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by bigiain 2y ago
Damian Conway did it in Perl back in the late 90's: https://metacpan.org/pod/Quantum::Superpositions (Sadly, the Perl Module has to do classical calculations underneath to get the Quantum computing code/funct
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by bigiain 2y ago
It means a good security research company might make $500k for a good researcher, if they could bring in enough work to keep them 100% utilised. Less actually, given paid time off.
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by bigiain 2y ago
So what you're suggesting is we do whatever we can to avoid hitting 2 degrees of universal facial recognition precision? Given that the 1.5 degree target is now inevitably impossible.
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by bigiain 2y ago
No too sure modern private cars are all that good at letting you avoid leaving time/location traces.
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by bigiain 2y ago
> A great solution to disincentivize all investment into capital markets While I agree with your argument here, that opening line really raises questions. Do we want "capital markets" at all if they're structured in a way
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Consequence don't need to be dire Sometimes, consequences _do_ need to be dire. I had a boss once who used to calm everybody down when things were going badly saying "It's OK. Nobody is going to die." And he was rig
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by bigiain 2y ago
It won't. The incentives are not aligned that way. Whenever those MBAs in the C suite are judged by investor shareholders purely on financials, and they can pocket their own millions over short few-year timespans, they'll just jui
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by bigiain 2y ago
I propose: public class CertificateAuthorityFactory{
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by bigiain 2y ago
Perl might have been the original dual license. GPL or Perl Artistic license. I remember learning about Affero at a Perl Conference in the late 90's or so.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Part of me wants to say "Using a picture of Taylor Swift when talking about successful recording artists wouldn't make anyone bat an eyelid. This was a discussion about narcissistic personality disorder..."
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by bigiain 2y ago
"Arc B"? Presumably graphics cards optimised for hairdressers and telephone sanitisers?
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by bigiain 2y ago
> One conversion I want to attempt, but am unfortunately unlikely to, is an electric rear wheel drive. Front wheel can remain gas with transmission. It can be done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2agCqW6ntc
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by bigiain 2y ago
Any company that makes it an employee's responsibility to find "someone to cover" their on call time while they're on vacation is a company worth quitting. I'm pretty sure that'd be illegal here in .au On call
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by bigiain 2y ago
I've been around a while. As in I've installed Linux from floppies kind of vintage. I get new grads with great grades, who are decent junior devs that are productive in, say, Java and one or maybe two related things like SpringBoo
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by bigiain 2y ago
#4 is the big one for me. And I don't really care. I'm super comfortable with one-liners in my bash shell. I can do useful stuff in bash scripts, but typically with a base script gets to more than a dozen or so lines, I find mysel
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by bigiain 2y ago
> It would be interesting, however, to have a backdrop of steadfast historical “accuracy “ in an otherwise pseudo-slapstick context a-la Monty pythons flying circus. That was kinda part of the gig, but it might be even funnier if they ob
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by bigiain 2y ago
Poe never wrote "Quoth the raven, eat my shorts", but I suspect an order of magnitude or two more people are aware of that poem thanks to The Simpsons, compare to all the poetry teachers ever.
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by bigiain 2y ago
But apart from the aqueducts, what have the Romans ever done for us?
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited on Intel-based Mac systems. Is kinda weasel-wordy, if you read it with sufficient cynicism. Its doesn't rule out them also being aware of reports (or actu
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by bigiain 2y ago
I'd guess yes, since they're both (due to Apple rules) basically wrappers around webkit and JavaScriptCore. (Modulo the possible hint that this is just an Intel-based Mac systems problem)
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by bigiain 2y ago
> I've gone through times when management would treat estimates as deadlines, and were deaf to any sort of reason about why it could be otherwise, like the usual thing of them changing the specification repeatedly. I worked at a pla
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by bigiain 2y ago
"My name is Susie and I'll be the purser on your flight today, and on behalf of the Captain Chaos Monkey and the First Officer Chaos Monkey... Oh. Shit..."
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by bigiain 2y ago
And from a day or two ago: "Navy undersea cable showdown on Britain's doorstep: Warship forces Russian spy ship out of the Irish Sea after it was spotted over critical subsea cables - miles from UK coast" -- https:/&#x2
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Have you spoken with SWAT team members? Not only do I have zero interest in speaking with SWAT team members, I have very real reasons why I choose wherever possible to not talk to any cops at all. https://youtu.be/d-7o9
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by bigiain 2y ago
> The main issue is the insecurity of the old telecom system where spoofing is so easy. I disagree. The main issue is qualified immunity. The phone companies never killed anybody in a SWAT raid. The phone companies never claimed to be bu
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by bigiain 2y ago
There's also the super weird (to people outside the US) insistence that the only possible response to gun violence (by gangsters, school kids, or cops) is "thoughts and prayers".
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by bigiain 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that the US is unique in it's propensity for SWAT teams to shoot first ask questions later. Same way as the US is the only nation in the world where it's impossible to prevent weekly school mass shootings.
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by bigiain 2y ago
It wouldn't be a problem, if the "heavily armed response team" was properly held to account when they killed innocent people. Cops kill people on the basis of ludicrous anonymous phone call because they know they'll get
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by bigiain 2y ago
Still a huge amount of luck involved. If that planetary alignment had happened even 10 years earlier NASA probably wouldn't have had the capability to do anything with it. If it had been sometime recently, say after the Challenger disa
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by bigiain 2y ago
Next thing, the "manager AIs" start stack ranking the specialized "worker AIs". And the worker AIs "evolve" to meet/exceed expectations only on tasks directly contributing to KPIs the manager AIs measure f

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