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by inkyoto 11mo ago
By placing a statement upon the public internet, you both implicitly and explicitly consent to that content being consumed by anyone, and by any means. Such is the implicit covenant that access to the public internet imposes upon all pa
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
> Certainly it is literally derivative. I am not sure if it is that clear cut. Embeddings are encodings of shared abstract concepts statistically inferred from many works or expressions of thoughts possessed by all humans. With text embe
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
> Take Myanmar as an example: even if China occupied it […] Historically, however, the record is rather unflattering for China in its engagements with Myanmar (formerly Burma) – China has waged four wars[0] with Myanmar and suffered a de
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
I take no issue with the acknowledgment of being on the losing side of a technical argument – provided evidence compels. However, to be entirely candid, I have submitted two references and a direct quotation throughout the discourse in supp
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
* was the usual infix multiplication operator in BCPL, and it was not used for pointer arithmetic. The BCPL manual[0] explains the «monadic !» operator (section 2.11.3) as: 2.11.3 MONADIC ! The value or a monadic ! expression is the
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
> The only reason why they have chosen " " as prefix in C, which they later regretted, was because it seemed easier to define the expressions " ++p" and "*p++" to have the desired order of evaluation. There
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
C's «static» and «auto» also come from PL/I. Even though «auto» has never been used in C, it has found its place in C++. C also had a reserved keyword, «entry», which had never been used before eventually being relinquished from i
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
> I smell AI writing assistance. Which is a shame […] I have met multiple brilliant, very bright, and talented people (mathematicians, physicists, doctors) who excel at what they know and do, yet immensely struggle to spell, write, or bo
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
Whilst I think that C has its place, my personal choice of Algol 26 or 27 would be CLU – a highly influential, yet little known and underrated Algol inspired language. CLU is also very approachable and pretty compact.
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
That is indeed correct. Kernighan in his original book on C cited Algol 68 as a major influence.
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
Indeed, although I am in no position to make comments on the quality of their own product specific documentation. Surprisingly, I have found that many people struggle to wrap their heads around the relative simple concepts of RBAC, ABAC and
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
What is the point that you are trying to make? Okta has committed to and has had a consitent track record of delivering at least one full scale security breach and the consistent user expericence degradation to their customers every year –
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
I have also designed and implemented enterprise grade OAuth2 / OIDC IdP's. Beyond the aforementioned concerns, one encounters yet another quagmire – the semantics of OIDC claims, the obligations ostensibly imposed by the standard,
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
By the same token, if one can use the keyboard, it does not make them a human. Parrots (the non-stochastic kind) and monkeys spring to mind.
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
Constructing a new OAuth2/OIDC Identity Provider from the ground up is an undertaking fraught with complexity – and not of the elegant variety. The reasons are numerous, entrenched, and maddeningly persistent. 1. OAuth2 and OIDC are in
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
Okta and auth0 are, fundamentally, two distinct products – conceived, designed, and engineered by entirely separate entities. auth0, as a product, distinguished itself with a modern, streamlined architecture and a commendable focus on devel
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Regrettably, the list in question offers limited operational value, as it omits the so-called «exit» CIDR's utilised by major cloud service providers – a glaring omission that renders the dataset largely superficial. Let's, for an
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by inkyoto 1y ago
The plausible scenarios I have outlined concern the seeding and emergence of a civilisation in the absence of terrestrial fire – a detail that, whilst seemingly minor, is foundational to the argument. Given sufficient time, such a civilisat
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by inkyoto 1y ago
The article calls out that « the probability of life emerging based on known factors peaked about 13,000 light-years from the galactic center and 8 billion years after the galaxy formed ». A hypothetical civilisation may well have emerged w
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by inkyoto 1y ago
What continues to vex me is the tedious inevitability with which hypothetical extraterrestrial civilisations are assessed through the narrow prism of human failings – namely, self-destruction and aggression. Intelligence, a term we are so f
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> From a technological point of view, the main distinctive feature of humans has not been the use of tools, which is relatively widespread among animals, but the control of fire . > The control of fire is what has enabled humans to
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> […] There is no prospect of Chinese entry in the European market in the foreseeable future. The remark stands as yet another regrettable instance of history echoing itself – a lamentable parallel to that uttered by Sir Claude Maxwell M
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> Yeah, gum […] illegal […] This trope, long exhausted and repeatedly regurgitated, persists despite the reality having shifted considerably. In truth, chewing gum has been legally obtainable in Singapore for a long time and is available
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> GHC … is the de facto Haskell compiler and simultaneously the main research vehicle for the language and the neighbouring design space in general. GHC is also, with mounting inevitability, the foremost and most viable candidate to un
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by inkyoto 1y ago
I would argue that corporate actors (a state, an army or a corporation) are not true superorganisms but are semi-autonomous, field-embedded systems that can exhibit super-organism properties , with their autonomy being conditional, relatio
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by inkyoto 1y ago
You are, of course, most welcome to offer your contributions — whether in debate or in contestation of the points I have raised – beyond the hollow reverberations of yet another LLM echo chamber. The information I used to contest the origin
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> That's why it keeps things like condition codes, which are a big mistake for large out-of-order implementations. RISC-V sensibly avoid this by having condition-and-branch instructions instead . Respectfully, the statement in ques
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by inkyoto 1y ago
And I strongly recommend that you stop recommending the reading of something that has its practical usefulness limited by what the treatise leaves unsaid: – It identifies problems (complexity, latent failures, hindsight bias, etc.) more
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Historical context is not merely important, it is indispensable. The statement in question was issued during a period in which software vendors routinely demanded several hundred — and in some cases, thousands — of dollars[0] for access to
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Likewise, thank you for a meaningful and civilised discourse. To expand upon your observations regarding the role and the function of global infrastructure providers — what I find most disquieting is the manner in which the Internet has deg

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