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by gumby 3d ago
> How can this happen to a modern fintech…? It’s a modern fintech that’s most likely to be vulnerable. Banks tend to have a long history (either themselves or with the infrastructure they buy) of security, from physical to electronic. I
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by gumby 3d ago
You are forgetting 8” floppies. IBM used only the soft sector ones (one hole punched close to the spindle to mark sector 0) but there were also hard sector ones (a ring of 32 holes close to the spindle hole). There was a lot of experimenta
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by gumby 5d ago
Unfortunately it emits methane and a lot of other toxic chemicals, as well as not providing a permeable surface for rainfall. Whether you meant the attitude product or were jocularly using it a relevant metaphor for AI decanters both your c
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What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?(arstechnica.com)
3 points by gumby 5d ago|0 comments
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by gumby 5d ago
> 'Keeping Americans safe' is not on their agenda. If it were, they wouldn't be sticking America's hand into Middle Eastern quagmires... Even though I agree with you that the US shouldn’t have been executing the forei
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Genome Duplication Is an Evolutionary Gamble(quantamagazine.org)
5 points by gumby 6d ago|0 comments
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by gumby 6d ago
Apple has clearly done things that make it impossible for them to comply with such requests by not keeping certain data in the first place and/or doing work locally (in the customer’s device) to which it doesn’t have access. This is e
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Perhaps the universe isn't accelerating (and thus we don't need dark matter)(academic.oup.com)
3 points by gumby 6d ago|1 comments
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by gumby 6d ago
It’s turdles all the way down.
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by gumby 6d ago
Something that it isn’t.
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by gumby 6d ago
I was in Germany in those days and I sure remember the CDU and other more-right wingers using this argument, and convincingly. I’m sure there’s some long and worthy essay on the topic in the archives of die Zeit . Of course it was long a
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by gumby 6d ago
Good question (I thought I implicitly mentioned it but I guess I didn’t). Does it matter that we’re talking about “recording” within the envelope of typical human capability? I think that distinction does matter and the summary as describ
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Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)(spinoff.nasa.gov)
378 points by gumby 6d ago|71 comments
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by gumby 6d ago
Don’t give them ideas!
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by gumby 6d ago
I like the idea (we’ll see about the execs). It seems to record what I would remember anyway (“yesterday you and Joe and Anupam talked about going fishing a chose a date”) unless I was distracted. It’s like the cameras in the glasses. If a
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by gumby 7d ago
Funny this was downvoted: I was thinking the same as I was reading this thread. True mass market means optimizing your product for the fat part of the population bell curve. This is some point or region in a space of { cost, features, use
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by gumby 7d ago
“Robinson projection” makes me think of Canadian fasteners.
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by gumby 7d ago
For a while, France had its own prime meridian with 0 degrees passing of course through Paris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_meridian
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by gumby 7d ago
Very nice!
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by gumby 7d ago
The problem is that 0 is a valid UID in POSIX systems like Linux. If you automatically initialize variables with a garbage value, use-before-initialization (the program’s initialization) them the use of that variable will likely fail due to
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by gumby 7d ago
> Ironically, if we do get "investment in mothers" and "universal childcare", it will be for the profit and benefit of the ruling class that will want to make sure your child is indoctrinated in the regime's prop
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by gumby 8d ago
Just my memories of being at the AI lab back then.
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by gumby 8d ago
This is the general consensus in DE (I watched the election during the day on TV). AfD is a cancer on the electorate.
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by gumby 8d ago
There was a lot of swapping of what was in other peoples’ inits (there was no security on ITS at all). I discovered that others just linked to my (compiled) init file due to people complaining when I changed it. Since Wikipedia didn’t even
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by gumby 9d ago
Have you been to the UAE? Sure t the beach there re women in burkinis and more, but also women in two piece bikinis.
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by gumby 9d ago
Hah, is this a troll? It’s a lot older than those editors. EMACS started as Eugene Ciccareli’ init file for the TECO editor (which was also a programming language) around 1976. Hence the name (Eugene‘s Macros). It was later rewritten in
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by gumby 9d ago
They are smarter than that: Siegmund says he doesn’t want to form a government. After all then people could see how they function in office, and that might hurt the AfD in upcoming national elections. Better to wait until the AfD is in p
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by gumby 9d ago
No, and I would be surprised if it did (but medicine is still so poorly understood that surprises do happen, though rarely). The article was more about the social dynamics which are interesting. Despite being poorly understood, the medical
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by gumby 9d ago
BIPV* has always failed for difficult-to-address reasons and the “Tesla” version was no different from the others in the market so had no differentiation that would allow it to survive. I know why Tesla bought the company (bail out musk’s
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Billionaire tries untested longevity therapy to restore daughter's vision(science.slashdot.org)
3 points by gumby 9d ago|2 comments

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