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by pipo234 3y ago
TLDR; the idea he has: > My thinking is that frequent partner The Library of Congress can put a stop to this by buying the Internet Archive. Make it a government body and protect all that digital content.
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Maybe this is not so much about bringing Python to Excel, more about bringing Excel to Python. But only if you do it the way Microsoft wants you to. As with BASIC morphing into VisualBasic and VBA you lure (beginning) python programmers int
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I have similar feelings about tech job boards and politely decline any offers I get from recruiters. My job is technically interesting, but not meaningful. Pays enough to take the money issue off the table. I would not quit tech altogether,
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I understand very little about LLMs and stable diffusion. But the observation that AIs produce better images after adding "like Unreal"-triggers might (boldly) suggest some evidence for Sapir Whorf thesis. (That language (speech,
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I get that content owners don't like people freely accessing, exchaning, using "intellectual property" that they're expected to pay for. Given laws and lore in many countries, it I even concede that you might call the &q
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Managers like dashboards. KPIs are dashboards. Your car dashboard is great for staying within speed limit, but now try driving without taking your eyes from the speed dial. :-)
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This seems somewhat ironic: > [...] > This is somewhat comparable to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux model, where that product is paid and commercial-only, but the source code is freely available, and that has enabled communities such as
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Allegedly :-)
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If Bolsonaro wasn't interested in rigging the elections, but rather to cast doubt on the result (as suggested in https://www.securityweek.com/brazilian-hacker-claims-bolsona... ), then he might have (unintentionally)
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Indeed, mostly smoke so far. But there might be some leads, like: > Delgatti said he met with Ministry of Defense technical experts to discuss the electronic voting system on five occasions. The first time, he said, was right after meeti
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But the question is: did Bolsonaro think he was a hacker?
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More accurately, the evidence being (solely) testimony. But yes, this doesn't seem to be a very strong case.
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> a stock market dominated by octogenarian+ dinosaurs, a decaying rump of manufacturing, a finance sector that mostly makes its bread laundering the capital of the world's corrupt and corruptors Ah! Now I get it. That rhymes with co
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From another source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hacker-testifies-that-b... > According to Delgatti, Bolsonaro wanted to him to "expose the fragility" of the voting machines [...]. And:
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> He said he told the leader he could not hack into the electronic voting system because it wasn’t connected to the internet. The lack of remote access is a major obstacle. But surely, Bolosonaro must have meant to apply a more creativ
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Thanks! That makes a lot of sense.
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Are US bank employees prohibited from discussing financial matters using anything but official channels (email, paper?) per se OR is this about using other channels and failing to preserve records of the conversations ?
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> The draft rules, which are open for comments until September 7, include some vague directives not to use face recognition technology to disrupt social order, endanger national security, or infringe on the rights of individuals and orga
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Eindhoven (NL) would have been obvious as well (NXP, ASML, Infineon, Philips)
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Asynchronous video . But what if you're averse to meetings because they take time ? What if you're averse to wasting time watching or listening to a discussion when the information is best communicated in plain old text?
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Sure, that happens too. And it would be interesting to read an article about that ; but that is not what this article is about despite its title :-)
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> Why aren't more companies coming into this space if it's so lucrative? I appreciate your optimism, but hasn't it recently become more clear that the world is full of wrongs that cannot, will not or for some reason are no
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I guess what chrisjj might have meant is that "debugging" usually starts with a bug, a or symptom. So in case of debugging the standard library, it usually is a problem in your own code that you cannot explain and try to blame o
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The contribution follows mostly the usual "thanks, but no thanks" struggle. Until you realize ... OMG. Red Hat's trajectory is making things complicated.
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tldr; no successful experiment outside original labs reproduces the results. Fingers crossed...
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News monetization sucks. I pay for a handful of news sources because I believe news is important and should not (always) be ad-sponsored. But even the sites I pay for, I usually access through some rip-off layer to avoid the hassle of loggi
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Some examples of scenarios where users depend on client trust include: * Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund th
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Software should be reliable, but I'm not fond of LTS. As a developer, I'm fine with 3 years of support, security or otherwise. The decade of (security) fixes (free or otherwise) smells like neglect . This is probably fine with 80
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Since we're talking about breakups, how about asking Android to pay up for Chrome? And how about asking customers to pay $50 license for Android when they buy a smart phone? Or an annual fee, for updates and maintenance. I mean, those
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Banks don't need the "anonymous" part of the WEI, just the "authentic" chain of trust as in am I really identifying a life person rather than a robot impersonation. Banks are lazy, they shouldn't need to rely o

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