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by zelon88 3y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but here is a thought experiment... If a human knows a song "by heart" (imperfectly), it is not considered copyright infringement. If a LLM knows a song as part of its training data, then it is copyright infrin
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by zelon88 3y ago
I've seen similar levels of incompetence first hand. This isn't someone actively ignoring important security warnings. This is someone not understanding what you are talking about. This is someone who, at a fundamental level, has
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by zelon88 3y ago
How many times do you actually click on, or buy things from the ads you are shown? You make it sound like we should all be grateful. Like ads are adding value to our lives. They don't. Outside of marketing, nobody cares about ads. We t
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by zelon88 3y ago
Boeing supply chain is 500 miles long. Multiple suppliers for every part, and practically none of them are made by Boeing. I started my career in aerospace manufacturing. The whole supply chain is designed to track and shift liability down
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by zelon88 3y ago
When you rent a gas car, you don't have to bring it back full. You have to bring it back with as much, if not more fuel than it left with. So if you get it with 1/2 a tank, you can bring it back with 1/2 a tank. They usually
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by zelon88 3y ago
You mention work several times. Work does not make people less depressed unless it is a) gainful or b) meaningful. I think a lot of it is a result of people conflating productivity with worth, and worth with satisfaction. You can be broke a
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by zelon88 3y ago
Security is at a point where shame is required. You deserve to feel shame if you have an unjustifiable security posture like plain text passwords. The time for politely asking directors to do their job has passed. This is even the governmen
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by zelon88 3y ago
There are state laws that this runs afoul of. https://www.mass.gov/regulations/201-CMR-1700-standards-for-...
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by zelon88 3y ago
They can still accomplish this by loading some resource from meta servers. They don't need the cookie at all. They could do it with a .png icon if they wanted to.
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by zelon88 3y ago
They are safer overall because if you don't choose one, you are at a disadvantage. There is no risk to owning a larger vehicle. Conversely there is a risk with owning a smaller vehicle. When designing a vehicle for safety it is the pri
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by zelon88 3y ago
> While bigger batteries allow drivers to travel farther between charges, they also make the cars heavier, more dangerous, more expensive, and worse for the planet. Bigger vehicles in general are safer than smaller vehicles. If you are i
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by zelon88 3y ago
I liked this post, although I didn't quite agree with all of it. I find that the explore/exploit model is a variation of what I tend to do automatically. I've discovered that I live in phases. I will go 6 months of playing a
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by zelon88 3y ago
How do you tell the program what belongs where? How does the OS know that the application is reading a file full of configuration entries that should be in the registry? What is the difference between reading a file full of data and reading
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by zelon88 3y ago
See, I disagree with that. The computer is an arbitrary command execution machine. It does what you tell it to do. Don't tell the computer to do stupid shit and it won't. There are plenty of valid use cases where you want to use t
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by zelon88 3y ago
"AppData" is where user specific application data is supposed to be stored. "The Registry" is where application configuration is supposed to be stored. "ProgramData" is where application specific data is suppos
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by zelon88 3y ago
I think it's notable that when the copyright holder is a business there is rarely any questioning that the copyright holder is king. But when the copyright holder is an individual or an artist, then it practically becomes a challenge f
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by zelon88 3y ago
If Google did this there would be no more extensions on Chrome store because they'd have to remove them all.
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by zelon88 3y ago
So where a union is the concentrated collectivization of labor and talent, capitalization is the dissolution of concentrated collectivization of labor and talent. I like it. It adequately puts goal posts at either end, and illustrates succi
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by zelon88 3y ago
How can you have an article about battery combustion without talking about the chemistry? A gasoline fire is a well understood event. Gas ignites and burns until there is no more fuel, or no more air. We know to extinguish this type of fire
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by zelon88 3y ago
lol, you think sending TCP packets of your 25mb PDF to Google, so they can send it back, so you can send it to Google again in an email attachment, so they can send it to another Google server to another Google user, so that user can downlo
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by zelon88 3y ago
Probably a Flipper Zero. I saw someone do this with one recently. Even before that, I wanted one. It is a pocket sized software defined radio for sub-gigzhertz signals. It can record and play back RF signals. https://flipperzero.
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by zelon88 3y ago
I saw the authors credentials and I do respect them a lot. But to be fair, I'm sure the person who wrote the Go manual could have written the same blog post with the same outlook for the future only with Go in place of Rust. I'm t
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by zelon88 3y ago
I don't think the government's goal in improving memory safety is because of Rust or any other particular technology. The government buys technology from wherever, and until recently they never really cared where they got it from.
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by zelon88 3y ago
All the non-techie users will finally understand how the subscription based, cloud everything, you don't actually own anything model actually hurts them, and scares them into making more intelligent buying decisions.
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by zelon88 3y ago
So you have 10 scripts on your page, and you put them in 5 different hosts. What does the waterfall on that look like? You're probably talking about a web app that transfers 2.6mb to the user who only wants to read 78 bytes of text. An
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by zelon88 3y ago
Limiting their reach to who? You either already know who W3C is and you care, or you don't know, don't need to know, and don't care. And most people smart enough to know what the W3C is are also smart enough to know that anti
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by zelon88 3y ago
And if the manufacturer could have justified the additional $3mln in cost besides "vendor lock in" maybe they wouldn't have to break the law to keep customers coming back.
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by zelon88 3y ago
So all Google has to do is spam US government websites with scrapers reporting Chrome UA and Firefox is done for?
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by zelon88 3y ago
Whenever I think of X or Wayland it always makes me think of what the Windows code must be like. What secret monolithic struggles have the Windows devs secretly been fighting with for the past 30 years that nobody will ever appreciate?
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by zelon88 3y ago
I disagree. One scenario has a human being taking advantage of another human being. One person harming another person covertly. This doesn't give the victim the opportunity to fully understand their situation. This is pure manipulation

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