Hizonner

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by Hizonner 4mo ago
The only reason I gave up resisting and started writing any significant code in Python at all was that it got some kind of type system, and thus became less unpleasant to code with. "Pleasant to code with" does not describe gettin
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Yes, but unfortunately Python has invaded everything, and one must adapt. Python is going to be preinstalled on almost any machine I use, with a reasonable assortment of libraries. And even if they're not preinstalled, the libraries I
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
The conference invited Jay Bhattacharya (the NIH director), who I guarantee was not going to give a technical speech, since beyond an 30-year-old, never-professionally-used generic medical degree, he knows approximately dick about diabetes
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
I would think it would be hard to hit the lens.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
The problem with that view is that when the "strong legal basis" is not codified, and codified in a way that nonspecialists can at least vaguely identify and understand, it gets a lot easier to get away with ignoring it. Which t
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
There are no "ROM private keys" in Qualcomm or most other chips. The root of trust is fused in by the OEM. Apparently the exception is Apple. They would have to individually steal keys from every OEM, in GraphenOS' case mean
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> It's not your role to decide or interfere in the politics of other countries where you are not a permanent resident. Think of it like you being a guest. Well, that's a pretty damned repulsive view. Countries, governments, wh
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Time to fire up the chaffing. Or the pitchforks and torches. Either one. Advertising needs to be over now.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Well, yeah, but spammers still aren't going to care. We are not talking about decent or reflective people here.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Don't be an extremist. Let's compromise. We'll only eat one of your children. We'll even let you pick!
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
You mean the EU's fake snake oil zero-knowledge approach. They've standardized two systems under the banner of "zero knowledge". One is actually zero knowledge. The other is trust-me snake oil. Guess which one is getting
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> More and more people agree that kids shouldn’t be on modern social media, including me. Has it occurred to you that nobody cares, or should care, about your opinions about what other people and other people's kids do? You and the
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> What would be a better way to incorporate AI as a spell checker? Don't do a stupid thing like that in the first place. > In comparison to non-AI traditional tools, AI has the advantage of "understanding" the text, red
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
It's amazing what practice and investment can do, even for a fragile system like X.509. Yet certs still break constantly . Like permanently killing people's "perpetual" Microsoft Word licenses in a story posted within h
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> Stop blaming the users when it's literally the company that's violating the contract/agreement (and potentially violating the law). Why not both? I mean, if you leave your keys in your car and the window down, the car th
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> It is too fragile (multiple point of failure). If your DNS isn't working, you're not going to be making connections anyway. And if you can't keep DNSSEC running, you can't keep certs up to date either. DNSSEC is act
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
You mean under the control of the commissions, councils, boards, etc that are being elected in these very elections? Elections in which many actual humans may not be paying attention to positions on "arcane" land use rules, but th
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
I think I'm just gonna repost this recent link here... https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
... and if they own 50 houses, each through a separate LLC, they can vote 50 times, even if they do not in fact even live in the area. ... and you can probably come up with a legal way to permanently bind a corporation to vote according to
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
How about fuck absentee landlords, especially if they're not actually people?
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
> I'd rather try and get the executives, product managers, and engineers who implemented it fired How has that been working out for you? Apparently you have some avenue to apply pressure for that, other than the obvious one of not b
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
... and you continue to let them abuse you.
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
... except that you should be enraged at the title "Judge" being applied to administrative hearing officers. Of course, you should also be enraged at administrative hearing officers being fired for doing their jobs correctly.
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure I had something very similar A/Bed at me by Bing the other day. You know what I really miss? Being able to type a literal string in quotes and get pages that had that actual string on them. That's what I reall
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
The difference between Manfred and the influencers we have now was that he actually invented things, built things, and brokered huge deals while streaming everything.
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
I'm happy to report that my timing attacks have succeeded in accessing this simulation's substrate. Lobsters are reviewing my paper.
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
... but not the form of policy they actually have. Except for payments to specifically sanctioned organizations, the policy is "we'd really rather you didn't do that, but whatever". The specific sanctions don't cove
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
> 1) the chief patrol agent has to set the distance to encompass an inappropriately large area in violation of this law, Certain to happen. > 2) an agent has to stop and search cars randomly, Not at all. "Based on my training and
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
... except that "policies" don't cut it. Criminal penalties for paying are what you need, and not just for payments to specific designated entities, either. The executive making the decision to pay has to have a real fear of
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by Hizonner 5mo ago
> It's not a coup if the president isn't replaced... ... or even inconvenienced. Incredibly stupid article.

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