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by bmitc 2y ago
Yea, our supply chain fragility and dependence really scares me sometimes. I try not to think about it, to be honest.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Does that answer the question? If you have a password and key for 1Password, and keep both your passwords and authentications for accounts behind that password and key, doesn't that defeat multi-factor authentication? Because if the pe
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by bmitc 2y ago
I'm not sure that Tesla showed anyone the blueprint of anything. If the air from the EV hype pops tomorrow, Kia and Hyundai could drop their entire EV lines with barely a hiccup. Tesla, not so much. And it was easy for Kia and Hyundai
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by bmitc 2y ago
It does seem that in my quick search, I came across the 44% number which was then later corrected by the Washington Post but not before a bunch of other articles picked up on the wrong tagline. In terms of the actional numbers, like I said,
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by bmitc 2y ago
You can just say things that might as well be random, but it would be helpful if you pointed to actual data instead of just claiming things are not true. I didn't just make up the numbers. I found them in articles. I could have and pro
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by bmitc 2y ago
Yea, it's all alarming. It's so ridiculous. None of these companies provide any real value, but people salivate over performing corruption for them and throwing money at them. I haven't ever understood.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Well yea, but many big players do that: Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, Duo, Okta, etc. You use 1Password as your authenticator as well? Doesn't that make it not multi-factor if it contains both your password and authent
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by bmitc 2y ago
How do you handle authenticator apps, which do not backup to the cloud, and other two-factor authentication related things?
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by bmitc 2y ago
Damn. I was fairly certain that U.S. citizens are not subject to such warrantless searches and confiscations, but yet: https://informationsecurity.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toru... It's pretty unbeliev
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by bmitc 2y ago
"I'm sorry about the confusion."
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by bmitc 2y ago
I think supermarkets hide a bit of a scary thought though. It sends this signal as food always being available, but it sits atop a very tightly "balanced" supply chain that is quite fragile. A few major supply chain disruptions an
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by bmitc 2y ago
My threshold for marvel is much higher. I feel we're in an age of un-marvels. Nearly every technological "improvement" feels worse than the thing it replaced. I'm not even that old, but things were once much, much more s
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by bmitc 2y ago
It's alarming just how in bed with the government and regulators Tesla has been. I don't get it. They are and have been a middling startup car company. I don't understand how they've had access to so much government and
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by bmitc 2y ago
Very interesting. I'll have to look into this more. It's disheartening to see the evolution of America. In the early 20th century, America was almost a socialist republic with a lot of pro-socialist ideas, policies, trends, etc. B
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by bmitc 2y ago
This has been exactly my experience. It is great at autocomplete and boilerplate stuff. It's very hit and miss for StackOverflow type of stuff. And it's usually a complete miss when you ask it something where it needs to understan
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by bmitc 2y ago
I thought it would be implied, but I meant "not always true". Regarding intelligence, it's an interesting thing. I'm not sure I understand that assuming animals, in particular cetaceans, to be intelligent requires a &quo
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by bmitc 2y ago
To not always be true. It's a little hard to cite hundreds of years of science history. But one of the big examples is general relativity, from many aspects. Many scientists simply didn't believe it (yes, the word "believe&
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by bmitc 2y ago
> Scientists don’t make claims without evidence. History has shown that to not be true. > Scientists are generally very curious, open to exploration In my experience, it is the opposite. I often find scientists are in fact very uncuri
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by bmitc 2y ago
How are meteorites remotely relevant to what's being discussed?
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by bmitc 2y ago
While I'm not one to fawn after billionaires, I found his life story and personality really fascinating. He really seemed to maintain a humble approach, and in the Numberphile interview, which is excellent, he really emphasized the not
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by bmitc 2y ago
> macbooks have long been the most capable dev laptops on the planet I personally don't find that to be true. The jobs that forced Macbooks on me were fraught with development issues all stemming from macOS. In Windows, I am current
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by bmitc 2y ago
I actually think they both cared. My comment was more to point out that she is still alive and is a computer scientist, so the foundation still has founding leadership.
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by bmitc 2y ago
For what it's worth, the foundation was actually kickstarted by his wife.
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by bmitc 2y ago
And yet, that's not true. One of the primary impacts from rocket launches are the heights they reach and the particles they produce, as mentioned in the articles I posted elsewhere.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Is less about being offended and more about having a negative emotional response, which is perfectly natural and often involuntary.
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by bmitc 2y ago
No, I'm not. Apple breaks music applications with every new release. They're all being held hostage due to OpenGL being deprecated on macOS. Apple is the hardest platform to develop creative applications for.
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by bmitc 2y ago
I'm always reminded of this from South Park : https://youtu.be/15HTd4Um1m4
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by bmitc 2y ago
Apple is the most draconian company and operating system maker. It's astounding that they're associated with creativity. They make it really hard to even use their devices as computers. And they've made the same aluminium rec
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by bmitc 2y ago
I don't think one needs to be Japanese to be offended by that ad. Also, it's amazing at how accurate it is describing Apple's general corporate approach.
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by bmitc 2y ago
You can just search for it. The general answer is that it is not good, and it's getting worse. The comparison to aviation, once again, is not really needed. Aviation is extremely polluting and damaging to the environment (not just polu

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