UweSchmidt

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by UweSchmidt 2mo ago
It's usually not possible to prove that something was put in deliberately and maliciously, so that puts the bar very high. We know it for sure in some of the supply chain attacks, and should assume that other kinds of bugs are being in
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by UweSchmidt 2mo ago
Maybe it's time to take a closer look at reality and correct this meme, which might casually blur the issue and deflect responsibility? Looking at the IT security landscape we see every layer, every product category if not every produc
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by UweSchmidt 6mo ago
It doesn't look like they put AI into vim like Microsoft into Notepad. Someone used an outside AI to code something with vimscript, what do you expect? I'll be worried if they mess with even the smallest bit of established muscle
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by UweSchmidt 1y ago
Even more important would be the purple hyperlinks (or any other distinct style) for those links that you've already visited.
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by UweSchmidt 1y ago
That's just a basic financial credit score, and you can easily rent without one (even though some financial accountability is probably reasonable to balance the strong renter protection laws here). What's so nefarious about it?
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by UweSchmidt 1y ago
My AI suggests a few existing algorithms to tackle the problem of comparing two sound curves - maybe this one is not too hard? I'll check out that app when it's ready, good luck!
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by UweSchmidt 1y ago
Accuracy indicators for rushing and dragging are very useful, but equally interesting would be an indicator that checks for a consistent peaks, so every note is played with equal volume. A dream would be if your app can detect differences i
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
Ah, the good old Internet Libertarian. If only free and enlightened individuals could, through their choices in a market in which everything is allowed, spawn such a diverse set of solutions, or allow true self-help, that every need is met.
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
My mental model of a browser is the same as of any tool, as a hammer, purely defined by its technical capabilities to do a job, like to display a website and offer basic functionality like for saving a bookmark. The very idea of an entity c
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
I think in general, no major liability issue will come up: - if everyone is doing it, you can't really fault anyone - on some level we are, or will be, kinda dependent on that AI and opting out will probably be made unpleasant via dark
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
My comment has not suggested that there were no legitimate cases for using more memory. It's too easy, and happening too often on HN these days, to reply with a low-effort contrarian statement without engaging with the central point of
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
While we're bashing economics, something I truly miss is that no new high level economic systems are being discussed prominently. As important as fusion in physics or cancer treatment in medicine, we badly need to explore and discuss s
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
Is that generally how unused memory is used, and will this kind of "cache" be released if another application truly needs it to load actually vital things?
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
"unused memory is wasted memory" is a meme, technically true from a narrow point of view, but leading to bloat and encouraging bad practices. A little bit of care could shave off orders of magnitude of memory use, as well as perfo
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
As usual it comes down to the increasing individualism, that rejects any overarching societal guidance in favour of judgement-free self-expression ("body positivity"). This removes any collective bargaining or collective action (s
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
It appears that sentiments that downplay or dispute the health risks are growing in large social media bubbles, with strong effects on the real world. Efforts to push back on serving unhealthy food are undermined, doctors discouraged from d
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
Open source is not a gift economy, and is in fact a different, and long established social contract. Never has this misplaced metaphor been used to describe open source, nor do the contributers demand any return that amounts to an "ent
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
Is it though? Microsoft .NET has telemetry that you always have to opt out always. Dark patterns like this setting not sticking but being overridden after an update, and of course the shell command that you kinda have to google each time, w
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
Let's do a less science then, but rigorous and throrough. Or find more funding. But surely let's have a "hard-line stance" on not drowning in BS?
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
If you get an answer outside of what you expected, reevaluate your approach, fix your study and redo it all, probably with a new set of participants. If you can't do science, don't call it science.
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
You used to find amazing information on the internet back then. It is quite likely that someone else had already worked on a similar topic and blogged about it in a very searchable way. Without good search that kind of online culture died o
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
You appear to be in favour of said Guild trying to change the cultural expectation for more copyrights, now extending to human movement . Needless to say this evokes the image of corporations like Disney ending up with those copyrights a
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
"Throwing the baby out with the bathwater" means trying too hard to do something good but accidently overdoing it!? Just to make sure we're not accidentally giving Google a break, Google+ ended in 2019, if they cared for sear
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
When I learned about Rails a long time ago I thought the idea of MVC, scaffolding, creating the database, code and frontend that works, i.e. a basic application was genius, but hasn't quite caught on it seems. Communities for RoR or Mi
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
What's overlooked is that today's workforce is not ruled by a cadre of hardcore company people any more. Work from home is generally enjoyed on every level of the hierarchy. Likewise, even your boss's boss will have a family
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
All right, there are certainly other major forces affecting western societies and various scenarios could play out in the future. Let's put our weight behind the movements that would lead to some positive outcomes...
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
I do see it happening naturally; the very idea that an UBI idea is floating around is a product of the wealth and automation we enjoy. It's a realization that sets in on a broad front, from bullshit jobs, to new generations of products
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
Everything you say may be true, but is orthogonal. I do think social benefits are expanding in the USA also, more and more people find it viable to be a NEET. The wealth gap will surely widen; this implicit UBI is certainly not communism in
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." There won't be the big UBI day, where we make the big switch globally. It's a creeping expansion of social benefits and transfer payments and an easin
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by UweSchmidt 2y ago
Interesting point about the GDPR; I will soften my point to mean that lawmakers have started (late) to regulate data retention / deletion and the rights of users in general and that might be a trend for the future. However I would like

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