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by rmunn 1y ago
It allows the security guy (in this case, zikduruqe) to send an email that can only be read by the person who possesses the corresponding private key. Which means that either the email is going to the executive who really does own the acc
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by rmunn 1y ago
yt-dlp doesn't need to be installed, you can download the binary from GitHub and run it without installing. You might say that a restricted environment really really should prevent running binaries just downloaded from the Internet, an
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by rmunn 1y ago
Correction: very often it's "elect the (whichever) politician running for President two or three years ago", because people rarely remove the bumper stickers they've applied. Once the next Presidential election starts up
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by rmunn 1y ago
Point. As part of a negotiated contract, some companies might indeed put in guarantees of software quality; I've never worked in the nuclear industry or any other industries where that would be required, so my perspective was a little
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by rmunn 1y ago
Have you ever used a piece of software that DID make guarantees about being safe? Every software I've ever used had a "NO WARRANTY" clause of some kind in the license. Whether an open-source license or a EULA. Every single on
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by rmunn 1y ago
I've personally seen someone ask a question, "My cat keeps jumping on my keyboard. Is there anything I can do to make sure she doesn't accidentally type a valid Unix command while I'm AFK?" And the answer was, &quot
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by rmunn 1y ago
If I had the ability to downvote a comment yet, I'd downvote you. If you're going to spout conspiracy-theory-sounding stuff, at least provide some evidence for your claims!
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by rmunn 1y ago
> It [slavery] mostly wasn't [legal] in other countries [at the time the 13th Amendment was passed, i.e. the mid 1860's]... The history of the 19th century and when slavery was abolished in each one is actually a fascinatingly
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by rmunn 1y ago
Are you saying that being ordered by a judge to perform work, without pay, and which you would not have done absent those orders, does not fit the definition of involuntary servitude? Because while the precise definitions of servitude do
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by rmunn 1y ago
Or a watch command that runs tests in the background on save, and an IDE setting to flag code when the watched tests produce a failure. Get used to that, and it's not even a matter of stopping to run the tests: they run every time you
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by rmunn 1y ago
> Here in the US, the thirteenth amendment seems to think that a little slavery is cool. For anyone not familiar with the US Constitution, the 13th Amendment forbids slavery and involuntary servitude "except as a punishment for crim
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by rmunn 1y ago
I can no longer edit the parent comment, but I want to address one thing: > Once my property tests were running overnight This was happening because I was setting my test runner to say "Keep generating random data and running tests
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by rmunn 1y ago
I may have given a misleading impression. Each property test took milliseconds to run, and FsCheck defaults to generating 100 random inputs for each test. Running the whole test suite took 5-10 minutes depending on whether I ran the longer
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by rmunn 1y ago
I was trying out an implementation of Relaxed Radix-Balanced Trees, a data structure for immutable lists that allows splitting and joining them in constant* time. In a normal RRB Tree implementation, each leaf in the tree has up to 32 items
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by rmunn 1y ago
I love property-based testing, especially the way it can uncover edge cases you wouldn't have thought about. Haven't used Hypothesis yet, but I once had FsCheck (property-based testing for F#) find a case where the data structure
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by rmunn 1y ago
When I moved from country A to country B, I shipped quite a lot of stuff (books, board games, etc) that was too heavy to take on the airplane and which I could live without for a month or two. Country B did not charge me customs duties on m
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by rmunn 1y ago
I still have to submit the paperwork that says which country my income was earned in, which is basically the standard tax paperwork from country A plus an extra form or two. (And in years when I went to country A on business trips, it'
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by rmunn 1y ago
It grows exponentially the more countries are involved. I am a citizen of country A but live and work in country B, and I have to satisfy country B's visa requirements, which involves quite a bit of paperwork. I also have to pay taxes
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by rmunn 1y ago
There are plenty of people with high INT and low WIS. As the old joke goes, intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad.
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by rmunn 1y ago
Apple wasn't a name change, though: that was its name from the beginning. Slightly different situation. (Yes, they changed their name from Apple Computer Company to Apple Inc. once they started making smartphones, but that's not t
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by rmunn 1y ago
When you change your name and then have to constantly say (formerly OldName), it's a sign of a bad name-change decision. When you change your name to a common word, that does nothing to say what you actually do, it's a sign of a b
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by rmunn 1y ago
Personally, I'd blame California for American voters' distaste for subsidizing high-speed rail. They look at the massive budget (and time) overruns of California's celebrated high-speed rail, and say "I don't want t
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by rmunn 1y ago
Heard an anecdote about a German engineer who was in California (I think San Francisco, but if it was Los Angeles then the distances involved would be even larger) for meetings with American colleagues, and thought he would drive up to Oreg
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by rmunn 1y ago
I would argue that current LLMs are passing the Turing test because many observers have a hard time distinguishing them from humans: just look at the difficulty many schools have in enforcing rules like "Not allowed to use LLMs for you
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by rmunn 1y ago
The Turing test was never a test of thinking: Turing said that thinking was difficult to define and so he decided to "replace the question by another, which is closely related to it" (I disagree with him there) "and is expres
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by rmunn 1y ago
I've seen one blog where in order to comment, you have to answer the question "What color is a green orange?" I presume he gets spambots which all answer "orange" and get blocked from commenting, or more commonly wh
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by rmunn 1y ago
If I was assigned the task of arguing that in court (though it would be really stupid to assign me, a non-lawyer, that task), I'd probably argue that it's not circumventing a locked door when you use the actual key in the lock; &q
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by rmunn 1y ago
I should probably mention that Linux Mint disables Snap packages by default (for reasons of principle that boil down to "Snap packages suck"), though you can reenable them with a single command if you actually want Snap. That&#x27
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by rmunn 1y ago
I'd suggest Linux Mint if you want Ubuntu with a GUI that doesn't suck, though Kubuntu is probably a decent choice (KDE isn't to my taste visually so I don't use it, but it absolutely doesn't suck and many people li
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by rmunn 1y ago
> I was going to ask my boss for a new MacBook Pro soon but now I’m having second thoughts. If you're looking for laptop recs, I've been happy with my Framework 16 except for one issue: when you close the lid, it can subtly fle

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