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by smsm42 7mo ago
And yet, a multitude of banks, credit card companies, stores, etc. routinely send promotional emails where the only way to do what they want you to do is either click on the link (5 seconds) or try to log in through their home page and then
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How we caught the Axios supply chain attack(elastic.co)
8 points by smsm42 7mo ago|1 comments
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by smsm42 7mo ago
Yes, of course there are risky systems in there, and calling attention to one of them is fine. What I object to is framing it as a "safe/not safe" issue - as if without the tests the author proposed it were "not safe&quo
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by smsm42 7mo ago
Because one day, far far in the future, the humanity would reach out to the stars, and these are the first tiny steps to enable this. There's always the question of directing the resources, and this program is not that expensive, reall
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by smsm42 7mo ago
Of course it's not "safe"! We put a ton of explosives into a huge can, put a small can with humans on top of it, set it on fire and try to control what happens and get the humans into space, and then we try to drop the same c
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by smsm42 7mo ago
Having age verification in every operating system? I think it is onerous. Imagine you need to update every embedded system because your wise lawmakers made it a crime to run any code that does not include age verification API.
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by smsm42 7mo ago
> I wasn't saying that a Tesla and some economy car are identical, You literally said: > The only difference between a Tesla and an economy car from Stellantis is whether the software is well written or not. You didn't say
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by smsm42 7mo ago
Cars have software. But I don't think cars are software. Can I apply a software update to make my Honda Accord into Tesla or Dodge Ram? > The only difference between a Tesla and an economy car from Stellantis is whether the soft
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by smsm42 7mo ago
I'm not sure what exactly pisses me off so much in this idea - after all, I am not upset by the existence of $Brand Basic, $Brand Premium, $Brand Luxury and $Brand Now-Everybody-Knows-You-Have-Money, each of which has different feature
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by smsm42 7mo ago
Or get another source of demographic data and suppress smaller competitors who can't comply with onerous regulation.
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by smsm42 7mo ago
Looks like it: https://tboteproject.com/
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by smsm42 7mo ago
You can add using banks as a leverage to suppress legal but "undesirable" activities - see Operation Choke Point.
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by smsm42 7mo ago
TBH, if those became legally invalid, I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep. There's a huge potential for abuse in these things, and their deterrent value is minimal. Especially in a heavily heterogenuos country like the US, where each m
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by smsm42 7mo ago
PRNG is not intended to use information sent into it in a substantive way (in other words, for PRNG does not matter if what you feed into is is Shakespeare's sonnets or white noise). Sure, if your machine is an electronic analogue of a
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by smsm42 7mo ago
"Behavior, graphics, etc." would likely constitute separate IP from the code. I am not sure there's a model that allows you to make AI reproduce Minecraft without telling it what "Minecraft" is - which would likely
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by smsm42 7mo ago
> Blanchard's account is that he never looked at the existing source code directly. He fed only the API and the test suite to Claude and asked it to reimplement the library from scratch. I don't see how it matters what he looke
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by smsm42 7mo ago
For the speeding ticket, if the police officer stops you, you'd get a ticket and would sign it, thus ensuring you were there. Or, if you refuse, the police officer would testify in court (if you would ask for a court hearing) that they
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by smsm42 7mo ago
> you should be aware of its whereabouts at any given moment Says who? If the car is mine, I am free to do with it whatever I like (of course, excepting criminal acts). I do not owe anybody an account of what I - or the care - did at any
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by smsm42 7mo ago
Yeah, keeping this would be a dangerous precedent. If the state can presume you're guilty in a traffic case, why not extend it to other cases? Stuff like that is routinely used in legal arguments, "we are doing X so why can't
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by smsm42 8mo ago
This article's numbers are (not) surprisingly useless. So, for 1.8% of people in one study who did MRI they found cancer. Is it a lot? A few? I mean, how many people do these MRIs, out of general population? Are those high-risk people
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by smsm42 8mo ago
> if your downtime detection system kept producing false negatives, would your solution to be just turn it off It's more like if your CI build fails in 95% of runs, and in only 2% of runs it indicates a real bug, do you have a bad C
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by smsm42 8mo ago
There's a common joke that defines psychology as the scientific discipline studying the undergraduate psychology students. That is obviously due to the fact that a lot of research subjects are found where it's easiest to find them
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by smsm42 9mo ago
Ugh, this looks way too real...
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by smsm42 9mo ago
I've seen a lot of people living in the streets when I lived in California. From my (then) house I could walk at least to a half-dozen places where substantial amount people lived right in the streets. I've never seen people dying
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by smsm42 9mo ago
I think "reserves" and "extremely risky investment fund" are supposed to be different things? Then again, given Mozilla Foundation's stellar record of taking on massive corporations and crushing them, and given that
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by smsm42 9mo ago
What's not hypothetical? Sure, there once existed racist laws in the US. How does it relate to establishing citizenship or presumedly some documents proving citizenship being considered "not legit enough"?
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by smsm42 9mo ago
> If the EU is serious about offering an alternative (which I doubt) it needs to offer a sustainable path for its people to invest in it. Did US government do something like that? If US has some attractive investments and EU does not, wh
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by smsm42 9mo ago
> The EU doesn't need or want "big tech", it just needs "tech". Why doesn't it already have "tech" and has to resort to governmental action to procure one? I mean, it is obviously very easy to acqu
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by smsm42 9mo ago
> Are you a citizen, can you prove it at the polling station? Yes, I have multiple documents proving my citizenship. Never been asked though, ID always sufficed. > so I think we'll set your vote aside, or possibly prevent it from
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by smsm42 9mo ago
> There are not non-citizens on voter rolls. That is incorrect, there are actually non-citizens on voter rolls, especially in the states with automatic voter registration. Example: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/new

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