alasarmas

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by alasarmas 6mo ago
It’s Grey’s law: any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
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by alasarmas 11mo ago
I think you’re correct. There is a saying something like: in a crisis, all correlations go to 1. I believe it’s likely one of those things that’s okay most of the time and then, every once in a while, causes extreme and systemic problems. T
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by alasarmas 1y ago
I mean, yes, my assumption is there exists an image / video normalization algorithm that can be followed by hashing the normalized value. There’s a CSAM scanning tool that exists that I believe uses a similar approach
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by alasarmas 1y ago
It has been documented that human image moderators exist and that some have been deeply traumatized by their work. I have zero doubts that the datasets of content and metadata created by human image moderators are being bought and sold, lit
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Show HN: Mini J Interpreter in Rust, vibe coded(fletcher456.github.io)
2 points by alasarmas 1y ago|0 comments
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by alasarmas 1y ago
One major flaw in this approach is the one-way channel (keyboard input) prevents the password manager from knowing if it is supplying credentials to the correct recipient. Phishing attacks are relatively common and users expect a password m
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by alasarmas 1y ago
Tests that you write in order to contribute to a robust test suite are good. Tests that are written to comply with a policy that requires that all components must have a unit test, and that test must be green, could be good. Often, they are
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by alasarmas 1y ago
No, I tried probably ten or fifteen of each type over a 35 year period. There are a bunch of factors, including tube thickness, alloy (I’m sure that when it comes to steel this matters, I think it doesn’t matter with aluminum), and frame ge
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by alasarmas 1y ago
So, this may be different in the UK, but in the US a large majority of travel occurs in private cars, so omnipresence of ALPRs is close to collecting data on everybody and knowing what everybody is doing at all times. One might assume from
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by alasarmas 1y ago
Steel bikes feel “better” and “springier” than aluminum bikes. Objectively, they last longer than aluminum bikes. What exact differences in physical properties or construction leads to this, I couldn’t tell you, but you can pick up an old s
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by alasarmas 2y ago
This isn't 1861, sectionalism isn't strong enough. One part of what's going on here is cities at odds with the countryside, another part is the internet, smartphones, ubiquitous connectivity, filter bubbles. People are physic
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by alasarmas 2y ago
I will guarantee that you came from a rich family, I have plenty of evidence. Your attitude is strongly correlated with the arrogance of generational wealth. Please don’t ask me to cite sources, I know exactly what I’m talking about. If you
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by alasarmas 2y ago
Paragraph 4: That’s the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon, Campen said.
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by alasarmas 2y ago
I remember reading somewhere that, in times long past, if a company name was of the form “Johnson and Sons” (for example), it would be considered fraud to sell that company outside of the named family. I personally think you’re on to someth
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by alasarmas 2y ago
Tree Style Tabs? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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by alasarmas 2y ago
I feel like Bluetooth earbuds are almost in the phase where they will, at the low end of the market, completely displace wired earbuds. At my local Dollar Tree, wired earbuds (and USB-C charging cables) are now available for $1.25. Micro US
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GNU Parallel Citation Notice(git.savannah.gnu.org)
8 points by alasarmas 2y ago|6 comments
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by alasarmas 2y ago
An interesting twist on the “swing states are against the NPVIC” narrative is currently playing out in Nevada. My read of this narrative goes as follows: swing states, including Nevada, will find their importance in Presidential elections d
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by alasarmas 2y ago
The website [0] is a pretty good resource if you want to learn more. My understanding is that the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact was modeled on previous interstate compacts that were used to set up lotteries such as the Powerball
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by alasarmas 2y ago
I think some of the stars for your complex conjugates fell foul of HN formatting: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by alasarmas 2y ago
https://archive.is/61JEi
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by alasarmas 2y ago
You’re right. I can’t edit that comment anymore, but this link should be fixed: https://archive.is/7kHer
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by alasarmas 2y ago
https://archive.is/xVCPL
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by alasarmas 2y ago
https://archive.is/ZBIqo
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by alasarmas 2y ago
https://archive.is/RSaPT
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by alasarmas 3y ago
I hate to get all meta (no I don’t sorry not sorry), but there is 100% a thing where every word that means (a) some important thing and (b) some less important thing ends up being a word that, for the vast majority of people, carries someth
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by alasarmas 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
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by alasarmas 3y ago
Let’s take the perfect paper as an example. This “impossible” paper is the product of Science Done Right. The authors previously registered their hypotheses and methods. The data are collected in the most rigorous fashion. The analyses and
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by alasarmas 3y ago
I remember reading that Singapore does this, but I don’t remember if it supposedly actually works.
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by alasarmas 3y ago
What if that is not Dave’s will, but Dave’s first novel? Or the technical manual to Dave’s computer system, where the onboard help files are just a URL that points to a dead server? Knowledge preservation in the face of disaster is not a po

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