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by tptacek 8d ago
You are writing both paragraphs. You’re specifically not asking a model to make a better paragraph. That would be a load-bearing debacle.
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by tptacek 8d ago
Right, I agree: that’s exactly not what I’m recommending.
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by tptacek 8d ago
Simple example from this piece: I scrubbed 7 instances of the word “just” from it. Obviously, Emacs can do that on their own, but you have to know to look for that word, and every other one.
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by tptacek 8d ago
That’s what this is: it’s mechanical proofing.
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by tptacek 8d ago
It was a joke.
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by tptacek 9d ago
This meme will not die, and here you can see it blossoming into something even weirder. There is one (1) case in the literature, back in the early 2000s, where a department rejected a candidate as overqualified based on a cognitive assessme
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by tptacek 9d ago
Maybe yours do, but all the CyrusOne date centers outside of Chicago smell like is grass and landscaping; they smell a great deal better than the car exhaust choked strip malls that dominate the exurban sprawl areas they tend to get sited i
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by tptacek 9d ago
If you think vulnerability research simply doesn't matter, you have a lot of company in that opinion. It's something Bruce Schneier used to argue, and Marcus Ranum, and a bunch of other people that used be on closed secret vulnera
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by tptacek 9d ago
No, anybody can buy into the Roundup Ready system; it's not exclusively licensed.
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by tptacek 9d ago
That's true of any productivity enhancement. If your neighbors use more efficient tractors you're at the same disadvantage, but nobody argues that farmers should be able to steal tractors.
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by tptacek 9d ago
And this isn't even a cultivar. It's a commodity crop in which the only difference between ordinary seeds and Monsanto's seeds is that you could use Monsanto's Roundup pesticide on them without killing them. The seeds we
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by tptacek 9d ago
Why, because without IP encumbrance farmers would be developing their own glyphosate-resistant shikimic acid pathway enzymes?
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by tptacek 9d ago
These stories have all basically been debunked. Monsanto did sue farmers. But they did so in cases where they had evidence that those farmers were not only planting IP-encumbered seeds, but also spraying them with Roundup . You can't
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by tptacek 10d ago
I know several police officers and none of them fit this description. I'm sure there are officers that do; I have Youtube too. But this is a pretty gross way to refer to about 1,000,000 people doing an extraordinarily difficult job.
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by tptacek 11d ago
Swartz had extremely good lawyers at both the beginning and the end of this case and was exactly the kind of nerd to have read the sentencing guidelines himself. And, once again: the DOJ doesn't set sentences, the judge does.
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by tptacek 11d ago
Among other problems with this argument you have the fact that DOJ doesn't decide sentences.
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by tptacek 11d ago
It's not at all relevant to this thread, but no he wasn't. At their worst, prosecutors were threatening to push for 7 years; the guideline sentence for Swartz's offense, were he to take it to trial and lose, would likely have
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by tptacek 11d ago
It's not Summer 2020 and I'm just not going to entertain the idea that calling the police when you're alarmed by something is an act of violence. This is some random working schmoe hanging things on poles. It's a nonstor
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by tptacek 12d ago
At this point I think if you want to keep talking you should just email me, because we're the only two people reading this. I don't understand either of your arguments here.
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by tptacek 12d ago
To be fair, I was mostly pointing out that you can get to the kernel of a useful agent very quickly and without much code, not making a claim that coding agents would or should generally be tight. Competitive coding agents in particular are
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by tptacek 12d ago
There's no indication that anything at all happened to the reporter, is there? A worker had a concern about someone following them and called it in, and that... is the end of the story?
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by tptacek 12d ago
Totally reasonable comparison. Can't imagine why that didn't occur to me, too.
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by tptacek 12d ago
When people feel threatened, it is almost always better than they call the police than that they engage and try to resolve the threat themselves.
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by tptacek 12d ago
You mean like this one? https://rick.eng.br/dnssecstat/ I cite the DNSSECMeNot thing now for two reasons: (1) I wrote it. (2) It's live: everything in the Tranco Top 1000 gets checked several times a day. I can te
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by tptacek 13d ago
That'll show me!
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by tptacek 13d ago
Flock is on the front page of the Y Combinator site. Nobody is hiding anything.
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by tptacek 13d ago
Happy to help. 911 is the primary "call for service" channel for most police departments.
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by tptacek 13d ago
I don't know what to tell you. I watch these videos all the time (it's one of my vices, bodycam footage in particular) and what I see every time --- when it's "auditors" harassing businesses, not when it's audi
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by tptacek 13d ago
It's the only crime defined explicitly in the Constitution, specifically to make it harder to charge people with it.
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by tptacek 13d ago
It's not bananas. It happens all the time. The police show up, check things out, and inform the caller that the person recording has a right to do so. In this case, it's even less bananas, because the people recording him were lit

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