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by macksd 5y ago
Any time a SaaS gets compromised there's a similar comment here about how obviously this is going to happen when you give someone else your data, and it should have just all been within your own firewall, unexposed directly to the In
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by macksd 5y ago
This isn't always true. Using a SaaS is outsourcing these concerns, and sometimes you're outsourcing them to someone who will do better than you would and sometimes worse. I've worked on a couple of SaaS where security was a
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by macksd 5y ago
There's the perception, yeah. I've also been told that I was so productive in my current role, they saw it as a loss to move me to my target role. Of course, they lost me entirely... There's a place for that: just because som
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by macksd 5y ago
I sympathize with where you're coming from, but the phrase "unimportant things" bothers me. I'm always seeing clients deploy alpha or beta software in production. I see tech companies accumulating tech debt like nobodies
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by macksd 5y ago
Correct. If we could magically end the rape of children and stop the propagation of images of such, I think we'd all be on board. But when a system would realistically just push most of it elsewhere and violate a bunch of innocent peop
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by macksd 5y ago
The whole point of GANs is to train a model until it can defeat detection by another model. Virtually any technique for detection that can be reproduced could just be incorporated into the training loop and rendered almost useless.
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by macksd 5y ago
Except for any laws or restrictions against decompiling, it would legally be no different than the GPL case. Although personally I think since co-pilot is capable of redistributing the code, the question of whether the GPL permits the speci
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by macksd 5y ago
Not necessarily. If you were running a casino and someone was able to significantly beat the odds on 34 of your 36 tables, would you assume they cheated at all other tables but not those two, or just that other players at those tables were
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by macksd 5y ago
I was a bit confused by exactly what the percentage in the headline was, so here: >> In two of the largest retrospective cohort studies of AI to replace radiologists in Europe (n=76 813 women), all AI systems were less accurate than c
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by macksd 5y ago
It destroys the idea that you can only get an education that meets their standards from their teaching.
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by macksd 5y ago
That doesn't seem to jive with their tests, like doing it on-demand, extending focus range beyond normal limits, or the brain activity.
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by macksd 5y ago
Why would you want to raise your cholesterol?
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by macksd 5y ago
I believe this is what is done for a lot of old games (you know, the ones that would ask you to enter page 7, line 3, word 4 from the manual, etc.) If you buy them from Good Old Games or something, you simply enter any answer for the copy p
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by macksd 5y ago
They may be referring to the fact that the two parties will often join forces to protect the status quo. Where you see support for things like ranked choice voting, or easier ballot access for third parties, you see less support from the es
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by macksd 5y ago
Okay but when I was asking questions about why we didn't expect booster shots from the mRNA vaccines, that is the opposite of what and immunologist at my local hospital told me. So I'm not sure it is obvious.
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by macksd 5y ago
Except it was widely reported that natural immunity lasted 3 to 6 months and that the vaccines would last 2 years (at least Moderna), and the nuances there I think would be lost on a lay person. I even had an immunologist explain to me in d
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by macksd 5y ago
Well if I notice it, I'm not paying $3k for it, I'll tell you that. If most customers wouldn't notice, they should have no problem "refurbishing" it, should they?
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by macksd 5y ago
I'll take your word for it that it works, but I would have been skeptical. Am I correct in understanding that they essentially function is a communication medium with the companies maintaining these unsolicited mailing lists, and those
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by macksd 5y ago
It bothered from the other angle when POTUS started pushing Twitter as an important channel to keep up on what was going on because it's hardly ideal for that. My local government has similarly been making Nextdoor a de facto requireme
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by macksd 5y ago
A lot of people get all the way through college without ever considering the total cost of compound interest or the value of their major. Many college educations and critical thinking are not remotely the same thing.
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by macksd 5y ago
I've always been confused by Google's reputation for pushing in-the-office work. I've met with... 3, I think, Google teams quite a few times over the years, and not once have I seen Google engineers in the office for these me
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by macksd 5y ago
Or a 4th option: if, as you say, most people are doing SEO tricks to get there, why not just only index stuff that has indexing-specific metadata associated with it. I don't see why this needs to be so different from an opt-in version
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by macksd 5y ago
I wouldn't say it's the most pressing privacy issue, but we can collectively focus on more than just a single priority. For instance, I wouldn't call someone's medical career useless just because they weren't workin
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by macksd 5y ago
It's is often talked about that way: Wikipedia at least defines it as a general price increase. And that still gives you many of the same effects as a money-supplu-triggered inflation. Many annuities are worth less. The dollars in a sa
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by macksd 5y ago
I didn't say they said that. It's also not my whole comment. Not sure what you're getting at.
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by macksd 5y ago
As I said, I am not such a person. Most of the English-speaking world consists of the same. As I said - I agree that China's government is worse. In fact my previous employer had a policy that company devices just didn't cross tha
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by macksd 5y ago
Of the two, which government do I think is more evil? China's. Which government do I, a permanent resident of America, think could more immediately make my life harder by being able to invade my privacy? America's.
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by macksd 5y ago
I see a lot of "this is a US-only problem" comments here lately on many topics and I just don't get it because it's usually just not remotely correct at all, nevermind relevant if most of the discussion IS based in the U
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by macksd 5y ago
We had a similar phenomenon on MTV, which made up the bulk of the programming on channel 4, in New Zealand. Is it really that US centric? The UK has their own MTV programming too, don't they?
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by macksd 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QlHgA27qfw

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