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by viccis 1y ago
I can’t book a table at a local restaurant without calling because their resy link is behind Cloudflare and Cloudflare has decided that my up-to-date Firefox is out of date and therefore can’t pass the challenge. In reality it’s more likely
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by viccis 1y ago
Have you read Simulacra and Simulation? I think it sounds like you are pursuing very wise choices, but the problem is that the precession of simulacra is unavoidable in modern society. Even the idea of trying to chase more off line unmediat
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by viccis 1y ago
>I’m assuming you meant “sunk” not “suck”. Not familiar with the suck fallacy. There was no need to post this.
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I used to think people here didn't really use them before AI, but I actually downloaded a dataset of all comments over like a decade or so and counted the number of comments with an em dash, and it didn't actually change much arou
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by viccis 1y ago
Good writers who used em dashes before AI tend to use them the traditional way—with no space around them and to emphasize a parenthetical. AI uses it with spaces around it — as an all-purpose conjunction.
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It's very clearly written with ChatGPT's authorial voice. The very prominent sprinkling of bold intensifiers, the frequent organization of things into lists to make arguments, the use of emojis in the full context pages, the overw
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If the marketing people at Cracker Barrel understood Baudrillard, they would would understood that they're selling semiotics more than middling Southern fare and maybe avoided such a pointless (but hyperreal) freakout.
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>Durham University improved by 30 places year-on-year in its students’ evaluation of teaching quality, which was the main driver in securing its third place in the overall university league table. Yeah this is worthless. "Elite&quot
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Why is that a negative outcome? The fisher gets a fish, and the fish gets a delicious worm offered directly to it.
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by viccis 1y ago
Periods go inside of quotes, even mealy mouthed shock quotes because an internet abbreviation made you upset.
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by viccis 1y ago
Also not the parent but how the hell did you not understand what "long exposure" means ffs
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For what it's worth, there are some websites that embed some crazy shit when you screenshot. On reddit, r/CenturyClub will fill your background with a slightly off-white version of your username so that they can identify leakers,
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by viccis 1y ago
Discord is (rightfully) finally under the scrutiny it is due. I would say that their choice of Mattermost is apt.
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I listened to Neuromancer on a long drive one time, and I will say that it's a wonderful book but not one that's particularly suited to the audiobook medium. It's hard to follow at times because it avoids a lot of big picture
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I'm talking about professors at R1 schools and Ivies to be clear.
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My experience with pure math is that this is not necessary to get job as one, even at good institutions, but you will be terrorized by the arrogance of the ones you mention. Learning to deal with the "brilliant jerk" is a problem
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by viccis 1y ago
The problem is that his motivation was to critique "science criticism", but nothing about what he did did anything of the sort. He went about it with the same scientific rigor that one would expect from Derrida, Deleuze, Lacan, et
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by viccis 1y ago
The pomo authors weren't "attacking" physics. They used terminology sloppily in their writing and all Sokal proved was that if you find a publisher with sufficiently lax standards, they'll publish just about anything. I&
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Agamben wrote some interesting analysis of this [1], expanding on the concept of the "state of exception", which was a older concept introduced by a much more odious man who employed it very effectively in the early 20th century.
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Yeah it just depends on whether your interviewer considers that "solved". To test this out, I wrote a one liner in Python (after imports) that solves it with a hashmap (under the hood for Counter, which uses a heap queue to find t
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by viccis 1y ago
>The point of these problems is to test your cleverness. In my experience, interviewers love going to the Leetcode "Top Interview 150" list and using problems in the "Array String" category. I'm not a fan of thes
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>this kind of joke banner only makes their choice to respect visitors' privacy equally annoying Their name is "PostHog", a dirtbag left joke from years ago. If they were trying to make joyless scolds happy with their humor
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Sure but that's not what their customer was engaging with them to do. It's not ethical to sell "EDR" services and then use that access to spy on your customers for intelligence purposes.
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No he was digging through my FTP contents that weren't publicly viewable.
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>Who's trust? Their job is to hunt down and research threat actors No, their job is to provide EDR protection for their customers.
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For some of them, it makes sense. Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, and similar tools are good because they can be used to give people a good idea of the impact of the vulnerabilities in their system as well as giving them knowledge of the TTPs th
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Reminds me of when a Hostgator employee told me on reddit that he liked digging through peoples' websites and chatted with me about the stuff I had hosted on my website.
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I can't imagine pen testers would be able to work in the EU without being able to access individual workstations without the users' knowledge. The key difference here is that pen testing, as well as IT testing, is very explicitly
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>We are an extension of their security team, which means they trust us with this access So if <bad actor> in this writeup read your pitch and decided to install your agent to secure their attack machine, it sounds like they "t
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That is what I said, yes.

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