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by gryfft 2y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41276390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41267901
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by gryfft 2y ago
I'm inclined to agree unless it's saying something other than what it seems to. Seems like a new spin on the quantum microtubule thing [0]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduc...
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by gryfft 2y ago
It does have an off switch. Repeating from the above for emphasis: This means that the only way someone could track you after the festival is if you **keep your compass on** Also implied in the instructions when you arrive at the fes
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by gryfft 2y ago
> To remedy this problem, Chen and his colleagues investigated if there could be entangled photons within this axon-myelin system that could, though the magic of quantum entanglement, communicate instantly across the involved distances.
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by gryfft 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999 ... From Wikipedia, an intuitive explanation of an elementary proof: > If one places 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, etc. on the number line, one sees immediately that all these points are to
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by gryfft 2y ago
Addressed in the linked article: > Can the Totem Compass allow someone to follow me home? > The Totem Compass is designed to make it nearly impossible for anyone to follow you home after the event. Because the Unity Mesh Network™ reli
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by gryfft 2y ago
From the original paper: > However, it must be emphasised that this does not include other dangers posed through the misuse of these models, such as the use of LLMs to generate fake news. Similarly, we do not contend that future AI syste
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by gryfft 2y ago
Thinking in product terms instead of surveillance terms, imagine wireless keyboards that don't need batteries, bluetooth, or even any internal electronics! I can also see a future home assistant using a laser microphone to pick up on u
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by gryfft 2y ago
> The poster child for self-harming corporate behaviour in the UK is still Gerald Ratner, the former head of a jewellery empire that tanked after he joked in 1991 that some of its products were cheap because they were “total crap”. Worth
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by gryfft 2y ago
https://archive.is/29kWp
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by gryfft 2y ago
I was put in mind of this by a post about hotel management deciding to search hotel rooms daily during DEFCON. Something that isn't discussed in the Wikipedia article is that there are times when, from a leadership perspective, it is i
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The Politician's Syllogism(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by gryfft 2y ago|1 comments
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by gryfft 2y ago
Another fine upper management execution of the Politician's Syllogism [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician's_syllogism
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by gryfft 2y ago
I read it as tinged with the implication that the wronged party must have done something to deserve it. In retrospect, perhaps I was being too sensitive.
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by gryfft 2y ago
> Why did they do that? I'm confused by the rationale of questioning the OP about someone else's motivations.
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by gryfft 2y ago
In the digital realm, MS Paint Adventures [1] and 17776 [2] spring to mind as modern ergodic literature. The old Homestar Runner [3] had a few really memorable moments that spring to mind, like a couple of gimmicks for SB Email #100 (a fake
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by gryfft 2y ago
https://archive.is/NbtsE
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by gryfft 2y ago
> it was always completely obvious to me even as a child that the primary purpose of religion was to form local communities and have others with shared values to rely on. In the religious community I grew up in, the idea that the purpose
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by gryfft 2y ago
Future shock feels different than I thought it would.
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by gryfft 2y ago
As an outsider with no relevant experience, I have a feeling the best advice you'll get will boil down to lawyer up and hire a PR firm... And if the accusations are bad enough and plausible enough, just cut all ties with those clients.
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by gryfft 2y ago
I genuinely do not think Crowdstrike will suffer any long term consequences because they deliver what matters to their real customers, the CISOs of the world. If one company has an embarrassing breach, it can make or break things at a criti
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by gryfft 2y ago
Maybe just the JVM.
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by gryfft 2y ago
This just reads like denial to the point of magical thinking, to me. "Nuh uh, I can't die, I would think of a way to not die and then do that!"
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by gryfft 2y ago
I've been meaning to do a bhyve deep dive for years, my gut feelings being much the same as yours. Would appreciate any recommended reading.
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by gryfft 2y ago
> [I]t is our contention in this commentary that both the HCN idea, and the calculations and projections that it has inspired, are analytically flawed as well as politically troubling. There is, in our assessment, no universal, timeless
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by gryfft 2y ago
They've inverted it ironically to attribute malice to Microsoft. (Not undeservedly.)
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by gryfft 2y ago
https://archive.is/sTP6F
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The problem with Arsenal is they always try and walk it in.
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Hiring technical writers would be admitting to human supremacy in the technical writing space. Better optics to use GPT-generated docs regardless of impact to engineers and users.
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First time I've seen a computer bug referred to as an "insect." Sucks that this compiler bug is still around after all this time. Seems like a adding a pre-commit hook to the project to enforce correct encoding would be a sim

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