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by stult 5mo ago
> I don't think it's going to come up with carfentanyl synthesis from first principles, but obviously they haven't cleaned or prepared the data sets coming in. I mean, why not? If it has learned fundamental chemistry princ
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by stult 6mo ago
This is exactly why I don't understand the libertarian right in the US. Large corporations are just as capable of the unaccountable abuses that large governments are.
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by stult 6mo ago
This seems like a really easy problem to solve. Just don't give the LLM access to any prod credentials[1]. If you can't repro a problem locally or in staging/dev environments, you need to update your deployment infra so it mo
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by stult 6mo ago
What a facile point. By your logic, literally nothing should be banned. Murder, rape, etc.
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by stult 6mo ago
That had previously been my experience with CF too. In this case, I was migrating my domain over from the registrar, and updated the nameservers to point to CF as per the standard practice, then waited for CF to detect the updated DNS recor
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by stult 6mo ago
A few weeks ago, I ran into a bug with Cloudflare's DNS server not detecting when I updated the records with the registrar. The bug was 100% on their end, entirely unsolvable by me, yet they have made it literally impossible to contact
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by stult 7mo ago
lol I very nearly included a rant about that but decided it was too far off topic. Not being able to smoke weed may be more of an obstacle these days though.
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by stult 7mo ago
There are a few reasons DoD PKI is a shitshow which make it somewhat more understandable (although only somewhat). First, the issues you describe affect only unclassified public-facing web services, not internal DoD internet services used f
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by stult 7mo ago
It certainly does seem problematic to have a graph database hiding edges, sharp or not
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by stult 7mo ago
Except for people like me who struggle to wake up before dawn. And whether people prefer light after work doesn't change the available scientific evidence which suggests there are significant negative health effects of waking up too ea
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by stult 1y ago
I've worked on mission planning software for parachute systems and the precision we can achieve is already extremely high. Given how poorly this seems to scale, the only use case that makes any sense to me would be something like senso
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by stult 1y ago
Yeah, I can't think of a single use case for ordnance, which if anything you typically want to travel faster not slower.
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by stult 1y ago
Our inflammation responses evolved in part to help us fight off pathogens, but people in modern society are exposed to far, far fewer pathogens than even our immediate ancestors were as recently as 70 years ago when diseases like polio and
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by stult 1y ago
It was very barely increased in 2021. Nowhere near enough though
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by stult 1y ago
The internet has been like this forever. In the 90s I was banned from hotmail for having an inappropriate email address because my last name is Cummings. No recourse for some idiotic regex filter.
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by stult 1y ago
You can’t charge black people systemically different prices than white people, for example. Neither better nor worse prices. Proving causality would likely be the hard part, but a systematic survey of disparate pricing could show disparate
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by stult 1y ago
Brooke Harrington (one of the professors from the OP article) has an excellent book on the topic, called Offshore.
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by stult 1y ago
Many larger companies have an incentive to attribute layoffs to AI, because that serves to hype their AI products. Basically, they didn't want to say, "we are laying people off for financial reasons." Even though the financia
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by stult 1y ago
Yes, this is an insane policy that reflects a complete ignorance of the on-ground realities. It was almost certainly only passed to help the 2017 tax bill's legislative scoring by the CBO. I posted about this on Reddit the other day.
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by stult 1y ago
> I'm going to have people monitoring it 24/7. If I build an airport, I'm going to have air traffic controllers working 24/7. And so on. > Of course, the air traffic controllers didn't build the runway, and th
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by stult 1y ago
> In the case of the $200k engineer, you deduct the first $40k in the first year, then you can expense another $40k from that first year in the second year, the third $40k in the third year, and so on through the fifth year. So eventuall
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by stult 1y ago
I'd say all of the above but my boss is very forgiving of me. It helps that I am self-employed.
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by stult 1y ago
Similarly the Clancy book Red Storm Rising really holds up well, and weirdly may be one of the best primers on Russian military practices, culture, and capabilities as the force was constituted during the first year of their full scale inva
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by stult 2y ago
Also we have suffered a couple decades of JavaScript to give us that little extra motivation to make a common runtime environment work. And WASM is open source and thus not proprietary. And all the browsers (well, really, the one browser) a
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by stult 2y ago
There's a long running historiographical debate about the relative influence individuals have over the ultimate course of historical events compared to systemic factors For many years, it was popular (particularly in revisionist circle
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by stult 2y ago
I think this advice may vary in applicability across industries. If you're selling a B2B product that touches PII, you're definitely going to need SOC2 if you don't want to be laughed out the door during pitch meetings. And d
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by stult 2y ago
> It finds evidence that the culture may have taken root somewhere near the present-day small town of Mykhailivka in the southern part of Ukraine. As anyone following the war in Ukraine closely has long since realized, village names alon
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by stult 2y ago
> Doesn't this subaddress all just resolve to the same account? Not in OAuth/OIDC compliant identity providers. As one example, I frequently use + email addresses for testing on auth0-secured apps, where I use the + text to tag
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by stult 2y ago
I don’t know why you think you are dunking on me here, I’m not saying they are right, just what their likely motive is.
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by stult 2y ago
The best time to start enforcing their trademark (from a legal perspective) was ten years ago. The second best time is now. Negotiating many agreements with many OSS projects is a lot of legal work which they may not want to pay for. And no

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