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by strbean 5mo ago
Well, assembly languages are generally Turing complete. Not sure what the parallel would be in proof engines.
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by strbean 5mo ago
Ironic, you've got some typos but make a good point :)
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by strbean 6mo ago
Damn, maybe I can throw an agent at trying to unlock IMEI spoofing on my Unifi LTE modem. That one guy on twitter who does all the LTE modem unlocking never replied to my tweet :(
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by strbean 6mo ago
I was recently introduced to the term "vcware", ala shareware or vaporware, to describe these products. "Don't use that, it's vcware, enshitification is coming soon."
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by strbean 6mo ago
There's a pretty big difference between: 1) wanting functionality that isn't provided and working around that and 2) restoring such functionality in the face of countermeasures The absence of functionality isn't a clear signa
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by strbean 6mo ago
They should just add a "Security Console", with black background and green text, and a simple shell interface for enabling/disabling flags that gate whether these requests are automatically denied or create a permissions popu
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by strbean 6mo ago
Having stars isn't a positive metric, it's more that not having stars is a disqualifier unless I want to use someones brand new toy. My first scan of a GitHub repository is typically: check age of latest commit, check star count,
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by strbean 6mo ago
> It looks like they focused on receiving emails That's wild. $6M for an MCP server for SMTP?
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by strbean 6mo ago
Guess: there is likely some repetition in articles in a series, but there is a ton in the discussion here, and that is what HN wants to avoid. Discussion on a link that bundles together the parts of a series helps avoid excessive rehashing
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by strbean 6mo ago
Tried to check out your link and got: > Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading code.claude.com (see the browser console for more information).
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by strbean 6mo ago
I think this is the novel bit: > This includes constants such as e, pi, and i ; arithmetic operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation as well as the usual transcendental and algebraic funct
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by strbean 6mo ago
There is still an inherent negative aspect to the "Don't Fuck with Cats" doxxing. Vigilantes publicly revealing the identity of (suspected) perpetrators can enable further vigilante action, and this can cause harm to innocen
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by strbean 7mo ago
Unfortunately here in the US we are pathologically incompetent. One day we will attempt to roll out such a system. We'll pay McKinsey billions to develop and operate it, set no targets, and they will take the money and disappear for 10
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by strbean 7mo ago
Maybe I can use one of these to get in to my organization azure account from my alma mater. The email was deleted right after I graduated, but Microsoft has been trying to bill me (for a reserved IP or something) for close to a decade. Supp
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by strbean 7mo ago
> everyone in the transaction wins Nobody ever thinks of the poor banks!
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by strbean 7mo ago
To be fair, parking structures always look and feel pretty distopian. I like the approach of making downtowns walkable and having a bit of parking at the periphery of downtown, along with good public transit. Encourages people to use public
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by strbean 7mo ago
But not the educators teaching the farmer's kids, or the doctors and nurses treating their wounds? What about the clerks at the grocery store serving those farmers? The liquor store? Trying to create an elaborate regulatory regime to d
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by strbean 7mo ago
> Or, we could zone areas to encourage people to live in towns where it's feasible for both corporations and the government to provide infrastructure and services at a reasonable cost. This is assuming there isn't a good reason
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by strbean 7mo ago
I think this is very short-sighted, on the order of "Why should we subsidize package / letter delivery to people in the sticks?" The economic benefit of making those people available as consumers, lowering barriers to their e
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by strbean 7mo ago
> Did you know if you ask <X> a question and it doesn't know the answer, sometimes it just makes something up?! I think maybe a lot of us live in a bubble where the above statement is less frequently true of our peers than ave
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by strbean 7mo ago
They don't need to host the data for systems they develop to be subject to a national security letter.
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by strbean 7mo ago
> Sorry, but this is full on into conspiracy theory here. "Corporation says they aren't doing a bad thing so any assertion to the contrary is crazy ." Corporations actually tend to lie when they are engaged in illegal or
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by strbean 7mo ago
These are the worst. I'm fine with you dumping your own half formed thoughts into an LLM, getting something reasonably structured out, and then rewriting that in your own voice, elaborating, etc. But the "This is what ChatGPT said
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by strbean 7mo ago
> Based on recent 2023-2024 data, the average CEO-to-employee pay ratio at major Japanese corporations is roughly 12:1 to 20:1, significantly lower than the 200:1–300:1 ratios seen in the U.S..
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by strbean 8mo ago
In most cases, you can't evade liability for negligence that results in personal injury. You can usually disclaim away liability for other types of damage caused by negligence.
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by strbean 8mo ago
Liquidating shares over some fixed interval (1 year?) would be one option.
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by strbean 8mo ago
Scanning https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/real-id/ I'm not sure there is a single state that provides ID without a fee of some sort, across the board.
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by strbean 9mo ago
> IBM estimated in 1996 that one error per month per 256 MiB of RAM was expected for a desktop computer. From the wikipedia article on "Soft error", if anyone wants to extrapolate.
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by strbean 9mo ago
Google Trends data for "Chess" worldwide show it trending down from 2004-2016, and then leveling off from 2016 until a massive spike in interest in October 2020, when Queen's Gambit was released. Since then it has had a massi
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by strbean 9mo ago
> as LLMs have not produced an entirely new and more advanced model of physics. That's a bar that only a handful of humans have met in the entirety of history.

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