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by none_to_remain 1y ago
I have seen this in practice for vulnerabilities that affect many users of some software. If some Hackermann finds that Microsoft Windows version X or Oracle Database server version Y has a security flaw then disclosure is virtuous so that
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by none_to_remain 1y ago
You could very well read that as praise for Mississippi
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by none_to_remain 1y ago
Their wording had me imagining technological schemes that blind BlueSky from knowing but reading again I think what's going on is: Mississippi: They track "underage" and "adult" UK: They track "unknown [treated
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by none_to_remain 1y ago
The matter was settled in 1783
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by none_to_remain 1y ago
We have strayed so far from God's light
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by none_to_remain 1y ago
I played the game Noita where the enemies have inscrutable names like "Haulikkohiisi." I was amused to learn that is just the Finnish for "Shotgun Goblin", and that was the general pattern of names
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by none_to_remain 1y ago
I recall NPR throwing a fit over getting a "state media" label on Twitter.
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by none_to_remain 1y ago
Orbital velocity but not orbital trajectory.
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by none_to_remain 1y ago
2025: watching live footage from a doomed spaceship as it tumbles out of control through its own vented gases, all tinged red, as a synth soundtrack plays. (The soundtrack was on the X.com stream, seems cut from this link.)
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
The purpose of that meme is to annoy me with its inanity
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
None of the murder victims I'm aware of were transgender?
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
The Great Fire of London began in a bakery - such fires don't tend to burn down cities anymore
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
The article posits that data is bad and therefore we must vastly multiply it. Like I can no longer have a uint64, I need a uint64 with DRM, a certificate from Brussels that says I'm allowed to have a uint64, etc.
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
Data & the Ship's Computer are separate entities running on different substrates. I think that Data is an example of "AGI", while the Ship's Computer is excellent at responding to natural language queries.
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
> Brooks explains that this could eventually lead to robots with useful language interfaces for people in care situations. I've been thinking, in Star Trek terms, what if it's not Lt. Cdr. Data, but just the Ship's Compute
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
Oscar Wilde's personal life with teenage boys There's an episode with a young boy in A Rebours, a little googling says chapter 9 I don't think there's a canonical age for Salome's seductive dance but she's ofte
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
Do chess players actually consider this "double disambiguation" from the notation to be a different "move"?
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
There should be an Executive Summary
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
And that's a good thing. They have a permanent forum for discussions to prevent global thermonuclear war. Everything else about the UN pales in comparison
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
There is a public recreation facility called Peter'?s Field in NYC. It is named primarily for Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Cooper (NYC historical notables), secondarily for Peter Piper, Peter Parker, Peter Pan, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater,
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
I tried something on ChatGPT 3.5 a couple months ago: "Here is a probability mass function: p(0) = 0.1 p(1) = 0.2 p(2) = 0.5 p(3) = 0.2 and p(x) = 0 for x < 0 or x >3 Call this the XYZ distribution. Generate 20 numbers from the X
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by none_to_remain 2y ago
I remember mid-90s it was typical for a home computer to come with a prominent tutorial on mouse usage. There was definitely one for MacOS 7, while I don't recall if there was an official Microsoft tutorial for 90s Windows or just ones
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by none_to_remain 3y ago
I was blown away when the Windows XP installation process required me to find a 3.5" floppy for storage drivers.
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by none_to_remain 3y ago
It didn't really play like being a Jedi until the next one, Star Wars: Dark Forces 3: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
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by none_to_remain 3y ago
I guess some people have "privacy" and others have "secrecy".
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by none_to_remain 3y ago
Creating code is the lowest level of programming. Deleting code is much more refined. Preventing code is sublime.
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by none_to_remain 3y ago
I have been able to dump about 7-8 items in there at once
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by none_to_remain 3y ago
Avoid compromise with one simple trick: surrender to the attackers
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by none_to_remain 3y ago
I used to be in an adjacent field and we used to joke about when the HFT guys were gonna get working on some neutrino detectors & sources to signal straight through the Earth. You could use them for science on the weekends!
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by none_to_remain 3y ago
My understanding is that temperature applies to the output side and allows for some randomness in the next predicted token. Here Justine has constrained the machine to start with either "yes" or "no" and to predict only

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