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811.
by usrusr 3y ago
Heh, "pockets of correct behavior" is an interesting perspective, truly reads like an insider view, I certainly would not have put it like that. The problem in the informal culture is that insisting on formality (the authenticatio
812.
by usrusr 3y ago
I'd say the only "generational" part is that in this example the question has made it to the web. Who wouldn't wonder, when first leaning about two's complement, if unsigned plus sign (one's complement) might b
813.
by usrusr 3y ago
Sure, that's the gap that needs to be filled. In the age of deep fakes even more urgently than before. But which work cultures will find it easier to effectively deploy countermeasures? Informal ones, where everybody acts like first na
814.
by usrusr 3y ago
"nutrient and energy source" is an interesting perspective: we certainly can't live off radiation (or heat, or electricity, or whatever one might consider as direct energy input) plus all the atoms contained in a lifetime wor
815.
by usrusr 3y ago
And the only way to get meaningfully reliable at performing those checks would be to make them a habit in face to face as well.
816.
by usrusr 3y ago
Armies are a good example of authority clearly coming from the role , not from the person , and roles inseparably tied to a lot of expected formal behavior. In an impersonation-hardened army (or corporation), you simply wouldn't make
817.
by usrusr 3y ago
A good example of the challenges of real-life hardening. Anecdotes like this are a valuable addition to any discussion of security I think. I perfectly understand what's wrong about the attitude transferred in the joke, yet I can easil
818.
by usrusr 3y ago
What if that voice comes packed in bad clothing, smelly and is full of grammar mistakes? Because that's how an order without credentials would feel like, when the rituals of signature verification are established as expected form. Th
819.
by usrusr 3y ago
Other countries are known for a culture of nothing ever happening without a piece of paper carrying an official-looking stamp. Those are laughably insecure, but the culture could easily be ported to public key signature. "Boss voice
820.
by usrusr 3y ago
And Microsoft's endless struggle to alienate long time users who'd be willing to put up with a lot in exchange for being allowed to keep old UI habits. In combination with large parts of steam libraries just working, it's alm
821.
by usrusr 3y ago
If you really have a lot of time for the project (starting early in the star's burn?), you might try using photovoltaics to move a lot of mass across the surface to ahead of where tides would accumulate, slowly speeding up the day&#x2F
822.
by usrusr 3y ago
If you want a tool to be able to generate executable validation from a schema, a compiler framework should come in handy. It seems like they did not aim to make yet another mvp configuration language, but something that can scale across a w
823.
by usrusr 3y ago
If Futamurma means what I think it means skimming across the Wikipedia entry, it would mean that simple value-holder-file configurations would be parsed and checked at the speed of a general purpose tokenizer. But without closing the door t
824.
by usrusr 3y ago
Duplicate port number in the config might be checked ahead of time, but port number already taken by something unrelated in the environment deployed to can't. I'm sure that the scope of pkl isn't intended to setting up clean
825.
by usrusr 3y ago
One argument I might put on the cons side of AOT type validation for configs is that there will always be some invalid inputs that can't be statically checked (e.g. port number already taken), and not failing simple type errors before
826.
by usrusr 3y ago
Too close to the "reliably solvable by simple heuristic" end of the spectrum to be a good game: if the text is short it's probably a joke, if it is a very long wall of words it's LLM and anything of somewhat reasonable l
827.
by usrusr 3y ago
Having read through the the docs a little, my gut reaction is that they might be a little too much in love with the idea of having created a language that can serve both as schema definition and as minimal values carrier. It smells of unexp
828.
by usrusr 3y ago
Apparently it's already a labor shortage when HR departments can keep themselves busy running openings for mr and mrs perfect while rejecting everybody who is less than a 99.9% match.
829.
by usrusr 3y ago
You write as if that had ever been tried. Everybody has protectionist rules. Some have a little less of them than others and they make a big show of it, but acting as if that show was equivalent to absence of protectionism is like celebrati
830.
by usrusr 3y ago
Why? Setting up one of the n sites a company operates on EU turf would certainly be easier than avoiding ASML altogether. How would it force setting up a competitor? There's a huge difference between "can't use outside"
831.
by usrusr 3y ago
That diesel maintenance example gets even more interesting when read through the lense of the ongoing Boeing threads: there, consensus is that the root problem is authority erosion for the core discipline: in old Boeing, engineering was a r
832.
by usrusr 3y ago
Deus Ex is about sci-fi tropes, 2077 is about late 1980ies/early 1990ies nostalgia, just dressed up a little as 1980ies/90ies sci-fi. Corporate Japan on the rise, peak MTV rock stars so full of themselves they are hardly able to l
833.
by usrusr 3y ago
True. Naive skepticism is what lies on the path to "can't see the earth's curvature from an airplane!"
834.
by usrusr 3y ago
> In my opinion, the individual is best off ignoring all of it, and dealing with their actual lives, rather than taking any of the distracting and manipulative stories seriously. Sounds like the thing Russian propaganda aims for: "w
835.
by usrusr 3y ago
> English is just badly pronounced French At least it got me (barely) passing marks in French lessons at my German school: to write French, I would set up the sentence in my head in English, shake it around violently until all the words
836.
by usrusr 3y ago
Seems arbitrary. Why Bismarck's Kaiser but none of those between Charlemagne and Napoleon? How German was the realm of Charlemagne when it reached further across the Pyrenees than it reached across the Elbe?
837.
by usrusr 3y ago
Even road quality can be a factor: huge difference between a cold -1000m elevation drop at -6% on a road where I can blast out of the curves at maximum watts and a cold -1000m elevation drop at -6% where I have to tiptoe down constantly pul
838.
by usrusr 3y ago
They catch the vultures who arrive at the scene when the lions who did the hunting are gone. Perhaps some of what is happening is truly done by opportunistic amateurs, but the observation voted would also be perfectly consistent with a grou
839.
by usrusr 3y ago
Same here, but they are not seen as as example of organized religion at all. More as an example of how religion could be, if the established organizations did not exist. Perhaps it's a particularly lucky situation here in Germany with
840.
by usrusr 3y ago
“they believe in God, but just don't care about any kind of group or group activities.“ Is that an American thing? I might be projecting, but over here in Europe (or just Germany?) my impression is that many see some good in organized

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