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by Starman_Jones 1y ago
As a rebuttal, I offer a hacker koan: In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussma
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by Starman_Jones 2y ago
It's well settled, but not very useful. We still teach Newton's laws of motion, even though we know they're wrong, because it's a lot easier to work with than Lorentz transformations, and most of the time, the result is
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by Starman_Jones 2y ago
> My point is the prose is a huge turn-off for most people and serves very little purpose in a modern society. The commenter doth protest too much, methinks.
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by Starman_Jones 2y ago
If there's one thing you can say about America, it's that we're nowhere near as independent and individualistic as the rest of the world. New York is tentpole of homogeneity compared to Barcelona or Lyon.
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by Starman_Jones 2y ago
If it doesn't affect stock price, though, then the CEO, board, and shareholders are all incentivized to keep IS costs low, and ignore any costly security recommendations.
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by Starman_Jones 2y ago
Yes, there is no legal enforcement mechanism behind robots.txt. Nor do I particularly want there to be. However, most people agree that reasonable requests made regarding the use of someone's property should be followed. The capability
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by Starman_Jones 2y ago
As an analogy, imagine that a gardener builds a beautiful flower garden, bisected by a cute stone path, which she invites the public to view freely, save for a single restriction; a sign reading "keep off the flower beds." There i
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by Starman_Jones 2y ago
Here's what they are referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
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by Starman_Jones 2y ago
My statistics teacher in high school once told me, "No one remembers their best game of poker, but everyone has a bad beat story." I suspect something similar is true for the author and their friends. Most people make many, many c
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by Starman_Jones 3y ago
Google is being accused of writing software that facilitates the intentional killing of civilians. Whether you agree or disagree, that's what the accusation is. In that context, for people who accept the accusations, IBM seems like an
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by Starman_Jones 3y ago
If your recommendation for airing their grievances still results in their unemployment, why on earth should they quit instead of doing what they did?
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by Starman_Jones 3y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but let me offer a different perspective. There's a certain class of individual who loves the challenge of "breaking" something, but prefers the reduced problem space, risk mitigati
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by Starman_Jones 3y ago
I thought the article did a very good job of explaining why the term 'grokking' was used to describe this emergent behavior, and how it fit Heinlein's original definition. I'm curious which part of their explanation you
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by Starman_Jones 3y ago
This myth is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the experiment conducted. The conclusion of the experiment was that the vocabulary used to describe wine is subjective, and that the chosen descriptors are most heavily influenced by t
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by Starman_Jones 3y ago
The dog doesn't owe anything to the hand that feeds it, but it would still do well not to bite it.
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by Starman_Jones 3y ago
I think we're discussing different topics. The article headline says, "Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems." I interpreted your comment about vault 7 to imply that investigators (ie,
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by Starman_Jones 3y ago
The cyberattacks which used the Marble framework were limited to those where a payload was delivered. Marble is comparable to mailing a bomb and putting a fake return address on the package. For data exfiltration, which is like robbing a ba