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by csande17 4y ago
I don't think everyone in society needs to act this way. But, like, everyone at Stanford is a resume builder because Stanford only admits people with good resumes. Also, I'm not worried about comes-out-of-nowhere false associati
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by csande17 4y ago
The administrators described in the article are a symptom, not the cause. I attended a relatively high-ranked college a few years ago and would not have ever considered attending an event named "Exotic Erotic", because: 1. In mode
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by csande17 4y ago
What's impossible about it? I've seen devices in the past that can combine multiple HDMI signals into a single image (like picture-in-picture, or making one high-res display out of several lower-res video connections). And if you
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by csande17 4y ago
Looks like a compromised WordPress installation.
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I say we should form a commission to investigate this further.
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by csande17 4y ago
Have I misread the first couple paragraphs of the site? It looks like it's a mandatory language-change initiative at Stanford (or, at least, mandatory within the IT department) that they're publishing in case anyone else wants to
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by csande17 4y ago
Wow, I'm really surprised I hasn't heard about this before. Part of me wants to believe that the new reporting system accidentally refiled every historical report or something, but if that was the case, you'd think someone in
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by csande17 4y ago
It'd probably be reasonable to say the output of a game's 3D renderer is sRGB or something, and to call the eye-searing colors on your P3 monitor a bug. But I think kaetemi's comment was talking about the intermediate calcu
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by csande17 4y ago
For normal maps, the correct color space is definitely "no color space", because the R/G/B channels are used to store a 3D vector and not an actual color. For video game graphics, the ideal color space is "looks goo
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by csande17 4y ago
JavaScript developers tell me that disk space and network bandwidth are cheap these days. While they're mostly saying that to try and justify extremely bad architectural decisions (what's a couple thousand NPM dependencies between
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by csande17 4y ago
Whether it was the choice of an individual engineer or designer, or the choice of a high-level executive to not put anyone who cared about design on the Books team, the fact remains that Apple chose not to keep this animation. You can blame
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by csande17 4y ago
Yes, the atmosphere at most big tech companies is this way. Everyone writes their emails with a plastered-on fake smile. The worst part is when people pretend that things are difficult. You can't just suggest that someone not waste tim
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by csande17 4y ago
This makes sense from the perspective of the individual developer, but it's also a sad reflection of the sorry state of technology that the only way to be sure a website will work in 5 years is by shipping your own copy of the browser.
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by csande17 4y ago
Very exciting! I can only imagine how many doctoral research projects' worth of work this represents.
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by csande17 4y ago
I wonder if this golink service is also vulnerable to DNS rebinding. Briefly looking at the code, it seems likely: it relies on Tailscale's usual "assume anyone who can connect to the service is authorized" security model and
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by csande17 4y ago
From the title, I was hoping this was going to be a very elaborate description of how computer monitors emit light in patterns your brain can recognize and think about.
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by csande17 4y ago
Another aspect to consider is that a lot of the recent growth in AI is economic, not technological. The kind of language model that makes Hacker News headlines today is a thousand times larger than models were four years ago. GPUs haven&#x2
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by csande17 4y ago
There is hope. Previously, all OpenAI needed to do to initiate a hype cycle was put out a press release with a few cherry-picked example outputs. Now they have to burn a bunch of money letting people run the model for free! One can only hop
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by csande17 4y ago
OpenAI doesn't release its training datasets, AFAIK, but we know they're based on sources like Common Crawl that scrape websites the same way search engines do. So here's an experiment you can try at home: type "juan pur
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by csande17 4y ago
Unfortunately, if web developers follow the advice from the article to use rem units everywhere, they'll get a bigger site.
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by csande17 4y ago
I do wonder how output like this would fare on the essay section. All the spelling and grammar is correct, and ChatGPT can presumably generate as many paragraphs of it as you want. (And I think that's what SAT graders mostly look for i
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by csande17 4y ago
ChatGPT got a 1020 on SAT Practice Test #10 ( https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/sat-practice-tes... ), a sample exam whose questions have been extensively discussed online since at least 2019 (eg https:&#
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by csande17 4y ago
...Have I missed something, or are you mad at them for rounding 1/.9 = 1.111... to "110%" in an article about estimating revenue? Unless you're able to guess the number of subscribers you'll have with 3 significant
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by csande17 4y ago
Given that, according to TrustCor's own statements, MsgSafe relies heavily on certificates issued by TrustCor, I don't think there's all that much separation. (There might be, like, a network firewall in between the two serve
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by csande17 4y ago
> There is a lot of doubletalk in the thread that is supposed to somehow lead us to believe that TrustCor CA and MsgSafe are totally separate companies, despite lots of circumstantial evidence that they aren’t. TrustCor doesn't actu
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As far as I understand it, there are basically five organizations involved: 1. TrustCor operates "TrustCor CA" and "MsgSafe". TrustCor claims these are completely separate lines of business, but does not dispute that i
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by csande17 4y ago
Critical security vulnerability in an iOS-exclusive app? I bet they're using CloudKit and forgot to implement server-side access control. (Even Apple screws that up half the time: https://labs.detectify.com/2021/09
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by csande17 4y ago
Does this count? https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/new-campaign-targe... > We hope this post will remind those in the security research community that they are targets to government-backed attackers and shou
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by csande17 4y ago
https://getpocket.com/en/privacy/ looks like a pretty standard ad-tracking privacy policy to me. The service definitely doesn't meet the high privacy bar set by other Firefox features like end-to-end encrypte
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by csande17 4y ago
Huh, I'm surprised no one else brought up cellophane. I had assumed it was the same thing as plastic wrap, but a quick trip to Wikipedia reveals that it's biodegradable, compostable, and made from plants. Seems like a much better

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