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by dylanfw 10mo ago
To avoid spoiling a 30 year old movie: ROT13 `Gur Hfhny Fhfcrpgf`
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by dylanfw 11mo ago
> his employees (also non-US and under no affirmative obligation to learn the laws of every country in the world just because they run a website) Employees of financial businesses are absolutely obligated to learn the laws of every count
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by dylanfw 1y ago
The "surprise" is not that the agent can respond with private repository details, it's that it can receive and act upon prompts issued by someone other than the person running the agent, hence "prompt _injection_".
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by dylanfw 2y ago
I think OP is commenting more so on the reversal of the developer’s relationship with rules of syntax than their personal capabilities.
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by dylanfw 2y ago
What on earth are you talking about Saul Kripke and modal logic being some kind of cultural studies tool for “unmooring people from the authority of math”? And your lumping of Wagner, Marx, and Nietszche with Hubbard and Osho as “inventors
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by dylanfw 5y ago
I was curious as well and found this video explanation[1]. The idea is that tapping on the back of the controller pushes it up into the player’s thumb which is resting on the D-pad causing a button press. [1] https://youtu.be&#x2
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by dylanfw 5y ago
I think we might be due for an update to Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment: "Every program attempts to expand until it can process _payments_. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
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by dylanfw 6y ago
You might enjoy "Chess960" (or Fischer Random Chess): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess The order of the back-rank pieces is randomized (but identical for both players).
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Postscript on the Societies of Control(theanarchistlibrary.org)
1 points by dylanfw 6y ago|0 comments
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by dylanfw 7y ago
Change that `except Exception:` to just a bare `except:` to catch KeyboardInterrupts as well and prevent Ctrl+C from killing any of them while it expands.
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by dylanfw 7y ago
This reminds me of a passage in "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter discussing the Golden Record[1]. """ [C]onsider a meteorite which, instead of deciphering the outer-space Bach record, punctures it with co
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by dylanfw 7y ago
Thank you! That makes complete sense when I consider the 4 color example of a world map. I didn't even consider that most graphs would have "overlapping borders" on such a map. An extra thank you for apparently creating a new
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by dylanfw 7y ago
Thank you! That makes complete sense when I consider the 4 color example of a world map. I didn't even consider that most graphs would have "overlapping borders" on such a map.
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by dylanfw 7y ago
Could somebody clear up my confusion with these two statements that appear contradictory? "Do four colors suffice to color any map? — took more than a century to answer (the answer is yes, in case you were wondering)." and "R
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by dylanfw 8y ago
“[A] lot of these jobs he talks about are what I call "zero-sum jobs" - it sucks that they have to exist, but if any individual firm stopped having them, that firm would be behind.” This part of it all, in particular, reminds so m
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by dylanfw 9y ago
You can create “Routines” on the Echo (like IFTTT procedures). You could easily create one for “Alexa turn on all lights” that triggers all of your smart home lights regardless of brand.
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Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by dylanfw 9y ago|0 comments
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by dylanfw 9y ago
If you're not asked anything after checking the box then your browser's fingerprint has already been determined to be a real human by enough partner sites using the Captcha. Try opening a private browsing window and checking the b
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Judge orders tech company to release Web user data from anti-Trump website(washingtonpost.com)
92 points by dylanfw 9y ago|113 comments
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by dylanfw 9y ago
Justin Guitar[1] is a great place to start! 1: https://www.justinguitar.com/
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by dylanfw 10y ago
> Those guys were writers, not philosophers in the first place. It's interesting that you begin with a comment like this to seemingly dismiss Satre and Camus as not being real philosophers, and then you proceed to put forward your o
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by dylanfw 10y ago
Bruce Schneier's security blog implements something like this, providing an on/off switch for each social network's "Like", "+1", etc. https://www.schneier.com/
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by dylanfw 10y ago
Chrome's XSS filter can still be circumvented in quite a few instances. The easiest way I've seen is when the attacker controls at least two variables and can split the XSS across them in such a way that neither half appears malic
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by dylanfw 10y ago
I don't know for sure about ZSH and can't test it at the moment, but Bash has -- for this purpose. It may work in ZSH as well.
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by dylanfw 10y ago
I haven't seen this yet, but for anyone that's interested: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Social Network, Gone Girl, Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo, and more) provide the score for this film.
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The Shadow Brokers – Message#5 Trick or Treat?(medium.com)
3 points by dylanfw 10y ago|0 comments
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by dylanfw 10y ago
> Whitehead and Russell famously took several hundred pages in Principia Mathematica to prove the validity of the proposition 1+1=2. What is it that kids are understanding that W&R took much pain over? W&R proved 1+1=2 in thei
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by dylanfw 10y ago
> "M ad ness." Blocked by ad blocker.
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by dylanfw 10y ago
Apologies. Throughout my CS undergrad I had only been given the impression and understanding that Big-O measured worst case (lower bound, no worse than), Big-Theta average case, and Big-Omega best case (upper bound, no better than). Looking
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by dylanfw 10y ago
Seeing "LaTeX" (lay-tech) and "arXiv" together in your sentence made me finally realize that arXiv is pronounced "archive". I've been reading it as "arx-iv" for years.

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