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by ethbr0 3y ago
False metadata for rich media is a damned tough problem to target. Putting aside any actually truthful captions, how do I know that "image of X" is actually an image of X? Reading some of the Bellingcat investigations, and time sp
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Today I learned! Thanks!
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Could see it going either way. Agricultural efficiency (in terms of person_fed : person_farming) in Europe was pretty low. So the dedicated headcount (monks) might dominate the net cost, which would make it scale more linearly with number o
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by ethbr0 3y ago
In Appalachia that's just called storytelling. :)
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I think of it in terms of computer memory levels. There are some computations (synthesis) that require so many (non-front loadable) memory accesses that it's impractical to do them from memory with significant delay (books), because th
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by ethbr0 3y ago
It'd be fascinating to see a conversion to person-hours to copy one book in medieval times. And I mean fully-loaded, so how much time needed to be spent {farming/military/political administration} to give a monk time to learn
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by ethbr0 3y ago
But the body of canon law would have been impractical to standardize and disseminate without the printed word. See: how many schisms and papal crises there were in medieval times (admittedly, the Catholic Church was also much more a politic
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The custom vs mass-produced perspective is more interesting to me, bcause generally everything in recent architecture has distilled down to -- can it be mass-produced? Plaster and lath? Can't be mass produced/installed. Out of sty
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> ... entire neighbourhoods of these houses will simply fall into disrepair, as nobody will be able to afford the costs of fixing them as they age. Cleveland has this. Atlanta has this. I'm sure most other cities do too. But there
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I think people unfairly poke fun at the Dropbox skepticism on HN. As a linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Slobodan Milošević in Yugoslavia As near as I can tell, he started from "Take over the government" and surfed his way there by reading (and stoking populist energy) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xscsu_QGbLg
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Protests in Pakistan May 9, 2023(iswresearch.org)
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Having had similar things happen before, the optimal move on my part would have been to language-engineer a better confirmation question and/or ask for read-back of the plan. E.g. open-ended, no direct requirement to reply in a negativ
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The US military essentially landed on a similar solution. - Regularly rotate personnel - Reward review by a random board The rotations prevent cooperation of "adversarial" parties from corrupting the process. A review b
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Is that a Brexit thing? Know there's been a lot of shuffle in regulations on the UK side, along with some as-yet-to-be-defined regulations, so I'd hazard it's UK companies hedging their risk by saying "We just don't
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by ethbr0 3y ago
100%! I've worked with a ton of great Indian folks, but the "no" cultural translation is hard . Just yesterday I was working through an issue, came up with a clear plan that critically involved notifying the customer befor
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The Wikipedia pages for various national intelligence organizations are hilarious concise. Good retirement hobby: summarizing everything from dead tree niche books to the web.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
To me, this is the "past generations" litmus test I measure any of my personal preferences against. If people were able to handle not-it in 1920, it's probably a "nice to have" rather than a "must have." W
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by ethbr0 3y ago
IMHO, there's a big difference between doodling, making paper airplanes, trying to wordlessly communicate with friends, etc. vs cell phones. At minimum, the previous boredom regime taught you how to (a) be okay with nothing happening &
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by ethbr0 3y ago
What did these people not learn in school? I know there are autodidactic folks, but I would know substantially less basic math, biology, chemistry, English, and history if I hadn't gone to grade school.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Muzzle loading firearms? It makes mass shootings a lot harder.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Never going to happen in the US, because it's antithetical to the current interpretation of the Constitution and because half the country doesn't trust the government to define "crazy" (or uses distrust as an excuse beca
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'm a parent of two school aged kids, one of whom attends school 10 minutes away. In a state that's had multiple school shootings as well. I still accept that if something happens, it's going to play out before I rambo in and
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by ethbr0 3y ago
There's a phrase for something that people can't stop using -- addictive substance. We (and companies) need to ditch the equivocation and be honest about what we created. ( Edit ) > Parents have been split on the issue, with m
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Historically that's was Google's approach, but now it seems like a weird Frankenstein mash of that+strategy. E.g. the topical buying Nest, but then force folding it into Google Home That's the opposite of letting the best sol
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by ethbr0 3y ago
"For novelty use only"
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I don't think that's normal. You may want to swap type of smoke alarms (photoelectric vs ionization): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_detector#Design The other may be better suited for your environment
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It seemed like Jobs at Apple and Gates at Microsoft avoided a huge amount of organizational bullshit via a technical fleet-in-being doctrine. [0] Even if their time and attention were finite, they inspired a credible worry throughout the co
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Seems like a good place to ask... do people run explicit firewalls for their Roku devices? Realize it's cat and mouse with an updatable controlled platform's data exfiltration, but curious if there are any low-maintenance solution
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I only listed contemporary examples.

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