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Karellen
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> I don't know why he's become the villain in this story, It was his idea. He approached the manufacturers and offered them presumably a shit-ton of money to prevent anyone else from making art with it. He's the one who ca
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Wow. Another artist who's as much of a fucking douchebag as Anish Kapoor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor#Vantablack_contro... Seriously. "No-one else gets to use this color but me." Fucking d
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ObSMBC https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addicted
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4y ago
I think it might be because in Europe the sender pays for SMS messages, but in the US, apparently the recipient pays for SMS messages (!) AIUI, this is because in the US they don't set aside different prefixes/area codes for mob
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4y ago
Social engineering is a legitimate attack vector. "try this edgy nerd game/challenge for the lulz" is just as valid an exploit as "to see the dancing pigs, just run this `curl | bash` command"
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Absent unexpected security issues which are usually patched very quickly as soon as they are discovered by legitimate researchers/white-hats, it is non-trivial to escape one. You are not supposed to be able to escape a VM. If someone&#
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4y ago
Interesting idea. You'd need some kind of system to modulate the sound wave to carry the data, and then demodulate it at the other end to get the data back out. It's a long shot, but it might just work...
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The README.md, which is displayed on the linked page and should be above the fold on 95% of viewing devices, contains only two lines of text. One of which is the README's title and the name of the project. The other line is: `nod
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> Any program running in the userspace can read the private key file; Only programs running as you (or `root`). It's private to you ⁰. Programs running as other users cannot read the file. (Assuming you've not changed the perm
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If OracleDB is fast and web scale I will use it. Is it web scale? Does OracleDB support sharding? Shards are the secret ingredient in the web scale sauce. They just work.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming > Return-oriented programming (ROP) is a computer security exploit technique that allows an attacker to execute code in the presence of security defenses[1][
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4y ago
If it helps, don't think about operations on infinite sets as "things that are true (or false)". Rather, think about it as "an abstract model with certain rules, that can produce interesting results if applied in careful
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The breakthrough for me was when someone described what it means for two sets of things to be the same size. This is super basic, because innumerate shepherds can use it to count sheep. As your sheep go out in the morning, for each sheep, t
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Whoa, I'd missed that every other time I'd looked at my profile. Thanks for pointing it out!
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It probably depends somewhat on the religion one follows. That said, I have always been fascinated by the fictional religion of Bokononism, which is centered around "Foma". Foma are beliefs that are acknowledged to be untrue, but
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"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky (2006)
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THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
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If you can trick a user to run any arbitrary script blindly, sure, you've already won. The hard part is tricking a user into running a script that they can inspect, and looks even on close inspection to be non-arbitrary and quite const
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> But a lot of people seem to think they need this and (wrongly) assume they can archieve it by simply writing the goals in order. Do they? > Otherwise OP wouldn't be able to break so many builds with the --shuffle option. That&#
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Why is it that you want d to run a then b then c, if a, b and c are independent goals? It might be that `make` is the wrong tool for the job here, but I'm not sure what job you're trying to accomplish. You might be having an XY pr
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Because plenty of places where C is used won't need it, or indeed any part of libc. Also, it's a fairly simple to decide upon dividing line between the language and the library - if it can be implemented in a handful of assembly i
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ChatGPT-3: What do you get if you multiply six by nine? ChatGPT-4: How many roads must a man walk down?
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I mean, maybe? But, like, that's after they were making EVs. The roadster was announced in 2006, and started production in 2008 - 15 years ago. They went from making EVs, which are cars with some software inherently in them, to makin
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> [Alan] Ruck is tall, blue-eyed, big-jawed, movie-star handsome. Took me by surprise. Ruck isn't bad-looking, but he's not what I think of as "movie-star handsome". At least, not in FBDO. I think he's grown more
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When was Tesla ever a software company?
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But the level they're selling still requires that the driver be able to resume control when notified. So the "the car notified the driver to take over, disengaged, and shortly following that the driver crashed the car" narrat
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> they completely ruin the tension of Ripley and the marines later arriving at the colony (because we already found out about Newt), and spoils the reveal that Burke sent the colonists out to the alien crash site. Not sure what we found
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Interesting take. I always thought that the "colony life" parts of the special edition were completely unnecessary. The rest of the movie works really well as being told almost entirely from Ripley's viewpoint, so seeing the
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Also you should skip the opening shot (added at the request of the studio) of a spaceship heading down to Earth. Because apparently audiences are considered too dumb to put 2 + 2 together. FFS
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Ah, but if we take the lessons of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve, we just need to start by applying it against^Wwith people "you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege gr
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