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by scoot 3y ago
What he's calling "spaced repetition" (a strategy for learning) [1] is probably better cast as "exponential backoff" [2]. Related, but somehow different. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced
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Which is why Star Wars is set "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."; things look dated now? Well of course, it was a long time ago!
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Demo-what-ic? The article (admittedly brief and as lacking corroborative research) was published in WIRED UK, and quotes "Tom Matthews, a senior lecturer in environmental geography at King’s College London". The examples included
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by scoot 3y ago
What does copyright have to do with this?
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by scoot 3y ago
Smoked bacon is a thing in the UK too. Every store has both smoked and unsmoked back and streaky bacon. But never having dealt with the raw product, only tasting the dried-to-a-crisp offering of every American eatery (from diner to five sta
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AI models can be weaponized to hack websites on their own(theregister.com)
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by scoot 3y ago
That isn't how contractions in English work – you can't form a contraction from two nouns. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/con...
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> RAG is easy to setup - it’s push button I'm interested to hear about push-button solutions for RAG that aren't a SaaS.
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by scoot 3y ago
> You can even use it in a browser Interestingly an intern at a telecoms research company where I worked in IT was tasked with using an OTA teletext receiver to convert teletext to web circa 1995/96. I don't recall the details
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That's fair. We get numerous reports from script kiddies reporting "vulnerabilities" that aren't, because they don't understand the tool that they're running, or the output that it produces, or why it isn'
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Past submissions: ( https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/395382/which-wor... ) 615 points|Gigablah|7 years ago|158 comments ( https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/395382/which-
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by scoot 3y ago
No. The companies offering bug bounties have already done more than the bare minimum. Finding a vulnerability for a bug bounty requires actual work.
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by scoot 3y ago
> The IT engineer says: “Hey guys, I have an idea, how about we all get out of the car and get back in” "The IT person says". IT is not an engineering discipline (nor is software development in most cases), although they real
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by scoot 3y ago
> Around the time Google pagerank came around, the Yahoo-style search engines were highly curated Hmmm, no. Altavista was the go-to search engine at the time (launched 1995), and was a crawler (i.e. not a curated catalog/directory)
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by scoot 3y ago
That in turn reminds me of a British reality TV series from the 2000s called "Faking It". Participants were trained by experts in a specific skill that they had no existing knowledge of, and then they had to convince others that t
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> Incremental backup (without the useful wal summarizer in this case) is an interesting thing to try to implement from scratch. Changed block tracking is one option, or failing that, segmenting files at logical boundaries, checksumming t
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by scoot 3y ago
Historically tape, but in practice these days it means "not on the same storage as your production data". For example in addition to a snapshot on your production system (rapid point in time recovery if the data is hosed), a local
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by scoot 3y ago
> Let’s say I want at most 3 hours of lag AKA Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
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by scoot 3y ago
That's incorrect. You definitely do want backups in the same location as production if possible to enable rapid restore. You just don't want that to be your only copy. The canonical strategy is the 3-2-1 rule: three copies, two
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by scoot 3y ago
Unless you're a comedian...
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by scoot 3y ago
> Although, licorice roots are okay to chew on... I guess. Licorice can be toxic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8962506/
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by scoot 3y ago
Got it, thanks.
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> a docker container can't be relied upon to contain arbitrary malware "to not contain"? Edit to contain (ahem!) the downvotes: I was genuinely confused by the ambiguous use of "contain", but comments below cle
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by scoot 3y ago
Do you mean that there are licenses that prevent SaaS/PaaS/IaaS usage? Because "cloud" is a bit of a nebulous (sorry!) term. If Amazon is running it on physical tin, in their own DCs (even the same tin and DCs as their c
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by scoot 3y ago
ELI5: If faster than light travel may theoretically be possible because the universe is expanding, isn’t that relative to your origin, rather than your destination, which is also moving? Ergo, you aren’t getting there any more quickly… And
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by scoot 3y ago
Thanks, yes, the article seems to confirm that: "There are 80 tracks on your average 3.5" floppy drive. You can select a given track by pulsing the STEP pin and combining it with the direction select pin."
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Could you really step less than a standard track? I would have assumed that the stepper motor's steps are track aligned, so either you step, or you don't...
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Ah, thanks. I get to be embarrassed instead! I'll take it.
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> the GitHub Octoverse report found that HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) has once again emerged as one of the top languages used in open source projects "Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) with a 56,1% increase in popular
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by scoot 3y ago
Great! Others could learn from your attitude :)

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