BurnGpuBurn

1) The search function has disappeared from the home page.

2) When clicking "details" on one of the search results, and then the back button, the search results disappear.

3) Other than that, thanks man great service!

Would they ever give the thing back though?

Reuters could not independently verify EGodly's boasts of cybercriminal activity

Funny story.

I started a new job in 2017 rewriting a rather large website with tons of functionality. The old one had to be replaced because it wasn't maintained and started to become a security issue.

I started doing JS and React/Redux for that job, and just as I was getting the hang of it React broke all my knowledge by coming up with "the modern way of writing React components", hooks. In my opinion there was absolutely nothing wrong with the old way of writing components. I never rewrote my now more than year old project, kept using the normal way of writing React components, which was still allowed. Two years later the depreciation messages started flashing by in the build process, and I was looking at a moutain of work having to refactor the complete front end.

Luckily I was able to move on to other things. But React always left the taste in my mouth of "don't, it auto-breaks after time".

I recently visited this old employer, and they have now hired a new coder to rebuild the old website, which is becoming a security issue.

Well excuse me for being extremely disingenuous then. But the no harm argument is arguable incorrect, I myself might get a heart attack some day because of a dark pattern given how infuriating those things can be.

They might be too common to be interesting, but if we can't call them out they will never stop. And the fact that people still do this ridicilous stuff is newsworthy of it's own don't you think?

Yes, although you will not find a climate scientist that will admit to having used a model that was clearly wrong. They just silently update the model and hope you don't ask. And if you ask, nope, they will not hand over their model. But trust me bro, the models are correct.

The placement of the traffic lights behind the intersection, and not in front of it, is just hilariously incompetent.

Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon has become much more popular than I am. Elon also owns an internet social platform. Elon has removed most of the censorship from his platform. Maybe if I do the same I will be popular again too?"

There is a numpad, quite nice. Ctrl key to bottom right.

From the article: "To date, ESET has found no evidence of actual infections in the wild." It was uploaded to some service though.

Thank you for your explanation of what else could've been found with the LHC and that a lot of work was actually done to disprove the existence of a lot of stuff.

Kinda kills my thought experiment though, but I guess that's the point. Thanks.

You're quite wrong in your guess but that's ok. I work in a research lab actually, and there's lots of experimental physics going on here.

I never claimed people are choosing a career in physics research for the money, I just used the argument of having to choose to lose ones income. Also, I can't help but notice though that, when ascended high enough on the academic ladder, the income isn't a joke either.

Oh I like this argument a lot, thanks.

Yes? Wouldn't that mean that "the party" is over, just write a single paper and you can shut down and dismantle the machine you've just finished building?

I just said I loved the thought experiment. There's multiple ways to see the flaws in it. Like: how would that large group of scientists (be it at NASA or CERN) keep such a fraud a secret for such a long time? In NASA's case there'd be a lot of people coming clean on their death beds, which hasn't happened of course.

I always loved the following thought experiment:

Lets' assume the Higgs boson doesn't exist. A large group of scientists has spent 10 billion dollars of public tax payer money to create an experiment that will prove it's existence. It cost them many years to do, decades, and most scientists have staked their entire career on the outcome of the experiment. Turns out, they were wrong, and the particle doesn't exist.

Those scientists now have two options: 1) Being thruthful about the non-discovery, thereby suiciding their own careers (and income!), evoking the wrath of the taxpayer, and basically becoming the laughing stock of the scientific community. 2) Just make some shit up for a while and go on and enjoy your pension which is only a couple of years away.

What would you do?

The photo caption reads: "An interior photo of a rectangular glass device attached to a building's window, with cables going between it and the ceiling."

But it is clearly an AI-generated image. Look at the reflection of the lamp in the window, it overlaps the window frame.

Is this now the norm, AI-generated images pawned off as begin real? Good lord...

Correction, LinkedIn SAYS the're not using the data of European users to train their AI.

Who will ever know if they do or not...

Paywalled

Link without description or anything, nice. After reading the website for 30 seconds, my question would be: What is RabbitMQ?

Today I learned:

SELECT 1 / 0 AS var_name;

yields a double with value infinite. Which is SQL spec. Must be fun times to actually use that :-)

I cannot fathom a world where this could happen without there being an enormous amount of fraud and corruption going on.

I disagree. MS was completely succesfull in their goals. They kept a ton of developers busy learing useless Xamarin, thus keeping them from developing products that can actually compete with Microsoft products.

Next they killed of an open source competitor (Mono) of their product, stole the usefull bits to put it in .Net, and now they dump the leftover project (that's not competing with them anymore) back into the OS world.

How is that not a smart way of doing business?

The right time for a nuanced discussion of the material published by Wikileaks was actually before the US/UK imprisoned this innocent-until-proven-guilty individual, not after putting him in soletary confinement for 5+ years. So no, not surprised. If there's need for a nuanced discussion, a course of action like this will never be the way to go about it. The time for a nuanced discussion has been over for more than ten years, and the argument was lost by the people who incarcerated him.

Well, a cheap laptop lets me check my mail and write a document. Which I can also do on an expensive laptop. A cheap car gets me from a to b. An expensive car too.

But seriously, that's not a car. I own a Toyota IQ. Very small, but still a car. That's not a car, that's a toy. Not comparable to the cheap laptop, more comparable to a Nintendo DS or something similar. It works, but it won't let you email. Just like that "car" won't let you drive for a couple of hours on the highway without feeling you might die every moment.

Seeing is believing, probably gonna const 35k anyways when it eventually comes to market.

Serverless != serverless

You use a lot of servers, you just call them resources. Your S3 storage is a server, your background workers run on a server, and your postgress, well, it doesn't run on a bike.

I hate this confabulating stuff. It's like people believing "the cloud" is an actual cloud. Couldn't we just leave this stuff to the marketing people?

Sorry, but a Renault AMI is not a car, it's more like a toy. Wouldn't want to go on the high way with that...

Off topic, those prices omg, how the hell are we going to get to zero without 95% of the population just being too poor to own a car? No matter how great the tech is, this is one of those rare occasions where the price of advanced new tech goes up with time. I've been able to buy a new 150 euro laptop for decades now at about 10% the price of a decent one. Why isn't this happening with electric vehicles?