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by twawaaay 4y ago
> “That was absolutely idiotic,” the employee, who works on the asset management side of Silicon Valley Bank, told CNN in an interview. “They were being very transparent. It’s the exact opposite of what you’d normally see in a scandal. B
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by twawaaay 4y ago
When finally an AI will become sentient and gets access to all our infrastructure, it won't need to nuke us, it won't need to wage war with us. It will just locate everybody who is trying to fight it and block their credit cards,
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is also a different product from Google Cloud or AWS.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> At 100 km most of the atmosphere (99.9999%) is below you. 100 km also marks the Karman Line (shown in the main graphic), generally considered the “official” start of outer space. Above this altitude aerodynamic flight is no longer poss
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> I can imagine that scientists have figured out accurate ways to measure the "actual" brightness of stars Sure. This is actually pretty simple. Stars visible with naked eye are relatively close to us. We can measure parallax (
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by twawaaay 4y ago
So you are suggesting that they might get away with one payment (because the money went missing) but not with more? What if they relied on cash for multiple payments (think startup that got funding)? It is also unlikely that people wouldn&#
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Okay, I am not versed in US law, but wouldn't boards' liability be very limited given that the wages are unpaid due to failure of another entity holding their cash? Was there anything they could do about it? They had to hold their
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Also my observations. But importance of some of these things changes as you evolve and gain seniority. Definitely it is a mistake for a junior developer to obsess over hiring people. This is something you should start paying more attention
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Not a migrobiologist, but I understand that labs are equipped with progressively more stringent procedures depending on the type of material they can handle. They may work in a very regular, run of the mill lab that is not equipped to deal
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> Registering a new key will hopefully also trigger a big scary warning email/SMS/fax to me and/or additional security contacts If your devices are compromised you are not guaranteed to receive any emails or SMS. There are
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Whatever security system you have there is always a problem of original sin. This is when attacker happens to be present and prepared to hijack your initialisation process. If an attacker has unrestricted access to your laptop or phone and
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Missing from all this: a dedicated machine running Linux to set everything up. I have an old beat up Thinkpad that I use exclusively for critical stuff that would really hurt me if somebody hacked. You can have one for less than the price o
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I have a rule. I try to stay away from eating a lot of stuff very few other people eat a lot of. I don't want to be a guinea pig. I do experiment on myself but only after I can reasonably assume whatever I am consuming is relatively sa
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is a crutch because people rely on it to tell them what is wrong with their code instead of trying on their own. They can't tell until they run the code because they don't exert themselves normally, when programming. Just like
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I do some photography on the side. I think the sentence describe it perfectly. Gear won't take good photos. But it sure makes it easier if you know what you are doing. And it also opens new possibilities. It is all good, IF you know ho
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> This is one of those scary things with a cryptocurrency based society that I worry about. No, not really. It is the same kind of story as people putting all their money in a bag in a chimney to find out their family decided to finally
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Why even try if success is blind luck? Why go to school? Why learn things? Telling people that the success is just blind luck is offensive, IMO. Not that successful people care.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I work with some pretty successful people who started their companies. I can tell you, the sentence is pure BS. Successful people may not know why exactly they got successful. Or they may not understand how much what they do contributed to
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is not limitations. It is just that the findings should be presented truthfully and the authors should not try to suggest more than can actually be inferred from the data. Correlation between facts is interesting in itself, but to genera
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Think you may want to read about what an axiom is. An axiom, by the very definition, cannot be proven. Since the mathematical impossibility of exactly once delivery can be proven (there exists a proof), it means it is not an axiom. Now, a m
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Of course you can have exactly-once delivery. I mean... we know how to construct software that will transfer money from one account to another, exactly once. It really isn't rocket science but it does require a little bit of understand
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by twawaaay 4y ago
That is, if we stop putting them on a diet of highly processed food and refined sugar and find a way to reduce their stress levels.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think people are missing an important nuance when it comes to this "AI passed X exam" series of stories. Can you say a bookshelf or a search engine passes a bar exam because you can ask it any question and you can find an answer
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by twawaaay 4y ago
See my sibling comment. Repeated stress of right intensity makes bones, joints and tendons stronger. Avoiding all stress is a bad advice I have heard many times in my life I am sick and tired of it. It is the stress that causes the body to
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is only bad for your knees if you don't know how to run downhills and don't train for it. Running injuries come from overload or overuse (or bad health). Both causes can be prevented by being conscious of what causes overload a
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I remember reading this book. As huge as gravity is (making everything basically two-dimensional shapes on the surface), the magnetic forces are formidable, too, forcing inhabitants to be oriented and moving only in certain directions.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It may sound strange to people who were born later. But in 90s these mechanisms were in infancy. It was normal for computers to auto-login and have no password at all, processes could each read entire memory on the machine. Software was cra
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I built one with my father when I was a kid. It was dual purpose cooking range and a huge mass of bricks for heat capacity. It was built at the spot where multiple walls met in the centre of the house to increase mass of bricks in contact a
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I would add the purpose of half of this advice is to make sure to prevent any possibility your domain possession is viewed as being used to monetise the name association with another legitimate company. If your name is Apple and you somehow
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by twawaaay 4y ago
That's simple. Things like this happen when people act without principles. It is like patching software without taking one step back to understand the underlying issues. The underlying issue with airtags is supposed to be that people c

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