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by qazwsxedchac 16d ago
The cover art is a gross error of judgement, and it stops me from buying this book for the next generation of hackers in the wider family. Adults will understand that the "shush" gesture with the soldering iron is supposed to be a
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by qazwsxedchac 19d ago
If homomorphic encryption is not involved, how does Apple not have access to the raw image data being sent to PCC? (Genuine question)
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by qazwsxedchac 3mo ago
Counterexample: Public transport throughout Luxembourg (the entire country, not just the capital city) is free. As in beer. Clean, safe, and reliable, too. The positive "flywheel effect" where transport connectivity enables networ
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by qazwsxedchac 5mo ago
So a single configuration mistake in a single place wiped out external reachability of a major economy. It happened in the evening local time and should be fixable, modulo cache TTLs, by morning. This will limit the blast radius somewhat. S
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by qazwsxedchac 6mo ago
Short answer: No. Apple already caved in advance. Longer answer: In the UK, Apple already implements age "verification" at the OS level, starting with IOS/IPadOS 26.4. If Apple had not implemented this, it would still be in c
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by qazwsxedchac 6mo ago
> but Apple needs to follow UK law The Online Safety Act does not require device manufacturers to enforce age "verification" at the OS level. If Apple had not implemented this, it would still be in compliance with UK law. App
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by qazwsxedchac 10mo ago
That's exactly where the flaw likely is, on the side of the top surface layer which faces away from you. Air bubble in the plastic, or dust inclusion. If you really want to get to the bottom of it, put a 30x pocket microscope over the
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by qazwsxedchac 1y ago
The ID cards as realized in many other countries are comparatively benign, because they are a physical credential in the possession of the person concerned. The government cannot stop this credential from being used except by physically con
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by qazwsxedchac 2y ago
It only helps because the chaotic system under consideration has periodic components. The attractor shown in figure 1e has such periodic components, and identifying these does help, but only with very near term forecasting. When the accumul
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by qazwsxedchac 2y ago
Yes, you're right. Off by one error on my part caused by concentrating on the bottom half of figure 1a while trying to visualize this and formulating my question.
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by qazwsxedchac 2y ago
There's an earlier paper [0] involving the same authors which explains this a bit better. AIUI, they use the 3x3 neighbourhoods to capture local directional and curvature (i.e. gradient) information in the distance matrix. They then ap
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by qazwsxedchac 2y ago
This is an utterly brilliant hack for dimensionality reduction leading to pattern recognition. That it even beats SVMs (albeit with a single carefully chosen example ;-) is icing on the cake. One thing I don't understand is the additio
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by qazwsxedchac 3y ago
> If I understand the linked chart, there are discontinuities in the <i>marginal</i> tax rate, not the effective tax rate. True, but they are harsh discontinuities, sufficiently so to have the effects I described. And
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by qazwsxedchac 3y ago
Marginal rate discontinuities in the UK income tax system [0] are driving highly undesirable (from the taxman's point of view) behaviour. The increase in marginal tax rate from £100K p.a. upwards has already led to: - doctors going par
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by qazwsxedchac 3y ago
Note that if you are based outside Germany and you want to start a "Mahnverfahren" then you'll need to start it at the district court of Berlin-Wedding https://www.mahngerichte.de/mahngerichte/wedding&#x2
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by qazwsxedchac 3y ago
Speaking from experience, there is no single, easy answer to your questions about specific measures and workarounds, because neurodiverse people are so, well, diverse. The common sense tips given elsewhere in this thread are worth trying. K
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by qazwsxedchac 3y ago
Thank you for the reference. Its author defines a "rogue AI" as: "an autonomous AI system that could behave in ways that would be catastrophically harmful to a large fraction of humans, potentially endangering our societies
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by qazwsxedchac 3y ago
> sober voices as Geoffrey Hinton sounding the alarm about super-smart AI Can someone please explain to me what exactly the danger is / the dangers are of "super-intelligent" AI? AIUI, an AI is a combination of hardware, s
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by qazwsxedchac 3y ago
These aren't Meccano, they are East German "Construction" sets. A riff on the Meccano idea, but metric, and probably not paying license fees to Meccano at the time ;-) The parts will look great quality while played with only
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by qazwsxedchac 4y ago
> One of the problems in the third world is that thugs backed by local politicians can illegally take over your land. That's not even limited to the third world. Source: Personal experience of owning farmland in a first world countr
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by qazwsxedchac 4y ago
TI-59 programmable calculator (the one with a magnetic card drive) from 1981. The most remarkable thing about it are the manuals: They are an excellent introduction to programming, simple algorithms, and explain the need for documentation.
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by qazwsxedchac 5y ago
> life is much better net than it was under Bubonic Plague With all due respect, that's whataboutism. Life is much better than it would be under Ebola, too, but the issue here is that overall quality of life has deteriorated for m
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by qazwsxedchac 5y ago
Not true. If you show up at a UK A&E with what looks like a gunshot wound or a stab wound, you will get healthcare, but the police will also be informed of you having suffered these specific injuries, and they will take a keen interest
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by qazwsxedchac 8y ago
Precious metal, if held in physical form, has the unique property of being no-one's obligation. Additionally, it is by definition a bearer "instrument" and easily transportable, therefore suitable for mitigating political ris
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by qazwsxedchac 10y ago
Quite. Historically, countries which build walls don't do so to keep people out, but to keep them in.
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by qazwsxedchac 10y ago
FTFA: "...we have to distribute Opus as a free binary... can’t distribute it as source. And, once a day, it has to anonymously report back to Digium" Binary blob only, and phones home? Even if it is an attempt to put an upper boun
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by qazwsxedchac 10y ago
It's not a new idea, John Myers O'Hara expressed it well over 100 years ago: http://www.unz.org/Pub/Bookman-1902nov-00229:19