im3w1l

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by im3w1l 1y ago
I used to eat the batter that had stuck to the walls of the mixing bowl with a teaspoon as a kid. It had both raw flour and raw egg.
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by im3w1l 1y ago
GPG lost, TLS won. Both are actually webs of trust with the same underlying technology. But they have different cultures and so different shapes. GPG culture is to trust your friends and have them trust their friends. With TLS culture you t
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by im3w1l 1y ago
Yes so it's basically asking whether that probability distribution is 50/50 or not. And it turns out that it's sometimes very skewed. Which is a non-obvious result.
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by im3w1l 1y ago
Chatgpt got very sycophantic for me about a month ago already (I know because I complained about it at the time) so I think I got it early as an A/B test. Interestingly at one point I got a left/right which model do you prefer, wh
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by im3w1l 1y ago
I'm actually not so sure. To me it sounds like they are using reinforcement learning on user retention, which could have some undesired effects.
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by im3w1l 1y ago
Modern binaries use the syscall instruction instead of int 0x80 . The latter still works though.
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by im3w1l 1y ago
Just the fact that it contains a zip bomb makes it malware by itself.
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by im3w1l 1y ago
Well I have never used Objective-C so I can't comment on it.
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by im3w1l 1y ago
I actually disagree with that. Decompilation based mods can completely change anything and everything about the game. Scripting based mods can only change things within the boundaries allowed by the devs of the original game.
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by im3w1l 1y ago
I have found that the ClassFactoryGeneratorFactories sneak up on you. Even if you don't want to the ecosystem slowly but surely nudges you that way.
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by im3w1l 1y ago
You can state the argument formally as A has property B. Property B' implies property C. Hence A has property C. The fallacy is the sleight of hand where two almost but not quite identical properties B and B' are used, in this cas
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by im3w1l 2y ago
What about convergent evolution? Are you ruling that out because you reason that there are many possible structures that could do the same job so it's too much of a coincidence how close it matches?
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by im3w1l 2y ago
> The second issue is people’s relationship with the state. The average response rate to a crucial population survey produced by the BLS has fallen from 88% to 69% in the past decade. Canadians are 15% less likely to respond to a labour-
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I'm not saying we should send everyone a docker container with a full copy of ubuntu, electron and foo.js whether they have foo in their c library or not, but maybe there is a middle ground?
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by im3w1l 2y ago
My thinking disagrees with yours, but I can't say I have fully made up my mind yet. To me a compiler that is not "exploiting UB" has several valid choices about how to compile this. i may be stored in memory, in a register or
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by im3w1l 2y ago
There is in fact a common strategy for dealing with those errors. Shut the process down. That relies on another strategy. Reliable persisted state. Best practice here is to use mechanisms that ensures that at every moment the persisted stat
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Comdemning evil is an act with many purposes. Making the evil-doer change his mind is just one of possible benefit. Even if that is unlikely the other ones remain. * People naturally imitate what they see others do. A condemnation can preve
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by im3w1l 2y ago
From an individual perspective this is absolutely crazy and should never be done. But from a broader perspective it's clearly very beneficial for the advancement of science to have such fearless pioneers. Amazing stuff!
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I think sometimes you have to build the abstraction hell to completion and live with it for a while to truly realize it is in fact inferior. And even then, in science sometimes it never dies fully but lives on in some niche where it has des
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Not him, but I would also consider making FooBarWidget have a FooWidget rather than be a FooWidget. Normally with a FooWidget you can create one on some thread and then perform operations on it on that thread. But in the case of the Foo
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Well the AI part is a signifant evolution.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I think this will rapidly go from conspiracy theory to it's known that someone is doing it to everyone is doing it so much it's impossible to meet real people online. And then the real people give up on it exacerbating the problem
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by im3w1l 2y ago
As I said it's not wrong itself. They just have a steeper hill to climb in terms of evidence for their position.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
It's not that it's wrong, but when someone stands to make money the assumptions we make about their motives change. If their whole business relies on advocating a fringe position I will not start with an assumption of good faith,
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by im3w1l 2y ago
> So even if your UB code isn't called, the simple fact it exists may make some seemingly-unrelated code behave wrongly. This is fortunately not true. If it were, it would make runtime checks pointless. Consider this code free(p
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by im3w1l 2y ago
> Dozens of users publicly canceled their subscriptions, myself included. Makes you think of that one meme.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
So here is an amusing thought experiment I thought of at one point. Imagine a very high resolution screen. Say a billion by a billion pixels. Each of them can be white, gray or black. What is the lowest entropy possible? Each of the pixels
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by im3w1l 2y ago
As a kid I wanted to invent a perpetuum mobile. From that perspective, entropy is that troublesome property that prevents a perpetuum mobile of the second kind. And any fuzziness or ambiguity in its definition is a glimmer of hope that we m
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Isn't that kind of what we want entropy to capture though? If a particle darts off into the distance then in theory it might be time reversible, but in practice it's not so simple. If the particle escapes the gravitational pull, t
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Implementing anything is more error prone than using something battle-tested.

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