H8crilA

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by H8crilA 4y ago
At some point this becomes a national security concern - the Air Force would never accept Airbus-based tankers or AWACS platforms should Boeing go under. Then perhaps I'm exaggerating, a restructuring bankruptcy can sometimes do magic
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by H8crilA 4y ago
Don't worry, it's strong military grade crypto, uses AES-256 /s
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by H8crilA 4y ago
WW2 stories of diversions to enemy communications: put small needles through the cable. At first you'd think you just have to cut the cable, but that actually makes it very easy to find and fix the problem. Small needles that short the
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by H8crilA 4y ago
You're not far off: the batteries are (probably) made of lithium. Also, why batteries in a datacenter? When you implement a flush() command at the lowest level you're faced with two choices: 1) actually write to disk, then return
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by H8crilA 4y ago
Translation, GPT-4 put to dust other translation tools like DeepL or Google Translate. At a much higher cost, of course.
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by H8crilA 4y ago
TIL that developing something like the Google Search ranking function is not engineering.
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by H8crilA 4y ago
OMG, you made me read his article, and only then realized how ludicrous the "cheapest-to-deliver option" is. I had no idea you can send the CDS issuer any bond! Of course this is just an option for the scenario of "the cong
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by H8crilA 4y ago
That's not because of their credit risk but because they pay little to no coupon and get discounted through the interest rates. In particular imagine a treasury bond that will pay $100 in 10 years, you wouldn't pay $100 for that,
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by H8crilA 4y ago
To be honest there were countries that defaulted on their sovereign bonds in their home fully controlled currency. Russia did this in the late 90s and took down LTCM, which was collecting premiums for insuring something that they thought is
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by H8crilA 4y ago
People underappreciate how addictive nicotine is. I've been an addict for 15 years and I quit so many times, sometimes for longer than a year. The new smoking inventions only make it worse because they allow for much much higher dosage
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by H8crilA 4y ago
TIL that emojis are not rotated 180 degrees in Arabic. Also, you don't rotate numbers either, right? As in, if you were to embed 12345 in a sentence it would look like: This sentence talks about 54321, which is a number just under 000
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by H8crilA 4y ago
Honestly it's probably not a problem at all for all the slow moving aircraft, like strategic transport or a tanker or a helicopter. It's physically easier to drive those than it is to drive an M1 Abrams tank, where you need to, fo
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by H8crilA 4y ago
Why do they have to be accurate models? They just have to be possible to construct and have to perform. The construction method is irrelevant beyond feasibility. I don't care if my model needs an exabyte of RAM if I can just go and buy
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by H8crilA 4y ago
The military loved keyboards for typing. Then someone leaked information with a keyboard.
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by H8crilA 4y ago
One thing I do not understand: how does web.whatsapp.com work even if my phone is turned off? The key must be somehow transported via Facebook servers to my PC.
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by H8crilA 4y ago
And the test is actually rather easy. It's an undergraduate test.
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by H8crilA 4y ago
It's all correct, though they do pay good money. Otherwise it's just a large, messy organisation where blame deflection is everyone's basic survival strategy. This is for example why he got such cryptic messages all the way t
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by H8crilA 4y ago
There are no separate instances for different languages. ChatGPT is inherently multilingual.
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by H8crilA 4y ago
Nit: I think everywhere you write x^2-1 you actually meant x^2+1.
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by H8crilA 4y ago
That's true but those people were sampling closer to once per day, and still got N-sigma in their models for some high value of N. The easiest way to get something that's not actually normal in the typical central limit theorem co
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by H8crilA 4y ago
Remember that a lot of data is not actually normally distributed, even though it looks so at first. The horror of "risk management" units of financial institutions, when they get a "7-sigma" event twice in a month. Can y
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by H8crilA 4y ago
God only knows how many of them are wired for explosion (for example acoustically triggered), or can be wired on a short notice by the Russians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_research_vessel_Yantar Because sure
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by H8crilA 4y ago
Too big to fail comes from the fear of popular unrest (btw, this also works in non-democratic countries, albeit is weaker). There will be no popular unrest here.
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by H8crilA 4y ago
This works really poorly in non-latin scripts. Try pasting "Україна" (Ukraine) or "北京是中国的首都" (Beijing is the capital of China). I'm a little surprised that nobody optimized that, there must be enough training data t
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by H8crilA 4y ago
I was being a little excessive. After all it should be clear that they won't get the shares without paying up. Or so I'd hope.
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by H8crilA 4y ago
"Conspiracy to commit fraud: the defendant devised a scheme in which the defendant repeatedly made promises of payment, which he had no intention to uphold, in order to obtain common shares in various corporations" Make it wire fr
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by H8crilA 4y ago
A government is just a very big organization. Armies are big organizations, corporations are usually mid sized, small firms are small. There is no magic border that separates these entities, and no the fact that some are for-profit and some
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by H8crilA 4y ago
An extended writing on this idea, the Gervais principle: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by H8crilA 4y ago
Don't know about a scene, but EC2-like access to virtual GPUs was rumored to be pretty dangerous, potentially even to the hardware itself (think something like changing the voltages via undocumented registers). The attack surface there
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by H8crilA 4y ago
I'm missing the purpose of this.

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