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961.
by GTP 4y ago
On the problem of distinguishing a bot from a human, I suggest the following podcast episode from Cautionary Tales [1]. I found it both enjoyable and interesting, as it shows an interesting point of view about the matter: if we already had
962.
by GTP 4y ago
Out of curiosity, which blog are you talking about?
963.
by GTP 4y ago
According to the article, the stupid thing was developing a new language just because you built a new computer. But the efforts in developing this new language (CPL) are what lead to C.
964.
by GTP 4y ago
>Around the same time, though, my mom's youngest brother was driving on the cross-Bronx throughway, stopped to help somebody whose car was pulled over on the side of the road, and found the driver had been shot dead. I don't ge
965.
by GTP 4y ago
The problem with that idea is not having to pay in general, but the fact that you can buy a symbol associated with being trustworthy for a very low price. Which had the result of fake accounts buying it and damaging actual companies with th
966.
by GTP 4y ago
Hes asking for "consistent results", not perfect results.
967.
by GTP 4y ago
I think it really depends upon the which topic the idea is. You need to find a group of people with knowledge (and interest) of the topic. A subreddit about that topic seems a good fit to me, another option could be to look for a forum disc
968.
by GTP 4y ago
I don't understand what the "Talk" button is supposed to do on the website.
969.
by GTP 4y ago
I agree with the first part of your comment, but not the second. Achieving 100% code coverage is very hard and sometimes unreasonable. E.g. How do you test a GUI? I think that often it is better to write tests for the application logic and
970.
by GTP 4y ago
> we both have email hosting in Europe If this is for privacy reasons, I have to point it out that the GDPR protects the data of people that are physically in the EU. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not sure this applies to non-EU ci
971.
by GTP 4y ago
Thanks to this parody, I finally saw how the interface changes when you're finally able to downvote :D
972.
by GTP 4y ago
>Exactly, the problem is asking for law/policy/regulation to solve the problem when it is the problem One thing is privacy, another is copyright. You already have laws protecting your privacy, cryptography is a way of enforcing
973.
by GTP 4y ago
Programming doesn't exist in a vacuum. Or better, there are some projects that only require programming skills, but many other require also skills in different areas. E.g. to write an automatic controller you need to know control theor
974.
by GTP 4y ago
I'm not an expert in the field, but there is already a NIST competition going on to stansardize post-quantum public key ciphers. So I would say that we're at a good point in post-quantum cryptography development.
975.
by GTP 4y ago
The whole symmetric key cryptography (e.g. AES) ia already quantum resistant. The problem only holds for public key encryption, but as the other commenter pointed out, there are already promising algorithms.
976.
by GTP 4y ago
But wouldn't use such miners make the extraction cost higher?
977.
by GTP 4y ago
No, in that case the language will do that for you.
978.
by GTP 4y ago
This for sure, but the codebases that we alreaduly have in C/C++ aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
979.
by GTP 4y ago
Not necessarily, as you can put a limit on how many characters you read from the shell. But you're right that you can screw up in both cases, I would just say that if you have a fixed length for the buffer it is a bit easier to handle
980.
by GTP 4y ago
Indeed, it is a reasonable assumption that it will get more valuable over time, as it is a scarce resource.
981.
by GTP 4y ago
But can you engrave them with the precision required for miniaturization?
982.
by GTP 4y ago
As for normal backups, maybe it is better to have a chain of medium term solutions for storage rather than aiming for a single long term one.
983.
by GTP 4y ago
The parent comment was specifically wondering about HDMI, the other examples are given saying that those have some reason to exist, while he didn't see any reason for having HDMI instead of recycling some other protocol.
984.
by GTP 4y ago
I think it would be an overkill to use a networking protocol to connect exactly two devices. Plus if you have something specific to video stream transfer you could maybe do some optimization specific to that use case, although I can't
985.
by GTP 4y ago
Negotiation makes the protocol more complicated, so more room for bugs. Additionally, sometimes (or maybe all times?) you need to explicitly configure a client or server to not accept broken algorithms during the negotiation, so you would n
986.
by GTP 4y ago
> I don't think you've shown that Shannon's theorem isn't a problem here so much as the argument presented did not successfully convey that it's a problem. Yes, I was referring to the specific example he made, I
987.
by GTP 4y ago
I'm still reading it, but I don't agree with the following: >In Plato and the Nerd, I review Claude Shannon's channel capacity theorem [Shannon, 1948], which states that any noisy observation of anything conveys only a fin
988.
by GTP 4y ago
>Then the client will try again with version X-1 Who says that? Either it is specified in the protocol, and then you're right that this is still a negotiation, or it is not specified in the protocol, so if the client does that is im
989.
by GTP 4y ago
I get what you're saying, but I'm not referring to all journalists. There are some that still do a decent job at representing the facts, while some others are at the opposite end of the spectrum and seem to only care about mak
990.
by GTP 4y ago
Some journalists should play this game.

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