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by ashleyn 3y ago
>it's likely I mindlessly turned these Off when first time encountering the notice Glad to hear I'm not the only one who does this. "Do you want to enable-" No. "Help Contoso by-" No. "Personalise your
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by ashleyn 3y ago
A media outlet hostile to you could use that data against you with great effect - and it's already happened. The owners of Sanctioned Suicide were deanonymised by the NYT in part from illegally obtained data - the Epik breach.[1] These
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by ashleyn 3y ago
In a world where data is carelessly collected and insecurely stored, it won't just be prosecutors using it to obstruct access to abortion or gender affirming care. It will be organised online harassment campaigns as well, using ML to c
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by ashleyn 3y ago
There was a significant problem years ago, annoying to power users but dangerous to most other users, where I would be on a website reading an article and then all of a sudden I get redirected out of the article into "Hit 5 ducks and w
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by ashleyn 3y ago
I may be one of the biggest Rust evangelicals, but C isn't an excuse for a design that considers segfaulting expected behaviour on invalid user input. That points more to a lack of validation where needed, nothing that C makes impossib
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by ashleyn 3y ago
During the heyday of assembly language, VMs were common in business software as well. It made porting to different types of systems easier in a time when standards-compliant C-language compilers targeting a variety of systems did not yet
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by ashleyn 3y ago
> Memory is quite limited on Windows 3.1 machines, so I tried to reduce the amount of memory needed for WinGPT, especially in sending and receiving the query and response from the OpenAI API. The JSON responses of modern APIs aren't
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by ashleyn 3y ago
Inflation favours debt holders, it disfavours others (notably cash holders).
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by ashleyn 3y ago
Inflation probably isn't helping this problem much either.
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Moving to a heavily blue state may be a better and far cheaper option, they are holding the pro-queer line for the time being. Judging historically on blue states' treatment of some other issues like immigration, I don't expect th
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by ashleyn 3y ago
I got: traglot tra·glot a small country with strong military assets "a treaty of multilateral traglot cooperation was signed"
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by ashleyn 3y ago
pygmalion-6B may work better for that specific purpose. however, it may sound less like an actual person and more like a character in a grimey ao3 story. my personal opinion is that anyone using AI for this purpose should treat it more like
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by ashleyn 4y ago
In the name of one company's idea of "safety", AI models probably gimp out a lot of what would make the humourous subtext understandable in the first place. In the future, the only people remaining employed will be those with
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by ashleyn 4y ago
Surely hope that isn't running a 24-year old Linux distribution...
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by ashleyn 4y ago
Sounds a lot like intellectualisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectualization
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by ashleyn 4y ago
That was the first thing I thought of, personally. The internet is how I came to learn what transgender identity was in the thick of the Bush era, when you could not talk about these things with anyone in person. In many parts of the coun
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by ashleyn 4y ago
This doesn't seem too odd to me when considering it may be a convention of writing a lexer. E.g. symbols defined not just one-to-one with ASCII characters, but may also include something like DOUBLE_EQUALS, STRING_LITERAL, NUMBER_LITER
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by ashleyn 4y ago
I believe the subtext is that "proper" validation of an email is deceptively complex when you would expect a single regex to do. I can't really vouch for if that assumption holds or not.
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by ashleyn 4y ago
Rust + linode vps
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AIUI this is less like ChaCha/kgb (which were services that would have a human answer any text question at a premium rate) and more like "24/7 support for GE products".
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by ashleyn 4y ago
I wonder if this can bypass the "Lockdown" mode. I always recommended people switch the phone fully off in lieu of using Lockdown.
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by ashleyn 4y ago
Jeff Hammerbacher. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/
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by ashleyn 4y ago
OP might also want to consider the negative impacts of inequality on society as a whole. A society where material security is the exclusive privilege of the innately talented is probably not going to be much of a society worth living in.
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by ashleyn 4y ago
Not theoretical - has happened a handful of times (you may remember the "zombies rising from their graves" hoax): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System#Cyberse... These devices are trivially di
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by ashleyn 4y ago
You know, I used to feel the same way, "good at my job bad at leetcode", but after asking around a bit, now I'm genuinely wondering how many people out there actually can get optimal solutions on leetcode problems without any
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by ashleyn 4y ago
This chilling effect is already going on. I'm writing a science-fiction thriller and took most of my notes off Google Drive out of fear that they would misconstrue them as political extremism. If AI is being used for content moderation
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by ashleyn 4y ago
I would think the existence of an inherently inequal standard here, and/or the idea of watering down the impact of harmful speech, is the problem more than wanting some perverse privilege to tell bigoted jokes. When and where I grew up
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by ashleyn 5y ago
Here's one I like to share with people since it feels so topical today. Mark Pitcavage asking Usenet in 1995 why Calvin and Hobbes had almost no black characters. 1995 was while Calvin was still being published. https://
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by ashleyn 5y ago
With an old airplane, one thing I'd be worried about is Kapton wiring[1]. A lot of these older planes were wired with a type of orange insulator that breaks down very easily over time and under mechanical stresses. A handful of planes
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by ashleyn 5y ago
Novice/young programmers seem to love making OS mockups as a first exercise. This phenomenon even predates web apps: I remember an entire scene consisting of MS-DOS GUIs made with QuickBasic. Hundreds of them - many clones of Windows 9

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