ThinBold

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by ThinBold 5y ago
I find it difficult to position myself on this topic. On one hand, apps like stock can be deleted so you no longer see any ads/add-ons. It's an O(1) effort. On the other hand, the entire appstore is just a big junk of ads, and com
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by ThinBold 5y ago
I can happily live with my parents and save a fortune (assuming the logic in the article is correct), but the mating market wouldn't agree with we. The only way I can compensate living alone is to work extra harder to accumulate more p
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by ThinBold 5y ago
Basically every party that is contributing to the global warming can defend like this.
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by ThinBold 5y ago
Doesn't Apple simply happen to be both the chat provider and backup provider, so Apple-A does the E2E encryption and Apple-B sees your backup because you sort of want that? And people worrying about the other end of the chat... come on
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by ThinBold 5y ago
That NSFW picture is, in honor of Sean Lock, a challenging wank
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by ThinBold 5y ago
save hundreds of lives, would you? Sure, why not. But let me ask some questions, because at this point I am not sure if people want Apple's system to be robust or jammable. If our fear is that Apple will tune the system to dete
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by ThinBold 5y ago
Unless Apple implements this with a backdoor on iCloud, the worst case scenario here is that they receive millions of false positives per day and terminate the program after two weeks. The scalability issue seems to work in our favor becaus
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by ThinBold 5y ago
I did my best skimming comments the algorithm showed me, including related posts' comments. But man am I bad at reading comprehension. If I miss anything then surely I am willing to be corrected. But so far I don't see comments th
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by ThinBold 5y ago
The first comment algorithm choses to show me contains substring "and this system is transparently broken". Isn't that a remark on the effectiveness of the idea or I misread? (In case you have problem with me saying "so
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by ThinBold 5y ago
Despite that Apple scanning our images is a horrible privacy practice, I don't get why 𝚜̶𝚘̶ ̶𝚖̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚢̶ some people think this is an ineffective idea. Surely you can easily fabricate innocent images whose NeuralHash matches the database…
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by ThinBold 5y ago
While the tone sounds like a university webpage advertising its scholars' results, this does seem to be an interesting viewpoint. (Unless similar viewpoints have been proposed before.) This also reminds me of the QR iteration, where yo
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by ThinBold 5y ago
That (some date + 1 month) + 1 month ≠ some date + 2 months has always been true for floating numbers. This is exactly why you never trust fast matrix multiplications---they rely on cancelations of the form (a + b) - b = a + (b - b