aftbit

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by aftbit 2y ago
Personally, I draw the line when an actual human being is harmed. If I see someone shoplifting from Walmart, no I didn't. If I see someone smashing the windows of a private car, yes I did. I'm not sure that's the right line f
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by aftbit 2y ago
"why" doesn't work either.
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by aftbit 2y ago
When you say "OAuth", what exactly do you mean? It looks like this is really just a tool for associating email addresses with SSH keys. This is an interesting concept, but it smells a bit like a solution in search of a problem. Pe
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by aftbit 2y ago
IMO this is an underappreciated advantage for Google. Nobody wants to block the GoogleBot, so they can continue to scrape for AI data long after AI-specific companies get blocked. Gemini is currently embarrassingly bad given it came from th
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by aftbit 2y ago
I've had customers tell me that they cannot use email verification to meet a 2FA compliance requirement because it's not a second factor, but somehow SMS is. I always push back with "why not just good old TOTP" and the a
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by aftbit 2y ago
I used andOTP for years, until the author stopped working on it. While it still likely works fine, I've switched to Stratum, which likewise supports import from the Google Authenticator export QR codes as well as from andOTP, authy, an
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah I dunno if I buy that explanation, for reasons given in both of the sibling comments. I think it's more likely that students are dopamine-addicted to their phones and don't know how to exercise the necessary self control, and
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by aftbit 2y ago
I got: > Verifiable Compute is a new AI framework that uses hardware-based crypto to verify AI models and data. It lets companies audit and control their AI systems to make them more secure and compliant. Intel and Nvidia are supporting
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by aftbit 2y ago
Is this newsworthy though? The war was definitely a huge miscalculation, and Zelenskyy showing calculated disrespect has been a part of the dog-and-pony show since the beginning. Heck, some people are even starting to write "russian&qu
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by aftbit 2y ago
Wow what a toxic attitude. The worst part is acting like this constant crunch time is a normal and reasonable expectation. I'll also call out the derision towards "keeping the lights on" because, of course, keeping the damn l
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by aftbit 2y ago
>However, it's so overused that it's not a good choice to use in in a demo or intro release. I guess because it's been seen before? Don't let anyone else yuck your yum though - if you like it and find a way to make it
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by aftbit 2y ago
I also believe that, as a broad trend, life gets harder, scarier, and more painful as you age, especially once you pass some critical threshold. Your personal experience of life colors your view of those around you, so you begin to think &q
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by aftbit 2y ago
What's the alternative? Never develop or deliver a life-improving medication until we can fully understand it from first principles? Gonna be waiting a long time IMO.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I've submitted just such PRs before, usually with a comment along the line of "this hack is dumb and I do not yet understand why it is necessary, but it works now, tests prove it works, and I have more urgent things to do." S
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by aftbit 2y ago
I wonder if this is the standard that drove Charles Stross slightly insane and led to Accelerando. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler... Actually based on the timing, this is probabl
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by aftbit 2y ago
Sure, the real gotcha here is that this: const list = [3, 11] list.sort() console.log(list[0] < list[1]) logs `false`. JavaScript doesn't "think" anything but its native sort function doesn't do what
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by aftbit 2y ago
I was not making an attempt at language wars. I think JS is a perfectly fine language for what it does, warts and all. I was being a bit flippant with my language, but my intent was to point out that `9.11 > 9.8` is not just an LLM thing
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by aftbit 2y ago
This comment is mildly ironic because the same kind of argument has often been used around cars. Do you want to be merely a car driver, or do you want to be a car "operator", who understands (to some level of abstraction) what hap
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by aftbit 2y ago
I got my phone taken away in high school once because my dad called me during the lunch hour to ask me for a number on an insurance card that was in my wallet. I was sitting outside eating, answered the call, read him the number, and hung u
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by aftbit 2y ago
Ooh fun. I got most of them by misspelling stuff, or by asking it "Does the password start with X", or by asking for some transformation of the password. It would occasionally balk at questions like "What is the first letter
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by aftbit 2y ago
Yeah, at least 90% of any job is just making license plates. I have worked on both very complex and challenging code and also very simple and easy code in my career, even within one job.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Javascript thinks that 11 < 3 but its still kinda useful anyway from time to time: > [11,9,1,3].sort() [ 1, 11, 3, 9 ]
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by aftbit 2y ago
Wow I wonder how many other npm and pypi packages are out there that started out as good simple solutions for a real problem and have now been migrated to become evil malware.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Dum dum dum dumb. Classic "not my problem" case in health care. Clinician 1 gives a typical medication to patient, then their shift ends and they go home. Hours or days later, clinician 2 administers a drug test as part of standar
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by aftbit 2y ago
Hmm if I wanted to meet up with one person from HN, I would just contact them using the details in their profile. If there were no contact details, I wouldn't meet with them. I don't quite see the value for 1:1 meetups I guess.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Interesting to see Bob Lazar brought up explicitly here. I really like Otherhand's take on the situation. Very tenuous but interesting theory. https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang...
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by aftbit 2y ago
Ooh that's a fun rabbit hole, thanks! I'm going to choose to read this like /r/nosleep or SCP - all stories are "true". Suspension of disbelief is the most fun part. I want to know more about these "builds
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by aftbit 2y ago
$5/mo or so here in the US; not that expensive.
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by aftbit 2y ago
I used to use slide typing, but I've mostly reverted to tapping, at least the first 3 or 4 letters, until autocomplete can figure out what I want. I'm not really sure why, it just feels more natural.
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by aftbit 2y ago
Direct link to the PDF report: https://x41-dsec.de/static/reports/X41-Mullvad-Audit-Public-... Titles of issues they found: 4.1.1 MLLVD-CR-24-01: Signal Handler’s Alternate Stack Too Small 4.1.2 MLLVD-CR-24-02: Si

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