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by shawnz 3y ago
It was no space left on the tmpfs, since the bug causes some kind of memory leak. It's not a matter of disk usage.
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by shawnz 3y ago
Isn't a 301 response cacheable?
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by shawnz 4y ago
That sentence doesn't imply anything about whether they're encrypted at rest or not. Even if they were encrypted at rest (but not E2E encrypted), Google can just decrypt the secrets to see them. The problem here doesn't invol
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by shawnz 4y ago
> The actual complaint SEEMS to be: Google Authenticator backup isn't encrypted at rest on Google's Servers Encryption at rest would NOT solve the problem being described here. Even if the data was encrypted both in transit and
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by shawnz 4y ago
By causing an explosion at 0,0,0 in Ocarina of Time you can kill all of the unloaded skulltulas on the map: https://youtu.be/aMlXzCYKXDk
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by shawnz 4y ago
In fact "dumb" TVs also need control circuitry for tuning, input selection, on-screen display, picture settings, etc., so isn't it possible that it works out to be cheaper to roll that control circuitry right into a more soph
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by shawnz 4y ago
Suppose economics of scale make it cheaper to produce the smart devices than the specwise-equivalent dumb devices, just like how it's cheaper to produce microcontroller-based electronics today than the "simpler" analog electr
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by shawnz 4y ago
When your boss asks you to take a ticket, when a parent asks their son to clean their room, when a cop asks a citizen to identify themselves, you don't think those situations imply control? When a romantic partner asks you to change th
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by shawnz 4y ago
See the original video, it's very entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y
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by shawnz 4y ago
Does the system clipboard API also preserve the excess data, though?
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by shawnz 4y ago
How about using AI for sensor fusion when you have images from multiple different kinds of lenses (like most smartphones today)? I was under the impression this was the main reason why AI techniques became popular in smartphone cameras to b
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by shawnz 4y ago
See this well-known slide from the PRISM leaks as a reminder of this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/NSA_Musc...
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by shawnz 4y ago
If you are actually interested in this problem why not try interpreting what I'm saying a bit more charitably and not waste your time replying with snark?
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by shawnz 4y ago
Software can be reverse engineered even if it doesn't have source available (and WhatsApp has been extensively reverse engineered). Similarly, software might be impractical to audit even if it does have source available.
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by shawnz 4y ago
I'm a big supporter of permissive licenses, but I have to admit this seems like a very responsible and well-thought-out approach to relicensing the project to me.
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by shawnz 4y ago
I don't see why we need to stop thinking about improving the environmental friendliness of our energy sources in order to start thinking about reducing overall consumption. And I'm not sure you have really justified why reducing o
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by shawnz 4y ago
What's more concerning, a corrupt or incompetent government mishandling one ton of nuclear fuel, or the same corrupt/incompetent government mishandling the one million tons of coal that would be needed to replace it? (which by t
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by shawnz 4y ago
Even if something can change its semantics, you can still represent it as a state machine if you just make a copy of every state for every possible set of semantics. The semantic state can just be another part of the state machine's ov
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by shawnz 4y ago
To be clear, transformer networks are turing-complete: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09286
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by shawnz 4y ago
> If you are only interested in the most superficial tests and theories—like the Turing Test—then consider psychology conquered once you’ve tricked a human with your chat bot. What's the counterargument? What's a less superfici
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by shawnz 4y ago
Everything in the entire universe can be described as a big state machine
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by shawnz 4y ago
> while it made sense for cutting-edge language development to happen elsewhere, I had thought that VB would have been a great place for work on improved human factors. Thanks for clarifying, this makes sense to me and it's unfortun
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by shawnz 4y ago
> All the actual design work happened in the C# world, and our job was just to tag along and mimic whatever they had come up with. What's the unique guiding philosophy or use case of VB that would justify developing bleeding edge ne
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by shawnz 4y ago
Note that WSL 1 doesn't use the NT subsystem functionality. See this sibling comment for details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640434
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by shawnz 4y ago
WSL2 is powered by Hyper-V, which is a "type 1 hypervisor": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor#Classification https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...
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by shawnz 4y ago
It's because the earliest RSUs they issued are expiring this year: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stripes-early-stock-...
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by shawnz 4y ago
> If the parent failed to do that, I would say they do not have a valid model of chess Surely even the world's foremost chess experts will occasionally make errors in such a situation, so what's the point of holding language
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by shawnz 4y ago
And if that sociopath is offering you money to take on those organizational problems, what's the according act in that case?
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by shawnz 4y ago
I think it will be easy for you to come up with some possible answers to these questions if you have some charity for their argument.
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by shawnz 4y ago
If you're just a passenger then why does it matter to you whether the taxi service is self-driving or not? Surely the benefits of self-driving would be significantly more relevant for those who do want to own the vehicle?

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