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by openasocket 7mo ago
Just comes off like a puffed-up pigeon strutting around the stage, trying to cover up his own insecurities. The true great military leaders dont act like this. Even Patton, who has that kind of reputation, was far more thoughtful. On the jo
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by openasocket 7mo ago
Voter ID is often touted as an important part of election security, but when you look at the threat model of elections it just doesn't do much. Think about how you would try to cheat at an election. The common methods are things like b
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by openasocket 7mo ago
The entire enterprise of AI for medical advice reminds me a lot of the early 20th century. When X-rays and radioactivity were first discovered, industry rushed to commercialize it. You could get an X-ray in a shoe store to see how your shoe
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by openasocket 8mo ago
Ummm, is it a good idea to use AI for malware analysis? I know this is just a proof of concept, but if you have actual malware, it doesn’t seem safe to hand that to AI. Given the lengths of anti-debugging that goes in existing malware, maki
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by openasocket 8mo ago
> It indeed sucks for the honest workers like your friends who are losing funding because the CIA can't help itself. So you find an organization filled with aid workers who are dedicating themselves to saving lives, with some instan
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by openasocket 8mo ago
> I'm not saying it's "better" in the moral sense, but from the point of view of the dominant, it's definitely more effective By what metric does the Belt and Road Initiative provide more soft power than USAID? D
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by openasocket 8mo ago
> An American belt and road initiative would be politically impossible. I think you misunderstand soft power if you think the belt and road initiative is better. The belt and road initiative largely builds infrastructure to aid Chinese i
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by openasocket 8mo ago
I genuinely don't get it. I just don't understand how billionaires think. Everyone knows why he bought the Washington Post: it was for clout and prestige. Just like how the titans of industry built opera houses and libraries in ce
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by openasocket 10mo ago
I don’t know much about chemistry, but is there a reason why they are using CO2 as the gas medium instead of something else? I was thinking ambient air would be readily available, and you don’t have to worry about suffocating people if it r
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by openasocket 10mo ago
Frankly, it’s not a lack of arenas that is holding Go back. It’s the fact that, in 2025, we have a language with a runtime that is neither generational nor compacting. I can’t trust the runtime to perform well, especially in memory-consciou
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by openasocket 10mo ago
> pretty sure the process I've seen most places is more like: one junior approves, one senior approves, then the owner manually merges. Yeah that’s what I think we need to enforce. To answer your question, it was not tagged as AI ge
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by openasocket 10mo ago
Pretty much. Someone on our team put out a code review for some new feature and then bounced for a 2 week vacation. One of our junior engineers approved it. Despite the fact that it was in a section of dead code that wasn’t supposed to even
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by openasocket 10mo ago
The surprising thing isn’t that physics remain the same from one day to another, it’s that that fact is the reason for conservation of energy. There are lots of different symmetries for the laws of physics: the laws don’t change from one da
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by openasocket 11mo ago
The Department of Defense DID NOT used to be called the Department of War. Before there was no central department for the entire military. Instead, there was the Department of the Navy and the Department of War (which was for the Army).
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by openasocket 1y ago
> By design, other processes cannot inspect what environment variables are running in a container. That’s not exactly true. If a process is running in a container, and someone is running bash outside of that container, reading that proce
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by openasocket 1y ago
There are some patterns that emerge when you look at them in other bases. For example, in base 6, the final "digit" (hexit?) is either 1 or 5, (with the exception of the primes 2 and 3). In base 4, the final "digit" is e
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by openasocket 1y ago
The AN-TPY/2 radar only sees in a 90 degree arc. Given the primary threat in terms of ballistic missiles is from Iran and maybe Yemen (do the Houthis have ballistic missiles that can range Qatar?) they probably weren’t facing in that d
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by openasocket 1y ago
The US probably was able to detect the launch, yes. But would they have assets in place to conduct an intercept in time? Different systems are meant for different targets, and physics put fairly stringent requirements on where an intercepto
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by openasocket 1y ago
I'm skeptical of that claim. I'm not even sure the Israelis would need refueling assets for this. According to the DoD source in the article, the ALBMs were fired from aircraft over the red sea. That's not far from Israel. De
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by openasocket 1y ago
Each system has its pros and cons, and as a result both methods are widely used. Even the US isn't standardized. The US Air Force I believe largely uses the boom method, while the US Navy largely uses the probe-and-drogue system. Thoug
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by openasocket 1y ago
The strictness of our memory requirements wasn’t made apparent until years later. For background, the application is a system daemon running on end-user servers. So every byte we allocate, every cycle of CPU we use, is a byte or cycle taken
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by openasocket 1y ago
No, Go isn’t actually that widely used at my company. The original developers chose Go because they thought it was a good fit for our use case. We were particularly looking for a compiled language that produces binaries with minimal depende
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by openasocket 1y ago
I saw that! I’m definitely interested in trying it out to see if it helps for our use case. Of course, at this point we’ve reduced allocations so much the GC doesn’t have a ton of work to do, unless we slip up somewhere (which has happened)
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by openasocket 1y ago
I've worked almost exclusively on a large Golang project for over 5 years now and this definitely resonates with me. One component of that project is required to use as little memory as possible, and so much of my life has been spent h
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by openasocket 1y ago
You can think of the formal proofs that mathematicians write as essentially pseudocode, as compared to Lean which is actual code that can be compiled. As an example, it would be common to say “2*x + 4 = 0, therefore x is -2”, in a mathemati
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by openasocket 1y ago
I would be surprised if it wasn’t. Maybe some part of depends on the continuum hypothesis, but ZFC is pretty powerful
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by openasocket 1y ago
Does controlling exit nodes necessarily help with deanonimizing? You would need control of the internal nodes for classic de-anonymization, or monitoring of both the exit nodes and the originating network for timing attacks. Also, exit node
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by openasocket 1y ago
I think the author significantly underestimates the supply consumption of land forces in combat. You’ve got food, ammunition, spare parts, medicine, tents, shovels, uniforms, fuel, the list goes on. US military planners in 1943 estimated th
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by openasocket 1y ago
I only vaguely follow the developments in LLMs, so this might be a dumb question. But my understanding was that LLMs have a fixed context window, and they don’t “remember” things outside of this. So couldn’t you theoretically just keep talk
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by openasocket 1y ago
The act of being in the country without a valid visa is not a crime, it is a civil infraction. Entering the country illegally (i.e. sneaking through the border) can be a crime, but around 50% of undocumented immigrants entered the country l

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