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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Depends on what we mean by "work". My impression is that Google didn't change its name due to shame or for consumer branding, but rather to better reflect the company's structure where not everything is Google anymore. I
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Whataboutism is not a good defense for FB. All social media companies profiting from hate and addiction are evil.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
The timing of this announcement is strange. Maybe this was already planned for late October, or maybe this is an attempt to take control of the narrative after all the horrible publicity.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
If there wasn't a committee, the change would have been made and a lot of people would have suffered. In this particular case, the time spent in following the process is negligible compared to the damage this change would have caused.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
were
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Don't dare disclosing it in Missouri!
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
The news is not only the lack of understanding of what hacking is and what a security fuck up is. The news is the cowardice of this clown of a governor trying to deflect blame to those reporting the vulnerability. If he is too embarrassed t
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Pentagon official resigned, says US cybersecurity is no match for China(businessinsider.com)
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Senators demand Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg answer questions after revelations(cnbc.com)
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
It's called a tipping point. Previous critics made similar denunciations, but most people and even the media just shrugged and pretended nothing bad was happening. It takes time for society to acknowledge inconvenient truths. Plus, her
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
> I don't want the government to meddle with what types of things people can say online, This is totally off and a distraction from the actual problem, which is that Facebook is amplifying toxicity and division for profit, that they
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
And the ones who profit by exacerbating toxicity.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Entirely agree. The problem is that most people don't understand that and easily fall prey to thinking that AI is a magical black box that can solve any problem you throw at it. In no small part because of all the hype by salespeople a
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
All that garbage was circulating and being amplified in early Facebook and for many years later, even today, generating engagement and profit regardless of algorithms. They just made it worse over time. Why do you also dismiss the rest of t
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Facebook is more than a factor. It is central to the problem as the largest social media corporation. Its amplification of psychopathic content to maximize the sickest forms of engagement for profit has people effectively living in a destru
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
> The code worked differently when the moon was full Sound like a case of werecode
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Say Goodbye to Your Manager(theatlantic.com)
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
> unless you're critical to national security, the bottom line is: you're on your own here Ransomware attacks are now pervasive. I'd argue that even though most individual victims are not critical to national security, soc
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Is that a good bang for the pound even after the price drop? (cost/performance ratio)
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Softening the shock to Mailchimp employees with money would work to some degree. But if they kill the culture then it won't help in the long run.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
And Mint
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Most code nowadays consists of calling third party libraries and your system's other modules. How do you build the models of those components for symbolic execution?
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
It's not even a problem of a bar being too high. It's a problem of using the wrong bar. The intellectual laziness of using metrics like leetcode-like performance for hiring instead of evaluating applicable technical and soft skill
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Makes sense, assuming that the crappy company does want to be better. Most of them are not serious about it though.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
"Former Intel Corp. boss Craig Barrett called his company’s microprocessors the most complicated devices ever made by man." Not very smart to boast about this. So AMD makes more performant chips with less complicated designs?
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
For formal verification to catch the bug, the bug would have to be at the design level and the model would have to have enough detail to include the design bug.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
I think each database has its own key, but all keys were accessible via Jupiter Notebook.
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Four new games land on the Atari Lynx(engadget.com)
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Is there anything being built there that could dominate fintech? I haven't heard of anything. 3,700 highly paid individuals is a lot.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
All these half-hearted products Google develops and often cancels makes me think it's a great place for developers and executives to train themselves and gain street cred, kind of like getting an ivy-league degree, and then move on els

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