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by bArray 4y ago
> One example. They have to find Brexit benefits so we have pointless plans to depart from eu rules. Result is higher costs for businesses and uncertainty for anyone trying to plan. I don't think this has anything to do with Brexit,
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by bArray 4y ago
> The website must either be very noteworthy or some content from the website must have received at least 100 points on Reddit or Hacker News on at least one occasion. It's great we now have an elite (10kb club) of the elite (100+ p
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by bArray 4y ago
This entire piece is one assumption after another. > Maybe the puzzle is to escape the program, some sort of an advanced hacking test, a CTF? A competition between billions of species trying to get noticed by God? The assumption here of
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by bArray 4y ago
> Today, Tumblr has a reputation as a refuge from the louder and busier social-media landscape, and those who still spend time there—or who returned to the site, as many did at the start of the pandemic—love it for being somewhat creepy
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by bArray 4y ago
> Error 403 Forbidden > Forbidden > Error 54113 Appears to be a cache error. Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/20221119071746/https://www.theat...
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by bArray 4y ago
I also get CloudFlare now blocking my access to RSS feed MP3s for some podcasts. Once the almighty CloudFlare deems you a threat, your IP is burned. These days I can use less and less of the internet. I really want to just see us get to the
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by bArray 4y ago
Chickens are well known for being secretive creatures. I'm yet to hear one to repeat anything that has been told to them.
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by bArray 4y ago
It doesn't matter how 'noble' the research seems, these funds were clearly raised through criminal activity. It really sucks for the researchers, but the people who earned that money have a fundamental right to decide how it
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by bArray 4y ago
> Watching Elon gaslight current and former Twitter employees in the public square, I couldn’t help but wonder if any engineers would actually work for this guy going forward and why? There are _far_ worse people to work for. These peopl
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by bArray 4y ago
To be really secure when leaking typed documents, I get 5 colleagues together and we whisper the leak along the line, so that many of the words are changed by the end. For each word we are randomly spaced to defeat Musk's space-based d
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by bArray 4y ago
(Assuming this is not already solved in a way I do not know...) Extending your example, would it be possible to have: <a href="https://example.com/data.bin" integrity="sha384-oqVuAfXRKap7fdgcCY
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by bArray 4y ago
> That isn't an argument for or against crypto. Crypto is a virtual object and that is desirable, makes it easier to get past a border. Crypto is like a family game of monopoly that gets a little out of control. There is this long-r
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by bArray 4y ago
You learn something new every day. I had a quick look [1], seems quite usable! [1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/job-control-bash-featur...
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by bArray 4y ago
I don't think a clean script is much to ask for. Sometimes a programming language is not particularly appropriate. There's some middle ground where it's complex, but re-writing it in a programming language is a super pain.
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by bArray 4y ago
> It’s a particularly nasty flu. No doubt, but for the majority it is recoverable. > You’re well advised to train your immune system before encountering the first time with vaccination. I believe that it's effectiveness is greatl
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by bArray 4y ago
I think zsh and others (bash, ash, etc) are a problem for many reasons: 1. Poor start-up time. It's not so much a problem if you are opening a terminal, but if you're running shell scripts in a large loop, they could soon become a
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by bArray 4y ago
> I went 2.5 years with no plane fights and minimal in-person contact to suddenly "everyone must get back to normal! get on those planes! let's have lots of face to face meetings!" I don't know the author's backg
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by bArray 4y ago
At what point do they notice they are being captured? Depending on when this is set (relative to our own tech) and the relative speed at which their host star travels to the black hole, they could get little warning. The smaller the black h
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by bArray 4y ago
I quoted the article, take it up with the BBC. At the time of checking your bot link: 6,047,035 accounts +4,669 in the last hour +96,241 in the last day +295,175 in the last week This just tracks the number of users be
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by bArray 4y ago
I quoted the article.
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by bArray 4y ago
Trying to replace C with something like Rust, is essentially saying that we should rewrite all kernels in Rust. C is the common language because it talks to the kernel, which talks to the hardware. Forgetting how much would need to be repla
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by bArray 4y ago
BBC title correction according to their own article: " Some Twitter users jump to Mastodon - but what is it?". It's certainly not even remotely close to all. > The social network says it now has over 655,000 users - with
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by bArray 4y ago
Good question. I suspect this will kill many businesses. There is only so much you can reduce your running costs without killing your business.
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by bArray 4y ago
> It's English. I know that this could be enforced by my manager or HR, but would prefer to handle it in a more direct/personal manner. It probably should be. I assume you're not the only English-only person in the office,
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by bArray 4y ago
Yep. Something like "We engage selected ethnic communities for feedback on our algorithms and practices, helping to improve Twitter's social culture" translates to "I meet my ethnic friend for lunch and we hate on intern
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by bArray 4y ago
An AI doesn't have agency in the same way humans do. The AI has zero understanding of holocaust denial, in the same way another tool does, or a dog, or a child.
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by bArray 4y ago
> Imagine where the world would be if bell labs didn't invest all that money into positive changes that people _intended_ to make. The people at Bell Labs could point at something and say "despite this never making it to market
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by bArray 4y ago
> I work in a FAANG office where a lot of people can speak Mandarin, but I'm not one of them. About half of my immediate team can, though. What is the official language of the company? If it's English, there are grounds to enfo
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by bArray 4y ago
> Yep, the team is gone. The team that was researching and pushing for algorithmic transparency and algorithmic choice. The team that was studying algorithmic amplification. The team that was inventing and building ethical AI tooling and
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by bArray 4y ago
How does this compare on embedded systems for performance? For example PyTorch vs tinygrad, or Darknet vs tinygrad?

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