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by vntok 6y ago
He's wrong. Any procedure involving any invasive (derm-piercing) tool, you're one human/process mistake away from getting exposed to super-resistant bacteria via contaminated tooling. Any procedure involving body manipulation
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by vntok 6y ago
Sounds like a feature, not a bug!
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by vntok 6y ago
See also how they slow down the whole network to level the field: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/26/putting-the-brakes-on-high-f...
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by vntok 6y ago
Total & Aramco come to mind.
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by vntok 6y ago
Congratulations, from now on you are on call 24/7 in case anything happens to that machine. It is now your own pet. When RAM fails in unpredictable random ways, you'll spend hours reading the syslogs. When your SSDs fail, you&#x27
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by vntok 6y ago
> I would guess 95% of what is in nytimes is true. This is even worse. The most dangerous lie is a lie wrapped around a core of truth that entices readers to trust the whole package.
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by vntok 6y ago
> an internal review Yeah that's their spin on the story, the reality is that they got busted though.
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by vntok 6y ago
It is the general public.
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by vntok 6y ago
> Saying there are physical backup controls is a bit like saying there are backup controls at the bottom on your new TV. Can you expand on this? Are you against physical backup controls?
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by vntok 6y ago
Why not? Surely they must have put the very best minds money can buy on the problem to fix it?
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by vntok 6y ago
> "Download this browser extension so we won't track you without consent" isn't a very good proposition no matter how internet literate you are. If said browser extension actually doesn't track you, this is a non
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by vntok 6y ago
"Access your data for all websites" is just a label, it does not imply what you think in the context of this addon. You can actually read the entire code, it's very concise.
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by vntok 6y ago
The word criminal does not mean what you think it means.
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by vntok 6y ago
If that's not too intrusive a question, I would be curious to know about your fears regarding such situation? Many people would consider this a benign thing - after all residential cleaning services is a multi-dozen billion market worl
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by vntok 6y ago
> "Would you give me your home address and keys so I can drop off a newspaper on your coffee table each morning?" If we're entering a valid contract under the justice system of our country of residency, why not? Similar se
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by vntok 6y ago
> These randos on the internet are people. And who works in government and/or the justice system? You guessed it! People! That is not a persuasive argument to anyone who understands that people working for governments/justice s
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by vntok 6y ago
Most people understand that there is a distinction between having nothing to hide from randos on the Internet asking about my life and having nothing to hide from the legal system of my country . Your line of questioning is not an argume
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by vntok 6y ago
The grand-parent commenter wrote "If they have secret data, that really ought to be a reason to withdraw their patent.". The parent commenter helpfully explained how such statement is trivially false, in that there is value in kee
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by vntok 6y ago
Curious, which country are you living in that doesn't have laws against fraud or theft?
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by vntok 6y ago
Incorrect. Out of the three Sierra hosted at LLNL that have the "4 GPUs per node" you're talking about, two of them are in fact accessible from the public Internet. One is in Collaboration Zone CZ (Sierra/lassen), anothe
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by vntok 6y ago
Swing and a miss, I moved to freelancing a decade ago and never looked back.
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by vntok 6y ago
The datasheet of the A100 lists "remote intervention from an engineer's home or workstation" as a core feature of that box, using one of the dozens of hyperoptimized networking components, so... not sure what argument you are
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by vntok 6y ago
Did you know it is perfectly possible for a computer to exfiltrate data without physical connections and without even having a networking card? A few examples: Using speakers or microphones to transmit arbitrary data via ultrasounds. Making
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by vntok 6y ago
It is painfully obvious from your message that you haven't ever been in an executive position. As an exec, you would ask that person to come for maybe the first two or three meetings, tops. Then you acknowledge that said person is lazy
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by vntok 6y ago
How exactly do you intend to prove that an AI does not have access to an external network?
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by vntok 6y ago
Or OP was doing busy work the whole time, making reports and filling forms no one was ever going to read. Why would you grant equity to someone whom you see skipping team meetings, to someone who doesn't bring actionable results and qu
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by vntok 6y ago
Seems like a plausible real reason would be that he didn't even bother to attend team meetings. Making oneself indispensable among peers is kind of the obvious first step everywhere on the road to getting more equity.
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by vntok 6y ago
In a similar vein, this story about Cloudflare's cofounder: https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline...
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by vntok 6y ago
No, not always. Users typically prefer waiting a few secs after entering their criteria rather than getting instant filtered and sorted search results, especially on price-sensitive services like price comparators, but basically everywhere
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by vntok 6y ago
Okay now I'm growing curious, where in hell do you regularly find HTML sources that weigh tens of MBs?

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