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by crote 16d ago
The general population didn't exactly get a choice. AI is forced on us in many apps we were already using, solely because CxOs believe any mention of AI results in Line Goes Up. The population didn't choose for convenience. The
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by crote 16d ago
Nuclear is too slow. Not only are you running fossil plants for decades while you build nuclear reactors, you are also emitting additional CO2 during the construction process! Renewables reduce CO2 emissions today . Building a solar farm
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by crote 16d ago
Correct, but those very same practices are causing huge damages to the local environment and economy, while the farming relies on foreign imports to function and the majority of its production is exported. Rather than exporting farming prod
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by crote 16d ago
I would argue the opposite. There is still enough water, it is just unevenly distributed over the year. Previously winter snow was retained in the Alps and released as it melted during the summer, nowadays winter rain immediately comes down
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by crote 16d ago
It takes very little time for water to reach the sea. From rain falling in Germany or snow melting in the Alps to it entering the North Sea takes less than two weeks. Even at the current extremely low flow the Rhine is still delivering 800
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by crote 16d ago
So why not introduce a semi-shallow clone option? If I'm doing a shallow clone it isn't because I only want to receive a specific commit, it's because I don't want to burn a giant amount of disk space and network tra
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by crote 16d ago
The real world doesn't care about the soundness of your computer science. All that matters is whether it works. It's like saying we should just completely give up on all NP-hard problems because we'll never discover a way
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by crote 16d ago
Yes, but it actually works . As the article mentions: Anubis blocked virtually all bots for a couple of months, and even now it is still blocking 67% of requests. Without Anubis they'd have to double the number of CPU cores, solely
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by crote 16d ago
CPU crypto mining stopped being viable over a decade ago. If you want a client to pay for the infra cost of their request, they're probably going to need to work for hours to do so.
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by crote 16d ago
But the tokens are IP-bound, and as the article mentions a crawler using a single IP is not so difficult to block. A legitimate user solves it once , shows legitimate-use behavior, and retains their access for thousands of requests. A craw
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by crote 17d ago
Isn't "crime, done with the involvement of a firearm" also often more harshly punished than the plain crime itself? If a burglar is targeting empty houses, this would give them a strong incentive to not bring a firearm, jus
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by crote 17d ago
In other words: don't be an idiot and call the cops instead. That's what they are supposed to be for!
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by crote 17d ago
Your example isn't quite as cut-and-dry because in a lot of cases that's going to involve the Castle Doctrine as well, and "starts shooting" means there is an actual danger merely than a perceived potential danger. C
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by crote 17d ago
The obvious answer is to slice up your gun model into a number of sub-parts which individually aren't detected by the algorithm but collectively still form a functioning gun. And there's an unlimited number of ways to slice up a
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by crote 17d ago
Fully 3D-printed guns have awful performance, though. You would likely get significantly better results improvising with the stuff available at literally any random hardware store. Yet, despite that kind of gun being around for centuries
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by crote 18d ago
> the models are staging increasingly aggressive breakouts No, the AI companies merely figured out a way to spin gross negligence into a PR win. Any idiot can build a Murderbot which "goes rogue" - it can be as simple as taping
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by crote 19d ago
It doesn't need to be a traditional file. You can pass it as essentially a read-once file by using stdin. Depending on your desire for modernity, similar behavior can be obtained by leaving a file handle open for the exec-ed process
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by crote 20d ago
Credit card tap-to-pay doesn't have to be slow. The transaction could be done asynchronously, and some payment schemes even explicitly classify transit transactions as impossible-to-fail and will ignore things like overdraft limits.
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by crote 20d ago
It also allows for easy in-transit checking: anyone on the "secure" side of the fare gates must be in possession of a card whose last transaction was a tap-in. There's no chance of a cheeky "it wasn't me who jum
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by crote 20d ago
The original Dutch system used a very similar approach: the card not only stores the balance, but also a history of taps, and information about the travel products. Your travel history is available on a website, but new trips are only sho
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by crote 20d ago
In The Netherlands it is exactly the same, just from a different vendor and with different branding. Of course the "not invented here" mentality resulted in it being woefully insecure when it was introduced in 2014, and NFC tap-to
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by crote 20d ago
IBANs aren't secret, they have the same level of confidentiality as your address or birth date. One-off SEPA Direct Debit is virtually unheard of, recurring payments are a bit more common but usually involve a €0,01 payment to prove ow
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by crote 20d ago
Absolutely not. This is 100% self-inflicted. What we are seeing here is a trillion-dollar company screwing over its existing well-established customer base in a desperate attempt to get some crumbs of the current hype cycle. GitHub isn&#x27
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by crote 20d ago
If events like these are "nearly impossible to predict", how come this post is linking to a scientific paper predicting exactly this scenario ? This flood is like The Big One in California. We know it is going to happen, it is
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by crote 21d ago
Arch doesn't market itself as a newbie-friendly opinionated secure-by-default distro. An Arch package having less-than-ideal default settings is pretty normal: the user is expected to read the manpages and the Arch wiki when making any
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by crote 23d ago
It became unfashionable when the general public realized it was also commonly used to, say, lock up and lobotomize women for wanting to vote, or divorce their husband. Your child is "difficult"? To the asylum it is!
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by crote 23d ago
So how come the weak-on-crime Western European countries are not drowning in homeless drug addicts?
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by crote 23d ago
So how come incarceration in Asia is orders of magnitude lower than in the US?
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by crote 23d ago
The biggest drug dealers are legitimate doctors. You can't solve the problem without first adressing the pipeline to addiction. Want to get rid of drug addicts? Start by banning all pharma ads and stopping over-prescription.
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by crote 23d ago
Can we start with the drug-using tech billionaires?

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