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old.reddit.com 3y ago

OOP Wonders If He's a Scumbag for Automating His Job

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www.eff.org 4y ago

EFF: Security and privacy tips people seeking abortion

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www.tomshardware.com 4y ago

Quantum Chip Brings 9k Years of Compute Down to Microseconds

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medium.com 4y ago

Why I left Amazon (PIP?)

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old.reddit.com 4y ago

MRI disables every iOS device in the facility

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Flutter on Windows

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old.reddit.com 4y ago

My (terrible) experience as a new grad working for [Amazon]

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 4y ago

VPN provider bans BitTorrent after getting sued by film studios

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old.reddit.com 4y ago

Linus Tech Tips “Pirating” OCCT – Answer from the Dev

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Therac-25

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets (2021)

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www.thedrive.com 4y ago

BMW Is Planning to Sell Heated Seats and More as a Subscription (No, Really)

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www.npr.org 4y ago

Ukraine is hit by a cyberattack that targeted government websites

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certitude.consulting 4y ago

Ransomware Actor May Have Leaked Their Previous Victims

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 4y ago

(captcha) Microsoft Skype challenge: Can you solve this puzzle 10 times?

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blog.pompur.in 4y ago

“We do not maintain databases”

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cybergeeks.tech 4y ago

Analysis of new malware used by APT28/SOFACY [FANCY BEAR/GRIZZLY STEPPE]

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firzen.de 4y ago

Building a POC for CVE-2021-40438

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www.biospace.com 4y ago

FDA Approves First Human Trial for Potential CRISPR-Led HIV Cure

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Do Chairs Exist?

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Someone Dead Ruined My Life Again. (CGP Grey)

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github.com 4y ago

Cease and Desist of Facebook and Instagram – Barinsta

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www.nasa.gov 5y ago

Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

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www.itnews.com.au 5y ago

'No legitimate reason' for everyday public use of encrypted platforms

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 5y ago

Engineer reports data leak to nonprofit, hears from the police

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 5y ago

Resentful employee deletes 1,200 Microsoft Office 365 accounts, gets prison

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www.eruditorumpress.com 5y ago

Beigeness, or How to Kill People with Bad Writing: The Scott Alexander Method

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 5y ago

CEO of Sky Global encrypted chat platform indicted by US

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 5y ago

Babyk Ransomware won't hit charities, unless they support LGBT, BLM

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

Google, Facebook reportedly agreed to work together to fight antitrust probes

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We shouldn't be the least bit surprised no human has complied so far.

If they had, then we wouldn't be having this conversation. For all we know, there may be a vast multiverse of universes some with humans and we would only find ourselves having this conversation in one of the universes where no human pressed the button.

Speaking of vibe coding in archaic languages

Well, I think we can say C is archaic when most developers write in something that for one isn't C, two isn't a language itself written in C, or three isn't running on something written in C :)

The OG ChatGPT released less than three years ago. Prior to that, 20 lines of code would seem wild. Does anyone remember leetcode?

Reading comprehension is shocking, not just in you but most people here. The post just said "can cause a grant to be pulled". That's entirely consistent with this list being a screening filter and somebody will look at what the grant/application is actually for.

Both the post and the comment you are replying to used the term "flagged". Best I can tell, they aren't claiming what you seem to think they are claiming.

we expect, with Popper, that all our best theories of fundamental physics are going to be superseded eventually

This inductive case against scientific knowledge should only serve to decrease our second-order credence in the proposition that we have assigned the highest credence to the scientific hypotheses that most closely correspond with reality. It does nothing to change the fact that, conditional on evidence we currently have, we may very well have correctly proportioned credence.

I wonder if having some intrinsic randomness to the AI model would help to mitigate this problem?

This would result in identical performances resulting in different scores with the difference being artificially arbitrary.

Reddit, like Twitter, isn't going anywhere. It's just a worse value for the end user, and in Reddit's case the business is potentially better off for it, users be damned.

Typically antitrust laws apply to a company using a monopoly in one industry to behave anti-competitively in another. Unity is behaving terribly, but they aren't a monopoly, and this isn't really even anti-competitive, it's just shitty. There's a greater case that they aren't properly representing the fiduciary interests of their shareholders.

A few years back, I came down with the flu and went to CVS for medicine. I purchased what I thought was a non-prescription alternative to Tamiflu. It was a bad case, and I dutifully followed the dosing instructions and took the medication throughout the whole illness. It turns out the product and the supposed function is complete homeopathic nonsense. It was sold in a medicine isle along with known "functional" cold medicine, and had some "Active Ingredient" listed on the back (similar to any other drug label.)

I spent my money on a product sold by a pharmacy that is quite literally a scam. I'm naturally a skeptical person, but I didn't think I needed to independently check whether what's on a pharmacy store's shelves is medicine or a scam. That's not my lane, I trusted that the pharmacy would only sell medicine that works.

That looks promising; what sorts of things can you do with the board? What would one like to do with the board?

I think its deeper than that. Its not an oil company issue.

Its not so much they are doing this for profits

Funding a massive climate change denial movement in the US for decades, consequently eating up our limited window of time to make the kinds of societal changes to avoid the worst consequences of climate change is very much an "oil company issue" that is done exclusively for profit.

Except that they're proven to not work

It depends on what the goal posts are for what "work" means. I think sanctions work when their cost offsets some of the benefit received through the "undesired behavior" of the target country. They also "work" when the threat of sanctions causes countries to avoid behaviors that would cause them to become sanctioned.

If the goal posts are that sanctions must destroy a country's warfighting capabilities in order to "work", then yes, they almost never work.