dementiapatent

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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Thanks y'all for the immediate slander and political replies. Anyways, the strategy is now clearly to burn twitter to the ground and diminish its influence since it isn't controlled anymore.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Gross! NewXXXXXX and constructors should always be near the top of the file, next to the struct and interface definitions :)
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
I think "the powers that be" also works in this context. Control over global public discourse is the most effective mind control tool in the world. Even moreso when your control is hidden and you maintain plausible deniability. Th
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
The blue cathedral is offended and retaliating.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Disagree, there are so many people who don't care about the media outrage machine that went from Trump to Musk and now to Kanye. It's all very political.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
No it isn't like stealing at all. HTTP and REST API was explicitly designed so that clients can request and explore only the links they are interested in. This includes links to tracker filled javascripts and images hosted on ad server
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Isn't there a 'let me keep reading' button on these substack popups?
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
They are publicly hosting their content with a protocol that was designed for clients to only follow the links they are interested in. Rather than gimping the browser stack for everyone, websites should use the tech they already have. Like
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
I salute the IT team who keeps all of those security policies in place while not interfering with daily operations. >Who's stopping you to create your own version of VBA, release it and replace Microsoft Office suite with your own d
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Easily defeated argument. If that website doesn't want members of the public accessing it (and picking and choosing what parts to access), then don't make it publicly accessible.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
>Do run it using a user that has no access to write/delete files and you'll see that the most malicious macro is benign. It could retrieve work from a server to start long running processes that mine cryptocurrency. And scan ev
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
To argue against this, a Word document has no business running arbitrary code with access to system drivers. I think it's more like opening a document in GEdit and realizing that your whole system got hacked. Macros were another billio
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Do you also think that Carl Benz should have kept the first combustion vehicle secret from the public, since it could be used to automate damage upon pedestrians? Ban and criminalize the unethical application, not the tool.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
What is easily automated? Generating JPEGs until I receive an error that there is no more space on my hard drive? This would leave no bad effect on the world.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
But stable diffusion isn't an automated system maximizing its own power and drowning the world in paperclips in an out-of-control feedback loop. It's just me generating cool pictures on my GPU.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
This sounds like such a bad idea, what if one of your employees has a concealed carry permit and chooses to defend themselves?
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Fear of this is why I prefer a sorted set with ZREMRANGEBYSCORE to remove expired items
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Same here, I only caught one episode of HOTD, the one where they are at the feast and the two guys fight over the girl and then she gets kidnapped. The whole episode felt intimate, filled with emotion and natural rhythm, very personal and l
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
It will be so much fun when the implementation is refactored and half of these comments are forgotten about and no longer meaningful.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Not downvoting, in fact I agree with you. The speed at which these old claims were trotted out against Trump and any Republican right of Lindsay Graham has me thinking about their veracity in a new light.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
I find it interesting that similar claims have been made against several members of the Republican party in recent times (by prominent news outlets). What is the threshold of evidence that taints an entire political party?
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Are you familiar with forest fires?
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
I would like to point out that employers are/were permitted to discriminate against these people under federal law: The Equal Rights Act of 1964: https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-196... &
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
You can find a happy middle ground between unrestricted free speech (of real people) and banning spammers and people who run alt accounts. Making the system invite-only may be a requirement.
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
After they leaked drivers licenses and other personal documents uploaded by their userbase for verification, I'd be astounded that anyone is still willing to use that platform. See: https://www.rt.com/usa/512152-pa
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
I always took that rule as "don't post insinuations (accusing other HN users of being) astroturfing, shilling, bots, foreign agents...". Can we not point out when corporate entities are comprised of these things?
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by dementiapatent 4y ago
Yes, and there is even a JWT field to hold the unique identifier for that token - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7519#section-4.1.7 . Makes it easy to track issued tokens and revoke them too.