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by chrsig 5y ago
You're kind of just describing why it's hard to prosecute based on intent though. For the purposes of distinguishing between if something is an exploit or not, it doesn't seem too relevant
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by chrsig 5y ago
> Let me take a couple of specific examples. Upon being told that an asteroid large enough to destroy human civilization was on course to hit the earth in 6 months, the President decided that it would make strategic sense to delay annou
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by chrsig 5y ago
With a sql injection, you have to willfully provide an input with the hope that it results in injection my understanding is that the reporter looked at the source that was being sent as intended -- no manipulation of input by the client
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by chrsig 5y ago
> Idiocracy is amazing because outside of Booker T, and Scareface's cameo I had no idea who these actors were I can understand where you're coming from. I'm a marvel fan and I'm disappointed that they went with so ma
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by chrsig 5y ago
Considering that film is an art form, it "only" being an expression to it's intended audience is just fine. There's no obligation or advertisement to be anything more than that. The target audience is fucking exhausted
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by chrsig 5y ago
We do indeed disagree! I don't think it was saying that politics and politicians as trivial -- I think it was saying that they're not necessarily smart people, and they're certainly not necessarily acting in the best interest
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by chrsig 5y ago
> Who's "we" in that sentence? Intelligent people are unlikely to adopt foolish plans, by definition. You're confusing intelligence with wisdom. Intelligent people are likely to recognize a plan as foolish. They may
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by chrsig 5y ago
We'd only need eugenics if competency is strictly linked to genetics. We can probably make a lot of progress investing in schools, making higher education more accessible, finding more engaging teaching strategies, ensuring that parent
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by chrsig 5y ago
How does clever people in being in the forbes ranking relate to the darwinian appraisal?
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by chrsig 5y ago
Can you describe how you felt it was terrible?
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by chrsig 5y ago
I mean...I can see why it'd be called smug...but to be honest, I don't think it was targeted to people that would be bothered by the smugness. That is, it seemed like it was genuinely an expression of frustration/dismay/
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by chrsig 5y ago
You're presuming that the species lasts another couple centuries.
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by chrsig 5y ago
I encourage everyone to watch Don't Look Up . In many ways it struck me as the spiritual successor to Idiocracy. I needed to watch it in chunks, because of how viscerally real it is. It is funny, in that it's ostensibly comedy,
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by chrsig 5y ago
So what are you hoping to gain by making the HN folk aware of your goal?
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by chrsig 5y ago
I don't think c++ overdid it persay, I just think that they really got some of the ergonomics wrong. SFINAE and the CRTP are examples of idioms that are possible due to the flexibility, but unintelligible to read (I'm sure there&#
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by chrsig 5y ago
I'm not really sure what OP is hoping to accomplish by posting this? Sorry you had to deal with an asshole, OP. The arch folk definitely seem unfriendly, which is a shame, because that's not how I recollect it from 2007.
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by chrsig 5y ago
You just made me consider how gpt3 might impact things like school assignments. e.g,. Have it write 75% of an essay and modify from there
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by chrsig 5y ago
GNU generally considers those types of clauses in opposition to libre software[0] [0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#JSON
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by chrsig 5y ago
Thanks! I haven’t ever heard of it before. Could any cultist comment on if it has useful suggestions for maintaining said system? I’ve got a cycle of organization/chaos, where I organize myself, but then over time start to lose the mot
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by chrsig 5y ago
Buy a time management book. It might help you use the budget better next year, so you’re not cramming at the last minute.
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by chrsig 5y ago
Tends to wear off too quickly - amphetamine salts are cheaper, definitely last longer, and even come in extended release forms. they can also be prescribed, so that’s nice. cocaine’s more fun though, I’ll give you that. and would probably
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by chrsig 5y ago
> Look at "Getting Things Done" Is there a link you could share? seems like a pretty vague thing to google, and it’s not immediately clear if you’re referring to a book, blog post, video, etc.
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by chrsig 5y ago
> Your brain likes finishing stuff Person with adhd here. No it does not. It’s quite content to give me that dopamine at 80% and then let me wander off to the next interesting thing.
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by chrsig 5y ago
but my nvim is already an alias to emacs. please advise
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by chrsig 5y ago
They sure do make a big difference! Couple with a low distraction environment so that the benefit is used on what it’s intended to be used on, and not on something more interesting.
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by chrsig 5y ago
If I could upvote this more than once, I would. It doesn’t just apply to writing human readable text, either. It’s great while developing software as well. I’ve learned to try and get some minimal deployable unit complete, then start fill
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by chrsig 5y ago
- see a professional to determine if there’s anything like adhd in play that may be making it harder for you - break things down into smaller tasks - just try to get one of those smaller tasks done, dont worry about the rest - if the smalle
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by chrsig 5y ago
> I dunno how to put this but consider seeking therapy. 2 years of constant fear being cranked out by public health “experts” and the media have done a number on people No, two years of half the population refusing to wear a fucking mask
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by chrsig 5y ago
Do you understand the difference between a novel virus and the flu? > We have marvelous vaccines that knock Covid to the level of a cold or mild flu for most people in the “office worker” demographic. And now we have omicron, which is st
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by chrsig 5y ago
as a former pack/day smoker…i can’t not say this, and hope that perhaps it’ll benefit some other reader: > I tried vaping Juul aggressively for a few weeks to try to get addicted This is fucking moronic. > Very light effects, or

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