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by finghin 6mo ago
As long as obfuscated code is isomorphic to its raw form, it’s sure to be decompilable. As for how much divergence is possible (in obfuscation), my intuition that it is very finite by definition.
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by finghin 6mo ago
Ghidra+LLMs really does make this a matter of time if we’re not already there yet.
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by finghin 6mo ago
They were all the same from the beginning. Every tech company of a certain size and significance eventually begins collecting data and sharing it with state actors, as far as I can see.
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by finghin 6mo ago
Agreed - it’s not that it’s a bad point but it would be an ineffective rule which is usually an excuse to forgo other more effective (usually more expensive) options
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by finghin 6mo ago
Sleeper agent malware is a thing especially in high risk situations. If somebody has a dormant RAT installed since year X-1 it’s going to be impossible to solve that in year X by using backups
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by finghin 6mo ago
Awful. There’s a lot in there I had not thought to consider.
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by finghin 6mo ago
Agreed! But he was not really pivotal in any application of those ideas, and realistically only had a hint of what they could be capable.
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by finghin 6mo ago
> Prefer words to icons. Use only icons that are universally understood. Underrated. Except for dyslexic people, and the most obvious icon forms, I am pretty sure most people are just better and faster at recognising single words at a gl
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by finghin 6mo ago
Good point, and noted
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by finghin 6mo ago
I also agree that Marx is a thinker who altered the course of the world and I see where you are coming from regarding the moral judgement on his absence. As a counterpoint, what would Marx’s great intellectual achievement be, and could it s
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by finghin 6mo ago
Yes in terms of philosophy, Kant absolutely needs to be here, Newton and Leibniz not as notably so.
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by finghin 6mo ago
>Descartes' launch of modern analytic philosophy I find this questionable. If we go back there is a similar analyticity to Spinoza. Go forward and Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein are impossible to ignore given this framing.
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by finghin 6mo ago
You may want to sit with that one for a while.
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by finghin 6mo ago
Prediction markets are ridiculously diverse so it’s quite a stretch to say that imo.
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by finghin 6mo ago
I rarely say this, but very fitting username.
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by finghin 7mo ago
So is a televised genocide.
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by finghin 7mo ago
> In "The Miller's Tale", Geoffrey Chaucer writes "And prively he caughte hire by the queynte" (and intimately he caught her by her crotch),[14] and the comedy Philotus (1603) mentions "put doun thy hand and
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by finghin 7mo ago
Drill through it!
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by finghin 7mo ago
No one would ever have made that comment before GPT. I have a feeling you could be the one that’s poisoned!
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by finghin 7mo ago
Yes, in principle this would be a great way to get a grip on AI personal-decision-making. But there’s a nontrivial chance Claude is more emotionally intelligent than r/AITA. That is not something I enjoy saying.
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by finghin 7mo ago
Seems to have gotten hugged to death.
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by finghin 7mo ago
‘Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule’ —F. Nietzsche (tongue in cheek)
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by finghin 8mo ago
Internet anonymity is FAR from something new.
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by finghin 8mo ago
Alcohol is a cultural universal where it is not outlawed and has been for thousands of years. It has the benefit of precedent social media does not have and it’s banned for children. Terrible point.
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by finghin 8mo ago
This is the natural result when the value of businesses is not strongly related to their actual output.
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by finghin 8mo ago
Great hack!
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by finghin 8mo ago
Though capitalism is to blame for plenty of problems, I don't agree with this take, and I see it repeated quite often. Economies, capitalist or otherwise, are very much defined by needs and wants. (With this, I presume, you agree alrea
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by finghin 9mo ago
There is a word for this: “approximately”
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by finghin 9mo ago
In general for analytic functions like e^x or x^n the behaviour of the function on any open interval is enough to determine its behaviour elsewhere. By extension in mathematics examining values around the fundamental additive and multiplica
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by finghin 9mo ago
I had been thinking of messing around with a DOM-based ‘console’ in Tauri that could handle a lot more font manipulation for a pseudo-TUI application similar to this. It's definitely possible! It would be even simpler to do in TS.

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