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by fer 3y ago
Yeah, in hopes not to give white replacement conspiracy theorists some AI-fueled tool to feed their racism, they gave them instead actual ammo to bring in a debate.
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SCIgen – An Automatic CS Paper Generator (2005)(pdos.csail.mit.edu)
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by fer 3y ago
> I think Amazon was betting that AWS efficiencies could push Twitch into profitability, guess not. I don't think any significant chunk of the Twitch infra runs on AWS.
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by fer 3y ago
Easy and the number-crunching libs are optimized away in (generally) C.
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by fer 3y ago
The bit everyone wants: > The initial benchmarks show something of a 2-9% performance improvement. Which is underwhelming (as mentioned in the article), especially if we look at PyPy[0]. But it's a step forward nonetheless. [0] htt
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by fer 3y ago
Spanish ID card has multiple layered security in them. The obvious and difficult to commit fraud with is the chip which is just a cryptographic one, but you also have RFID in them (with I assume appropriate FNMT signatures), but also physic
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by fer 3y ago
Corollary: it's easier to fraud if you can fake high integrity.
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by fer 3y ago
Fastmail user here, so SpamAssassin I assume: virtually no false positives. My GMail spam folder is generally 50/50 false and true positives. I really can't use that email for anything as having to go to the spam folder every day
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by fer 3y ago
Strange, while I keep my GMail address I don't use it for anything new anymore since roughly 50% of the positives are false (no false negatives, though).
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by fer 3y ago
I had a look 3 years ago and the compatibility matrix was an absolute shitshow: older cards not supported at all, newer cards not supported at all, and support for those in the middle was full of holes depending on extension, version, etc.
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by fer 3y ago
"You're not leaving me, I'm leaving you!" https://jfloren.net/b/2023/10/12/0
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by fer 3y ago
It's a hot topic and I rarely want the Internet drama associated, but the UK LE already failed numerous times at keeping children safe, and they're probably trying to pick up the slack[0]. Searching "uk grooming gang scandal&
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by fer 3y ago
Medicine isn't my field, but I wonder why the chirality, why gold, why microbiota as target, why those particular diseases? As in, I might be searching wrong, but I can't find previous research that would hint in this particular d
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by fer 3y ago
No grooming happened on Omegle, she just shared her personal info there and kept in touch off the platform.
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Understanding Lego part numbers (2020)(brickset.com)
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by fer 3y ago
I haven't touched it in a while, but AFAIK multiple heads in a branch only happens when you commit twice against the same changeset in the branch. I don't see how this can happen accidentally. Either way you want to merge them bac
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by fer 3y ago
Disclaimer: I haven't touched hg in nearly a decade. hg has (had?) a sane CLI that blows (blew?) git out of the water. I like the power of git, but it either needs external tooling to prevent people from shooting the team in the foot,
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by fer 3y ago
Spain has been traditionally and particularly idiotic about tech legislation. Some examples: - There was (and is) a fee on every CD-R, DVD-R, BR-R, hard drive, SSD, printer... as a "just in case it happens to store/copy copyright-
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by fer 3y ago
Sure. Or you can get an RCE on a car[0] after some bitsquatting[1]. [0] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/02/16/why-is-your-email-in-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting
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by fer 3y ago
I have the feeling that this is gonna be way bigger than the log4j mess.
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by fer 3y ago
Potentially, but altitude and speed data on ADS-B are constrained to just 11 bits (+ 1 bit dedicated to the resolution: 25 vs 100-feet increments). So while I believe the data source is the same, one can see quantization artifacts when comp
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by fer 3y ago
I belive this is OPs flight if anyone wants to compare plane data with ADS-B one. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/SWA2340/history/2023...
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by fer 3y ago
A tense+mood I love is in Spanish, and it's the opposite of prophetic perfect: the future perfect (of subjunctive mood). It's meant for hypothetical situations finished at some point in the past from the time referenced (but in th
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by fer 3y ago
I know for a fact that there's at least one company (that I can't name) that offers what I would call "Addiction as a Service". Their system allows to create n-dimensional currency systems (coins, diamonds, etc), currenc
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by fer 3y ago
Mind sharing the countries? Because it's only now after moving to certain 1 country that I see the "pill counting" and "translating scripts into layman terms" as parts of a pharmacist's job. To me it was an abs
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by fer 3y ago
Having done both MDMA and 2C-E (mid 00s were pretty good in that sense), in various amounts, I'm not sure I'd agree (or disagree, really). Threshold dosages had noticeable impacts in vision or mindset, but I didn't feel anyth
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by fer 3y ago
It was like this for me for years until a month I got double invoice and now it's seemingly paid in advance. It might depend on the pricing bracket (I jumped from a 40EUR dedicated to 180EUR with extra hardware around that time, too).
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by fer 3y ago
You on the other hand believe that, somehow, absolutely independent (and often confronted) authorities, both governmental and private, would magically agree on something false instead of calling each other out. That's the-moon-landing-
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by fer 3y ago
> Whether the original study said so or not, that is absolutely how it was universally sold to the public. Trust the politics, blame the science?
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by fer 3y ago
Yeah, because hundreds of health authorities simultaneously collecting their own data (often with larger groups of each cohort) wouldn't be able to replicate or disprove the outcome of the original research.

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