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Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it's not useful. I've already seen posts online that were able to be proven as falsified because someone ran the images through Google for SynthID checks.

How old is photoshop and why is it exempt?

For one, it's not developed by Google or OpenAI. The barrier to entry to making realistic but deceptive images with Photoshop is far higher than with AI, and there are already techniques that can, imperfectly, be used to detect the use of traditional image editing.

SiFive sent out an email on about the 32GB boards:

The Grinch struck a little early this year. While the 16GB HIFive Premier P550 boards are in stock at Arrow.com and available now we were so excited to tell you the news we pushed the send button too soon. If you tried to order a 32GB board after yesterday's announcement our distributor is not quite ready. Our sincerest apologies to any of you who experienced difficulties and for multiple emails. We expect this problem to be solved in the next few days and we will send an update as soon as the 32GB boards are available. Thank you for your patience.

If anything, I feel it's the other way around for Mutt. I've been using Mutt for at least 10 years using local mail storage almost exclusively that entire time, and I've never found it to be cumbersome. I tried IMAP at one point, and I was not a fan.

I can see maybe 1 year or 2 years working for a direct competitor, but 10!

But even that can easily be unreasonable on its own. For example, think of people working at places like Google, Unilever or some other large entity with its hands it every industry you can imagine because just about everyone is their direct competitor in some industry or another.

Is not possible the attacker simply took over the account of some one genuinely getting involved in the community either hacked or just with $5 wrench and then committed the malicious code ?

Given the behavior of the accounts that applied pressure on the original xz maintainer, this seems unlikely to me.

I use Mutt almost exclusively, but I still use the Gmail web interface to write emails from time to time for this very reason. If you want to send emails verbatim, you can use Mutt's bounce feature, but that can confuse the recipient since bouncing leaves the original headers in-tact, including the "Date" header which means the email might not appear at the top of the user's inbox.

No_color 3 years ago

It's a common standard for UNIX environment variables to be treated this way, and it greatly simplifies the logic needed to handle the value. Here's how this can be simply implemented in Python:

    if os.environ.get("NO_COLORS"): ...
In POSIX shell:
    if [ "$NO_COLORS" ]; ...
or, when nounset is used:
    if [ "${NO_COLORS:-}" ]; ...
Adding sentinel values when you only need a true/false indicator just complicates things.

I have to agree. I use non-copyleft licenses because I don't expect people using the code to give me anything in return. Removing your the header and attribution is wrong, but not collaborating? As was said in other comments, if that's what you want, dictate it in your license because there are plenty of -- and dare I so most -- people that use the MIT license that don't care.

I've read they're taken very seriously in some places like Germany and Japan, but in my experience, a lot of people in the USA won't bother reporting noise violations because they know the chances of them being enforced and/or investigated in a timely manner is low.

The base system of NetBSD can be built reproducibly since its 8.0 release! It can be enabled in mk.conf when building NetBSD for instance.

The man page for mk.conf says the option, MKREPRO, defaults to "no", and I'm curious why that's default if the base system supports it.

The keybindings are really the unique selling point of Vim, and you can get them anywhere.

This is going to vary heavily from user to user. I'll admit it's been some years since I last tried anything new, but I never found Vim keybindings that were complete and configurable enough to comfortably replace Vim. It's always more like a UI uncanny valley in that the keybindings are relatively close, but imperfect enough that they interfere with my typical workflow.

Dear Chess World 4 years ago

At least pre-pandemic, that would be hard to do at the last stage (on-sites). You're generally in a room with one or more people and often whiteboarding rather than using a laptop. In the stages leading up to on-sites, in many cases, you're actually allowed to use reference materials like the official documentation -- which might contain examples -- because the interviewers don't necessarily expect you to have the entire standard library of the language you're using memorized. I've certainly Googled stuff during remote interviews myself, but I disclose that I'm doing that and explain what I'm searching for.