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by tennysont 6mo ago
I think that tech people presume too much overlap between their own domain knowledge and war. The analysis isn't particularly bad, it's just wildly overconfident. Replacing F-35s with drones is like replacing cell towers with blue
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by tennysont 6mo ago
"Air supremacy" would be dominance of the air such that enemy cannot effectively interfere. "Air superiority" is the lesser level (enemy interference is not prohibitive). At least in NATO lingo https://en.wiki
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"The Last Airbender" movie leaked 9 months before release date(nofilmschool.com)
2 points by tennysont 6mo ago|3 comments
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by tennysont 6mo ago
ign story from two days ago: https://www.ign.com/articles/avatar-aang-movie-footage-seems...
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by tennysont 6mo ago
$1 for testing, not for rubber stamping/approval.
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by tennysont 6mo ago
> without needing to modify your message Careful. I argue this is even worse. In this convention, you need to change the behavior of others. If I send a message to Alice with contents "Hey, I can't meet today" using your s
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by tennysont 6mo ago
I think the question is: where should the information barrier exist? A web browser puts a barrier between your OS and the company, while an app (potentially) puts a barrier between the client and the server. For security minded and source-a
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by tennysont 6mo ago
Hmmm. I am more sympathetic to the author, since they might expect familiarity with their previous post on the topic. Still, am glad that I stopped reading after that quote because I personally misunderstood their meaning. I understood thei
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by tennysont 6mo ago
A huge part of that, for me, was this from Scott Aaronson: > Once you understand quantum fault-tolerance, asking “so when are you going to factor 35 with Shor’s algorithm?” becomes sort of like asking the Manhattan Project physicists in
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by tennysont 6mo ago
They use a magic number, rather than a digest derived from the schema[1], but otherwise they do as you suggest. The magic number is given to the signing function (sender side) and the validation function (receiver side) but does not increas
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by tennysont 6mo ago
I asked about this on the PGP mailing list at one point, and I think I was told that the best solution is to start emails with "Hi <recipient>," which seems like a funny low-tech solution to a (sad) problem.
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by tennysont 6mo ago
You are, of course, right. And this distinction is important for this chain of comments. Though, in fairness, that is /kind of/ like transmitting it---in the sense that it impacts the message that is returned. It's more akin
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by tennysont 6mo ago
Hmmmm. I agree that an ad-hoc implementation with protobufs can go wrong. But presumably, 1 canonical encoding for the private key constitutes the Horton principle? It seems like Horton Principle just says "all messages have ≤1 meaning
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by tennysont 6mo ago
Despite my prior bias to agree with article, it includes this extraordinary line: > So, for example, it recently turned out to be possible for eavesdroppers to decrypt messages without a key, simply by tampering with encrypted messages.
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by tennysont 6mo ago
While I appreciate independent bloggers, I think that the HackerNews community should expect big claims, like a NASA cover up: > NASA’s initial instinct was to cover up the problem. to at least warrant a link.
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by tennysont 6mo ago
He invested in one company that fights cancer. That company later helped him fight his cancer. Afterwards, he founded new companies that fight cancer. The headline refers to the new companies (but most of the comments here are about his can
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by tennysont 6mo ago
Love how you approached and presented this. The data vis on https://osteosarc.com/ is outstanding; such good explorability (is this some open source framework?) I do have concerns regarding the proposals for scaling persona
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by tennysont 7mo ago
In university, a team member on a final project swore he fixed an input injection issue. I playfully typed `rm -rf /` on his machine and challenged him to press `RET` if he was confident. He hit enter, but protested that "I just d
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by tennysont 9mo ago
So, purely for example: When you run VS Code, it spins up a local language server that is capable of making code changes. That is how refactoring python works in many editors (including VS Code). A website that you're browsing could po
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by tennysont 9mo ago
Based on the :/ emoticon, I now understand that you were asking this question for yourself. In that case, I will express anger at the article. I believe that it was vague and leaned into fear mongering. This explains the vagueness of y
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by tennysont 9mo ago
This data is mandated by NYC law: https://intro.nyc/local-laws/2015-99 I've heard that releasing these sorts of data sets help competitors do market research, and thus mitigates "winner takes all" forces
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by tennysont 9mo ago
I couldn't really follow the technical details of the malware from the article, so I found what seems to be the first major report on the topic: https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/kimwolf-botnet-en/#network-pro... That
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by tennysont 9mo ago
Regular people don't need a "secure network". Phones and computers are, by default, secure against malicious networks. Just don't run code you download from the internet or put your passwords to important accounts into c
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by tennysont 9mo ago
That's such a strange interpretation that disagrees with my intuition. If the Yankees hit a practice ball out of their stadium and into my house, causing bodily harm to a loved one, I wouldn't be satisfied with any of the reasonin
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by tennysont 10mo ago
Pickle files are probably still useful saving exploratory work, collaborating inside a company, and use inside a pipeline. Safetensors is supposed to be the successor for distribution. I believe that it's the "safe" subset of
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by tennysont 10mo ago
(Notwithstanding that this is a joke) Maybe it's just me, but I read this as a solution that would be implemented internally at a large company to distribute pain/accountability/tech-debt across time to a team which might hav
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by tennysont 10mo ago
I heard a second-hand story about some team at Google who did this, and named the variable something like: I_ACKNOWLEDGE_THAT_THIS_CODE_WILL_PERMANENTLY_BREAK_ON_2022_09_20_WITHOUT_SUPPORT_FROM_TEAM_X=1 a year before the deadline. I
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by tennysont 10mo ago
Follow up question that you might know: would multiple LIDAR sensor actually be additive like that? If you can stand a foot away from a car's LIDAR sensor and be unharmed, then can't you have: | Distance | # of Sensors | | 1
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by tennysont 10mo ago
FYI “cope” is closer to “delusion used to help you cope with reality” rather than “superficial fix” Also, I think that some strategies, such as “comfort asking a parent for help navigating a situation” are timeless defenses against strate
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by tennysont 10mo ago
Why wouldn’t your eye lens focus LIDAR photons from the same source onto a small region of your retina in the same way that a phone camera lens focuses same-origin photos to a few pixels? Sorry if this is a silly question, I honestly don’t

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