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by wang_li 3y ago
Many years ago, 1982, there was an applie ii video game named Dung Beetles. It was a pac man style dot chomper in a maze. Except the maze was quite large and the area around the player was viewed as if through a magnifying glass. I would fi
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by wang_li 3y ago
A studio creating pure AI personalities to star in their movies seems perfectly fine. There is no requirement that these AI generated performers are based on real people. Arguing against generalized AI in film and television is arguing agai
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by wang_li 3y ago
> But I wonder if for example a web server that uses Ghostscript to convert documents could be vulnerable. In which case RCE classification makes sense. If this is an RCE then all bugs that could lead to code execution are RCEs because,
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by wang_li 3y ago
In the 2020 election one of the seats for the House of Representatives had an initial margin of victory of six votes. After recounting it was something like twenty. And another had a final margin of victory around one hundred.
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by wang_li 3y ago
When you vote from home I can show up and put a gun to your kid's head and tell you to vote for Pedro. When you vote with some sort of association with your name I can look up how you voted after the fact and if you didn't vote fo
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by wang_li 3y ago
>However, 200 (success) is simply wrong. What makes it wrong? HTTP/HTTPS URLs/URIs don't mean files on the disk. You can return 200 as a default if you like.
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by wang_li 3y ago
In the US the only function of two party consent laws is to allow people to lie about what they said. Even in two party consent states you can still report what someone said to you. And they can lie and say no I never said that. Without rec
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by wang_li 3y ago
TSMC gets on the phone. Calls Vlad. Says, “It will be three hundred years before we sell an integrated circuit to any Russian entity unless you deliver to us the decryption keys, a complete description of everything on our network that was
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by wang_li 3y ago
The license on this file gives extremely broad permission to distribute with no requirements. The GPL has requirements if you are distributing it. These two licenses are not compatible. Additionally, if they are starting with software under
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by wang_li 3y ago
It's not clear that they can change the license. For example in dix/dixfonts.c it says: >Copyright (c) 1991, 1997 Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts. > >Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to
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by wang_li 3y ago
Those web pages should be removed from the internet.
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by wang_li 3y ago
>Why should OpenAI be more liable for a tool that they've created than any other tool creator where the tool is intentionally misused and warnings on the tool ignored? Because they provide a service, not a tool.
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by wang_li 3y ago
Typical enterprises will utilize the tape drive to do the encryption. The objective is that your tapes are encrypted when they go off site.
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by wang_li 3y ago
How far do you extend this idea? A dollar diverted to a poor person is a dollar that can’t be used to grow humanity’s knowledge and capabilities. Is it immoral to be poor? A dollar spent on beer? Time spent having sex instead of researching
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by wang_li 3y ago
Or theft is immoral because of unjust enrichment.
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by wang_li 3y ago
The details vary but if you don’t earn much you usually qualify for additional cost-sharing reductions which cuts the costs of insurance plans under the ACA substantially.
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by wang_li 3y ago
As a nerd of a certain age I’ve been deeply attracted to retro computing. Even going so far as to place bids on 30 year old Atari STs on eBay since that was a computer I had in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s. But in recent days, through the
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by wang_li 3y ago
Planned. The US debt is currently $31 trillion. The monthly servicing costs for this debt (as of 2022) is approximately $35 billion dollars. The US has roughly $270 billion dollars per month in income tax receipts. When the US hits the debt
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by wang_li 3y ago
Spending that’s already planned. There’s plenty of income to pay our debt obligations. Just not enough to pay all the other planned spending as well. The US should rollback spending to prepandemic levels. There’s no reason why extraordinary
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by wang_li 3y ago
These types of stories lead to comments such as yours which draw a false vision of how things are. According to BLS data there are approximately 200,000 people in the US who hold the position of CEO. Their average compensation is ~4x the av
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by wang_li 3y ago
Since they just passed a law requiring real age verification, if you’re trying to make some point about firewalls you’re making the wrong point.
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by wang_li 4y ago
Somewhere in Arizona or on an Indian reservation as they are in Mountain time but they don't observe daylight savings.
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by wang_li 4y ago
The fact that people want to copy things tells us that it’s fulfilling its purpose.
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by wang_li 4y ago
Solitaire in windows 10 has ads. If you want to disable, you’ve got to pay.
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by wang_li 4y ago
This reads like they have a set of requirements and since the Unix model doesn’t meet their requirements, the Unix model is bad. As opposed to it’s fine for those who have different requirements.
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by wang_li 4y ago
The rest of the owners bought him out and pushed him out of the company. Or something like that.
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by wang_li 4y ago
I can run 2n Reality in pcem on a jetson xavier nx with gravis sound. May be less compatible, but for things of 1993 era, it doesn't take that much machine.
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by wang_li 4y ago
The fine needs to be large enough to wipe out all of Alphabet's profit for the period in question.
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by wang_li 4y ago
>so it pressures corporations to ban speech on its behalf, with an implied threat they will will hurt the corporation in some way if it does not comply. Which is not actually legal. It's been found repeatedly in court that the gover
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by wang_li 4y ago
The balloon was 10-20x closer than satellites. Can get 100-400x better resolution photos.

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