smaudet

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by smaudet 4y ago
I think we ARE hackers. If you have ever been in hacker culture, you know they don't mean cracker, or even cyber security culture. We definitely have cracking articles here from time to time (legal ones with responsible discosure or ha
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by smaudet 4y ago
> Most users have no idea what any of this means. That's a bad reason to do things. Users will learn what is made important to them. Red website for http, green website for https. Nice big lettering to translate to the non technical
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by smaudet 4y ago
"They get created and destroyed fairly frequently, and change public IP addresses as a result." That's half the story. A load balancer (static IP) will often offload the traffic to another IP. Dns is not doing much for you he
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by smaudet 4y ago
You know that sounds reasonable until you realize you could solve this 'issue' by not trying to lock out users from root in the first place. Give everyone root, sure they can mandate some mitm whatever at the border but it won&#x2
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by smaudet 4y ago
If you have to extend Markdown, the battle is lost. The basic core idea, is OK, but as soon as you find yourself needing to do more documenty things (lists with formatting, tables, etc.) its the wild, wild west - different extension standar
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by smaudet 4y ago
"and i dont think it is stupid at all" Actually it is - while you provide for yourself and that may be fine, if you have dependents, having daddy be the single source of authentication for everything is pretty damn stupid. You mig
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by smaudet 4y ago
"truly believing in Democracy" Right, the reason Democracy degenerates is due inherent disagreement, and the fact a democracy can still vote to stop being a democracy. It only has one goal, namely not to let a small group of indiv
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by smaudet 4y ago
Why wouldn't you reach for a decompiler first? I guess perhaps you are working with some very obfuscated code, still if you are black box profiling code it might make sense to crack open that box as much as possible. Unless what you ar
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by smaudet 5y ago
That's because GPGP and PGP both are arcane, bad programs. They are standards written in a time when it was somewhat normal to carry pocket protectors. Sendthing is a reasonable, user friendly alternative to Dropbox. There will be a Se
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by smaudet 5y ago
Only if you ignore the repeated documented issues with how he runs his companies and the numerous flaws with their products... I'm not certain Elon even has a declared political affiliation. What I find absolutely true, is there are a
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by smaudet 5y ago
> ergo he's not doing it for his own announcements. I do agree he is doing things for reasons besides his own announcements, but I cannot agree that it's not part of it. Some people may simply not care enough about EVs to bothe
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by smaudet 5y ago
See this is precisely why I am bearish of Elon's companies, he's a savvy businessman, not a technologist, precisely why my opinion is that he is an idiot not a savant - PayPal is known for having been a flaming dumpster fire, it s
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by smaudet 5y ago
I don't know that the metaphor works out in your favor here... if you were to catch an art theif you might send them to prison. If you have automated the process of producing art theives, that seems like a problem you have caused. You
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by smaudet 5y ago
No thought is put into the effects of technology. You can have progress without trampling all over people and their livelihoods, but we don't often see any effort to do this. Why are we focusing on image generation as the target for AI
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by smaudet 5y ago
True, but artists also sell artwork - my question could be reframed as, if Dalle 2 can produce a Rembrandt, is a Rembrandt worth anything, even emotionally?
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by smaudet 5y ago
The other comment didn't actually have anything besides, to my best recall "Why do you find it exciting?" And you're right, maybe I'm not considering my audience enough. My emotion is certainly negative, but it&#x27
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by smaudet 5y ago
> I feel so happy and excited just thinking about the possibilities these techs are going to bring. Like what? I should preface by saying I think art is great, I know a lot of artists who struggle to make a living, and it is somewhat hea
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by smaudet 5y ago
It's kind of strange to say but if anything Creationists believe in a hyper evolution - for starters there is a complimentary geological theory which holds that most changes are catastrophic e.g. canyons, islands are the result of wild
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by smaudet 5y ago
Are you sure it's any better? Last time I've used a JS heavy site the UX was just utterly awful. Flash had bad bits to be sure but it could be snappy. I had hope we could do better but a lot of sites seem as bad or worse on arguab
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by smaudet 5y ago
My experience with that is it usually never works, and for whatever reason the games never seem compelling. Not sure why, flash games never had that problem. They were always full games with rich graphics and often a story. I literally trie
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by smaudet 5y ago
What about authoring tools? Part of what made flash popular was the photoshop effect.
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by smaudet 5y ago
You are making points about potential creative applications - BTW I thoroughly disagree on your language example, comp learning people are constantly making this mistake, we don't need better visualization to learn foreign languages, i
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by smaudet 5y ago
Thank Java and overcooked configuration files - everyone hates XML because it did too much for what it was being used for. And yet html is precisely xml, with attached rendering rules and a dialect, but nevertheless it doesn't garner a
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by smaudet 5y ago
This seems a bit arbitrary? I would be happy with one, or two posts a day...I only need 5 friends to post a week, at 10 I always have something to read, at 50 friends I am positively awash... Introverts are a big crowd - a fact the socialit
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by smaudet 5y ago
Because they are targeting people who know nothing and are scared, common tactic for fraudsters, cults, etc. Of course real solutions exist but the lay person can't easily discern.
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by smaudet 5y ago
> We apply the Occam's razor here. Occam's razor is ... flawed. "Lazy" if I'm not trying to be polite. Its a tool you use to keep from going mad, but it doesn't provide correct answers, just _sometimes_ stat
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by smaudet 5y ago
> while constraining the search space enough for the synthesizer to give a solution. Keyword being "a". Best solution? Most easily maintained? I don't know about that. > In practice, it turns out these tests are good en
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by smaudet 5y ago
> I don't see how regulating algorithms and AI could affect those institutional injustices. Because this is a dangerous technology which has only proven, again and again, to be unreliable, unethical, inaccurate, and is EASILY used b
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by smaudet 5y ago
> You still write the tests in standard Ruby and synthesized code should satisfy the logic as checked by the tests. I think its important that the code still be user-modifiable: Take this function, y = 2 * x. Write a test, which proves f
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by smaudet 5y ago
>Is it that hard to accept that other people have different ideas for what being social means? Does everyone have to be like you or you judge them negatively? I think this is the wrong question - it isn't about being different, its

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