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by otakucode 7y ago
Quite a few years ago I recall watching a presentation by a leader of a child advocacy organization that was dealing with the various governments in the EU and providing technical guidance to them. They were very close at the time to movin
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by otakucode 7y ago
If you were immortal, would that confer some kind of meaning on your actions? How do you define meaning, and does it make any sense? Philosophical issues like these can have, I believe, substantial effects on a persons mental health. It&
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by otakucode 7y ago
>Does YT have a quantifiable monopoly it abuses in an economic sense? I really don't see how YouTube could be seen as anything but anticompetitive in many of its practices. Primarily, the fact that they have used and continue to us
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by otakucode 7y ago
It surprises me that a multitude of separately developed systems acting in the same 'playground' don't give rise to more emergent behavior. I would expect accidental death spirals as systems unknowingly couple together and g
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by otakucode 7y ago
When it comes to trademark, companies are compelled to act. Failing to defend your trademark will make you incapable of defending it in the future. The DMCA can NOT be used for trademark disputes, however. The DMCA exclusively deals with
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by otakucode 7y ago
Wow. I have never heard of this and not considered it before, but you are right. If you had pushed a fix for the nightly build prior to a fix being available on the main branch, it would have amounted to a disclosure about the stable vers
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by otakucode 7y ago
I hope the battery was replaced? There's a recall affecting the battery for mid-2015 MBPs. The batteries can explode even when not being charged and the system not in use, it's definitely worth complying with the recall (which t
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by otakucode 7y ago
I'd like to add an additional possible threat model that gets ignored pretty comprehensively and, in some cases, intentionally: Your data being fed to automated systems that provide summaries or derivative information based upon your d
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by otakucode 7y ago
Who audits Google? Serious question.
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by otakucode 7y ago
Because we invented it specifically to establish a system in which some answers were right (those which could be proven given a set of axioms and a set of legal reasoning techniques) and some were wrong. Why would it being invented affect
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by otakucode 7y ago
I think reading things which were believed in the past, and how they were justified, what 'proof' was held up, etc, is tremendously helpful. We can imagine re-walking their path and understand how they came to believe what they b
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by otakucode 7y ago
>We are unable to specify the objective completely and correctly, nor can we anticipate or prevent the harms that machines pursuing an incorrect objective will create when operating on a global scale with superhuman capabilities. This is
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by otakucode 7y ago
This is one of my concerns. If there is a large-scale collapse, that is a very concrete statement of "what you tried did not work." Preserving as much of that past as possible would be a mistake. Any large collapse should be an
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by otakucode 7y ago
I worked on a billing system for a government service in the USA. The system served both government clients and non-government ones. The government ones were tracked as 'federal' and others 'non-federal'. There were m
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by otakucode 7y ago
Whatever happened to QuarkXPress? I remember seeing it all over the place and it was the de facto standard in desktop publishing for quite awhile in the 90s, but then it just sorta... disappeared. Do you know of anywhere I could find a go
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by otakucode 7y ago
Where does it mention that? And is asking what a persons preferred pronoun is considered rude?
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by otakucode 7y ago
Not to mention the capability to execute any arbitrary executable.
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by otakucode 7y ago
Just a channel that is used for exfiltration. It's not a specific sort of thing.
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by otakucode 7y ago
Automation is or was an overblown fear? Consider that when these children were making their astute predictions, a company would have entire rooms filled with secretaries and typists handling mail. Each individual could read, compose a res
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by otakucode 7y ago
If a research does not release the code used in their research, their papers should not be trusted. We wouldn't trust a paper where the researchers hid their experimental methods or analysis - it wouldn't even be allowed to be pu
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by otakucode 7y ago
This is not simply a matter of social science being soft. This was caused by exactly 1 thing: researchers not releasing the code they write or use. Their code was bad, and it produced an incorrect result. There is probably TONS of this
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by otakucode 7y ago
While attending college, I worked as a mainframe operator in the evenings at a data center for a bank. There are parts of the financial system which are most definitely not digital and not 'online' at all. For instance, each nig
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by otakucode 7y ago
My suggestion of a better solution would be better tools. For instance, when viewing or editing the code, a call to CopyFile should appear something like CopyFile([from] 'presentation.md', [to] '/home/presente
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by otakucode 7y ago
No reason? Hey, let's assume you're running a business. Only it's a special business. The customers really need your service. And they don't pay for your service. Someone else pays the bill for them. And they are
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by otakucode 7y ago
It is impossible to control the actions of other people. What they will or will not do should play little role in your own moral determinations. At the end of the day, anything done in business is only done for money. If you do something
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by otakucode 7y ago
>evolved into a group think belief that management could function as fungible & completely replaceable units of work That is just an element of consistency. Since the 1980s management 'wisdom' has been centered around the
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by otakucode 7y ago
I started meditating when I was a young teen, and am 40 now. I go through periods where I don't do it as much, but I've been off and on meditating for quite awhile. Not so much 'mindfulness' meditation as has become th
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by otakucode 7y ago
In my prior job, I worked with a few (really skilled) interns that were just finishing up their CS degrees. I found out that they didn't learn any SQL at all and their interactions with databases was severely limited overall. This re
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by otakucode 7y ago
I didn't mention anything about other things they've done, I'm just looking at what the organization actually provides to the market. While it is true that they did all of the things you mentioned, that is unfortunately what
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by otakucode 7y ago
Since the beginning I have always wondered when I came across complaints about there not being enough multi-core software. Am I the only one with more than 1 process running on my system?

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