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by entuno 2y ago
The headline presents this as a false dichotomy when the answer is "both". For people who were already smoking then vaping is a useful harm reduction tool. For people who don't smoke (especially children) it's a health c
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by entuno 2y ago
Because if they offered unlimited trial periods then lots of people would just use those rather than ever paying. Just like with WinZip and WinRAR - do you remember how that used to count up the days when you opened it? It wasn't uncom
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by entuno 2y ago
And even worse, that's bcrypt with 32 iterations - a work factor of 5. Every Bcrypt implementation I've seen has a default work factor of 10 (1024 rounds), and people often use higher values that that. So that 99 years is a massi
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by entuno 2y ago
Not to mention that they're using MD5, people have been recommending against for over a decade. For the Bcrypt results waswas "99 years" even for an 8 character password (and with a work factor of 5, compared to the default o
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by entuno 2y ago
I completely agree. The stories of the Elves awakening and living of the stars, the first rising of the sun and moon, and the world made round are so evocative it would have been a real shame to lose them in the name of realism.
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by entuno 2y ago
In The Lord of the Rings and the published Silmarillion that's correct. But in some of the later drafts Tolkien wrote he moved away from that towards a story where the world had always been a sphere (often called the "roundworld&q
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by entuno 2y ago
This is something that varied a lot in Tolkien's writing throughout his life. When he wrote The Hobbit, he was very much writing a fairy tale. So there was very little consideration for things economics and agriculture because it wasn&
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by entuno 2y ago
I wonder if there's any weighting done based on things like upvotes in their training sets, or if the consider all answers equally?
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by entuno 2y ago
You could probably create a more convincing version of this with a bit of collusion between multiple accounts on StackOverflow. If you have one person asking a deliberate question, someone else answering with a backdoored package that does
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by entuno 2y ago
I was refraining from making a comment that these would be easy to spot because they were actually being helpful and (apparently) answering the question..
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by entuno 2y ago
Any unusual voting pattern would certainly make it more likely that Stackoverflow noticed and investigated. But I wonder how many people are likely to try downloading a library they've never heard of from a post with zero upvotes? Of c
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Cybercriminals pose as "helpful" Stack Overflow users to push malware(bleepingcomputer.com)
148 points by entuno 2y ago|64 comments
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by entuno 2y ago
Certainly not a new thing; but a good reminder to be very careful when copy and pasting code from Stackoverflow. Surprised that they'd not using a load of bots to upvote the malware-laden answers to make them seem more legitimate.
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by entuno 2y ago
I think the bigger problem is that most people already have a basic level of this type of functionality built in to whatever devices they're using, in the form of the contacts/address book. And obviously that's not nearly as
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by entuno 2y ago
It doesn't ban the use of LLM - it just shifts the costs of their errors back to the company rather than them being bourne by the public. And if companies decide that they're LLMs are only viable if they get to ignore the negative
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by entuno 2y ago
Seems like there's a fairly straightforward fix for this: hold companies legally liable for the content they they produce and publish using LLMs. When the companies start getting held responsible for the dangerous or libelous misinform
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by entuno 2y ago
To be fair to the Guardian, the study has only just come out, and is (apparently) using the most recent data available. But yes, it's interesting that they're taking 7 year old data to present an anti-EV narrative without mentioni
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by entuno 2y ago
The data in the study is from 2013-2017 - so the requirement to make noise at low speeds hadn't come in yet (that was 2019). And ICE cars have got a lot quieter in the last decade compared to how loud they used to be.
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by entuno 2y ago
> Edwards and his colleagues studied UK travel and road accident data from 2013 to 2017. Because of an archiving problem, data from 2018 onwards is not available. Seems like a pretty big disclaimer that all the data in this study is 7-11
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by entuno 2y ago
Not to be confused with KiTTY, the (seemingly abandoned) Windows SSH client based on PuTTY.
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by entuno 2y ago
Is there any reason to believe that this is specific to the open source community, or that people are any less "mean" elsewhere? Some people are thoughtful and considerate in their interactions, and some people are not. Just look
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by entuno 2y ago
There's also a follow up post that goes into a little bit more technical detail: https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/please-upgrade-me-to-adsl-over-w...
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by entuno 2y ago
Given that a significant number of systems don't meet the "minimum requirements" for Windows 11, it's not really a surprise that adoption has been slow. It'll be interesting to see how many of those just stay on uns
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by entuno 2y ago
> AI can optimise and automate, but the spark of creativity, the leap of intuition, and the courage to explore the unknown come from the human spirit. These job losses are going to hit places like India much harder than some other countr
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SVB Failed One Year Ago. Is the Regional Banking Crisis Over?(observer.com)
1 points by entuno 3y ago|0 comments
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by entuno 3y ago
This is very noticeable in the Athrabeth, where Finrod switches between "you" and "thou" when talking to Andreth throughout the conversation. Tolkien also talks in Appendix F of The Return of the King about how hobbits h
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by entuno 3y ago
> But it has also been met with resistance by Google and Meta - the only two companies big enough to be encompassed by the law. Surprised to see that Twitter isn't covered by this as well? Surely they meet the requirements of "
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by entuno 3y ago
Looking forward to trying to explain to non-technical security people and managers that although they've fixed CVE-2023-1234 they now need to fix NotCVE-2023-1234 which is a completely different and unrelated thing. And even more so if
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by entuno 3y ago
Never have started it. There were certainly some nice (and interesting) ideas behind it - but it was too late, too slow and had poor backwards compatibility with x86. Intel spent billions on it, and it never achieved anything like the succe
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by entuno 3y ago
That fact that you can save so much money with ticket splitting (and there are sites that have been built just to do that) shows how stupidly overcomplicated the system is.

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