Jtsummers

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by Jtsummers 5d ago
> I still can't believe anyone ever took Roko's Basilisk seriously, but people did... to the point of freaking out about it. If you've spent much time in US Christian circles you've probably encountered people sufferi
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by Jtsummers 8d ago
> launching a 20 year bombing and terror campaign against the Donbass > Finally, after eight year of these terror attacks Was it 20 years or 8 years? Those are two very different numbers, and only one has any semblance with reality gi
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by Jtsummers 8d ago
The US lacks the political will for a war with NATO, I'm speaking of the soldiers and citizens. The worst case for NATO is US withdrawal and explicit or tacit support of NATO enemies. Some soldiers would blindly follow orders to march
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by Jtsummers 9d ago
Proof happens before compilation, and doesn't require compilation. You can follow the Verus tutorials for the specifics, but you can use it as a standalone verifier or as a compilation "stage" where it'll run its verific
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by Jtsummers 9d ago
> You are trying to convince me that because you pressed "A" once on the vending machine and worked, you declare "A" is proven to dispense Coke... This thread is hilarious, thank you. You start off saying you "ca
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by Jtsummers 9d ago
Ah, but you can't stand those formal methods folks, why are you appealing to authority with Edsger Dijkstra?
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by Jtsummers 9d ago
That's exactly what testers are selling though. If they aren't guaranteeing the program is correct (up to what is tested) then what purpose do they serve? Same with formal methods, offering guarantees up to what is proven.
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by Jtsummers 9d ago
I presume you also can't stand people who write software tests for similar reasons? The test is wrong, the code is wrong. The spec is wrong, the code is wrong. What a waste of effort! Just write correct code people! Verification is lef
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by Jtsummers 9d ago
> Yeah but if this program can prove unsafe code is safe... Why can't rust compiler do it This question only makes sense if you think Verus is part of the Rust compiler. It's not. And even if it were, the additional annotations
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AI has transformed The Pentagon's aging networks into a national security risk(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by Jtsummers 9d ago|1 comments
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by Jtsummers 9d ago
> attack all infrastructure it can find Which puts it at risk due to lack of power to operate and networks to communicate over. So this is a suicidal AI?
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by Jtsummers 10d ago
https://verus-lang.github.io/verus/publications-and-projects... - The papers here go into their implementation. They take the proof statements and information about the program and turn it into an SMT problem (and run
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by Jtsummers 10d ago
You get an hour or so to edit the title. There is ample time to fix it if the auto-edits mangle it. The submitter just has to look at the submission after hitting submit one time to see if there was a problem.
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The Armored Sarcophagus Saving Ukrainian Soldiers(theatlantic.com)
1 points by Jtsummers 10d ago|0 comments
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by Jtsummers 10d ago
We removed a guy from a project for doing something like that. North of 100 pages, and mostly wrong. What wasn't wrong was so generic it was useless. I don't know what he's working on now, but at least it's not our stuff
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by Jtsummers 11d ago
Iran can hit any pipeline on the peninsula if they have an accurate enough weapon (or get lucky) and it's not shot down. Their weapon ranges covers the entire Arabian Peninsula.
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by Jtsummers 11d ago
> I could barely imagine reading a book in 3.7", that's half of a smartphone. Current smartphones. The original iPhone had a 3.5" display and a lower PPI than the x3.
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by Jtsummers 12d ago
And probably C) start a multi trillion dollar war in Iran.
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by Jtsummers 12d ago
> But Erlang/OTP can replace a lot of expensive kludges. If you can convince your employer of that. I'm working on a system today (and not for the first time) that could have significantly reduced complexity by switching to Erl
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by Jtsummers 12d ago
> Debt/GDP has the 2008 jump as the Obama Admin tried to Remember that 2008 was still Bush, Obama didn't become president until 2009.
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by Jtsummers 12d ago
You don't need biometric authentication for passkeys, though.
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by Jtsummers 13d ago
> would you say that the singular choice of vasili arkhipov did not prevent annihilation? He prevented a catastrophe, but not annihilation. We were not at risk of that in 1962 and even if he had decided to go with the others, more decisi
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by Jtsummers 13d ago
And a full scale nuclear war would require a few more than just one decision. So far, we've never been one decision away from annihilation.
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by Jtsummers 14d ago
Unless it was edited after your comment, it's mentioned in the first paragraph: > Two young people riding in an autonomous vehicle were arrested in San Francisco after authorities allegedly found them in possession of an illegal “gh
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by Jtsummers 14d ago
> Poor man's runtime "dynamic" version. AKA: A much worse version. Contracts don't have to be evaluated dynamically, that's just one way they're implemented. See SPARK/Ada for an example of contracts be
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by Jtsummers 14d ago
HN does not use markdown code block formatting so this is hard to read. Formatting code blocks is simple, two blank spaces before any line to make it a code block and no need for extra newlines (unlike between paragraphs): double deposi
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by Jtsummers 15d ago
> In surprised they're redacting things like labels on a map I think you're referring to this one: https://www.cia.gov/static/06-23-1998-Potential-Targets-for-... Since it's redacted, we can only gues
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by Jtsummers 15d ago
> The important context missing here is that Bush was infamous for treating the PDBs like a hassle he didn't want to have to deal with. The important context missing here is that Bush was only president for about 8 months when 9&#x2
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by Jtsummers 15d ago
> From the outside, it even looks like Trump attacked Iran because of the epstein files. He attacked Iran because he has warhawks and wannabe crusaders in his core group of advisors who believed that it would actually be a quick war, and
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by Jtsummers 15d ago
Correct, it's not part of the name, which is just "Snap!".

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