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by chias 3y ago
In general, composing Unix commands is a very powerful means to construct complex applications... poorly, with no real pathways to fixing their shortcomings. I believe the traditional "Unix Way" is to gloss over said shortcomings
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by chias 3y ago
One dynamic I experienced that also isn't in the simulation: if you focus too much on classwork early on in order to pass your RPE, it can actually be hard to find an advisor. Classwork is basically dead-end work and the more you focus
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by chias 3y ago
That is, to a T, almost identical to my experience reporting a vulnerability to Google too. Me: Here's a bug in Gmail that allows spoofed email to scrub DKIM failures and appear legitimate Google: "Won't fix (Intended Behavio
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by chias 3y ago
Given that you are on HN, you are likely salaried employee. This means you are also generating income 24/7. If you were fined for 20 days of your income, would you still argue that this is "the definition of a trivial fine" f
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by chias 3y ago
I had a very similar experience to you. The only parts of BotW that came close to the "feel" of OoT were the Divine Beasts, but they were such a small part of the game. My biggest criticism was how much like it felt like you wer
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by chias 4y ago
Interestingly, some time ago as part of my job I tested this out -- how effective is a fake breach settlement website / notification as a phishing vector? It turns out, to my surprise, not very. You can't harvest anything particul
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by chias 4y ago
So here are a few screenshots that I personally took after telling it that it was a linux terminal: Correctly produces a convincing output for having decoded the base64-encoding of "ping google.com" and then piping it to bash: h
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by chias 4y ago
I think there is a useful distinction here though -- you're by definition doing processing there on a "non-exactly-once delivery" system in order to get your "exactly-once" result, and by definition anything that re
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by chias 4y ago
> As your company's CISO, the most unkind yet accurate adjective people will ever apply to me is "ablative." For Corey Quinn's fantastic "security awareness training" thread: https://infosec.excha
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by chias 4y ago
This was also the final plot device in the original Diablo game.
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by chias 4y ago
Also, trust isn't additive in this way: now you have to trust Google AND Microsoft, which is a weaker property than just trusting Google. (unless of course they're alleging that Microsot has gone and reworked the browser to such
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by chias 4y ago
Or more generally, you end up with a cycle: ChatGPT trains Bard which trains Bing which trains ChatGPT, etc.
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by chias 4y ago
> That copy makes any reasonable user more aggrieved by the situation. It's interesting, I find myself feeling this way about automated messages expressing (simulating?) emotion, too. I get that we want to "humanize" some
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by chias 4y ago
> development slowed down to a crawl It's pretty wild that you can see exactly the moment when Zoom bought them on their github activity graph: https://github.com/keybase/client/graphs/code-frequency
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by chias 4y ago
I will be the one to bite the bullet and make the least important correction possible here: The fractional digits of pi rounded to 11 places are 14159[2]65359 :)
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by chias 4y ago
While Google certainly has its faults and I am frustrated with its trajectory, I would bet money that this is an article pushing the nonsensical notion that AI language models will replace search engines. Edit: based on the subtitle, it see
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by chias 4y ago
Is Google Image Search really a significant component in many people's adult entertainment process? If so, gosh, that's like a step up from using Wikipedia, but not a very big step.
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by chias 4y ago
If I operate a webpage, and I incorporate this content quality metadata tag, why would I put anything other than "highest possible quality"?
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by chias 4y ago
Well, needing a table, external keyboard and external mouse.
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by chias 4y ago
Thank you, this is the first time I've read a description of what an electron probability density means that has made real sense to me.
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by chias 4y ago
As somebody who would ordinarily look for products in this "more expensive, reasonable quality" category, I feel this comment so hard :( I've actually started building my own furniture from raw wood etc. just because it'
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by chias 4y ago
Your followers migrate, but your posts and any interactions on them don't. And for good reason, of course! But I do understand where the author is coming from: if you've put in a lot of effort in your posts thus-far, it does still
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by chias 4y ago
Reading: > n runners on a track of unit length, with constant speeds all distinct from one another, will each be lonely at some time—at least 1/n units away from all others. Interesting conjecture! And okay, a lot of interesting pro
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by chias 4y ago
Why not just use a subdomain? This is, arguably, what subdomains are for .
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by chias 4y ago
We already see this from time to time :D https://twitter.com/jamonholmgren/status/1462955101899788294
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by chias 4y ago
Given that 'sun|moon' resulted in 30905 moon 36100 Samsung 44937 sun my guess is no.
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by chias 4y ago
We're talking references here, so this gets very sticky. They're not just wondering "were you employed at X from dates Y to Z", they want to get that person's opinion on what kind of employee you are, then make a ju
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by chias 4y ago
The same thing happened to me. My solution was to block an IP address from making a purchase after N failed card attempts. It worked well enough to get me back off of the radar of those scammers.
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by chias 4y ago
A story of disappointment in three acts: --- ACT I: Oh cool, they deliver to the USA and their prices are reasonable, let's try it! ACT II: Sign up for an account in order to check out. ACT III: Subtotal 16 €; shipping 145 €; total 161
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by chias 4y ago
You probably don't make them much money anyway.

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