JohnMakin

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   by JohnMakin 2y ago

   > There’s a lot of people out there who “aren’t math people,” but they just might be computer science people This is beyond silly from my perspective. I know the field of CS is vast, but this seems to conflate programming with CS. My sch
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   by JohnMakin 2y ago

   > A VPN or a botnet would have accomplished the same thing as the laptops. Erm, no. Company is going to ship you a laptop and you are a NK spy. Where do they send it?
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   by JohnMakin 2y ago

   Heh, I sort of noticed this - I was working through a problem I knew the domain pretty well and was just trying to speed things up, and got a super snarky/arrogant response from 4o "correcting" me with something that I knew w
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   by JohnMakin 2y ago

   you just solved a bug I couldnt explain like 6 years ago
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   by JohnMakin 2y ago

   Honestly, and I’d been reading this over the years - he seemed to have been thriving (in his own way). forgive the yahoo article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-unabomber-s-not-so-lonely-pri... guy was extreme end of t
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   by JohnMakin 2y ago

   This guy shows up at any opportunity in documentaries or in books about Kaczynski, and in my opinion, does not come off well in this or in a lot of other stuff. He made a decision. So did his brother as a consequence - non-contact. Continui
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   by JohnMakin 2y ago

   You do pay for it though. Compute isn't free.
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   by JohnMakin 2y ago

   Not sure what specifically is “california” about this - There is very little support from either side of the aisle in continuing this project, which of course, the article states because it is an unavoidable truth. The criticisms offered by
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   by JohnMakin 2y ago

   There's another outstanding use of obituaries - genealogy research. My paternal grandfather had some issues with his racial lineage and left home at a very early age after his dad died to join the military to fight in Korea. For whatev
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    This is cool but I just wanna say as an avid bbq-er this sounds like one of those cases of optimizing the fun out of something. babying a grill for 6 hours in the sun as a tired dad getting an excuse to drink a modelo and nurse a crappy cig
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    I’m disabled and rely heavily on food delivery apps and stopped using uber/postmates about a year ago. I somehow got tricked into paying $40 on a $6 order. I went back through the flow to see where I messed up, the screen did show my o
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    Just FYI it’s pretty rude/insulting and not interesting to dismiss someone’s shared experience based on nothing but your own armchair feelings, and even moreso to concede if the person is telling the truth (how on earth could a person
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    people describe it as some constant flow with an actual voice. I do not have that, and I don’t feel a need to conjure visions of arguing with myself to do so - that sounds weird to me. I don’t really know how else to describe it.
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    I don’t get this all the time or get into it because most people don’t understand or dismiss it. I just hope I can explain well enough. When I write it’s almost always flow of consciousness style and I make a lot of mistakes. In online or c
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    Language is just a way of encoding semantic meaning - this is a perfect explanation and im going to use it from now on, thanks. yea this is like me too. curious, did you start reading at a very early age? I started around 3. this is what I
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    People have asked me this. I don’t know what to say other than I just make the connections I need to in my head. sometimes it’s visual but it’s usually pretty abstract and I’m not really very conscious of it. From the outside it probably lo
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    Well written - I do not possess an internal monologue (which apparently isn't uncommon), and a common thing people think is that it is like this author's description of "quiet" - yes, there is not a person "talking&
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    It really isn't. Most businesses export core business functions to a third party in some way. This is just a snotty navel gazing post without much content that was responded to in kind. It's completely reasonable to use adsense to
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    Wow, all those fortune 500 companies whose infra entirely relies on 3rd party cloud infrastructure really must be in for a rude awakening. You should update them with your cunning analysis and inform them they are failures.
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    And there's always one of these responses - what actions then, if any, are we taking against instagram? > There have been numerous reports of the dangers Instagram poses (especially to teens), and when they get posted we get a raft
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    Each and every one of these points applies to Meta in a huge way: > 1. Addictive, compulsive, and problematic use 2. Depression, anxiety, body dysmorphia, self-harm, and suicide 3. Porn, violence, and drugs 4. Sextortion, CSAM, and sexua
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    while this is true it in no way diminishes the value that orgs like cve provide
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    Not saying they’re compromised by foreign agents, although, I wouldnt put that out of the realm of possibility - but that either they and/or theyre tooling/setup is pwned this is exactly what you save a zero day for, and something
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    or even worse, they’re compromised in some fashion and don’t know it
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    what part specifically about this access seems “limited” to you?
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    seems like it was unflagged. This story is horrifying, thank you.
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    I don't know if there's anything to admit from their public stance on this kind of stuff, and I'm certainly not wanting this account to receive retaliation for whatever I post regarding this - they've mentioned that they
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    It’s flagged now - pretty embarrassing for a site called “hacker” news
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    This seems important and incredibly relevant on a site called hackernews. It's credible and from a credible source. Why are we flagging it?
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    by JohnMakin 2y ago

    This is a wild read for someone that has spent the bulk of their career as a "mercenary" for small to mid-size largely non-tech companies (e.g., their product wasn't purely technical) and no matter what the official company K