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by meinersbur 1mo ago
https://archive.is/zKgVp > During discovery in the case, Will Moye, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, found a five-page document called “Citation Overlay,” which appeared to have been generated by AI. Moye recognized the
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by meinersbur 5mo ago
Since ELIZA, the more we try to apply the Turing Test, the more evidence we get that the Turing Test about human gullibility, rather than saying anything meaningful about the machine [1,2]. Surprisingly it turns out that even critical think
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by meinersbur 5mo ago
Moderators seem to have not enough to do. They closed my 16 year (!) old question and added comment: > Do not include solution to question please (post a separate answer instead). -- user4157124 https://stackoverflow.com&#x2
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by meinersbur 5mo ago
They get their own build. E.g. * GeForce NOW SDK: https://developer.geforcenow.com/learn/guides/offerings-sdk * Stadia SDK: developer.stadia.com (offline) * Xbox Cloud Gaming: https://learn.microsoft.co
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by meinersbur 6mo ago
It has nothing to so with NTFS, but all with the Win32 API. The Windows kernel supports this file model, proven by WSL1. There is a blog post somewhere (Old New Thing?) stating the engineers would like to e.g. allow deleting a file even if
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by meinersbur 7mo ago
This is the WolfSSL maintainer's response[1] > This ticket is rather long and has a lot of irrelevant content regarding this new topic. If I need to bring in a colleague I do not want them to have to wade through all the irrelevant
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by meinersbur 7mo ago
Reminds me of prompt injection: A tool that cannot distinguish between data and instructions.
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by meinersbur 7mo ago
The time advantage of faking a scan becomes better the more pages you have to scan. https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by meinersbur 8mo ago
It doesn't matter whether OSS is American (in whatever sense) -- anything that is America-specific (e.g. server addresses) can be patched for a localized European version. The different commercial model does matter: American law does n
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by meinersbur 8mo ago
Live tiles are nearly universally praised in retrospect, but it might be a case of hindsight bias [1]. The video [2] brings up some problems of the concept and why no other company copied the concept. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by meinersbur 10mo ago
The patent expired, but the minifigs is also a EU 3D trademark. This is not possible for the brick which (only) serves a technical function, namely to hold on each other. Trademarks do not expire while in use. Another example for a 3D trade
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by meinersbur 1y ago
What is your alternative explanation for why people rent public storage space? Urban growth and growth in suburbs are not mutually exclusive.
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Changing execution behaviour based on filename is common in Linux environments too. Some examples: 1. BusyBox is a single executable that executes different commands based on which symlink was used to call it 2. Bash puts itself into compat
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by meinersbur 1y ago
From the GitHub issue it becomes clear that blocking happens by the EasyPrivacy blocklist. The blocked URL youtube.com/api/stats/atr is/can also be used for tracking users, this is why some are arguing that it legitimate
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Please don't downvote comments only because you don't like their opinion (reply to them instead). It cannot be that the same opinion is valueable when someone famous write it [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Sounds like feature creep. Zip is not a database, at best its just slow. Use a archive utility to handle archives.
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Is it just me or does the talk actually confirm all its Python "myths and fairy tales"?
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by meinersbur 1y ago
They absolutely do have that infrastructure. They implemented every country's content rating system, such as PEGI, ESRB, ... . Games are regionally banned, such as in Germany [1]. Games can also have regionally censored games, typicall
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by meinersbur 1y ago
https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496101927181-What... I don't think there is an official list. It is security-related and changes over time
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by meinersbur 1y ago
GMail (and Fastmail) are rendering the email. It just happens that the email and we webbrowser are both HTML. In no case should they just literally forward the email HTML to the browser. They scrub JavaScript, non-whitelisted HTML elements
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by meinersbur 1y ago
There is also market separation in play: For the base service you only charge cost+small margin. For higher service levels you charge higher profit margins even though the additional service does not cost that much more to provide. Best exa
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Researchers trained a deep learning network on photos to make GTA5 more realistic-looking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0 I was surprised that most of it is is just tone mapping. It looks too green-ish to me, n
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by meinersbur 1y ago
It will also compress worse, making it less like a zip bomb and more like a huge document. Nothing against that, but the article's trick is just to stop a parser to bail early.
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Just learned about the ellipsis statement and the !a modifier (I already knew !r and !s).
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The "Geometry" of Colours [video](youtube.com)
1 points by meinersbur 1y ago|1 comments
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Result from game discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745868
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by meinersbur 1y ago
> Email works perfectly OMG. How can someone say this in the age of AI spam. Legitimate emails categorized a spam. Impossibility to run independent email servers because getting blocked by the big players. Forced subscriptions to mailing
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by meinersbur 1y ago
There is a classic DailyWTF about this technique: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Sketchy-Skecherscom > [...] the idea of building a website like this in XML and then transforming it using XSL is absurd in and of i
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by meinersbur 1y ago
Right from the abstract: > Our findings confirm the existence of a robust “Gender Attractiveness Gap” (GAP), with female faces rated significantly more attractive than male faces across rater genders, cultural backgrounds , and portraye
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by meinersbur 1y ago
The retractable antenna could only be used for Morse code. Only Harry Manning was well-versed in Morse, so after he quit, neither Earhard nor Fred Noonan effectively couldn't use it anyway [1]. That retractable antenna was for low freq

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