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New comment by z3phyr in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

z3phyr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:03:11 +0000

Could be but all across different regions across the subcontinent where the Vedas are orally recited, except for some technical tones and notes (which is the mechanical part of Vedic Sanskrit) there is little difference.

There are serious attempts made to write down the vedas. The thing is, historically, very few people learned all 4 vedas by heart; Instead different families recited very small part and passed the recitation as heirloom.

If you meet all those families and compile their recitation, it exactly matches to what we have from different earlier efforts of canonisation.

New comment by z3phyr in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

z3phyr — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:16:05 +0000

Its destruction multiple times (in sieges and uncontrolled fires) is current historical consensus.

New comment by z3phyr in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

z3phyr — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:14:22 +0000

The Vedas are surprisingly uniform across a very long time period.

New comment by z3phyr in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

z3phyr — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:40:56 +0000

Sovereignty. You only get to hold responsibility of your own citizens, like Jeffery Epstein AND his supporters. You do that right, and then maybe then people will like you as the world police.

New comment by z3phyr in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

z3phyr — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:58:57 +0000

Thats true, but in the books, Denethor is competent and a seasoned strategist and has a battle of strategy with the witch king, one upping them in most instances, answering with brilliant maneuvers to the brilliant maneuvers of the witch king.

New comment by z3phyr in "Leviathan (1651)"

z3phyr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:23:06 +0000

The question is not what state humans arein, but what state other humans would be when interacting with them. In other words, are other humans nice to me? I like it when they are nice to me. In return, I will also be nice to them.

New comment by z3phyr in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

z3phyr — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:22:32 +0000

Microchips? A lot of quantum physics is applied here from the top of my mind.

New comment by z3phyr in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

z3phyr — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:46:13 +0000

0.1 in itself is a very good odd, and 0.1 * n tries is even more laughable. Also most people have two fingers touchID, which makes this number close to half in reality.

New comment by z3phyr in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

z3phyr — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:11:25 +0000

The roman culture of old surely did. I don't see anyone trying to claim the temple of Jupiter anymore?

New comment by z3phyr in "Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices"

z3phyr — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:42:45 +0000

But anything more than 1 vote assigned for your usage is quid pro quo (since you will get to enjoy policies that you "paid" for) when others only get a single vote.

New comment by z3phyr in "Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio"

z3phyr — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:53:47 +0000

How does one get readings from large antennas? Are the streams public?

New comment by z3phyr in "Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth"

z3phyr — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:33:09 +0000

There is another way. Irrationality. People spend a lot on religion. Like a whole lot.

What if there was a faith system of ultimatley going to interstellar medium. You have faith, you automatically pay, like the rest of the people and you dont question it. You get tax breaks. It will help you in the end of times or something.

Just decide the ultimate goal to be interstellar medium touching in all directions.

You are a farmer? Well now you continue to farm to feed budding spacers. You are a game dev? Well, people are going to get bored in space, continue developing games for the ultimate goal.

New comment by z3phyr in "Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters"

z3phyr — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:19:36 +0000

I think there is one more thing that sort of works. ASCII art is surprisingly hard for many llms.

New comment by z3phyr in "Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking"

z3phyr — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:07:05 +0000

If you go at light speed across the universe, the scenery would also not change, until you collide with something.

New comment by z3phyr in "Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?"

z3phyr — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:02:30 +0000

"Is this what you can conjure Saruman?"

I have a strong belief that new mathematical tools and methods can be developed that can make it "easy" to break a lot of modern cryptography primitives without ever using a quantum computer.

New comment by z3phyr in "Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography"

z3phyr — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 08:52:46 +0000

I guess massively is the relative word. But I will stand by the claim that we can discover/invent new mathematical methods that can aid in cryptanalysis, if not directly by cryptographers, then by some adjacent field.

New comment by z3phyr in "Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)"

z3phyr — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 07:46:12 +0000

I think cryptanalysis as a discipline is not massively funded. All of the cryptography is only as strong as the collective failure of all human intelligence so far to break it.

Most people consider cryptography as a "solved" problem, but I don't think it is. I am sure if enough cryptologists try algorithmic methods and are well compensated for it, they will likely find algorithmic weaknesses (and invent new kinds of mathematics) that can bring down complexity of solving such schemes, even before we have real and functional Shor machines.

New comment by z3phyr in "Microsoft Dependency Has Risks"

z3phyr — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:54:44 +0000

DirectX12 is still much better to use than Vulkan.

Natively supports Xbox and PC. Can run on Linux with Proton. The Playstation API functionally resembles DX12.

Vulkan is extension management hell (but has gotten much better, I concede)

New comment by z3phyr in "Human"

z3phyr — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:52:39 +0000

Do pure logic machine use some kind of higher order prolog, which currently does not exist?

New comment by z3phyr in "The Cannae Problem"

z3phyr — Sat, 03 May 2025 05:15:31 +0000

Hannibal determined that Rome received strength through the Socii, the allied city states of Rome. He wanted to isolate Rome and bring terms.

However, he 1) Failed to turn most of the socii to his side. 2) Ignored the western roman allies who were slowly eating away at Iberia.