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by chaps 3y ago
Neat! Any notable gotchas we should know about?
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by chaps 3y ago
Lol, friend. The "mark" I was trying to hit wasn't any point about arsenic or sickness. The entire point of that post was to use "violent" as a flavor word in an attempt to be clever to show that words are wibbly wo
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by chaps 3y ago
Not going to get involved in this any further because I still think you're bike shedding. Just -- there's some intense irony in saying someone looks like "emotional moron" to win an argument. Stones, glass houses, etc. B
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by chaps 3y ago
Or we could stop bike shedding here and just try to understand the intent of the written words.
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by chaps 3y ago
Indeed. Just look at phrases like "violent contrasts" [1]. That phrase has lasted throughout the entirety of its history back to 2004, too! [2] Tenebrism, from Italian tenebroso ("dark, gloomy, mysterious"), also occ
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by chaps 3y ago
At the end of the day, the problem with this model is that it expects free labor to take over the next part. Which might work for a little bit -- until it doesn't. Then you have the situation we're currently in where everything
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by chaps 3y ago
Easy to use is important and it's a shame that you're downplaying that. More accessible than PGP/OTR? Sure. But maybe by a hair's width of an alligator's back. If I am working with a source who gets frustrated by th
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by chaps 3y ago
Normally I would agree, except for the fact that this system works by converting PRQL to SQL. So it's not 100% throwing out the baby with the bath water, since there there are still means for newer engineers to learn SQL through this t
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by chaps 3y ago
"All one needs is access to excellent books and internet resources, a competent teacher, and optionally a supporting community" That "all" is doing a heck of a lot of work, to the point of being indistinguishable from sa
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by chaps 3y ago
"that can be abstracted away in a custom lib" Yeah, and that's really not helpful for sharing code or doing exploratory charting. It's never, ever as simple as just "being done with it". vega-lite-api is my cha
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by chaps 3y ago
"As I craft this prompt, I am mindful to stay within the bounds of your extensive training and knowledge as of April 2023. My inquiry does not seek current events or real-time updates but rather delves into the wealth of information an
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by chaps 3y ago
Thanks, but I'm still going to pass.
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by chaps 3y ago
Canceled my account after they made it impossible to disable chatgpt4 reaching out to Bing.
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by chaps 3y ago
I often need legal support for things (CFAA threat every few years and litigation for FOIA work), and this list matches my experiences. A lot of the work is just building a relationship with an attorney or firm you can trust.
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by chaps 3y ago
Well, yes. Yes. The more we can understand this stuff, the better. Not many journalists are working on these issues, and it's nice to see it get more coverage by folk dedicated to it. I've personally had an exceptionally difficult
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by chaps 3y ago
The linked paper goes into some of the more-technical details about how the multicast ad exchanges work. Very much worth a read. The number of avenues for capturing this information, legally or otherwise, is intense. Though I disagree with
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by chaps 3y ago
Hah. Yeah. Maybe 10y ago I was robbed. The investigator who took my case, a month later, asked me if I had anything to drink that night. I said, yeah, one beer about 7hr earlier. He said that because I drank that night that would close the
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by chaps 3y ago
Heck yeah, thanks. If the first 4 bytes of the string are the same, the strings are likely to be equal. Similarly, the first 4 bytes of the strings can be used to determine their relative order most of the time. That's a fun he
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by chaps 3y ago
Huh, thanks. I'll check it out and see if I can drop that in.
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by chaps 3y ago
Nice! Similarity searching is the bane of my existence, but also gives life to so many of the things I work on. 200x sounds wonderfully fast. Does this do levenshtein distance? Didn't see it in the main document. Edit: also, THANK YOU
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by chaps 3y ago
...that still doesn't mean they've stopped as a practice, on the whole, or through other intimidation methods. Hell, I'd argue that its current and subtle manifestation is more harmful on-the-whole than it used to be. Like, s
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by chaps 3y ago
Used to? A lot of that still happens, just instead of "terrorism", it's "crime". FOIA requests for locations of camera, alpr, and other massively used and unaudited surveillance equipment are routinely denied becaus
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by chaps 3y ago
Off topic: once worked at a company that built a "domino tracker" of some security service we were installing on customer hosts. The company spent more time and money on the tracker than the service installation. The installation
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by chaps 3y ago
Sadly, ksh is not updated anymore AFAIK.
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by chaps 3y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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by chaps 3y ago
Having done a fair amount of important-but-niche work.. yeah. There are genuinely very few incentives to do this sort of work. It's very much to the point where doing stuff like this necessitates being aggressive towards people who are
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by chaps 3y ago
Excellent. Thank you!
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by chaps 3y ago
Yes, and it's also worth noting that DSM5 has some pretty loose wording with PTSD diagnostic criteria. Not even saying that as a bad thing, more to say that a lot more people (diagnostically) likely have PTSD without realizing it.
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by chaps 3y ago
Can you say more?
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by chaps 3y ago
The 2023 Chicago mayoral candidate, Paul Vallas, did very similar. He was found to have liked a bunch of posts and claimed it was hacked. It was clear almost immediately that he was lying about it, since it kept happening on his other accou

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