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by 13415 2y ago
Your characterization fits basically any encryption program, including PGP and SSL connections by a web browser.
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by 13415 2y ago
> If the average user is fine with their data being sold in exchange for a service, then why not let them? But they are not okay with it. I understand why Corporations like to insinuate that people who click OK to twenty pages of leg
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by 13415 2y ago
That's in my opinion what reliable / unrealiable mean in this context. reliable = it either succeeds or you get an error after some time, unreliable = it may or may not succeed I concur with the people who think "best effort&
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by 13415 2y ago
Science might have some problems but these are nothing in comparison to philosophy. That's what I think after 16 years of working in the discipline. To quote one of my colleagues, who made a great career: "Who cares if it's w
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by 13415 2y ago
These bombs are launched from planes. Patriot missiles can take down those planes but need to be very close to the frontline and therefore are vulnerable. Ukraine lost part of a Patriot system at the Eastern front that way. AFAIK, fighter j
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by 13415 2y ago
Intentionally targeting civilian areas with those bombs is a war crime. Ukraine avoids committing war crimes, Russia has committed many of them. There will be charges against Russia. There is even some evidence that Russia commits genocide:
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by 13415 2y ago
I believe that computationalism is by far the best foundational explanation of higher cognitive phenomena, as all other explanations involve some unscientific form of mysticism at one point or another. From this perspective, the answer to t
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by 13415 2y ago
Looks similar to the Racket for macros. I like it.
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by 13415 2y ago
Can the nagging be switched off?
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by 13415 3y ago
Generally speaking, the best things are not the most popular. There are probably a few exceptions such as classical music, but I've found this rule of thumb to hold in many different domains.
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by 13415 3y ago
It may be fair but it's definitely not reasonable. Progress in mathematics has foreshadowed practical applicability sometimes by centuries. It's short-sighted to consider applications outside of mathematics in the hiring of mathem
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by 13415 3y ago
There is a nice introduction to the topic in case someone is interested (but it's older): Cake-Cutting Algorithms, by Jack Robertson and William Webb. A.K. Peters 1998. IMHO it's worth pointing out that the topic has fewer applica
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by 13415 3y ago
Honestly, I've seen way more problems with global exception handlers, which often lead to incomprehensible end user messages.
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by 13415 3y ago
Move abroad. Unless you apply for a security-related position or in childcare/education, it is not common outside the US to demand a background check. In any case, in most countries they need to ask the candidate and do not have the po
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by 13415 3y ago
In my experience, testing code in a way that ensures that it works is often harder and takes more time than writing it.
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by 13415 3y ago
I'm kind of disappointed. Based on the name, I thought it's a searchable collection of functions, a mixture of OEIS, searchonmath, and a classic formula encyclopedia. But it seems to be only about little algorithmic snippets witho
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by 13415 3y ago
I suspect that, too. I got two weeks of anti-ad blockers that required refreshing uBlock Origin. Then all anti-adblock messages stopped. Maybe Portugal has low priority. As far as I can see, practically no one will pay for Youtube Premium h
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by 13415 3y ago
Ads are very surprising to people who have been using ad blockers for decades. The web experience is totally different. On a side note, I stopped watching TV in the 90s and turned to "internet only" because ads were too annoying.
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by 13415 3y ago
Either Youtube has a viable business model (e.g. with subscriptions) or they don't. If they don't have one, that's certainly not my problem. I'll use Youtube with an ad blocker as long as it works and won't use it o
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by 13415 3y ago
Not interested. I'm an introvert.
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by 13415 3y ago
How is that better than passwords? I backup my encrypted passphrase database to a cloud provider. When my house burns down and all my devices are lost, I get a new device, download my own passphrase manager app, download the passphrase docu
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by 13415 3y ago
If you read my original post again, unfortunately my lack of trust is exactly with Idrassi and IDRIX. Other than that, I agree.
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by 13415 3y ago
They audited the source code. I was talking about the executables on their website. Intelligence agencies tend to substitute binaries with compromised executables when they are downloaded by specific targets. We know that's what the NS
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by 13415 3y ago
This probably has nothing to do with vulnerabilities in the source code, it has to do with the observations that Mounir Idrassi took over truecrypt very fast when it was shut down, yet was not known in cryptography circles prior to this at
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by 13415 3y ago
That's the first language change that can in theory break programs (in practice, it won't). Everything else was just additions to the existing language with full backwards compatibility. That's the opposite of constantly pa
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by 13415 3y ago
You've also got to wonder about idea behind it that it's supposed to be trivial to send a large number of books to Ethiopia and back without damaging them.
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by 13415 3y ago
The problem with HTML is that you name the tags and can close them anywhere.You could have something like this instead: \section{Introduction}{ . . . }
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by 13415 3y ago
Exactly the same for me, this is incorrect, though not for the reason you point out. The person at the other side of the teleporter is you. One copy of myself dies whereas another copy of myself lives. Both copies are identical, so both of
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by 13415 3y ago
How about judging the content no matter which tools the students are using? If ChatGPT output cannot be distinguished from a student's output, then the respective profession / line of study is soon going to be obsolete anyway. If
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by 13415 3y ago
I've had arguments about this and don't understand the worries. Although it depends on what people do with it specifically and the context, most uses of LLMs are perfectly reasonable and legitimate, and quite comparable to other t

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