l33t2328's comments

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)

You make an extremely compelling point. I was arguing in sound bites and your final paragraph is entirely reasonable.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)

That’s what every parent hopes to leave their kids with: an obligation

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: How to make fermented hot sauce (2021)

I’m curious if you’re just misremembering or if there’s some particular reason you say that.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Second-Order Thinking

For me, building a machine is identical to writing code.

I can’t really see a difference.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Second-Order Thinking

These comments are all over the place. I can’t identify a coherent point.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are Linux HowTos dead? Why?

Are there any, I don’t know, archives of what it used to be like to install linux? My first linux experience was Ubuntu maybe a decade so ago and it installed fine.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

Why do you say “true customers”?

Is anyone under the impression that they are a customer of a service they don’t pay for?

People would readily identify as a “Twitter user” instead of a “Twitter customer”

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

> You can't fix lawlessness by reporting the violation of law to the lawbreaker

You absolutely can, especially with something as multifaceted as a country.

> nations don't exist, they are fictional abstractions. You cannot "hurt a country".

They do and you can.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

What’s wrong with 3DES?

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized (2020)

Do you mean in size?

Surely you don’t think changing size has much to do with what makes humans intelligent.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

It’s not doublethink to say the programs should have been exposed and that Snowden was a traitor for exposing them in a manner that otherwise hurt our country.

He could have done things properly, instead he dumped thousands of files unrelated to illegal surveillance to the media.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

The grandparent post is asking about the people who need to know enough to program TLS to

> let it choose

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: We're improving search results when you use quotes

If a competitor had perfect quotes I’d still use google. They’re too reliable at other things.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?

How do you accurately include those sqrt(n)’s in your analysis?

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: DALL·E now available in beta

If I write a song am I not deriving it from the existing works I’ve been exposed to?

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

You don’t have to be locked into a walled garden! You don’t have to buy an iPhone.

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Will AI steal submarines’ stealth?

If you’re not joking, where do you suspect they were deployed from?

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: A compiler and VM for a simple language, in 150 lines of code

I don’t know much about OCaml but one reason could be linking unnecessary libraries

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: 'Zero trust’ security is a poor choice of words

I don’t really have an opinion on this but isn’t “seeing if it sticks” just other words for market research?

l33t2328 | 3 years ago | on: Celsius acknowledges $1.2B hole in balance sheet

I’m not sure why you’re being so abrasive.