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by fph 1y ago
Unfortunately I'm one of those privacy-conscious people that would only accept this as a local app on my phone, without a surveillance capitalism giant being able to eavesdrop all my calls as a man-in-the-middle as a side effect.
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by fph 1y ago
I wish I could impose callers a "ringback captcha": if you want my phone to ring, you have to solve this challenge to prove that you are human.
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by fph 1y ago
I don't claim to have first-hand experience, that was just a suggestion. But there is a recent study on how maintainers respond to bug bounties here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07670 .
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by fph 1y ago
Do you think this would work? - Mr. Z: There's no warranty whatsoever. However, I might fix it for a small consulting fee. - Company X: You either fix it, or we spread the word that you're irresponsible and everyone will inevitabl
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by fph 1y ago
I lost track of how many different ways to install a Python library there are at the moment.
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by fph 1y ago
In the code for Donald Knuth's Tex, there is an error message that says "Error produced by \errpage. I can't produce an error message. Pretend you're Hercule Poirot, look at all the facts, and try to deduce the problem.
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by fph 1y ago
Do you also oppose calculators for the same reason?
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by fph 1y ago
In my country (euro-land), transaction fees are often brought up by shopkeepers as a bogus excuse, but in real life banks offer plenty of percentage-only plans without fixed transaction fees.
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by fph 1y ago
Right; if they want to get involved, they should go all the way and start fining the hell out of them.
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by fph 1y ago
Now I understand why those 128 GB get full so quick.
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by fph 1y ago
Note that this patch would have to be sent out to all users though, since I don't think there is an authentication mechanism that lets them send out different upgrades to different users. And if your whole business is a secure OS, it
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by fph 1y ago
Source (in Italian): https://www.dday.it/redazione/48554/piracyshield-ci-ricasca-... They also blocked a Google Drive domain for a few hours: https://www.ilpost.it/2024/10/20/google-
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by fph 1y ago
They blocked a Cloudflare server because one of its many users was serving an illegal football stream.
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by fph 1y ago
Not to mention paying premium for an extra-thin computer and then making it thicker with a plastic hardshell.
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by fph 1y ago
In part. The stated reasons[1] are: (1) best hardware security features, such as memory tagging (2) quick patches (3) many years of official device support. [1]: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices
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by fph 1y ago
Possibly silly question... I played more than 100 puzzles and casually browsed many more, but I couldn't find one with a symmetry axis. Is it just because they are extremely uncommon, or did you exclude them for some reason?
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by fph 1y ago
But the only way we know how to make "conservative computations" is via interval arithmetic.
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by fph 1y ago
> You need to do automatic differentiation with interval arithmetic. But that kinda defeats the point of replacing interval arithmetic with gradients, though.
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by fph 1y ago
There must be a swastika picture in there, somewhere.
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by fph 1y ago
One of the benefits of intervals is that you can ensure your results are correct irrespective of floating-point errors, if you carefully round all computations in the correct direction. I don't think you can ensure that with gradients
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by fph 1y ago
Ah yes, it's totally secure for those 5 users who check the hash of the files they download.
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by fph 1y ago
"King" (capital) probably was interpreted as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Jean_King , that's why a tennis player showed up.
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by fph 1y ago
Did you mean to write "reins"? This is one rare sentence that works with both spellings, but means different things.
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by fph 1y ago
Aren't LLMs also a pile of linear algebra?
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by fph 1y ago
This exact problem was in Martin Gardner's column for Scientific American in the 1970s. There are surely references all over the internet.
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by fph 1y ago
Whatever the answer is, there is probably a lot of space for gaming that number. Once a metric becomes a target...
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by fph 1y ago
Ah, I see, so the problem is not a semicolon "used in comments", it's a semicolon used outside them. But then which character would you suggest instead? The article notes that there is the same problem with # (e.g. in `black
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by fph 1y ago
The first point is addressed in the article; you don't seem to address OP's counterpoint at all. I don't get the second point: why is that a problem if a semicolon appears in a comment? From what I understand, comments run un
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by fph 1y ago
OP has a detailed rationale for going with semicolons. Feel free to counter those points, but you can't just dismiss the thing with a "doesn't look right" without any argument.
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by fph 1y ago
RMS does indeed give out some strong Tom Bombadil vibes.

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