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New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?"

VyseofArcadia — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:04:18 +0000

Mathematician, not physicist, but it seems reasonable to me that you could encode a sufficiently constrained 3D space on a 2D boundary. And if you have such an encoding, it also doesn't seem insane that some things might be more easily modeled on the 2D boundary than the 3D space.

If you can convert back and forth between a 2D representation and a 3D representation, and different phenomena are more easily modeled in each, does it matter which is "real"? Unless of course you can come up with a specific prediction and experiment to test it.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

VyseofArcadia — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:11:18 +0000

The DMCA is a bit overly broad to be considered just a copyright law. For example, just breaking encryption on a DVD is technically illegal regardless of whether you then go on to do something otherwise illegal (make and sell bootlegs) or perfectly legal (make a space-shifted backup copy on your hard drive).

IIRC this was an intentional handout to media companies who were angry that ripping CDs is perfectly legal. They had to find a way to make doing the same with DVDs illegal.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

VyseofArcadia — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:50:35 +0000

That may be true by the text of the law but there are plenty of individuals who have been sued or charged with crimes for accidental hacking.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/armed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach

https://cisomag.com/drone-maker-dji-cybersecurity-expert-emb...

So what's the deal with these?

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

VyseofArcadia — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:42:56 +0000

It would seem to me that the difference between the corporate world and organized crime is that a corporation can get away with, "the responsibility is too diffuse" but the mafia at least has to go to the trouble of finding a fall guy.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

VyseofArcadia — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:22:07 +0000

Do you have to charge an individual? Can you not charge the corporate "person" that is OpenAI?

Sorry if it is a stupid question, as mentioned above I am legally naïve.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

VyseofArcadia — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:13:11 +0000

How does this work, legally? I think that RubyGems could file a civil suit against OpenAI, but for a naïve non-lawyer reading this seems like a pretty clear cut criminal violation of the computer fraud and abuse act.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Eating Fruit Skins"

VyseofArcadia — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:44:09 +0000

Yes, British TV chef Nigella Lawson cooks with them. https://youtu.be/kOF0Id92XRY?is=YOb6iPmPaMBeHLkJ

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Hot coffee could cause oesophageal cancer"

VyseofArcadia — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:36:23 +0000

I thought this was well known.

Anecdata, but my wife's grandmother famously liked her coffee pretty much scalding, and we did indeed lose her to esophageal cancer.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

VyseofArcadia — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:59:51 +0000

Regardless of the end result, OpenAI's behavior would be a career-ending ethics scandal for a human mathematician. This bit alone would be a career-ender.

> According to Buckmaster, OpenAI offered to give him sole authorship on the Navier-Stokes solution—but only if Alpöge’s name was removed from the work and if the write-up would acknowledge the problem had been resolved by an internal OpenAI model.

I wonder if an appropriate response from the mathematical community would be a good old-fashioned shunning. Mathematicians are allowed to use OpenAI's tools as much as they want, but no one with any current or prior OpenAI affiliation gets published in a reputable journal, ever.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners"

VyseofArcadia — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:41:48 +0000

This one feels like it deserves more than just an Ig Nobel.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first"

VyseofArcadia — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:14:39 +0000

Oh, Eric is a friend of mine. I've got a set of five non-uniform go first dice that he 3D printed for me.

Dude runs a mean D&D campaign too. And his Lego mural and sculpture portfolio are something to behold: http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/portfolio.html

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

VyseofArcadia — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:02:59 +0000

Fairphone products have been available in the US officially for ages. This is just the ability to purchase direct from Fairphone.

I bought a Fairphone 4 from Murena years ago (and am still using it), and I bought a pair of Fairbuds XL just in April from the same.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug"

VyseofArcadia — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:27:20 +0000

Well they extended something at least.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "The AI Billboards Are Killing SF"

VyseofArcadia — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:06:57 +0000

I think we should ban all billboards. We deserve as a species to have spaces where we are not being advertised to.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Two Paths to Memory Safety: CHERI and OMA"

VyseofArcadia — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:19:56 +0000

Could we also consider just not connecting critical systems to the internet at large? No reason, for example, for the Jaguar assembly line to depend on an internet connection.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Show HN: Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter"

VyseofArcadia — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:28:26 +0000

I mean, I also don't know Bun and Vite. I've at least seen React. You should probably just explain the whole stack.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

VyseofArcadia — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:29:53 +0000

Answer's in the article. There is a screen behind the wheel for the speedometer, odometer, etc. The backup cam displays there.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

VyseofArcadia — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:31:51 +0000

This is amazing. I hope it succeeds. If I had any use for a truck I'd be lining up to buy one. They make one in a compact sedan or hatchback form factor and I am in. Heck, even better a subcompact.

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks"

VyseofArcadia — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:03:43 +0000

A summary:

> Embrace

Yay, MS loves open source!

> Extend

Wow, VS Code is so useful!

> Extinguish

shocked Pikachu meme

New comment by VyseofArcadia in "Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI"

VyseofArcadia — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:58:53 +0000

That's optimistic. Sci-fi has taught us that way worse forms of AI are possible.