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3y ago
Who sets the CEO pay for Mozilla? Is there a board that actually looked at their performance and decided a raise was appropriate? Or is it due to some term in her contract?
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> and read someone's thoughts *accurately* Sadly accuracy has not been a big concern historically of polygraphs and much of forensic "science".
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3y ago
Combine hallucinations with police adopting this as the new polygraph and this could take a pretty bad turn. Cool tech though, lots of positive applications too.
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Plus it lets people decrypt media encrypted by that key that they might otherwise have been unable to. So we've established that a "private key" that is no longer private may still have uses to some people, it is not wholly &
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3y ago
> It becomes worthless for... So you admit it's not completely worthless at that point only for specific use cases.
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3y ago
Your understanding in of cryptography appears to be "private means private" > A published private key by definition is worthless. If I publish the AACS _private_ key, is it now worthless?
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3y ago
> Tools to evaluate LLMs to make it harder to generate malicious code or aid in carrying out cyberattacks. Security through obscurity, great
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The link now says he co-founded it, before I was just hearing "very closely tied," which to me is just really odd phrasing, it's something you say when you don't want to say very much.
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3y ago
> Many lithium battery formulations work in colder It's possible, in fact probable that your phone doesn't have one of the aforementioned formulations.
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Could you imagine if we treated other pieces of technology the same way backup fanatics talk about backups? It's your fault for not having 2 extra phones on you in case your phone bricks itself at a bad time. It's your fault for n
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3y ago
Still doesn't excuse a filesystem claimed to be designed for reliability from having shoddy development practices.
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Call me a skeptic, but saying you're "very closely tied" sounds to me like he's getting paid to be their spokesperson and nothing more. It's not like he said he's a cofounder, investor, executive, designer, or
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3y ago
Is making gift cards more difficult to buy really going to put a dent in people getting scammed?
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So user's are at fault for trusting a filesystem that advertises itself as being reliable? Even if user's should use multiple redundant filesystems (lol ok), that doesn't invalidate the criticisms in the linked forum post.
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> Only in applications that are constrained by memory bandwidth. Sure but I think OPs point is that memory bandwidth is the bottleneck in more applications that you think. Cache only helps if you're accessing the same data over and
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Why couldn't it be an agent for the short time that it's generating an intelligent looking paragraph? Do you know what gives rise to consciousness? If not how can we be sure it doesn't arise from a giant pile of linear algeb
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I think he meant he's the designer of _this_ typeface. Not in general. And for _this_ typeface as a labour of love why shouldn't they disregard user feedback when they made it for their own purposes.
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How do we address the people who live in areas where the grocery store is not within walking/biking distance. Living car free in a city built for it can be bliss. But tons of people do not live in cities built for it. Do we rebuild t
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> start making it way way more easier to get by w/o a car. How exactly could do this by 2030/2050? So much of the existing infrastructure is built at a low density with the expectation of having a car to get around. What do we
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I honestly don't think IO-blocking-UI is such a big issue. And if you try to solve it using workers you introduce an annoying programming paradigm of async/await and IPC. Copying data over IPC can be slow, and having to set up IPC
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First of all it's not my proposal, but the proposal was simple enough and could improve outcomes. None of these edge cases are actually issues if the system is "gambler A talks to official B before they're allowed to place mo
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I'm not saying these events can't happen I'm saying they're rare enough that trying to prepare for them is wasteful. As you illustrated there's all sorts of things that can go wrong. Trying to anticipate them all is
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Oh no an edge case! Then that very wealthy person talks to an official who verifies they can afford to bet that much.
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If the only value you provide to your employer is that you're physically present for a job that _can_ be done remotely you are close to being offshored anyways.
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What are the dangers exactly? That a once in a century event can disrupt your supply chain? Is that actually a reasonable thing to try to guard against?
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They have their own instagram account.
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Finally I can run JavaScript in the browser!
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> If their Twitter account is the only place I can hear about active shooter threats in my area ??? Do you actually use your local politicians Twitter to see if there's an active shooter?
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"I ran a server for free sound effects for all and when it got popular I fucked over my users" lolwut.
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Hacking charges are reserved for teenagers sharing copyrighted works.
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