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Re:A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs on Sunday August 16, 2026 @09:12PM (#49325523)
Please explain how Alice’s request can ever be not valid. It’s literally a pre authenticated exchange.

Also nice sock puppet.

Re:A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs on Sunday August 16, 2026 @08:24PM (#49325228)
PAKE has been using ZKPs for a decade. Here. Read this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_Authenticated_Key_Exc...

Funny that not only are you ignorant you are violently confident in your ignorance. I suffer from this sometimes too so I get it. Get some help.

Re:SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX on Sunday August 16, 2026 @08:20PM (#49325205)
Thanks for the reminder. Yes Intel was touting high bit rates in software compared to the matrox millennium hardware 2d accelerator.
Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:33PM (#49323924)
The LLM is the reasoning engine that uses natural language. You’re describing skills. It’s the natural evolution.
Re:SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:30PM (#49323888)
What’s often overlooked is that adoption of MMX was slooooow. Intel compiler were the only intrinsic data types for years. The big win was DirectX 3 audio drivers that used premade Intel libraries. It took at least five to ten years for SIMD to catch on, but the never stopped Intel from evolving it. Then they lost the GPU wars lol rip larabeee.
Re:Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history on Saturday August 15, 2026 @07:54PM (#49315459)
The author missed one key motivation: giant fucking ego. I don’t know why every damn software engineer thinks they are gods gift and can derive anything from first principles. The OP hinted at it with the physicist XKCD but I think it is far more dominant in software because the payouts for mediocrity are just astronomical.