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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
When their CRM and support systems are improperly secured, it doesn't bode well for the security of their vaults. When attackers infiltrate one system, it's easier to laterally move to other systems. Also, their marketing systems
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
> If someone hacks you Transactions are protected by 2FA, they have to steal your phone and know your bank password. Whereas with credit cards, you have a single shared secret (number + CVC) with all merchants. Just one merchant needs
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
Things like 3D Secure only work if the merchant supports it. I still regularly encounter shops that don't trigger the 3D Secure prompt at all.
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
How is "money in digital form" different from money on your bank account, which is also digital?
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by FooBarWidget 3mo ago
??? Doesn't Europe already have Wero (iDEAL in Netherlands)? That's a system for making online payments. Money gets directly debited from your bank account. I've always found credit cards stupid. You just want to pay for some
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
Web developers already have to deal with different browsers, versions and API coverage.
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
This makes no sense. Epoll is already non-blocking, you never waste time waiting for I/O as long as there is work to do. Io_uring only boosts CPU efficiency (batching of syscalls, for example), it does not reduce blocking.
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
With such ridiculously long thinking traces I'm surprised max outperforms high. After all, performance falls off a hill after a certain amount of context, and long thinking traces can fill that up really quickly.
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
On top of that, I see more and more people actively resisting what they call "the degrowth mind virus". For example levelsio on Twitter. He regularly complains about EU environmental regulations and the lack of AC, or inability to
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
Can anyone explain to me what a merge is and why that works? It seems utterly bizarre to me that you can just merge weights. You can't make a working program by just merging machine instruction pages. Aren't weights tightly couple
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
I am Chinese myself, I did learn Chinese history, and I find the idea that China was — in your words, maybe not British Empire advanced, but "redeemably" advanced — and that things would have gone well if only the communists did
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
> Art, science, poetry, fashion, literature, philosophy, culinary arts it was all present and pretty cutting edge up until the communist party ruined things. You are really, really overselling the state of the late Qing and the Republica
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
Sorry, splitting up does not work for China, politically, geographically and culturally. Peaceful and prosperous times only come when there's a strong central government. If any current government advocates for splitting up, then they&
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
If it's really as simple as allowing trade with the west then why are many other developing countries either stuck at the middle-income trap or not developing quite as fast as China? You're not gonna tell me Chinese are smarter, a
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
Distillation helps, but is only a minor part of overall training effectiveness. It's not like everything suddenly collapses if distillation is made impossible.
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
And yet here we are with the US banning anything at will under the guise of national security. I'm not even discussing whether the national security label is legitimate, or whether your "everything is CCP-controlled" framing
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
I, too, can claim that "the spaghetti monster exists" is in the same ballpark as "UK is a parliamentary system". Let's take a look at a related field: the accusation that Chinese car makers are subsidized/funde
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
The burden of evidence is on the accuser.
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
It says state. Copy on write still means it's O(number of page table entries) even if you don't copy the contents. It's a well known issue that forking a program with large virtual memory size is slow.
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
Do you think the fourth estate is working as it should?
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
This. Best writeup I've seen on the topic of entitled/abusive users. You should publish this as a blog post or launch some sort of campaign or something, something people can refer to. I haven't encountered entitled users mys
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
What are you talking about? There are entire groups of renowned "journalists" that turn out to be CIA collaborators. The renowned New York Times admitted they receive approval from the US government. Bellingcat, renowed "inde
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by FooBarWidget 4mo ago
Symptoms caused by sadness are not necessarily fake.
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by FooBarWidget 5mo ago
No? The shell must be listed in /etc/shells, it can't be an arbitrary command. And after elevating privileges you have to run the malware (which could only be written to home or tmp) for it to work, but sudo already scrubs th
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by FooBarWidget 5mo ago
I really wonder wtf Github is doing. Cache poisoning issues like this are so easily solved at the platform level by ensuring that pull_request_target caches live can only write cache changes to a different namespace that cannot be read from
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by FooBarWidget 5mo ago
It would be great if 1. shells support the notion of privileged commands, that can't be overridden with PATH manipulations, aliases or functions. 2. Sudo (or PAM actually) can authenticate with your identity provider (like Entra ID) in
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by FooBarWidget 5mo ago
They expect inference prices to structurally drop once they receive their big batch of Huawei Ascend chips by the second half of the year.
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by FooBarWidget 5mo ago
This can be said of any human in any context. The juniors that work in your company can become your future competitors. Yet nobody concludes "never hire juniors".
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by FooBarWidget 5mo ago
Heck China has been in this exact predicament for decades. They imported all the foreign technology they can, while simultaneously learning all they can to make things themselves and stop being dependent. After 50 years it's finally pa
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by FooBarWidget 5mo ago
How about you focus on increasing your own cheap production first instead of focusing on whether depency is problematic? Dependency is only problematic if you lack an alternative, and nobody is developing alternatives. My gawd, lots of pe

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