jabbany

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by jabbany 3y ago
IANAL but, IIRC any sniffing seems to be fine in general? You'd only get in trouble if you transmitted anything. I don't even think you need a license to just listen to stuff. Also I think the paper mentions that many types of pa
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by jabbany 3y ago
This! I still recall using zmodem not that long ago for this exact purpose of sending firmware blobs over just a serial connection.
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by jabbany 3y ago
Coming here to say this too. Having each window correspond to a button on the task bar is crucial for my workflow as I use individual windows as one layer of grouping for the eventual tabs in those windows. (Not supporting ungrouped one-cli
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by jabbany 3y ago
By the same logic, boundaries and distance are also part of a healthy relationship, and there's no point to forcing proximity when it is not desired. The original title of this post was "You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Frie
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by jabbany 3y ago
> You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Really though? Anecdotally I feel the opposite... Proximity tends to breed opportunities for conflict. Personally, I really appreciate the distinction between neighbors that you have a mo
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by jabbany 3y ago
Yeah, this is probably right (It's been a long time since I've played with it) Looks like jslinux is based on TEMU which looks to be a "lite" QEMU.
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by jabbany 3y ago
Reminds me of https://bellard.org/jslinux/ (which is linked in the Readme of this project too, and IIRC also is qemu+emscripten) That demo also felt quite crazy back in the day, it even had an option for Win2k!
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by jabbany 3y ago
I think what you're imagining is a more limited version of what is proposed. Similar ACL measures are used in classical programming all the time. E.g., Take, memory integrity of processes in operating systems. One could feasibly imagin
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by jabbany 3y ago
Seems like a common problem of recommenders tbh. Like binary search, they're really good at finding local optima quickly, and then are rather bad at getting out of them once they get there.
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by jabbany 3y ago
> Even right out of college, I would not have purchased or rented a place in SF above ground level with no back yard, no car parking, no bike parking, and no good access to transit. Eh, ultimately doesn't seem like an issue to worry
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by jabbany 3y ago
That's fine though right? Clearly, the developer thinks it will make financial sense to build it that way. If it turns out nobody wants it, then all the better, the market forces will drive down the price and make it affordable housing
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by jabbany 3y ago
Seems like a poor excuse for v3. Changing the permissions should be a browser side thing not something that requires an update on the extension side. E.g. You can have extensions always ask for the max permissions needed, as long as the us
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by jabbany 3y ago
Because the incentives are not aligned. The banners are there not because they are required, but because websites want to badger you into agreeing to tracking. Websites don't need to show a banner if tracking is opt-in or if first-part
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by jabbany 4y ago
The examples here vary in how bad they are... Like, "crypto" is understandable, the technology is somewhat related and it was the non-technical people (who have very little exposure to the "cryptography" context) that sh
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by jabbany 4y ago
> What if a flight only cost a nickel, but there was a 40% chance it blew up? Everything has failure modes though so this isn't nearly as easy of a comparison... Just as an example on the analogy, there are plenty of cases of pilot
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by jabbany 4y ago
Reminds me of this video about automation of mental labor (and this was made back in 2014, way before any of of the LLM stuff of the modern era): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU While not all the example predict
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by jabbany 4y ago
Frankly, these days machine translation is more than enough to reproduce most technical documents at an acceptably high level of accuracy. Fwiw, this is the relevant link: https://xiangshan-doc.readthedocs.io/zh_CN/late
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by jabbany 4y ago
They should, but it's the businesses that pay the fees to the payment processors and not the consumers, so...
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by jabbany 4y ago
That's the issue. Cards generally don't let you control billing "by-vendor" or "by-billing-series". As for the "allow recurring charges to continue on the new number", none of my banks allow this (I k
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by jabbany 4y ago
The problem is that with credit cards, recurring bills aren't "special" compared to normal purchases. This is different from digital-native payment systems like PayPal which do have (albeit also riddled with dark patterns) a
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by jabbany 4y ago
> The proposed 'click to cancel' rule would require companies to let you cancel a membership in as many steps as it takes to sign up. This is actually a very smart and simple rule and I love the reciprocity of it---if it takes
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by jabbany 4y ago
A positive interest rate? That's a no brainer steal. Basically you're saying you'd pay the customer for the privilege of not being able to use their money... A bank that keeps 100% funds as reserve to accommodate any withdraw
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by jabbany 4y ago
This isn't entirely the right comparison, mostly because "AI" covers a wide span of things. AI that benefits from the kind of adversarial training that you mention are mostly _planning_ type AIs (think AlphaGo). The problem t
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by jabbany 4y ago
This is not even a new problem... Back in 2011, Google faced the same problem mining bi-texts from the Internet for their statistical machine translation software. The thought was that one could utilize things like multi-lingual websites to
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by jabbany 4y ago
Having to handle 1 customer support ticket for every 100 board sales seems like an extremely serious problem well worth supporting! The failure rate of motherboards is only ~3%, imagine adding an extra 1% on top... (I know you're tryin
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by jabbany 4y ago
To me this makes a lot of sense, and really is the reason why most things are by default insecure. Most people who are building their own computer are not going to be an expert in UEFI and secure boot (some may have never even heard of thes
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by jabbany 4y ago
Not OP but I know quite a few people who really do not like to carry their phone around. I couldn't understand this for the longest time until I asked my sister, who kept handing her phone to me to hold on to while on a family trip, ab
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by jabbany 4y ago
I think this is an IT Crowd reference ;-)
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by jabbany 4y ago
The old thermostat is placed quite far from any place I could plug in a transformer to... (otherwise, yes, that would have been the solution) My current setup has the relay right next to the furnace, where there's plenty of mains lines
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by jabbany 4y ago
Unfortunately not in the case of my furnace... It was upgraded with a rather new controller board at some point despite the machine being rather old, and is very unhappy about any extra loads on the heating control wire. In fact the control

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