sennight

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by sennight 6y ago
How fast does the ban hammer need to be to restore your hope? You know that "porn filtration", regularly used to justify state censorship, always ends up filtering speech that the state just doesn't want heard? I forget from
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by sennight 6y ago
Well they've got a bunch of different data that would fall under different precedents. Metadata would likely fall under the phone book ruling. The raw warc data could be argued to be transformative, and would certainly fall under fair
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by sennight 6y ago
Well a highschool teacher deciphered one of the letters soon after it was published... so the time wasting excuse doesn't work. As far as resources are concerned: "July 12, 2016 Update: The FBI has redirected resources allocated t
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by sennight 6y ago
It isn't a sphinx riddle: look at the program name, then look at the name of the host... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_...
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by sennight 6y ago
> Maybe you can explain what you mean by "journalists" (quotes and all)? I don't know how to be any more clear than "can you call yourself that when the show is named after you?", without getting very specific. I
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by sennight 6y ago
I've also worked with "journalists" (can you call yourself that when the show is named after you?). They are not well adjusted individuals, so I guess they aren't technically lying once they've sufficiently deluded
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by sennight 6y ago
It isn't "science fiction" though, we have a mountain of examples that demonstrate how probabilistic AI fails when the training dataset doesn't perfectly align with the eventual application. It isn't restricted to A
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by sennight 6y ago
The earliest use I could find is more inline with my observations of matter-of-fact usage than a joke taken too far: "Logically, if you utilize a 'memory' disk you are ridding yourself of the physical limitations of disk driv
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by sennight 6y ago
I remember that time a guy's life got turned upside down because his fingerprints "matched" those found on a bomb. Despite the fact that he had no motive, disposition, or access - they were determined to convict, because to d
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by sennight 6y ago
They've been scrounging for a long time now, but have had little to show for it. Years ago I'd arbitrage between a handful of exchanges, keeping fiat only on those where I'd have a chance of legal recourse - and the bitcoin o
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by sennight 6y ago
No, you are confusing "wallet" with "address". A wallet is little more than a seed for an RNG and a log of transactions. Every new transaction starts with a source address and results in two destination addresses: the pr
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by sennight 6y ago
>> spinning rust > This is a common refrain, but seagate and the others are proving that HDD tech is not 'rusting'. It is a common refrain because disk platters were originally coated with iron oxide, and iron oxide is ru
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by sennight 6y ago
What, so now words don't matter? Funny how that works, if only somebody pointed this out in the very beginning...
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by sennight 6y ago
Well that ruins the fun of the surprise a little... but I guess people can still look forward to real plot twist: who the "masters" were. Hint: it wasn't the Moops!
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by sennight 6y ago
Well I think heavy industry will do better weathering the wave of tech articles helpfully suggesting laughable solutions to non-problems. They don't share the same weakness to slacktivist pull-requests.
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by sennight 6y ago
...and nobody in the valley seems to be aware of the etymology for "slave" :)
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by sennight 6y ago
ZFS, so many problem got solved for me all at once: no more having to spend money on hardware RAID cards, or having them end up being the single point of failure... so having to spend more on RAID cards. zfs-send really streamlines the back