gizmo686

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by gizmo686 6d ago
What strategic objective did Bin Laden achieve? If we look at his stated reason for the attack [0], it is hard to reconcile post 9/11 history with a claim of his victory. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20040615081
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by gizmo686 14d ago
Why is that the most likely outcome? The history of automation is filled with cases where the result has been lower quality goods at lower prices.
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by gizmo686 14d ago
The premise of dark matter is that it is something with gravity that does not otherwise interact with any of our detectors (e.g. "normal" matter); or that any such interactions are weak enough that it is plausible we have not noti
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by gizmo686 21d ago
"Visible" in this case means "able to influence in any way". If a problem is not able to influence anything, even in theory, then by definition, it cannot possible influence any testable predictions we have.
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by gizmo686 23d ago
Interesting, but not unheard of. Think of attacks like Row Hammer. No revolutionary physics needed. But chip designers cannot fully apply quantum field theory to an entire CPU, so they necessarily use simplified a simplified physics model.
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by gizmo686 23d ago
You don't need to prove the hardware correct to prove that the software is free from timing side-channels. You just need a model of the hardware that captures timing information. Sure a hardware or model bug would render your proof non
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by gizmo686 27d ago
It is not sufficient to work against current AI. It needs to also work against AI that has been trained by a competent team aware of your mitigation. Or worse, a competent developer with no particular AI skills. Otherwise, you are relying o
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by gizmo686 29d ago
It doesn't matter what they charge if the patient doesn't pay it; which is what often happens with uninsured people showing up at the ER. > Any excess money at the end of the year should be moved to the pool for the next year,
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by gizmo686 29d ago
> without ads, even if you make the best air fryer on the planet tomorrow, good luck getting people to realize that. If you are Amazon, this is essentially just the multi-armed bandit problem, at it is not particularly difficult. You sho
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by gizmo686 1mo ago
Filtering out microplastics is not particularly difficult. I just checked the first water filter brand that came to mind, and their independent test results [0] reported no detectable microplastics after filtration [1]. Having said that, th
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by gizmo686 1mo ago
Tech has been a money machine because it has a marginal cost if approximately 0, so tech companies could literally give there products away and live off of the pennies they get from serving adds. Software is one of the hardest product class
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by gizmo686 1mo ago
Don't underestimate the whisper network of children. It only takes one to realize that Claude gets caught every time, but super paper writer.example.com flies under the teacher's radar. With a strong enough regulatory framework, w
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by gizmo686 1mo ago
I could see this being useful in a world with a few AI providers. However, in a world of commodity AI models, can simply use a model from an AI provider that does not watermark. Or download any open source model and run it themselves [0]. T
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by gizmo686 1mo ago
The details will depend on the exact implemention, but I don't think this necessarily effects output quality. The models "natural" output is the result of a series of random numbers. The watermark works by biassing that serie
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by gizmo686 1mo ago
I don't know about FedRAMP specifically, but I have gone through several procurements for federal agencies on the vendor side, and have never had any issues getting a FIPS waiver approved.
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by gizmo686 2mo ago
Most of the focus issues should be solvable at the library level.
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by gizmo686 2mo ago
Wayland has a separate wl_touch type that is also associated to a wl_seat. So that use case can be accomplished on a single seat setup.
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by gizmo686 2mo ago
Financer is probably not the correct word here. The common model around here is that an installer puts solar panels on your roof, and sells you the right to their electric output in exchange for a fixed fee (with a fixed annual increase). T
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by gizmo686 2mo ago
The "before closing" does a lot of work here. It sounds like the seller made the disclosure when they were legally required to. This is pretty common in large purchases. First the buyer and seller agree in principle, then they per
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by gizmo686 2mo ago
Who says this will be a specialized adhesive? If it works as advertised, it could be a super-glue alternative with easy unglueability. That would be an attractive consumer product; and the type of product that could easily end up on someone
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by gizmo686 3mo ago
1 player is enough to create tension on price when "don't buy it at all" is a comptetative option. By most accounts, Anthropic and OpenAI both lose to "just don't buy" when they try charging at cost.
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by gizmo686 3mo ago
Craftsmanship is not dead in other industries in the same way it is being talked about for software. Sure, that cheap desk that arrived in a flat box and got assembled by me and a screwdriver was mass produced in a factory. But it's de
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by gizmo686 3mo ago
The internet transformed society. That didn't save us from the .com bubble bursting.
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by gizmo686 4mo ago
Keep reading beyond the ad... In short, git has a 'create_ref_symlink' function that is replaced with a macro to '-1' on some build configurations. This means that any code which is conditioned on the success of create_r
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by gizmo686 4mo ago
The type of bomb people worry about for airplanes typically are not built to code. They do need to have some form of dedinator, and tying that detonator to a Bluetooth control seems like a design that someone might come up with.
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by gizmo686 4mo ago
From u/cupofmesideofyou > For anyone seeking a legitimate source on the bluetooth device comments: you can listen to the KEWR Ramp/Company/Misc archive. Keep the date set to 2026-05-31 and the feed set to ramp/company
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by gizmo686 4mo ago
Back when I was in middle school, we had "digital typewriters" that worked fine, and was brought out far more often than the laptop cart or computer lab.
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by gizmo686 4mo ago
That still requires detecting when a misaligned load happens.
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by gizmo686 4mo ago
One time pads are the only solution that is secure from an information theoretic perspective. In practice, however, that is not important. You would essentially be securing yourself against a weapon that no one has, and most experts think c
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by gizmo686 4mo ago
I could imagine somewhere trying to make that the rule, but I have a hard time imagining that rule being enforceable. At least for US federal taxes, losses do not need to be tied to revenue. As long as they occur in the same tax year, you c

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