marshray

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by marshray 4mo ago
IKR? "from a 2002 war game" Have there really been no other more interesting war games in the last quarter-century, or did all the negative attention this got just result in us never hearing about another one?
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by marshray 4mo ago
Did you have to press a special key to get that diacritical, or are you a writer for the New Yorker?
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by marshray 4mo ago
> Readers of a certain age may remember the so-called "dot com boom" that took place in the early 2000's. Just call the undertaker for me already.
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by marshray 4mo ago
I've heard it said that such systems may be used by militaries, where they have an organizational structure naturally-suited to large keystream distribution. Unlike e-commerce, it's no problem to physically send the proverbial off
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by marshray 4mo ago
As far as cryptographic security theater goes, it's hard for me to get angry about lava lamps.
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by marshray 4mo ago
Except that an extremely complex algorithm involving large data tables is required for Unicode or other modern text encodings.
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by marshray 4mo ago
Great. Please explain how the size of a call stack frame is determined and how exceeding the base allocation is handled on the particular platform you're proposing to recurse upon.
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by marshray 4mo ago
Well I don't feel so bad for not having known it then. Thanks!
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by marshray 4mo ago
The Parrots paper: "Contrary to how it may seem when we observe its output, an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic info
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by marshray 4mo ago
I think that's what was meant by "reporting stuff, not transactional".
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by marshray 4mo ago
There's nothing wrong with using SQL only when you know in advance exactly which records you wish to query. But if you ever need to query unknown data, then probably you should learn SQL a bit deeper.
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by marshray 4mo ago
"Assembly" is just another virtual machine instruction format sitting atop another, mildly better-hidden, pile of abstractions.
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by marshray 4mo ago
I wrote the "function to reverse a string" in a job interview once. Then the interviewer reminded me that strrev() had been part of the standard C library since K&R. I'd been programming in C(++) for ~15 years by then and
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by marshray 4mo ago
Right. For the first many decades of computing, recursion was just always the wrong answer for a production software system. (Feel free to provide a counter-example, but please begin with an explanation of how the size of a call stack frame
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by marshray 5mo ago
Shell-only, but https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
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by marshray 5mo ago
There was no hardware or other low-level magic associated with C-A-Del. Back in the NT days malware could totally intercept it, but it would have had to be in the kernel. Which was something of an improvement. Thank you, DoD Orange Book.
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by marshray 5mo ago
> if I was an intelligent extraterrestrial wishing to remain secret at a time of widespread interest in the possibility of extraterrestrials, I'd probably actively select the sort of people that might discredit the existence of UFOs
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by marshray 5mo ago
> the absence of facts I'd prefer to speak about "evidence in support of/against" rather than "facts", which often conceals a presuming-the-consequent kind of fallacy. > denial of science Whether "sc
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by marshray 5mo ago
> Galileo's heliocentric model Copernicus, but "close enough". Yep. The planets do not, in fact, revolve around the Sun. They revolve around the solar system center of mass (barycenter). This is an error of about 0.25 degr
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by marshray 5mo ago
People who believe in "chemtrails" are (in my un-scientific survey) pretty likely to be conspiracy enthusiasts ("cranks", "crazy", etc.). But they're not wrong that the stuff coming out of the back of jet
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by marshray 5mo ago
Oh, you were joking? Sorry, I encounter someone who believes exactly what you wrote at least once a week.
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by marshray 5mo ago
Every person on Earth could agree that Earth is flat and it wouldn't affect the reality of whether or not extraterrestrials visit earth even a little bit.
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by marshray 5mo ago
Being "crazy" and later turning ought to be "right" are not exclusive. One can be right for bad reasons.
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by marshray 5mo ago
Conspicuously missing in your argument is a link to a credible source with any evidence (or even 1st person testimony). It should be easy. Instead, I just see elaborate narratives about political motivations and garbage evidence like that l
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by marshray 5mo ago
As used here "UFO-crazy" wasn't a supposition, it was a constraint. "UFO-crazy uncles" are known to exist. This is not an extraordinary claim. The existence of such uncles provides no evidence for or against extrate
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by marshray 5mo ago
Is this a new form of gatekeeping? I.e., "too human-friendly to survive in the presence of The Great AI™". If so, where does that lead us?
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by marshray 5mo ago
No, storage prices were still much lower 5 years later.
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by marshray 5mo ago
I just looked at some low-end NAS-oriented HDDs. The cost $/TB is 2x similar ones I bought 5 years ago. That has never before happened in the history of computing, and it violates long-held, fundamental assumptions.
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by marshray 5mo ago
That's a really good point: now is about when we would expect to see the effects of third-round layoffs and vibes-oriented programming make it to critical production systems. I'm reluctant to form conclusions from early returns bu
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by marshray 5mo ago
Bash is one of the most complicated languages in common use and is horribly error-prone. It's almost never useful alone, but as an interface to call other CLI tools. I don't think this is a particularly useful comparison.

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