enasterosophes

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by enasterosophes 4y ago
Anyone who tries thinking about how to actually implement any of these scifi-horror scenarios will soon realize their infeasibility. The fetters of implementation details are cast aside; clearly, the author's real intent is not to info
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by enasterosophes 4y ago
So I should stop using dd as a text editor, is that what you're trying to tell me?
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by enasterosophes 4y ago
Correct. I was motivated to use m4 to solve the problem I had, because m4 is ubiquitous. I wanted to know more about it, and I wanted my config files to be generatable on any machine where I spend some time.
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by enasterosophes 4y ago
I use m4 to generate my ssh config files. Otherwise managing the complexity of hundreds of servers over multiple subdomains all with different requirements for access and authentication would be prohibitive, especially given that openssh&#x
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by enasterosophes 4y ago
haha, thanks for expanding the acronym for me :)
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by enasterosophes 4y ago
Wait ... this isn't about Multifactor Authentication, yet it never says what it means be "MFA" O_o
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by enasterosophes 4y ago
I had the same thought. What, do people think the politics of a region gets routinely shuffled without any influence from geographical or historical context?
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by enasterosophes 5y ago
I remember about 15 years ago I went on a binge of downloading ACM papers via the university library while I was an undergrad. Didn't think anything of it, I found all those papers interesting, and I was studying the topic, so why not?
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by enasterosophes 5y ago
You seem to presume that this specific technology should scale to quadrupeds. Other people are already working on quadrupeds. You may have heard of Boston Dynamics. Not everything needs to do the same thing as everything else.
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by enasterosophes 5y ago
> Scientists often like to think of their work as perfectly objective, perfectly rational, free from any bias or influence. Why do people keep saying this? I don't know any scientists who make such claims. When politicians are tryin