oasisbob

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by oasisbob 11mo ago
Hate it, but doesn't surprise me one bit. This article is 2700 words of repetitive slop. It seems that people are adapting to this new world.
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by oasisbob 11mo ago
Wow! That box cover image immediately brings me back to digging through the family board game box kept under my parents' bed. Vividly remember it, it was one of those mysterious/never-played games.
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by oasisbob 11mo ago
I can understand wanting to give background. There's still a place where it's too long and verbose. The pacing and verbosity makes me really doubt this underwent extensive editing.
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Regardless of the strengths of this, I can't read this slop. A third of the way in, and: > Instead of expecting the client to know the server's public key in advance, the server might just send its public key during the TLS han
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by oasisbob 1y ago
A drive to simplicity and elegance can be a distinctive style. I wouldn't get caught up in the word "distinctive" to the detriment of losing the larger point about creators being thoughtful and opinionated.
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Fluoride, the ion, not fluorine the highly reactive atomic gas.
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Halon doesn't work that way, by displacing oxygen. Flame chemistry is weird. Halogenated fire suppression agents work by making Hydrogen (!) out of free radicals. https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents&#x
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by oasisbob 1y ago
> Pricier homes of the Pacific Northwest are usually well-clear of the larger trees that challenge foundations. That's not an accurate explanation. In the PNW, in many cities, older more expensive neighborhoods tend to have more tre
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Trees get a lot of blame, unfairly, for damage due to clay and expansive soils. In Texas, the damage due to "roots" is not due to tree growth alone, it's the desiccation and rehydration of clay that's the problem. Very s
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by oasisbob 1y ago
In us-east-1? That doesn't sound that impactful, have always heard that us-east-1's network is a ring. Back before AWS provided transparency into AZ assignments, it was pretty common to use latency measurements to try and infer re
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by oasisbob 1y ago
I'm not sure that either of these methods count as traditional. Air spades in particular are primarily used for rootwork, not transplanting. Bareroot methods are used for smaller trees. Bare rooting leaves roots in a very vulnerable st
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Normally I would be coming here to complain about how distasteful AI writing is, and how frequently authors accidentally destroy their voice and rhetoric by using it. Thanks for sharing your process. This is interesting to see
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by oasisbob 1y ago
It's AI-generated. Grates on me too. The irony of complaining about bot traffic with bot copy is too funny. > It was not a sophisticated piece of software, just a tool designed to observe how "users" actually interacted wi
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Timecode drift is an interesting issue, think I faced this recently while translating a Google Meet transcript into an incident report timeline. The elapsed-time timestamps didn't correlate well with other data sources. I figured it wa
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Even if so, that's a rather unsatisfying explanation, isn't it? It would be like trying to explain an increase in automotive fatalities by attributing the problem to all those people getting in accidents. As the world's popul
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by oasisbob 1y ago
> I would expect it wouldn't be sufficient for a lithium ion battery fire - you'd temporarily displace the oxygen (Edit: sorry, in hindsight it's obvious the comment I'm replying to was referring to inert gas systems,
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Not for that minimum 0.5PB volume. Even at 10PB, the storage commit discounts won't be anywhere near 50%. Probably more like 10-20%, if that.
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by oasisbob 1y ago
The big giveaways for me are overused idiomatic phrasing, and being unable to progress through a thesis and just circling the same idea over and over. The "this isn't just a _____, it's a (adjective of magnitude) _____, _____
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by oasisbob 1y ago
That's not a popular opinion to express these days. If you point out the excessive length, the rhetorical flaws, and the obvious idiomatic tics of AI writing people don't tend to want to hear it. When authors had to do the work, y
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by oasisbob 1y ago
While arguing may not be productive, I have had good results challenging Gemini on hallucinated sources in the past. eg, "You cited RFC 1918, which is a mistake. Can you try carefully to cite a better source here?" which would get
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by oasisbob 1y ago
> because these Gemini models sometimes feel downright lobotomized compared to claude or gpt-5. I'm using Gemini (2.5-pro) less and less these days. I used to be really impressived with its deep research capabilities and ability to
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by oasisbob 1y ago
> This is a brilliant piece of social engineering baked right into the code. It's designed to specifically defeat the common security habit ... I don't agree that the exuberance over the brilliance of this attack is warranted i
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Mentioning this and "hot" in the same sentence put me in a very Marshall McLuhan context. Personal computing and the growth of the internet are an example of something looping. They reinforce and amplify each other's impact a
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by oasisbob 1y ago
I live in a state, Washington, with mandatory breach reporting and notifications. Haven't seen anything from this. Any idea why? Low compliance in general? Telcos think they're big enough to ignore state regs?
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by oasisbob 1y ago
DPI refers to a broad class of products which attempt to find signals and categorize traffic according to a ruleset, either to block it or throttle the speeds, etc. While access to plaintext is useful, it's not required for other rules
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Wow, you hit a nerve with that one. There have been some quick edits on the page. Another: > Security isn't just a checkbox for us; it's fundamental to our mission.
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Beginning in early 2024, AWS began charging for every IPv4 address in-use on your resources. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address...
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by oasisbob 1y ago
Those examples seem to differ significantly because they're using "try" as an imperative.
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by oasisbob 1y ago
I disagree, the write up is overly verbose. If AI helped inflate it, that's worthy of conversation. Rhetorical faults are consistently discussed when security disclosures and notifications come up. How egotistical are the finders? Does
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by oasisbob 1y ago
The IPv4 networking case is especially weird to think about because the early internet didn't use classless-addressing before CIDR. Thinking about the number of bits in the address is only one of the design parameters. The partitioning

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