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by skissane 1y ago
> Yeah, the way Americans mean "I'm X nationality" and the way the rest of the world means it are different. I don’t think this is uniquely American - I know people in Australia who identify as Italian despite the fact the
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by skissane 1y ago
> I'll probably grab UK citizenship soon, but I would never say "I'm British" I’m a British citizen, but I’m not British. I’ve never stepped foot in the UK in my whole life, I became a citizen through descent. And my
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by skissane 1y ago
There’s this old proposal that Bermuda join Canada as a province. Related proposal exists for the Turks and Caicos Islands. In the early 20th century, the Bahamas even negotiated to join Canada, but the plan was derailed by racial anxieties
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by skissane 1y ago
> I know businesses that literally have an old railroad branch line right up to their door, but they can't actually order anything meaningful via rail. A century ago they would have found it at lot easier: if you wanted to send just
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by skissane 1y ago
> People still don’t know how LLMs work and think they can be trained by interacting with them at the API level. Unless they are logging the interactions via the API, and then training off those logs. They might assume doing so is relati
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by skissane 2y ago
> Humans are basically incapable of recognizing that there’s something that’s more powerful than them > They’re never going to actively collectively admit that that’s the case, because humans collectively are so so systematically arro
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by skissane 2y ago
> It’s still fairly safe to argue that the best LLMs today are not yet thinking, at least not in a way a human does. But in another generation or two? It will become much harder to deny. Current LLMs have a hard division between training
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by skissane 2y ago
Our 12 year old recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu… and now I’m constantly getting these complaints “I can’t get screen capture to work under Wayland… I switched from lightdm to sddm and I can’t work out how to switch back… I accident
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by skissane 2y ago
Possibly depends on how big a firm it is and what kinds of customers it has - the bigger the firm, and the more sensitive the customers (big banks, government, military), the greater the odds of at least a pre-hire criminal record check Als
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by skissane 2y ago
> 2003 was over two decades ago. Most people didn’t have mobile phones let alone smart phones. Maybe it depends on the country, but my memory of 2003 is almost every non-elderly adult I knew (in my own upper-middle class milieu) already
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by skissane 2y ago
The mental health evidence is introduced by the defence, not the prosecution. In most cases, the prosecution has no interest in raising defendant’s alleged mental heath issues (since it may well result in a lighter sentence, in more extreme
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by skissane 2y ago
You can say the same about a lot of other things, e.g. being divorced, being in a same-sex relationship, being adopted: somebody out there will judge you negatively for it, but fearing their judgement is part of what gives it power.
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by skissane 2y ago
No doubt to some people it is, but to a lot of people it isn’t. It isn’t a smear to me, nor to many people I know.
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by skissane 2y ago
> And then ( mostly ) public sector, where the range goes a little further to include checks for IC, which, apparently ( I am not aware of anyone who had one ), include actual interviews with people in your life. Background investigators
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by skissane 2y ago
> That's not generally true in Australia, only in certain industries and roles. In software and IT, it is standard practice (in my personal experience) for private sector employers in Australia to ask for a national police check (cr
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by skissane 2y ago
> "Mental health issues" sounds like both a fig leaf for the prosecution and a last-ditch smear of the man involved. Mental health issues shouldn't be seen as a smear though – is it a smear if someone has physical health i
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by skissane 2y ago
I think there is a big difference: the original hardware, the “emulator” was in the CPU microcode - so very close to bare metal, and was narrowly targeted to only do what it needed to do. Compare that to a software emulator running under a
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by skissane 2y ago
I think a competition is a great idea in theory, but in practice is unlikely given procurement regulations, cultural issues, bureaucratic fears, etc The part that still relies on the mainframe is the entitlement calculation - all the very c
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by skissane 2y ago
BAE STOP 8.8.2 completed Common Criteria security evaluation in September 2023. [0] The evaluated configuration was a BAE XTS-752 machine which uses an Intel Xeon Gold 6256 CPU (Cascade Lake, released 2020, 12 cores), although the evaluatio
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by skissane 2y ago
> Also I didn't came up with this myself, it is part of their marketing materials and white papers. > Finally, if it was worthless they would have probably dropped it by now. Companies love to "talk up" their products i
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by skissane 2y ago
Australia's social security system is implemented using Model 204 – that's a database combined with transactional 4GL, that runs under z/OS, now sold by Rocket software. It was quite popular in the 1980s, but now I believe th
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by skissane 2y ago
> and have large-scale mission-critical batch processes that run on them, where the core function is relatively consistent over time. I think most mainframe applications involve OLTP not just batch processing – commonly a hybrid of both.
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by skissane 2y ago
The Vatican first condemned antisemitism by name in 1928, so I don't think disagreeing even with Nostra aetate necessarily has antisemitism as a consequence. The perennial problem with antisemitism, however, is nobody (Jews included)
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by skissane 2y ago
> Besides all answers given already, one of the reasons Unisys keeps selling Burroughs, aka ClearPath MCP, is its security model. I think you are exaggerating that selling point – maybe historically that was true, but nowadays nobody is
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by skissane 2y ago
> The Unisys Clearpath/MCP runs on Xeons, so I don't think there is CPU hot-swapping. Nowadays it is a software emulator that runs under Linux – so if the Linux kernel and hardware you are running it on supports CPU hot-swap, t
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by skissane 2y ago
That's not a counterargument to my position that successful criminal prosecution is unlikely. If you are going to charge them with a crime, which one? CFAA? How then to prove that access is unauthorized under the CFAA given evidence th
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by skissane 2y ago
I think one issue is that a person can affirm people have “inherent worth” and yet disagree with the conclusions you draw from it; others may question the notion of “inherent worth” yet agree with what you view as its consequences on other
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by skissane 2y ago
> He did it because things in the church with TLM were getting weird. What’s “weird” is in the eye of the beholder - a lot of stuff Francis saw as “weird”, JP2 and B16 may have seen as significantly less “weird”; conversely, JP2 and B16
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by skissane 2y ago
The problem is a lot of relevant criminal laws contain this word “unauthorized”. If you have access to a computer system, and it is authorized by the people who own the system, it isn’t a crime. These people will say that whatever they did&
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by skissane 2y ago
The problem with prosecuting them – they are employees of a White House office, doing what their bosses told them to do, and it is clear their bosses are carrying out the President's wishes. If Joe Blow off the street walks into a fede

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