Jiro

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by Jiro 5y ago
Skill isn't an all or nothing thing. People can pretend to have higher skill than they really do without being so unskilled that they'll immediately be discovered. All you know is that some person had a higher error rate than th
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by Jiro 5y ago
At the time of the Satanic Verses controversy, there was the irony that he wrote things that were anti-colonial and anti-Western... and his life was threatened by third-worlders with a religious philosophy that directly contradicts Western
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by Jiro 5y ago
>For over 55 years, John Bell has misled the physicists community and... The way this is phrased, and the topic itself, makes this strongly sound like a crackpot that somehow sneaked into a journal.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Cybersecurity drastically varies depending on the actions of a business in a way which physical security doesn't, short of the business failing to lock its doors at night. And if the business does fail to lock its doors, the business
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by Jiro 5y ago
That's an example of seen versus unseen bias. The drain was directly in front of you, and you talked to the person who owned it, so it's easy to understand that someone benefits from it. If you do a job that indirectly makes thi
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by Jiro 5y ago
This sounds like sour grapes to me. If side effects like being exposed to true diversity, being empathetic, etc. are so good for you that they're better than escaping poverty, that means that poverty is something to be applauded. Nob
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by Jiro 5y ago
Okay, then let's rephrase without a code example: The implementation-defined behavior in the assert should produce "true" if and only if the number printed for x+100 (also using implementation-defined behavior) is always larg
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by Jiro 5y ago
This may not necessarily count as an example in the wild, but the 2013 Underhanded C contest at http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_25.html includes this example: h = abs(h) % HASHSIZE; // Extra sanity che
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Somehow the author seems to think that this is not what the wording intended, but they also fail to explain what they think should happen here. What "should" happen is that the implementation-defined behavior in the assert mat
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by Jiro 5y ago
Claiming that it's mixed because there's no such charge is avoiding the question, which is "if a normal person reads this, would he get an accurate impression of what happened?" If someone is convicted of a crime which
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by Jiro 5y ago
That's no good because the car can malfunction for reasons other than damage caused by the ECU, and the warranty covers those reasons too. You shouldn't have to lose your warranty on part A because you modified unrelated part B.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Not on the level of an individual person, but on the level of groups of people. People in one neighborhood would have shops with locked boxes and people in another neighborhood would have shops with unlocked boxes. And those neighborhoods
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by Jiro 5y ago
Whether it explicitly advertises buying content for X years is hardly relevant in this case. The issue is that Apple claims the right to shut it down at any time. If they promised 5 years and shut down the account after a month, the same
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by Jiro 6y ago
My point generalizes, though. As a rule, proprietary code isn't distributed widely, so there are few opportunities to include it, and as a rule, the harsher restrictions on distributing it make people less likely to not notice that the
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by Jiro 6y ago
It's a lot less likely that Windows kernel code or Disney music is going to be included by mistake, so your potential exposure is much less. In the case of the Windows kernel, it's a lot less likely that anyone is even going to
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by Jiro 6y ago
If you recall, ebay now refuses to let people sell the books. This can't be justified by poor sales.
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by Jiro 6y ago
What happened then? Maybe in response, he said "no, I didn't internalize any racism, and here's a list of reasons why that logically isn't racist at all", and they said "Oh, never mind then". Or maybe not
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by Jiro 6y ago
My take, which is less charitable in some ways and more in others, is this: Anti-colonialism is aimed at the West and especially at countries associated with the current West. The most anger is felt towards US colonialism. Failing that, B