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by aliasEli 5y ago
The register's motto is: Biting the hand that feeds IT. That should tell you something about their articles, although they also frequently have substantial articles.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This decision should have been taken a long time ago, it is obvious that it will help spread all variants all over the world.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Probably because the pdf was produced from scans.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Many ex-smokers try tobacco flavors when they start vaping. Many switch to other flavors after a while, because tobacco does not really taste nice.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
But I really wonder if that happens frequently. Cigarettes really taste and smell awful. I discovered how terrible they really are only after I quit smoking. As long as e-cigarettes remain available, I doubt that many people would switch to
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I really don't think it was a good idea to write this in C++ for security reasons. It accepts external inputs in some complex formats, and they also have a web server version. This makes it highly vulnerable to all kind of attacks, suc
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by aliasEli 5y ago
But this lacks the compact syntax of LINC. I don't think there is a real equivalent in other languages (I don't know F#).
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> beating the previous national high temperature mark by more than 4C in one go, as happened in Canada last week, is virtually unprecedented. This event should be a warning call to all people who believe that a global warming of only 2 d
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> And scientists who feared another Spanish flu did not know that the 1918 influenza was avian, not swine Because swine are really similar to humans, I see more reason to worry especially about their viruses. They are likely to have mult
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Interesting article. I had not read about the use of drones in the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The article in the Register is more interesting: https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/florida_man_sues_soci...
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I guess that the hyphen is not the only problem that the author encounters with automated systems.
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Last name contains invalid characters [2010](blog.jgc.org)
2 points by aliasEli 5y ago|2 comments
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It's slightly worrying from a security perspective that their servers are written in JavaScript.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> This supernova, about 31 million light-years from Earth in the galaxy NGC2146, was detected three hours after the explosion happened. Faster Than Light communication!
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Those were great games. I especially liked the way that they used stereo sounds, it made it a lot more realistic.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Some more info from Brian Krebs: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/revil-ransomware-gang-st...
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by aliasEli 5y ago
1984 is slowly becoming an optimistic book.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
A direct confirmation from GitHub itself. This is problematic because Copilot sometimes outputs code that was present in its training set. https://fossbytes.com/github-copilot-generating-functional-a...
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Why the Last 1% of Software Development Can Take as Long as the First 99%(itnext.io)
2 points by aliasEli 5y ago|0 comments
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> The software engineers of the future will, themselves, be software And how does this AI know the requirements? It is even worse than Stack Overflow, there at least you might get some explanation about an answer, AI systems are still ho
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Many cryptographers are very reluctant about voting machines, because it is difficult to get details like these correct.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Certainly, especially given that building a distributed system already is a lot more difficult than building non-distributed one. I have the feeling that most people really underestimate this.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> there's genetic evidence covid-19 evolved in animals with intact immune systems, not in a lab They had live animals in the lab.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Decent article about a "green" bitcoin.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I was a bit worried that there would be only two browsers left, but the data at [0] showed that Samsung Internet (I have never heard of this one) and Opera also have single digit percentages. https://gs.statcounter.com/
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by aliasEli 5y ago
What is your definition of absolute risk reduction?
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by aliasEli 5y ago
No, I described externally observable behavior that would classify as ADHD. What is said is that that behavior could also be observed in an AI, and I see no reason why it could not. If you claim that an AI cannot have ADHD, because it lacks
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is a very good article about intersex children. I am very disappointed that it did not get more positive attention here.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> Would you expect an AI to suffer from ADHD? Yes, I would. ADHD is the condition where there are many problems around and you cannot decide which ones are really worth solving, so you spend some effort on most of them but solve none. I

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