csmpltn

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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "The transition to renewable energy cannot come soon enough." It's going to take decades for that transition to complete. What do you do when people's pensions aren't enough to live off of (due to inflation) un
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This will cause inflation rates in the West to increase (double?) - leading to higher interest rates, economical stagnation, layoffs, more poverty, etc. Unless the US covers up for it, undercutting OPEC+. Seems unlikely to happen.
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You know what's funny? I just asked ChatGPT to implement those exact same things and it shat all over itself producing embarrassing nonsense that won't compile, let alone do what they're expected to do. Bugs and incomplete co
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Why aren't they collecting feedback signals from people on the results produced by the model? "This was correct", "this was garbage", etc.
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> "its positive signal that GPT's previous outputs were correct" Is that somehow baked into the algorithms? Are positive words of encouragement interpreted as "positive signals" by the inference pipeline? Or do t
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> "I've long been curious why people don't use mmap to re-use all those wonderful pages that got loaded" That's because the people that develop these models are often data scientists and have little to no experie
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> "No one is banning books about gay people in my kids school for example." Check out some of the schools in Poland, or Hungary.
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Honest question, asked in good faith. What's your plan when for when the "cease and desist" letter is going to come in?
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Have a fantastic loving partner, an incredible house we worked so much on, an amazing job with fantastic people I enjoy being around every day. I've decided to part ways with my partner now and move out, be on my own again at 30. I cou
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If you don't have anything to say, why not simply start the conversation with "I don't have much to talk about today. I could give you a quick update on my progress since last week. Is there anything you would like to take up
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "Web PKI is not the only way to revoke keys." You're not answering my question (we both know why), and I never mentioned anything about WebPKI in any of my comments anyways.
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> "Calling the police is totally an emotional response." We're going around in circles, but all I'll say is that you could say that about anything. And yet people sometimes end up in prison for stealing candy. If peop
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> "I expect the cops would roll their eyes and tell you to go away" Maybe they will, and maybe they won't - but surely it's a dialogue worth having once you've exhausted all other options? I'd imagine that t
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> "I think the point is that there is no indication of a crime." Inexplicably being denied access to your own funds without being told what's going on or when the issue will be resolved could be an indication of a crime. I
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> "in what jurisdiction would you file that police report?" If I had to guess? File it in your state and it'll get routed from there. Or how about you literally ask the police this exact question? > "at least get y
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by csmpltn 4y ago
I'm genuinely wondering why this isn't something one can do in a situation like this... Filing a report when your money is stolen from you is a very logical step to take. Whether or not the police will "deal with it" is
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by csmpltn 4y ago
Why not file a police report for the theft of 400k USD?
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> "But there is, and I explained what that reason was." If your reason is "security" (whatever that means, you won't define that either), then I too, explained how that is guaranteed by application-layer protocol
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So how does your imaginary version of a transport-layer guarantee a message can't be tampered with if it trusts keys which are revoked?
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> "Stacking layers on top of each other promotes inefficiency and poor security" Yet that's exactly how the internet works today.
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> "The use of TLS for QUIC does not imply or require the use of the Web PKI" Handling certificate revocations (which would be needed to "ensure security"), does indeed imply the use of some way to check for the revoca
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by csmpltn 4y ago
I have absolutely no idea what anything you just wrote means. You're ramblings make no sense whatsoever, and they lead towards no conclusions. Get over yourself. > "What's happened here is that you've privileged a bad
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> "it's actually surprising as a user that TCP doesn't really bother providing say, Integrity" TCP is a transport-layer protocol (ref the OSI model). The responsibilities of a transport-layer are neatly summarized her
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> "why i moved mostly from writing node cmd tools to using bash" You literally moved from one unmaintainable mess of an ecosystem (Node), to what is arguably an even worse unmaintainable mess of an ecosystem (bash). Glad to hea
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> "But no new file handles can be opened. One by one as processes close file handles, they can no longer open new ones, until the last user has released the last handle." Or, you know... the computer has to restart itself for s
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by csmpltn 4y ago
CURL supports plenty of protocols, but at the end of the day they're all application-layer and should've easily been written as platform-agnostic business logic. If CURL was architected properly, keeping any OS-specific code behin
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for" Opening a socket and issuing a GET call is somehow too difficult on Windows? Will you entertain the possibility that CURL's architecture i
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Nolan's Tenet is a great example of this.
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So-far, all comments on this thread are about the general concept of timing attacks... You're asking a different question, though. You're asking about precision. The answer here is that in many cases timing attacks pose a theoret
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "Technically speaking it goes around any security CORS and friends provide" CORS wasn't designed to "offer any security" in this specific scenario anyway. By using "google.com/maps" they can simp

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