This is really slow unless you figure out how to encrypt large batches of rows. It’s harder to do as a postgres plug-in. Do you have an example of enclaved today/transparent database encryption?
Yes, entropy increases in the salad dressing, but only when it's insulated (in reality we can't consider salad dressing outside of the Earth gravitational field, but let's say the Earth is insulated too). Now imagine that the extra energy (i.e. generated heat) has dissipated (either out of a window or, if we consider the Earth too, into the space). Is it still an increase of entropy? Our Solar system is not a closed system, the extra heat that was generated by creation of planets has dissipated (and is continuing to do so). So in the end the entropy of the Solar system is lower, i.e. we have more order, at least in our vicinity. Possibly in the whole universe since it's (presumably) expanding. Anyway, I wouldn't apply 2nd law of thermodynamics to the whole universe, we have no idea what happens at that scale.
We may be splitting hairs given what this thread is going on about, but I strongly advocate for `--force-with-lease` as a sane default versus `-f` so that one does not blow away unexpectedly newer commits to the branch
The devil's in the details, etc, etc, but I think it's a _much_ more sane default, even for single-user setups/branches because accidents can happen and git DGAF
I use the OpenAI playground because I'm paranoid that third party frontends will steal my API keys and I don't have enough time to audit the code or set up firewall rules.
With the introduction of CBDCs, FedNow, and platforms like TFA, it's starting to look like TradFi is getting the second-mover advantage. Cryptocurrency introduced programmable money, which is great, but it also came with other features like self-custody, extreme transparency & privacy, and immutability that have ended up being more than average users are willing to accept as a bundle.
TradFi entities now have the ability to pick what they like out of the mix and offer that to customers while also benefiting from the convenience of trust assumptions, something cryptocurrency eschews. TradFi is building atop thousands of years worth of UX improvements in how people can come to trust each other. It's difficult for cryptocurrency to compete there.
I still love the developer convenience of blockchain since it nicely combines serverless with auth with payments. But for the most part, given the existence of trust, these benefits could also come from a system like in TFA having a Wasm runtime and maybe a dash of WebAuthn. Like a mashup of Cloudflare Workers and Stripe.
You can build features like reversibility on top of Ethereum. A draconian government chain that solves none of the important grievances is not needed. I do not need big brother freezing my funds, deciding what I can and can't buy, etc.
Yes, I completely agree. There's plenty of tech available to achieve many of the goals of functionality, affordability, and privacy a motivated team of developers could have. Just that it's often unnecessarily difficult to build and use. Probably things will be much better in a(nother) decade, but the whole thing is still a work in progress. In the meantime, why pay the cost 100% of the time for avoiding a bad thing that happens 1% of the time? Cryptocurrency has its utility, but much less when minimizing trust isn't a requirement.
Is that the Dacia Sandero? The VW Up! (not Golf, my mistake) is ~15k EUR. My knowledge cutoff transitively only goes up to 2021, so I can't be sure which one you mean, but I am curious.
This is welcome because GPT-4 actually requires a few iterations of prompts to actually do its job now. Before it took no more than a prompt and one clarification to get a good output. Now it’s just a GPT-3.5-turbo that hallucinates slightly less.
MJ’s problem for me at least is that it is incapable of generating unaesthetic things. I gave it the classic list of negative prompts (blurry, grainy, deformed hands, etc.) and got a pretty image back, so I cancelled and switched to Microsoft’s DALL-E, which better spans the full range of creativity.
A less uncharitable interpretation of the parent comment is that decentralized platforms are the only way to guarantee personal freedom, save a saintly BDFL or government regulation. Not likely to happen.
The “even if it’s the centralized version” is an acknowledgement that some users may prefer centralization, or the platform is still too young to usefully decentralize. As long as there is a way out, or a credible plan, freedom is preserved.
The third Matrix succeeded due to choice—even at the subconscious level.
