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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Although I don't do Rust, your tool might be an order-of-magnitude improvement in UX. Thanks for posting.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
A certain philosopher named Occam would suggest that the simplest explanation for nobody finding out so far is that it is three-letter agencies who might be the ultimate funders and data buyers.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Required reading: https://zenodo.org/record/6412487/files/Report%20on%20the%20...
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Kyber key encapsulation mechanism (Post Quantum Cryptography Standardization)(github.com)
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Transformer Inference Arithmetic(carolchen.me)
65 points by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago|2 comments
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
S**t-as-a-Service? Language models trained on such data encode the hegemonic viewpoint; Jo and Gebru, 2021 detail issues and solutions around this topic in-depth. Enhancing the diversity of our training data is a top priority as we cont
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Secure Coding Guidelines for Java SE (January 2022)(oracle.com)
1 points by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago|0 comments
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Roger L. Cloutier Jr. (Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
Hilarious and gross at the same time. Big Brother^W^W the 'community' (which community?) is watching you, lest you embrace the wrongthink. Next step: 'please reconsider your position on issues A B and C, as there are reasonab
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
Please note there's been some uptick in the intensity of discussion on generics lately [0]. Generics are necessary to bring performant data structures to Fortran, and yet they are nowhere near Go's generics. For the usual naysayer
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Man hacked random-number generator to rig lotteries, investigators say (2016)(theguardian.com)
40 points by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago|40 comments
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
Saving you a click and a bunch of tranquilizer pills. It's (1986), and the direct link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlS4f-mS27k
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
Krebs is a sleazy underhanded journo, too fond of doxxing his targets without any notion of 'due process' and buying leaks on the black market. I was tricked into reading his scoops and it took a couple of years for the truth to t
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
...which is working as intended. This situation has all the hallmarks of a silent coup in the making.
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
Retrocomputing can be dubbed 'xenocomputing studies'. So many foreign concepts, languages, utilities that may as well have been made by aliens. And people are fascinated by aliens or those legendary heroes of ages past that lived
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
I trust Mr. Brown Moses a bit more than Ms Doubovikova.
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
The thing is, this (and craftworks.at or whatever) is still not a fully polished technology. It probably can be optimized in a bunch of ways: * Less drastic transitions between accentuated text and the rest * An ML algorithm to select quant
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
'...that will require further investigation, maybe the videos in this thread can be geolocated?' ...which is a reply to the following thread: Ukrainian soldiers shoot Russian prisoners of war in the legs and afterwards give
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Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins: A very serious incident(twitter.com)
7 points by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago|5 comments
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Successful Test-Launch of New-Type ICBM (DPRK)(kcna.kp)
2 points by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago|0 comments
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Psychopath in the Corner Office(softpanorama.org)
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Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain (2017) [pdf](digitalcommons.augustana.edu)
1 points by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
His name is Eric Ciaramella. Can you see what I did here? The Big Brother^W Tech has already been weaponized, first in an internal American setting, now in a total (hopefully not thermonuclear) war. This won't stop until tactics on bot
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
Umberto Eco was one of the writers/thinkers whose 'profound truths' later surprisingly turned into quite revolting revelations. One of those whom I cannot trust at all.
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
Bonkers. Scientific American hits the floor and easily goes under. It is math that a/ weeds out idiots and b/ instills engineering rigor.
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
The evel of copy-writing is epic.
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
TL;DR - Brandon Nozaki Miller (Director of Front End Technology and Javascript Engineering @ Ocra) committed obfuscated code in the node-ipc package that runs geolocation and with probability 0.25 erases files at client computers if they ha
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The SUPDUP Protocol (Stallman, Richard M., 1983) [pdf](dspace.mit.edu)
3 points by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago|0 comments
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
Heh, the midterms are coming, and words are cheap. Yet Big Tech is essential for politicians, and the era of trustbusters is gone.
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by throwawaybutwhy 5y ago
Sorry for your loss, but you have to suck it up. This is hybrid warfare, and your country is at a kinda sorta war with the US. The 'good news' is your tech blog is going to be canceled anyway once the readers find out you're

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