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by yaps8 3y ago
Firefox actually also does it, maybe limited based on location. For instance here they announce it for UK, France, Germany (in 2022) and say it was available in the US/Canada since 2018: https://blog.mozilla.org/en&#x2F
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by yaps8 5y ago
I love it, thanks for sharing. Is the confidence a percentage? How is it determined?
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by yaps8 7y ago
Author here. If you're curious about MACB updates of your OS or tools, code is on the repo along with a profiling utility for shell commands: https://github.com/quoscient/os_timestamps
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MAC(B) Timestamps Across Posix Implementations (Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD)(medium.com)
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by yaps8 7y ago
Same here, glad to know I'm not the only one.
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by yaps8 8y ago
Hex-Rays is in Belgium.
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by yaps8 8y ago
Not sure but I think in the video they say the AI does not see cloaked units.
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by yaps8 8y ago
This will not happen. Mind you, they have the right to privacy!
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by yaps8 8y ago
Some stats on Wikipedia may fuel this discussion [1] and conclude than planes are safer by km and by time, not by journey though this is an anecdotical thing (not relevant to compare 10 min trip to work to 8 hour flight). Besides this is b
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by yaps8 8y ago
> without having to beg and wait for the whole world to stop burning fossil fuels, eating meat etc You don't have to beg and wait for YOU to stop burning fossil fuels, eating meat etc.
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by yaps8 8y ago
It think it's also hard because at this point you don't want to make new friends beside smalltalk (which he does). Imagine having been with your spouse for 60 years, your friends 40-80 years (?), your children I guess at least 40
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by yaps8 8y ago
Being old and lonely / alone is really terrifying. > Jack still misses his late wife desperately. [...] "The weekend is a dismal time," says Jack. "The time can drag. I don't have any friends because all my frien
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by yaps8 8y ago
It is really not the tone of the article: > There is a common stereotype that loneliness mainly strikes older, isolated people - and of course it can, and does. But the BBC survey found even higher levels of loneliness among younger peop
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by yaps8 8y ago
This is all anecdotes but I've had some (non tech) family members ask about the facebook privacy scandal and they wanted to review their privacy settings.
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by yaps8 9y ago
> top of that Uber disabled the cars built in safety system that likely would have also worked. What safety system? I haven't read anything saying this, so any source would be appreciated!
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by yaps8 9y ago
This. Many people comment that the lighting is poor and that a human might understand what's happening too late. This is debatable and misses the point: if visibility is bad, you (and it applies with full force to automated drivers) sh
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by yaps8 9y ago
Yeah I missed that but it doesn't look good [1] (december 2016). [1] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/19/uber-self...
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by yaps8 9y ago
Yes there is not "one" definition of capitalism, but yours (private property + freedom to trade) misses some characteristics (for instance: capital accumulation). > Capitalism really is an evolution ("what you get when ...
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by yaps8 9y ago
> Capitalism is what you get when a) you have private property, b) freedom to trade property, goods, and services (labor) I disagree. We (sort-of) have your a) and b) and capitalism now but the implication part "what you get" i
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by yaps8 9y ago
Well, if you compare the situation where an adversary has access to source code with a situation where they don't - everyting else being the same - , they have higher chance of finding vulnerabilities in the first. The "security-b
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by yaps8 10y ago
The whole point of ethics is to report ‘I think we broke the law’ or ‘I think we violated this contract.’ to your manager (maybe more, depending on the case) and for your own good (protection from prosecution) you should leave papertrails (
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by yaps8 10y ago
Yes, I didn't use or recommand WOT because it didn't seem useful but I never suspected anything shady. How did you know ?
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by yaps8 10y ago
I would agree with the general statement that mathematics has not been the most inclusive field (though it's getting better) and has been reserved to "elites", but I don't understand how it can be linked to statements li
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by yaps8 10y ago
I wonder how they are trained to differentiate between someone who is hiding something and someone who is uncomfortable because they have been in a 10 hours flight, barely slept, have not been speaking english for months and are anxious to
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by yaps8 11y ago
The halting problem makes it impossible to consistently answer the question "Will this instruction be executed ?" This is why you can't know if the code is malicious : you can't (always) infer meaningful properties about
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by yaps8 11y ago
I don't know how this company works financially but would it be possible that he is not risking much ? They might be in a position where they don't have too much debt or it would not be tied to him and not put him in a difficult s
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by yaps8 11y ago
It is a minimum wage, everyone is not paid the same.
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by yaps8 11y ago
This quote strikes me most: "Here I am walking around making $1 million a year, and I'm working shoulder to shoulder with people in her situation who are every bit as good and valuable as I am." I wish more people would reali
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by yaps8 11y ago
Could you elaborate or do you have a source on the technique you use to mitigate downgrade attacks ?
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by yaps8 11y ago
It is unfortunate that the suggested example triggers no result. "0 Results for silly face"

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