CinnasVerses

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[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Who is flaviat? I don't see that handle on this lemmy or Greg Egan's mastodon account, and Egan just re-tooted someone who gives x^2 + 1 as a counterexample.

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Wouldn't f(x) = x^2 + 1 be a counterexample to "any entire (differentiable everywhere) function that is never zero must be constant"? Or are some terms defined differently in complex analysis than in the math I learned?

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Given the state of Mozilla I hope the EU is debating "do we build our own browser or something to replace web browsers?" Likewise for a web search index.

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And how does a 23-year-old whose parents run a Chinese restaurant have >$600,000 to found a company? Austria is a conservative country with a lot of old money and laws that are not friendly to small speculative businesses.

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Founders' credentials include a PhD, experience developing software, and being ranked #4 in League of Legends (European edition)

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

It does look like the facial recognition in the support.apple.com link is opt-in!

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I am told that Apple, DropBox, etc. have done this for years, often in the name of "fighting CSAM" or "helping you organize your photos". https://support.apple.com/en-us/108795 Agree that its a very good reason not to touch corporate cloud services and to not let people take digital photos of your face even if they promise not to share them! I do not trust any company with physical assets in the USA not to be penetrated by three-letter-organizations and data brokers.

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We did quite well with few long Internet videos 20 years ago, and we will do well again 50 years from now when the corporate Internet has collapsed like the Qing Dynasty or the East India Company and the Internet is decentralized, low-bandwidth, and solar-powered

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They don't like to talk about solar panels and battery technology do they? But those are obvious examples of a technology on the vertical part of the S-curve right now. And computing is not just hardware (Moore's Law and blue LEDs) but also algorithms like A* or ActivityPub Protocol and software like Google Search.

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

It reminds me of the "infinite scroll" archive of a Substack blog which also freezes or crashes if you search a blog with a few hundred posts so fortunately they don't encourage you to post often (picks up note card) um, although they encourage you to post often

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Stripe the payment processor published a book asking "what if bubbles are good and necessary? Was it economically rational to discover America?" The authors have a startup called Anomaly Capital. https://press.stripe.com/boom

Scroll down to the book by a Dwarkesh Patel who interviewed all our favorite people.

[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have never seen slop on Mastodon, but I often see it when I am logged in to Facebook (both suggested by the websites, and shared by people).

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