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by SolarNet 3y ago
I suspect they were aware of it. They didn't rely on it to block bad actors like bots or spammers or ddos-ers, they relied on it to block actors who were at some level implied to follow the social contract of how the internet works (e.
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by SolarNet 3y ago
Depends how it's backed, how static it is, and so on. The lisp runtime may fit in 20 MB, but not every language's runtime is so compressible. It may be smaller if one used something like C#/.NET where it's reasonable to
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by SolarNet 3y ago
> I don't think that's even a little bit true. Not even a little bit? The comparisons here are quite stark. Russia's shadow government can just murder important people with no repercussions, they can jail whoever they want
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by SolarNet 4y ago
I think the interesting question is how they will "compare". If they compare favorably to that key learning, as "this kind of thing, but a better iteration on it" it won't much matter the quantity. As the article po
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by SolarNet 4y ago
Obviously why it's only in the third ring. The fourth ring or fifth ring is where it starts getting interesting.
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by SolarNet 4y ago
I think you missed the actual answer. There is a near future sci-fi book called Rainbows End written by a computer science professor 15 years ago (and that predicted a lot of stuff, like... cryptocurrency) that has an answer for this. What
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by SolarNet 4y ago
I mean to be clear up front she very much did do a crime, she is not a white hat hacker, however. > Here is something that doesn't feel right. I totally agree, it's a strong indicator of an oligarchy. Same as Chevron basically
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by SolarNet 4y ago
I do this exact same thing on linux without any issues. I use a presetup desktop environment, it's fine. If I used arch or some other power user linux, I suspect I would have to jump through quite a few hoops to get this experience set
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by SolarNet 4y ago
Except that things are weird in a kernel, one cannot guarantee that language behavior is enforceable. Even with a RAII/drop style solution there is a possibility that kernel weirdness will prevent it from running correctly. The issue w
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by SolarNet 4y ago
A good comparison is probably video cards as I understand it.
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by SolarNet 5y ago
I mean you have a good point. Which is why people should be afforded a basic income and guaranteed housing, so they can't be exploited like this.
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by SolarNet 5y ago
I think you are listening to the wrong futurists then.
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by SolarNet 5y ago
Yes but if said book was used in the commission of a crime there is a certain level where it doesn't matter. Don't plug shit into private networks unless you want it reverse engineered. This falls under the fair use exceptions (le
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by SolarNet 5y ago
> Like, for example, evidence that the author actually takes security issues seriously and has a formal way to announce them. Personally I think there is a business model in there. "Curated" code releases/versions by a tru
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by SolarNet 5y ago
Not only that, it seems to actually have. All the developers started saying things like this: > I also did not test the libquadmath portion. ENOTIME. > I don't have much time, but With every statement they added. It's actua
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by SolarNet 5y ago
I feel like that was the point the author was making: > Obra Dinn achieves this by the simplest mechanism
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by SolarNet 5y ago
I mean they had 10,000 users and 800 arrests. That's an 8% criminality rate, it seems like they didn't entrap anyone who wasn't committing crimes anyway. Entrapment is about trapping people in a situation where committing cri
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by SolarNet 5y ago
I think it was seen as a success since it was the event that turned the war around and led to the eventual victory of the Allies. Sort of a vacuously true type of success, the operation might have failed to meet most of it's objectives
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by SolarNet 5y ago
If the person copied it from a legitimate version of windows that they originally bought, couldn't one then argue that they did have a license that they then violated? I guess the point I am making is that I don't think that line
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by SolarNet 5y ago
> i find it amazing how much tolerance is expressed when authoritarian rule is passed "for the kids sake". > Are people really that ready to accept dictate over their and their kids behaviour in the name of moral and health?
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by SolarNet 5y ago
> This discipline doesn't exist in C++. And this is where the argument breaks down for me. The C++ vector class can be just as safe if people are disciplined. And as you even described, people in rust can write "unsafe"
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by SolarNet 5y ago
> As mentioned in the article
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by SolarNet 5y ago
The modern standard library, plus some helpers is the big part of it. Compiler warnings as errors are very good at capturing bad situations if you follow the rules (e.g. don't allow people to just make raw pointers, follow a rule of 5)
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by SolarNet 5y ago
They do use them, but only in a narrow fashion. A lot of people have tried to make default kernel wide static analyzers but they are mostly not useful. And it's because the kernel does a lot of non-standard things, mostly because it ha
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by SolarNet 5y ago
> If ten years from now people are writing unsafe C and C++ like it's still somehow OK, that would be crazy. I mean to be clear, modern C++ can be effectively as safe as rust is. It requires some discipline and code review, but I ca
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by SolarNet 5y ago
Except of course, the GPL is why linux remains so popular. A linux killer cannot be a linux killer unless it is GPL or similar. Or else BSD would have over taken linux a long time ago.
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by SolarNet 5y ago
I mean it's pretty classic trick to mix in real stuff with fake stuff. This video was probably really, but one of the videos in question is apparently fake.
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by SolarNet 5y ago
This so much. To say nothing of the fact there is a risk of another AI winter when NN/ML continues to not produce (the promised) results.
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by SolarNet 5y ago
Because it will cost the taxpayer more?
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by SolarNet 5y ago
Independent of the thesis of the article, which is obviously terrible, it does get much better very quickly. The "gather resources yourself" stage is like the first 5 minutes of the game, more so to force people to automate; I act

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