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by saghm 25d ago
> The point was that, in my experience, the people in these environments that engage in this sort of act typically do so because they believe their individual situation justifies the action despite the effects it will have on someone els
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by saghm 25d ago
Yes, unless you think that trying to do a bug bounty is a good excuse to participate in DoS.
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by saghm 25d ago
Apparently they didn't just do that, they also had them make requests way more frequently than they needed to (I guess particularly surprising given that they'd already have to be fairly negligent to have the server hard-coded): &
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by saghm 25d ago
"Your children won't be charged! They'll just be arrested"
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by saghm 25d ago
> More likely they were working on their TPS reports and it got so big they couldn't finish the work before their middle manager would be expecting it in 45 minutes so I'm a panic they sneak in and grab the extra RAM leading to
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by saghm 25d ago
Ethics aren't binary. The amount of harm caused to a company needing to allocate an extra 8 MB of RAM a single time is a lot lower than the amount of harm caused to an individual by forcing them to lose 1/4 of their workday.
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by saghm 25d ago
For the same reasons someone might prefer Rust to C in general; safety, ergonomics, etc. If you want to write C in Python, nothing is stopping you.
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by saghm 25d ago
I'm kind of surprised to hear that was a concern because my perception is that PyO3 is more analogous to wrapping native C code in Python libraries (which is pretty well established since long before either Rust or WASM), and Pyodide s
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by saghm 25d ago
Fair use is not how trademarks work? Why does the International Trademark Association seem to think it is then? https://www.inta.org/fact-sheets/fair-use-of-trademarks-inte...
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by saghm 25d ago
The implication is "setting up public security cameras in a city should be fair game to document by journalists". If anything, the solution here seems like it would be a requirement that the date, time, and location of each camera
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by saghm 25d ago
If they called 911 because they were worried about privacy when publically installing a privacy-violating tool, then yes, they 100% should be. Having higher standards for higher impact things isn't somehow hypocritical.
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by saghm 25d ago
Sounds like the neighbor could have just taken the RAM from their own computer out and claimed someone stole it and then called IT to provide them with replacement and then opened it back to and put theirs in. Seems pretty selfish to disrup
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by saghm 25d ago
The response is stronger because your hairdressers and baristas aren't actively providing a service for surveillance as part of their work. The bar should be higher for a company that's ostensibly being trusted to provide a law en
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by saghm 25d ago
Personally I think that having funding from investors rather than taxes doesn't preclude evil from being called out (although in this case a lot of revenue certainly comes from tax money)
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by saghm 25d ago
"Fairer" seems like a strange characterization if what you're actually telling to measure is real-world compile times. If two people were running a race and one had better, trying to make the race "fairer" by forcin
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by saghm 25d ago
The article literally gives an example of her cousin (i.e. not a direct descendant of the current monarch) trying to get himself crowned; it's not like she had to have kids in order for the monarchy to have an heir after her. Claimin
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by saghm 25d ago
Yeah, that seems like the type of thing that should at least in theory be fair use.
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by saghm 26d ago
Yeah, that's kind of my point. I would have to imagine that the people investing in AI doing math (using "investing" loosely, not just financial but hardware/energy/opportunity cost as well, which may or may not see
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by saghm 26d ago
What would stop you from doing that if AI happened to be doing a bunch of different or more advanced stuff? I assume that the fact that there are humans doing other or more advanced stuff doesn't dissuade you from doing it for fun?
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by saghm 26d ago
I mean, was the point of math ever just because some humans enjoyed doing it? Even though a lot of it is theoretical, there's been all sorts of useful things that have come out of it as well due to an improved understanding of the un
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by saghm 27d ago
You can get pretty much all the same benefits with additional upside and fewer downsides by just showing curiosity and eagerness to learn from others' expertise. Yes, on the internet you might get better answers by being confidently wr
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by saghm 27d ago
It's common enough to have an xkcd for it at least (then again, what doesn't?) https://xkcd.com/793/
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by saghm 28d ago
No, a class-based OO language where you need to spend effort crafting build targets by hand or use an IDE to define how to build is not anything close to what I'm talking about. If you think that it's "Rust with GC", I t
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by saghm 28d ago
I've said for a while that the main reason Rust is so popular is that it has a lot of effort put into the developer experience, with the low-level safety honestly not being all that important to a large portion of the programmers who
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by saghm 28d ago
It's ridiculous to me that trying to play some recent games from Microsoft-affiliated studios requires me to sign in with a Microsoft account even just to play also malone. Paying them for Halo MCC or Gears 5 isn't enough to be ab
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by saghm 28d ago
Because property law is not defined in terms of hashes. Why would you expect that property law operates on a mathematical construct that was discovered centuries after it?
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by saghm 28d ago
Disney argued that the family of a man who died at one of their parks couldn't sue because he had signed up for Disney+, which has binding arbitration terms: https://fortune.com/2024/08/15/disney-wrongful
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by saghm 28d ago
If "road rage" is any indication, sometimes the reverse is true as well
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by saghm 28d ago
No, I was asking why you were confident that 3 didn't exist because the comment you said before was that people will either recall correct, lie, or not remember. Lying is not the same as remembering incorrectly but not realizing it, so
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by saghm 28d ago
> Who wants bigger phones? Who is like, "damn I wish I had a tablet that I could fold up and still barely fit in my pocket"? I have bad eyesight. I've worn bifocals since I was 16, and I'm twice that age now. I litera

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