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by caconym_ 4y ago
Yes, it was not my intention to imply that those old operating systems were fundamentally more secure in some way. You're getting at it here: the space has broadened, and asserting that old software is more secure than new software bas
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by caconym_ 4y ago
It ignores a whole lot more than that. For instance, are we seriously going to pretend that the threat landscape in the Windows 98 and XP eras was anything like what it is today? Well, I'm not. If he wants to daily drive Windows 98 bec
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Are you claiming that unpatched software is more secure than patched software?
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by caconym_ 4y ago
A phone (or any kind of internet-connected computer) that's been completely unsupported for years will presumably be low-hanging fruit for even the cheapest and crustiest of exploit kits.
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I totally buy the 35 hour thing, but I don't think these companies really have a reason to care. They can push workers to the breaking point to extract whatever diminished returns at no additional cost, then "manage out" the
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by caconym_ 4y ago
This is how blocking works now. They changed it sometime relatively recently. Utterly deranged.
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> As a counterpoint, though, I note that I've done some work on language generation and that, too, is something that can engage the user, and can be almost as rewarding as e.g. writing a story. Though that's much more so if the
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Personally I would draw the line where the tools I'm ultimately relying on to create art don't function at all without having millions of works by other artists baked into them. You can say that's how my brain is doing it a
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by caconym_ 4y ago
The author of the linked post claims fairly strenuously that they always search for answers elsewhere before posting, which (taken at face value) suggests that they are not at all suffering from this "common misunderstanding". If
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I went to university before modern social media existed, was very social "IRL", and still struggled with early morning classes. I don't think your theory holds water.
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by caconym_ 4y ago
If your headlights are at the same level as my car's roof, there is no alignment that will both a) not blind me, and b) actually illuminate the road in front of you. It is geometrically impossible. But I agree to some extent that adapt
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> I make money from the secondary effects. Are you even reading my comments? Because yes, you do, that's the whole point. I said as much in my last one. That's exactly what makes your opinion in this matter essentially worthles
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by caconym_ 4y ago
See, this is exactly the part that software people don't get. You give your code away for free, which means you have decided up front that you don't stand to benefit from retaining any rights for yourself (except perhaps minor
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> There are many ways to earn money from films, music, art, books, etc., without needing copyright. I see this opinion all over the place, but it never seems to be coming from actual working artists, and I am curious why people who don&#
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by caconym_ 4y ago
If you really think these are semantically comparable^[1] to the statement under examination then we are not speaking the same language, despite appearances to the contrary, and therefore have nothing to discuss. I get it: hating on AI is v
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by caconym_ 4y ago
It literally is a gaming computer. Its design prioritizes gaming applications at every turn, from the form factor to the unusually low-resolution display to the gaming-oriented features of the (default) operating system. It's optimized
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by caconym_ 4y ago
HIP 65426b is the first exoplanet JWST imaged, but it was previously discovered by VLT-SPHERE, which I believe is also a direct imaging instrument. So it would not be correct to say that JWST took the first pictures of HIP 65426b. However,
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I am glad you were able to offer your opinion here.
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by caconym_ 4y ago
This isn't incorrect, it's just ambiguous. The JWST did indeed "take the first pictures" of a planet outside our solar system ( https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148626359/nasa-webb-teles
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Perhaps the author has simply chosen to discard cognitive structures that will be made redundant in the new post-literacy age of ubiquitous ML language tools. Would that we all had such vision, and the courage to act on it.
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by caconym_ 4y ago
The "problem" with VR is that it doesn't yet have the mass market appeal of traditional consoles or PC gaming. For higher-end VR gaming, that's mostly because the hardware is (as you say) quite expensive and compromised
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I am unsure of whether this comment is meant to justify arbitrary human rights abuses against prisoners on the basis of their status as such, or simply to state that prisoners' human rights are indeed commonly abused. Could you pleas
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> There have been restaurants have tried non-tipping models, consumers and staff both hate it. Citation needed. My experiences at no-tipping restaurants have been the absolute opposite of your claims: great food, great service, and no fu
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by caconym_ 4y ago
It's not really clear to me which model(s) are being compared, but it doesn't seem very surprising that a last-gen chassis with an M1 dropped into it would be cheaper than essentially the same system in a painfully thin tablet wit
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Did you know that once upon a time there was no such thing as a speed limit? Do you think we should return to those good old days? Or is there perhaps an argument to be made that new technologies can lead to suboptimal outcomes when operate
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> It's my worst nightmare whenever I'm flying these days. We've all got our irrational fears, but whether you're flying in a jumbo jet or a single-prop bug-smasher this one is very irrational indeed: https:/&#x2
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> I can't find any information on fatalities due to aircraft-drone collisions, topic of this article notwithstanding. That's because there have not been any: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unmanned_a
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by caconym_ 4y ago
The responsible thing to do is to have a robust code review culture and cover your code with enough tests that boneheaded mistakes in this vein have a very low chance of making it into production. There is no amount of experience that can
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I wish that before working on this they had fixed the long-standing bug where Apple Music playback on the Apple TV 4K (and possibly other versions) disables the screensaver, making it impossible to use on any OLED TV without risking burn-in
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Musk has been a complete trainwreck for years, and it hasn't stopped SpaceX from winning a bunch of government (including defense) contracts, nor---crucially---from delivering on them. The recent Twitter stuff has gotten a lot of air

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