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by shawnz 2y ago
We had evolutionary pressure to evolve self-preservation, and that stars with self, doesn't it?
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by shawnz 2y ago
Let's say they get rid of the barcodes and only show the human readable text. How does that prove any better or worse that the machine counted the vote the way it says it did on the slip? The presence of the barcodes doesn't do an
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by shawnz 2y ago
There are many solutions for constrained/structured generation with LLMs these days, here is a blog post my employer published about this a while back: https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-llms-speak-your-lang..
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by shawnz 2y ago
The work in a PoW algorithm has to be otherwise useless in order for it to most effectively deter abuse, or else you'd still be able to get value out of failed attack attempts
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by shawnz 2y ago
Can you elaborate on what indirect control would look like in your opinion? No matter how many layers of abstraction you put in between, you're still eventually going to be passing a value to the setTimeout function that was computed
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by shawnz 2y ago
For the unfamiliar, what does this pattern do exactly?
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by shawnz 2y ago
Does anyone here know, has anyone tried something like feeding the perplexity of previous tokens back into the model, so that it has a way of knowing when it's going off the rails? Maybe it could be trained to start responding less con
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by shawnz 2y ago
The problem is handled with exceptions plus Java's try-with-resources or C#'s using statements or Python's context managers though, right? Furthermore in Java since version 7 you can actually see both exceptions with the supp
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by shawnz 2y ago
Strictly speaking, k8s deployments describe a number of pods, and pods describe a number of containers. So creating a deployment in k8s could result in the creation of many containers as a result.
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by shawnz 2y ago
> For some reason Firefox has had it prefed off since forever I'm not sure this is correct. I use Firefox, I have the setting off (by default), but even still I get the more secure SameSite=Lax secure by default even with the settin
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by shawnz 2y ago
There's a non-zero chance that real humans working as customer service agents will invent facts, too (whether to try and be helpful about something they're not completely sure, or just to get a problematic customer to leave them a
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by shawnz 2y ago
> If you don't assign CVE numbers to every security-related flaw, no matter how minor the flaw may be, you must come up with a way to draw the line on what flaws get CVEs and what ones don’t. That's already the case now, since
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by shawnz 2y ago
For laxative purposes you should prefer the forms which are most poorly absorbed, i.e. magnesium oxide or magnesium citrate
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by shawnz 2y ago
Trump is a hot headed contrarian and Biden is a people pleaser who maintains the status quo and doesn't rock the boat. That doesn't mean that Trump is wrong to worry about China and it doesn't mean that Democrats think China&
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by shawnz 2y ago
Interesting, I don't use always on display and I could see how that would be annoying if I did.
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by shawnz 2y ago
Fitbit has the same behaviour they're describing where the screen only turns on when it detects that you're holding your wrist up. I personally don't have a problem with that behaviour and find it to be a natural gesture. May
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by shawnz 2y ago
All you need to do is obscure the original sound of the key press so that it can't be distinguished from presses of other keys. You don't need to create an authentic key press sound from scratch
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by shawnz 2y ago
Taking defense in depth measures like using https on the local network is "theatre" that "actively harms your organization's security"? That seems like an extreme opinion to me. Picking some reasonable best practice
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by shawnz 2y ago
Is FastAPI really "batteries included"? I would say that it's orders of magnitude lighter than Django
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by shawnz 2y ago
No, it's not like that: generate a random Bitcoin address and it's practically guaranteed that it will be empty. But in this case, if the time traveler picks a random key for their secret, it's equally likely that it gets bru
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by shawnz 2y ago
That would only let you plan the average time it takes the secrets to be decrypted, it could actually take anywhere from 0 to 2*t to actually decrypt them by brute force
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by shawnz 2y ago
> though we all know it is; NTFS is over 30 years old! ext2, which is forwards compatible with ext3 and ext4, is slightly older than NTFS
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by shawnz 2y ago
For this reason anti-inflammatory drugs make exercise less effective: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170828125123.h...
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by shawnz 2y ago
Consider also the new Philips Ultra Definition series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeR2uPPCA2k
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by shawnz 2y ago
Why should it be just the IoT devices that get the insecure network? Why not just stop trusting the LAN altogether and instead use technologies like HTTPS and DoH to ensure privacy on the important devices? That seems to be the way the tide
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by shawnz 2y ago
Other noble gases can also produce anesthesia, they just aren't as effective and so require pressures above atmospheric pressure for it to work. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalational_anesthetic#Hype...
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by shawnz 2y ago
If it ever were explained by physics in the future, wouldn't it no longer fit the definition of free will?
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by shawnz 2y ago
Yeah, but in theory Recall doesn't upload anything either, which is why it's analogous. And in fact Chrome does upload passwords, and they're not even E2E encrpyted in the default configuration.
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by shawnz 2y ago
What about the browser cache? And isn't there some capability in many browsers to store form field contents when navigating back/forward too?
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by shawnz 2y ago
The login page is enlightening: > A Slack replacement, not a social app from Instagram

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