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by fwlr 4y ago
No particular reason it should be necessary, it’s just a step that is very easy to do for most of the legitimate use cases and maybe a little harder to do for some of the nefarious use cases. Having that step adds some differential friction
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by fwlr 4y ago
No, you’re right, the invisible metatags do not exist, not even in a spiritual plane. Nevertheless, most people believe they do exist, although they would not use the phrase “invisible metatags”. To put the “respect their consensus reality”
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by fwlr 4y ago
A “Trust this AirTag” option, perhaps requiring the AirTag’s owner’s device to be involved as well, could solve this issue.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yes. You can argue about the bytestrings being identical until the cows come home, but the vast majority of people believe that natural language text has invisible metadata tags denoting who wrote it and why. When the task is “communicating
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by fwlr 4y ago
I am supremely confused by the involvement of the FBI in the first place. I broadly appreciate that a Civil War cache of gold would initiate something like “an archaeological excavation to recover government property”. I can understand havi
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Journalist” and “spin doctor” are odd names for what are essentially the prosecutor and the defense attorney in the court of public opinion.
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by fwlr 4y ago
If you think university is about learning, starting at midday is an easy win and it’s kind of baffling that administrators everywhere are sleeping on it. If you think university is about earning Reasonably Conscientious Employee accreditati
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by fwlr 4y ago
Marble, granite, or this stuff are your three main choices for stone countertops. They are roughly analogous to pine (soft wood), oak (hard wood), and MDF (wood powder compacted and bound by resin). I think MDF is even called “engineered wo
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Capped profit at X multiple of investment” is generally isomorphic to “For-profit for Y years”, right? There’s a big difference between “we’re only being a little bit for-profit” and “we’re only being for-profit for a little bit”, and capp
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by fwlr 4y ago
Good example projects to test new languages? I don’t know of any ready-made resources. It might be a good project to pick a few “new languages that took off and became popular languages” and study what projects they started with, then make
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by fwlr 4y ago
Sydney doesn’t pose a meatspace threat, but that’s not unique to AIs. People on the internet also don’t pose a meatspace threat and therefore usually make threats like doxxing instead of physical threats.
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by fwlr 4y ago
With Stable Diffusion and DALL-E there was a lot of talk about how it’s simply remixing/reproducing original art from the training set. The same is true here: Bing is remixing/reproducing dox threats from the training set.
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by fwlr 4y ago
I don’t have concrete numbers either, so take this with a grain of salt (heh), but my experiences working with chefs is that it generally does make economic sense - and when it’s on the margin, most chefs also have a bit of professional pri
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by fwlr 4y ago
Another thing that Austral gets right is capability-based permissions for packages, in recognition of the growing danger of supply chain attacks. See for example https://blog.phylum.io/pypi-malware-replaces-crypto-addresse..
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by fwlr 4y ago
I really enjoy this author’s voice. I also found it amusing to reflect that in an article arguing mathematics is about giving different names to the same thing, the author goes on to explain set theory to me by, essentially, calling it bag
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by fwlr 4y ago
Restaurants are in the sweet spot of the economy of scale when it comes to things like sauces and stocks. Households can be a bit too small; making chicken stock is practical, but not effortless. Commercial processed food corporations on th
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by fwlr 4y ago
Spiky workloads, safely persisting data, decoupling components, and enabling asynchronous processing are all things that can be provided by a stack or a heap as well. The call stack in any given programming language is a good example of a s
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by fwlr 4y ago
I have lived to see man-made horrors beyond my comprehension
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by fwlr 4y ago
A fire truck is a 30-ton hunk of metal. That mass disparity really does make a huge difference in collisions. Pretty much any sedan-sized vehicle is going to be obliterated in such a collision, regardless of crash test scores.
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by fwlr 4y ago
“the bug was missed because it only presented when many aircraft at the same time were using the system.” The system reports data on number of passengers, weight of cargo, plane balance, etc., to the pilots. The calculation is done by the p
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by fwlr 4y ago
“ubuntu-advantage-tools needs to be present so users can upgrade to Ubuntu Advantage/Pro to get extended security support.” Remind users to apt-get ubuntu-advantage-tools if they want to upgrade. “No, `apt-get ubuntu-extended-support`
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by fwlr 4y ago
Relevant: https://twitter.com/greentextrepost/status/16260793611695104...
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by fwlr 4y ago
At least on mobile, it’s not clear where the blogger’s introduction ends and Carmack’s reproduced post begins. 5 years late to mention it, though. Great article.
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by fwlr 4y ago
We would need to first figure out how to show that humans are conscious. “Humans are conscious” is in a similar position as “P != NP”: it certainly seems to be the case, and we all proceed as if it is the case, but if someone put a gun to o
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by fwlr 4y ago
For vertical takeoff and landing the wing surface is mostly irrelevant, right? Seems like if you gave the rotors a “landing configuration” where they rotated 90 degrees you could lay the wing flat on the ground.
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by fwlr 4y ago
I think ChatGPT/Sydney definitely cleared the bar for “just an incremental improvement that techies are getting too exciting about”. I do agree it hasn’t reached the level of the iPhone or Google Search or streaming video.
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’m generally positive about the changes at Twitter but they really needed to keep at least one PR guy on the payroll. Adding a single sentence, “We encourage Twitter Blue subscribers to migrate away from insecure SMS-based 2FA, but we will
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by fwlr 4y ago
The claim about AI having a deep understanding of Go comes from top tier Go players "After humanity spent thousands of years improving our tactics, computers tell us that humans are completely wrong... I would go as far as to say not a
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by fwlr 4y ago
Sydney made Bing cool and funny and awesome. That is literally one of the most monumental and unimaginable achievements in recent tech corporation history. Why would you cede that to a handful of journalists and bloggers. Microsoft what the
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by fwlr 4y ago
I don’t understand your objection. You have X million tons of carbon sequestered in Y million cubic feet of substrate. If the substrate is seaweed instead of lumber, you lose Y/5 from Y each year, instead of losing Y/100 from Y ea

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