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by biddlesby 6y ago
Is there a list online somewhere of all the crazy shit that can legally happen to you in the US? How long you can be detained for, what data can be extracted from you, and so on? Like if you had a really bad day and the authorities exerci
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by biddlesby 6y ago
It’s amazing what a difference it makes when you just good names and formatting
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Thank you! The article lost me after the reverse shell, but your explanation helped me to understand.
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by biddlesby 6y ago
> Not long after we started exploring the environment we landed our shell in we noticed a new file in the /mysql/tmp directory named ‘greetings.txt’ I interpreted the "new" as meaning that it wasn't there befor
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by biddlesby 6y ago
This strikes me as a bit pessimistic. I think you are mostly against _bad_ standards than standards per se. If the consortium does its job well it will produce a good standard that all the major libraries like: from a UX as well as a perfor
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I see. Thank you for the explanation!
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Yeah, it’s really confusing. Unless I don’t understand the term, it hasn’t been a zero day vulnerability for the past two years...
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by biddlesby 6y ago
All good, just make sure to restart your computer at the next available opportunity
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Completely agree! The article is blinkered to the security aspect. But imagine if compilers didn't create reproducible builds. Debugging would be a nightmare!
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I find the tone of this Twitter post exhausting. He talks as if his work revolutionized the world and Jeff Bezos is a god among men. They made a fairly useful gadget that sold well. Seriously, come back down to earth.
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Totally agree. Having to think about how I need to organise my thoughts as the same time as coming up with the thoughts themselves always seems like a burden!
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I'm inclined to agree. Framing environmentalism as a problem that individuals need to solve isn't going to get us anywhere. It's a problem with the rules of the game, it requires political willpower.
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Just because there's no objectively correct measure, I wouldn't say that means it isn't wrong. There's nothing objective in ethics. In your example of people not caring about their health: the environmental impact of die
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I wouldn't say soya is out. It's about relative impacts: soya has a vastly lower environmental impact than meat.
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I didn't know about RETURNING and enjoyed the post. It's a much nicer way to learn than via a textbook. A blog post doesn't have to be novel to have value. That said, I'm with you on the clickbait title. That really grin
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I wouldn't agree with that. People may have made their choice based on incorrect research or incorrect assumptions: there is value in discussing the latest research. It's like saying discussions about whether cigarettes are good o
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I can sympathise with you on that. The whole of pure mathematics seems to be about making definitions and seeing what weird places and surprising connections you get. This isn't as exciting as seeing how mathematics can describe and pr
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by biddlesby 6y ago
This is a great point. You might take a different approach depending on when you expect your reader to already be proficient in the language or the framework, compared to whether a non-developer might be reading the code. One argument again
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by biddlesby 6y ago
That sounds really interesting - thank you
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by biddlesby 6y ago
To be fair, "the centre of the distribution catching up" is exactly the fear that the article is criticising. The fear isn't that one company is going to make some huge leap in AI - it's more about what happens if that l
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Ever since my undergraduate I've wanted to understand what representation theory is and the rough outline of how Andrew Wile's proof was constructed. This article gave me both in a very understandable and engaging way. Thank you t
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I see this argument a lot: in the "good old days" there was Unix and apt and it was brilliant, now we have hundreds of toolsets and libraries that are flaky and need updating every year. I think what these arguments miss is the up
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Totally agree with you. Given the title I expected to find an interesting article on what can go wrong if we overly rely on quantitative methods in the humanities. But this article doesn't distinguish between badly-applied quantitative
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Yeah, definitely agree. Reading is a much more efficient way to absorb information
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I'm not convinced by your argument that since nothing evil has happened in the last 20 years, we are safe in the future. It's about power dynamics. If you get a consolidation of power, that's going to be open to abuse. Maybe
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I'm not so sure. I think the task is to find a treatment and a point in time where the treatment was considered alternative medicine, was then proven to work, and thereafter was considered medicine. The conclusion then is that there ar
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I would say it was a mistake to introduce the concept of adding fractions from two different "wholes". Instead, teach that in order to add fractions, you first have to get everything into the same "whole". Like, you can
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by biddlesby 6y ago
I would love to do this, but I live in a country where cash isn't a thing. It's explicitly not accepted in most places. How can I spend the same effect if I only have a debit card? I am wondering if two accounts or a currency card
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Reminds me of Douglas Adam's "Crisis Inducer" :)
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by biddlesby 6y ago
Not being facetious, but how do you define progress?

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