lordlimecat

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by lordlimecat 3y ago
In my world "just works" means "we blew away all of the security controls and best practice to get this thing hobbling across the finish line." I see COTS products using ldap memberof queries without LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_I
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
....And then feel OK resorting to ChatGPT for the explanation. Seriously that threw me, and maybe it makes sense in this context but it seems strange for someone with such an apparent depth of technical knowledge leaning on an LLM for anyth
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
Wild idea: what if we evaluated research on its merits, looking at things like methodology, controls, and reproducibility?
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
There's a reason that students are taught on day 1 of Statistics 101 that observational studies can only establish correlation, NOT causation. Otherwise we might as well just admit that cancer causes smoking. It's one of the most
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
Aspartame's potential risks, as compared with sucroses? Because I don't recall hearing about any aspartame-linked deaths ever, while I know that diabetes is a killer.
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
Aspartame has been a boogeyman for literally decades, and yet no solid experimental study has shown evidence of carcinogenic activity nor of any negative health effects at realistic quantities. Any risk posed by aspartame is completely over
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
Funnily enough 'sweeteners' as a class are so diverse that any claim that 'recent studies' universally show a common effect can be thrown straight into the rubbish bin. Erithritol, Stevia, and Aspartame are all so wildly
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
>the US has been murdering children in almost a dozen countries around the globe for the past two decades. Do you want to spell out what countries, specifically, you have in mind here?
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
The idea that the CIA is naive to what Russia does is pretty amusing. Yes, if only they frequented social media, they might have some clue what Chinese, Russian, and Iranian security services were up to. Alas for their naivete...
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
And it's your belief that the State Department-- let alone the CIA-- are totally ignorant of what Iran does to its staff?
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
For many years the keyboards were only skins, and for many years after that they would periodically lose their default status and revert to the built in keyboard. Now it seems that the keyboards randomly hang / crash and don't c
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
So we're effectively saying, "infrastructure is expensive" to justify burning the piles of money instead of using it to improve the situation?
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
For the same reason people got suckered by FTX and the same reason so many got burned in the many BTC crashes: They got taken in by the wild promises of cryptogains.
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
The article (and Bhutan) are strangely cagey about whether this process has actually generated a return. Spoiler: it hasn't.
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
Bitcoin mining generates literally no value for 99.99% of the population, so anything that improves the infrastructure is going to be more valuable than that.
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by lordlimecat 3y ago
You need to do those things for a datacenter too.
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
The tech field is the sad story of execs, marketing types, and end users continually relearning the lessons that they refused to accept from the developers.
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
Imagine suggesting a literal plotpoint from an Orwell novel with a straight face on hackernews. Dont forget to update the Wolfram database with who we're at war with!
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
It really doesn't. It's a language model. Literally every webpage on this topic mentions that. This is why it will happily tell you that a director directed a movie before they were born, and agree with you when you point that out
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
If that were true then why buy the LotR franchise rights?
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
That only works for so long. It's burning money for warmth instead of spending a bit of time to buy firewood.
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
If someone is rolling into a Tolkien IP believing they're better at high fantasy than Tolkien, it goes from "arrogance" to "megalomania". Sometimes it really is best to minimize the artistic license and let the mast
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
Keep in mind that that is pre-inflation. Episode 4 made 1.3 billion adjusted for inflation, with a far smaller moviegoing audience. The new films are just milking every ounce of life out of the franchise. The money they're making is in
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
Because many of the studios think that big budgets and flashy effects can cover for nonsensical plots, mediocre acting, and characters whose choices do not fit with who they are. And frequently these mediocre writers roll into established f
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
Sfp isn't copper vs fiber. It's just the standard for a modular plug on network hardware. They have 25gbe twinax SFP28s that, as far as I'm aware, have essentially identical performance specs to using optical SFP28s with fibe
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by lordlimecat 4y ago
It's a misconception that electrons are slower than photons. In a vacuum? Maybe. But you need a medium to use photons and in fiber photons go at 0.5-0.75c. Electronic signals in copper propagate at somewhere from 0.66-0.8c. The big ben
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by lordlimecat 5y ago
You can already do this. As always the only defense is to compare what is being asked for with the FQDN.
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by lordlimecat 5y ago
Scenario 1: Attacker compromises ECOMMERCE_SITE where you have a login. The ECOMMERCE_SITE uses md5 for logins, so the attacker just brute-forces the hash and then uses that password to compromise your logins on other sites. Scenario 2: The
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by lordlimecat 5y ago
If you have competent tech staff you can inhouse it on any of a dozen hypervisors for roughly the capital cost you would spend in 6 months on cloud. Every year on the cloud can roughly cover the expense for double that capacity deployed on
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by lordlimecat 5y ago
I rather suspect that anyone reading about this-- whether computer literate or not-- will suspect in the back of their minds that this thing is not legal. Turns out those hunches are pretty reliable, who woulda thunk it.

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