TallGuyShort

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by TallGuyShort 8d ago
"The “threat model” section of a security paper resembles the script for a telenovela that was written by a paranoid schizophrenic: there are elaborate narratives and grand conspiracy theories, and there are heroes and villains with fa
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by TallGuyShort 15d ago
For every Tweet that goes out on the company account and every blog on the company blog. But that's not what we're talking about here - we're talking about vague sources like low-impact social media snippets getting cited on
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by TallGuyShort 15d ago
> Apple does not have a psyops division No, but they have marketing people, and marketing people in my experience (even in "big" corporate America) have personal (anonymized, but just created themselves) accounts they do stuff
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by TallGuyShort 21d ago
I often chuckle at the observation that Tim Curry and Michael Caine's respective roles in the Muppet films were so beloved because Michael Caine acted like all the muppets were real actors, and Tim Curry acted like he was a muppet. He
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by TallGuyShort 3mo ago
Yes, and that's not what people are reporting flaws in. The reports are "this daemon accepts arbitrary code and then runs it!"
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by TallGuyShort 3mo ago
This is common in the hype era of AI models that can look for security bugs. An open-source project I used to work on that is basically "distributed code execution as a service" keeps getting reports that the job submission functi
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by TallGuyShort 3mo ago
Okay but why did this chip have anything to do with that?
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by TallGuyShort 3mo ago
I really can't see where the 0.7nm is coming from. The white line looks like it's just an edge of a feature that is "15 rows of silicon atoms", which by some quick arithmetic on Wolfram Alpha has to be AT LEAST ~1.6nm, a
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by TallGuyShort 3mo ago
1 picometer = 0.001 nanometers, 0.01 angstrom 1 angstrom = 0.1 nanometers, 100 picometers 1 nanometer = 10 angstroms, 1000 picometers
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by TallGuyShort 3mo ago
I always feel like I'm not quite getting quantum stuff no matter how much I read and learn: what does this advancement have to do with quantum computers?
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by TallGuyShort 3mo ago
I disagree - there's already a reproducibility crises in the literature of many fields. And medical adjacent-field like nutrition science are among the worst. I think the trends in our culture of people going against medical profession
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by TallGuyShort 3mo ago
I was having a conversation with someone about AI taking over medical jobs the other day, and one of the things that came out of my thoughts about it is related: It obviously has flaws, and we should never stop trying to improve it, but I t
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by TallGuyShort 3mo ago
"Use your brain before you use mine"
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by TallGuyShort 4mo ago
$ login -n root Login incorrect login: backdoor No home directory specified in password file! Logging in with home=/ # I don't agree with the interpretation that Sam tried and failed to login as root,
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by TallGuyShort 4mo ago
I used FreeBSD on a laptop 2008-2010 and it was usable, other than needing a USB Wifi adapter. Definitely not as usable as Linux, but I was able to do 18 credit hours per semester. Quite a lot more than 10 minutes a day. Notably, you and I
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by TallGuyShort 4mo ago
That gets extremely complicated. My town straddles the border between 2 counties. And you can't trivially have subdomains for counties and cities at the same level, because Wyoming has a Laramie city but it's in Albany County, not
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by TallGuyShort 4mo ago
Sorry, what is AD in this context? edit: oh, automatic differentiation?
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by TallGuyShort 4mo ago
The morality of it aside, Palantir is probably a much safer investment bet than most others in the AI space. They're older and more established than a new startup picking up the steepness of the hype curve with a half-baked idea, but t
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by TallGuyShort 4mo ago
Actually every time I've seen something like what I've described above it pre-dated that person's current employment.
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by TallGuyShort 4mo ago
> What I find strange about this is that in 2020 nobody would be this openly cynical and selfish about, say, good Python idioms, a useful emacs configuration, git shortcuts, etc. I definitely saw people have concerns about vimrc files an
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by TallGuyShort 4mo ago
I tend to agree with you - a rising tide lifts all boats and I want my team to be a rising tide. If I'm at a startup and I'm confident my tool is a good fit for what the rest of the team is doing and there's a genuine teamw
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by TallGuyShort 5mo ago
I used a state (Colorado) healthcare marketplace website when I was going to take a break between jobs for a couple of months, and I feel very violated by the whole process. I entered a bunch of information to the website, knowing that the
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by TallGuyShort 5mo ago
I can honestly say one of my most productive moments ever was when a design came to me in a dream... And who among us hasn't figured out a bug in the shower after taking a break? Getting good sleep is essential to actually being produc
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by TallGuyShort 5mo ago
Too many people think they know better. You're not allowed to think you know better unless you're able to put yourself in the position to be the one to write the directions. You know how many conversations I have with people who a
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by TallGuyShort 6mo ago
Some of the comments are unnecessary, but things like this: > wiping $40B and several people's life savings Okay, you shouldn't dump your life savings into a cryptocurrency that claims to be doing innovative things in the first
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by TallGuyShort 6mo ago
He might be, but this sounds suspiciously like "Trump is playing 4D chess and trolling the media - he would never actually do the dumb thing he just suggested he was about to do."
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by TallGuyShort 6mo ago
> Obviously smarter people than I disagree, but my dumdum head just feels that way. That's absolutely not it. What you're describing is part of the UNIX philosophy: programs should do one thing and do it well, and they should f
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by TallGuyShort 6mo ago
So yes, there was an informant who was cited as the reason for the warrant, but the credibility is questionable. The informant referenced a basement that county records would show should not have existed - presumably the SWAT-like team doin
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by TallGuyShort 6mo ago
If the police possessed the self-control and critical thinking to not drag this whole thing into a lawsuit, I think the raid would likely have never happened in the first place.
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by TallGuyShort 6mo ago
The department would actually prefer that to a scenario where someone is left alive to sue them for raiding 86 1st St when the unreliable informant said 96.

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