simulation.
I laughed at the word ‘fastness’, but then realised it’s a lot safer than offering ‘speed’ on the internet lol
Yeah that caught my eye too, seems odd. Most compression/encoding schemes benefit from a large dictionary but I don’t think it would be constrained by the sometimes lesser total RAM on a GPU than the main system - in most cases that would make the dictionary larger than the video file. I’m curious.
I agree, the delivery services are definitely price gouging to a degree. It sucks that we’re charged for delivery, service fees AND the item prices are inflated by around 20% too. Thing is, I think there’s a bunch of reasons that TonyDelivers will eventually become as bad as the current market leaders. As his company grows, takes on employees, builds infrastructure, overheads increase, management grows - they’ll fall into the same “traps”/profit seeking the other delivery companies have fallen into.
Exactly, most services can be tied into a central authentication system/SSO and can automatically be disabled upon disabling an SSO user.
I agree that most people don’t really need to worry about our universe being a simulation or not, but your statement “You can view our universe as a computer program, you can also view it as the universe.” concerns me. This is true until you start trying to analyse how the universe works, but then all kinds of weird things crop up. It feels like you’re saying we don’t need to investigate this so why bother?
I sometimes joke that some entity created our universe to find the solution to the Travelling Salesman Problem and if we ever figure it out they’ll switch our universe off. I’d like our universe to keep going a little bit longer so it would be nice to know if it’s simulated.
Yeah they would have been releasing chaff and flares, you just can’t see the chaff in the dark
Specifically, fuck the Russian government and Putin in particular - who are already fucking Russia up more than any one else could.
Ignore em mate, there’s always someone who hasn’t had their coffee yet. I love the extension, great work!
In a capitalist economy it’s normally a “growth or death” situation, for many reasons.