Kenji

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by Kenji 9y ago
Why is nobody punishing the responsible nation states? I think the nation states who have such irresponsible intelligence agencies should pay every last dime of Microsoft's patching efforts and the damages the hacks and leaks cause.
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by Kenji 9y ago
It's not a tooling issue (see my comment above)
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by Kenji 9y ago
Formal verification is pointless if there are no formal specifications of the program/product/whatever. And if there are formal specifications, then they might as well be in the form of code. And even formal specifications can con
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by Kenji 9y ago
It's the same with every tool: The more powerful it is, the worse the consequences are when it's abused. That applies to programming in particular.
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by Kenji 9y ago
If someone being able to download your source code repository is opening yourself up to attacks, you're doing something wrong. Either you are relying on security through obscurity, or you checked keys into git. Both horrible practices.
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by Kenji 9y ago
I think your comparison of companies with states is really far fetched. An employment contract is completely different from citizenship. The freedom of speech comparison is particularly odd, obviously if you are a trouble maker in your comp
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by Kenji 9y ago
Who says he used his credentials and didn't leave and use a backdoor?
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by Kenji 9y ago
Google's bold move only works this well because other browser developers like Mozilla (or even OS developers) were too hesitant to ship ad-blocking by default. Sad, a missed opportunity. I've said this a long time ago. It's u
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by Kenji 9y ago
I already know and read this link. That alone should prove that I am more than equipped to participate in this discussion and willing to understand other people's viewpoints. I regularly force myself to read opinions I strongly disagre
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by Kenji 9y ago
"There are these tiny microaggressions that happen when people know you're a person of colour, they wanna know your origin, they wanna know your [...], they wanna know a bunch of things about you that don't really matter whe
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by Kenji 9y ago
Roughly half the population has an IQ below 100. Let that sink in for a moment. Do you really think they are able to manage their digital keys such that they never ever lose them in a lifetime? Look, I am all for encrypted storage, it'
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by Kenji 9y ago
>You can easily fool people into thinking they're talking with a person even though they're talking with a machine. Citation needed. After 5 minutes of chatting with a robot, you conclude it's either an insane clown or a r
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by Kenji 9y ago
This only works with dedicated hardware, right? I can't just take an arbitrary board like the raspberry pi and do this?
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by Kenji 9y ago
All these features (like DDE) should be disabled by default, and should only be possible to be enabled by means of an obscure and hidden menu item that nobody can find.
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by Kenji 9y ago
If the state gave each and every civilian a colonoscopy every year, we could prevent deaths by noticing medical conditions earlier. Probably more than terrorists kill currently. But it's a complete non-starter because it infringes on s
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by Kenji 9y ago
I think you meant "Either should get her elected again."
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by Kenji 9y ago
Considering the earth has roughly 2.5 times more gravity, the climb would probably be quite a bit less exhausting (after terraforming Mars).
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by Kenji 9y ago
The speed at which they develop, implement and successfully use this technology is mind-boggling. Congratulations to everyone involved with this.
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by Kenji 9y ago
This is painful. Fat, why not a bucket of lard? Salt, why not a salt shaker??? These icons are incomprehensible for the educated and the uneducated mind alike.
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by Kenji 9y ago
Sarcasm is a great rhetoric tool.
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by Kenji 9y ago
In my early teens, I was the only one who used sarcasm in the classroom, and none of my peers understood it. There needs to be more sarcasm in schools.
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by Kenji 9y ago
I love how you never do this with comments broadly advocating universal basic income, of which I have seen many. The bias is real. Look, I know, you're moderating for the site, but I also hope you're aware of what you're doin
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by Kenji 9y ago
The solution is shrinking the state to the bare minimum and making as many transactions as possible voluntary.
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by Kenji 9y ago
Actually, it was not a tongue in cheek comment. It is based on a real example I read some time ago. And the upside down part is important ;)
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by Kenji 9y ago
>AI which is about replacing the mind Give me a break. AI replacing the mind... Put zebra stripes on an upside down sofa and the best image recognition algorithms see a zebra. That's how far the "understanding" of our AI g
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by Kenji 9y ago
Well, if the employer is just like "Well, sorry, too late now, we don't care that it's a forgery" then maybe it was a good thing you can move on.
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by Kenji 9y ago
For me, maths was a much bigger stepping stone than programming. When I came to uni, I was basically already equipped with most of the programming knowledge I needed to enter the workforce. I learned it quickly and easily. But maths - man,
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by Kenji 9y ago
Working with legacy C++ code at work is a serious risk for my brain. It hurts physically to read some of these lines of code.
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by Kenji 9y ago
I'd wager that everyone back then who made a name for himself with intellectual pursuits was a polymath. Simply because knowledge was hard to come by and you couldn't specialise so much that you remained ignorant about the grand s
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by Kenji 9y ago
“The lesson I take from this is, if you want to learn something about these complex systems, you have to look at them,” Flasar said. “Because you’re not going to figure it out from first principles. [...] I think this is a great insight.

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