samhw

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721.
by samhw 5y ago
Thanks, I appreciate your reply! I've worked in AI in past jobs - though I don't have an academic background in it - and I would definitely agree with the issue of garbage data, as I suspect would many real-world practitioners.
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by samhw 5y ago
> And how would those dictionaries define savagery? I mean, a good nothing-up-my-sleeve definition is the Google one: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+savagery https://www.google.com/search?q=define
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by samhw 5y ago
To anyone reading this: please ignore what this person is saying. Addicts will rationalise everything, and blame every negative side-effect on 'adulterants' or 'low-quality supply' or other varieties of 'stuff I wou
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by samhw 5y ago
I haven't heard of kratom being used by non-addicts, so I'm not surprised you wouldn't like it - it's like a non-smoker using nicotine patches. It's mainly used by people detoxing from stronger opioids. I did it whe
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by samhw 5y ago
Yup, it's used widely in end-of-life care here in the UK (I remember my mum once saying to me, when we were discussing euthanasia, that there's no doctor in the country who hasn't 'accidentally' given a little too m
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by samhw 5y ago
In addition to that, it's certainly not a 'glitch'. A genetic glitch would be a (possibly short-lived) mutation which is still in the 'beta' phase, so to speak, or else a harmful side effect of an otherwise benefici
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by samhw 5y ago
> Barbaric literally means primitive and unsophisticated This makes for the foundation of a nice story, but no, that's not what 'barbaric' means. It's not what you'll find in any dictionary, and it's not wha
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by samhw 5y ago
Out of interest, why are you extremely sceptical? (I don't disagree, I'd simply be keen to hear more about your experience.)
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm not sure how you know it was "obviously pasted and not transcribed". There are plenty of reasons why someone might transcribe text they post here (I often do it when I'm writing on my phone and reading on my laptop,
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by samhw 5y ago
Didn't read your comment but the answer is the mating habits of the common walrus, Odobenus rosmarus .
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by samhw 5y ago
It has nothing to do with fiddling with a phone. The user simply needs to run their traffic through a proxy, observe what kind of requests it's making, and then construct a malicious request from a machine that's well suited to do
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by samhw 5y ago
The issue is that people like this fetishise avoiding tracking. It doesn't seem like they have a clear reason why they want to avoid tracking. Do they have sensitive data to hide? Do they ideologically disagree with large companies g
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by samhw 5y ago
I think people like this see it as a 'win' – as if they, John Smith, have beaten the dastardly BigCorp. Whereas, in fact, the most that happens is a Junior Marketing Executive at BigCorp says "Right, that guy falls within the
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by samhw 5y ago
> one of the things which long hampered it is the historical and technocratic notion of Paris being the sole hub of the country Is it really the 'historical and technocratic notion' which influenced it, or just the raw fact tha
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by samhw 5y ago
> (Could be a language problem, naming a "bug" a "bag" for example, u and a are not even close on the keyboard). I think this is reading far too much into nothing. He writes 'bug' correctly about 5 times. I&
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by samhw 5y ago
I know this is a stupid objection, but I suspect one of the main impedances to takeup is going to be its stupid name. It's trivial I know, bikeshedding I know, but come on, "RELAX NG"? Like, how do you pronounce that? I want
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by samhw 5y ago
Haha, I only meant that as a "I agree with you, but I'd go even further" preface. In hindsight, this being HN, I should have been more precise!
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by samhw 5y ago
My only disagreement is that you imply that this is no better than plain old JSON – I think it's positively _worse_. It makes it difficult to remember which of the two quote marks to escape, without checking the beginning of the string
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by samhw 5y ago
I wish we had moderation policies that would just remove mantras like the above, which contribute precisely zero to the conversation. We all know what they are: "do you like [licking or some variant thereof] that boot [, bootlicker]?&q
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by samhw 5y ago
What's the crux of your point here? I think you're imputing some wider meaning to what was actually a very simple point (i.e. saying that N people have no power, just because 1/N people can't individually make a differen
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. I think the best way to do that is just to invent stuff . I've followed a similar-ish track in the past, and I can promise you that nothing upskills you more than actually building things.
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by samhw 5y ago
This is something our industry needs to fix. I've turned down promotions so many times because they amounted to moving from coding to pastoral care. Which is bizarre - it's like a surgeon being offered a promotion to work in HR. M
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by samhw 5y ago
For this guy I think 10x is an insult...
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by samhw 5y ago
> Surprisingly this can be the case as long as the combined link to VPN + target is better than the direct link to target Is that surprising? I think that's what you would expect, and it's what the above commenter is suggesting
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I'm sure it's theoretically doable, but it's one of those things which would almost certainly require substantial work given the massively complex edifice of iOS. (And the iOS IPSW format, or even iOS DMGs/ADIs, ar
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I mentioned bsdiff in my original comment. I don't think Android uses it for operating system updates, though, as far as I can tell. I believe that page is describing APK updates (i.e. app updates).
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by samhw 5y ago
I understand the change would be a patch, but that's separate from the question of how you encode and ship it, surely? How are you suggesting a small patch would be shipped?
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by samhw 5y ago
> instead of Apple’s irresponsible “you need a 3GB OS update even if the only fix is 3 lines of code in Safari..." Your comment seems to be implying that Apple could simply ship the delta in the source code: i.e. something like `git
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by samhw 5y ago
> normally I'd define it as something found in the wild being exploited already Yeah, but ... that's not what it means. You can choose to define "spoon" as "fork" too, but I don't see how it's usef
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by samhw 5y ago
FYI, it's "kowtow", not "cow tail". Also, it's "This makes it immediately available to exploit before a fix can even _theoretically_ be developed", not "This places pressure on the corporation to

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