bawolff

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by bawolff 5mo ago
My computer science degree did not cover much actual computer science. You can argue about whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, but the ship sailed long ago. CS undergrad degrees are about training software engineers, not about trai
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Since when has university ever been about "being a competent worker or well-rounded citizen or innovative leader"
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> (apart from say calculators) Generally, i wasn't allowed a calculator in university.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
It does feel like there is an easy solution to this: Have tests. Supervise said tests to make sure people don't cheat. That's how it worked when i was in university. Admittedly maybe that is easier in the sciences than humanities,
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by bawolff 6mo ago
Is your claim that Russia is continuing to fight Ukraine as a favour to china in order that china get information on how modern war is fought and intel on western capabilities? While it is undoubtedly true that china is learning everything
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by bawolff 6mo ago
> A grifting military industrial complex is unable to defend Taiwan even if it wanted to as evident by the exceedingly poor showing with Iran. These two conflicts would be so different that i don't think it makes sense to draw this
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by bawolff 6mo ago
Otoh, if you send the costly false signal of investing in your military, and your opponent doesn't buy it, you might as well use it since you just spent the money anyway and your opponent can't stop you since they didnt believe yo
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by bawolff 6mo ago
China seems to be recently building up its forces and putting a lot of money into military. I think it would be foolish to just assume its all for show even if it might be in the end. And quite frankly, its only geopolitically stupid if the
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by bawolff 6mo ago
And yet they rule the world. Whether or not US won any specific war seems academic when (up until recently) they were clearly winning the game.
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by bawolff 6mo ago
I wonder to what extent this is due to the changing roles of university. I would guess 133 years ago university was mostly upper class folks trying to better their minds, and less people wanting a degree to open up a job. Much more incentiv
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by bawolff 6mo ago
Surely if they are demanding a ransome they somehow got server access to delete data. Would seem kind of insane to pay a ransome solely for an XSS.
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by bawolff 6mo ago
If there was a way to profit from the data that was more than the ransom, wouldn't they just do that instead of asking for a ransome. Or do both i suppose, just because someone pays a ransome there is no garuntee the hacker destroys th
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by bawolff 6mo ago
I suppose it also puts a price on not funding your security department.
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by bawolff 6mo ago
> In reality, if you have 100 5% chances of a cure for a previously incurable illness, you can celebrate each chance a lot. These numbers are obviously entirely made up, but its worth noting that 100 5% chances of a cure, means you have
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by bawolff 6mo ago
Is gentrification a bad thing? Neighbourhoods change, some get richer and some get poorer. That is the way of things. Both poor and rich alike need somewhere to live.
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by bawolff 6mo ago
> And for all of this, only about 5% of medicine that show positive animal results make it to market in some fashion. A mildly positive result is a neccesary but not sufficient condition to make a marketable drug. I'm surprised its
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by bawolff 6mo ago
People go on about this too much. Its the first step, it shows promise. Does that mean it will neccesarily work? No, of course not. But its still exciting to see progress being made.
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by bawolff 6mo ago
> The cost falls on both ends of Scouts BSA. That program is optimal for middle schoolers, but middle schoolers are not trusted to own it. They are managed by older youth instead. High schoolers fare no better. Instead of receiving progr
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by bawolff 6mo ago
> I was pretty geared up to have a contrarian opinion until I looked at the standards but they're actually pretty clear, a 404 could be a proper response to unexpected query string; query string is as much part of the URL API as the
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by bawolff 6mo ago
Am i understanding correctly that you are just targeting consistency and not durability?
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by bawolff 6mo ago
If people spent half the time they do wishing for decentralized messaging working on the actual problems with it, we would have decentralized messaging.
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by bawolff 6mo ago
Presumably it would be very effective for some demographics and not so effective for others. 10% is still a very large group of people. People who would be affected are also probably people who can afford international travel, so the affect
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by bawolff 6mo ago
> I have a lot more issue with a $2.5K limit--that could be just one or two (intentionally or unintentionally) misreported payments. Or a paycheck hiccup. Or a layoff. Or a government error (because we all know how infallible DOGE was).
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by bawolff 6mo ago
The company is not the victim here. Its users are. [I suppose my previous comment was a bit ambigious - i meant something bad happens to someone else not to yourself] A better version of your analogy would be if your landlord failed to repa
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by bawolff 6mo ago
This is a solved problem in pretty much every other domain of life - if you are following best practises but something that wasn't reasonably forseeable happens, then you're fine, but if the bad thing happens as a result of neglig
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by bawolff 6mo ago
One of the biggest issues in security historically imo is vendors who think, well nobody will ever find this bug so we can deprioritize fixing it. LLMs will prevent vendors lying to themselves which will lead to more secure software.
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by bawolff 6mo ago
Its not the reporter's fault that other people broke the embargo.
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by bawolff 6mo ago
As a late thought - i would also add that the idea that this is an aggressive war against Iran relies on the idea that iran and hamas are separate enough that israel striking iran is not self-defense from when hamas struck Israel. But the r
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by bawolff 6mo ago
You could look to what the ICC has charged Putin with to see some key differences.
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by bawolff 6mo ago
> And they can certainly deem oil contraband if they are allowed to do food and medicine, as quoted. Wikipedia is defining what the term blockade means not what constitutes a legal blockade. Medicine is not allowed to be blockaded. Food

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