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by perlgeek 6d ago
When I read the title, my mind immediately jumped to something else: negativity. I've noticed that my own mind always searches for corner cases, error conditions and failure modes. This can be super helpful when planning new features (
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by perlgeek 6d ago
The wavelength of light is λ = c / f, where c is the speed of light and f is the frequency. When c is approximately 10^7 times lower, so is the wavelength (if we keep the frequency the same), so now-visible light would have wavelengths
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by perlgeek 6d ago
Just came back from a vacation in Denmark and Norway, paid with debit card everywhere. Heck, paying with card is the default, if you do pay cash, the cashier sometimes has to cancel the card payment before accepting the cash.
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by perlgeek 7d ago
The GDPR is far from perfect, but it does cover this. It talks about acquiring and storing information that can be used to identify people. It doesn't specify what counts, so now that face recognition is pretty, it automatically applie
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by perlgeek 7d ago
>There is not generally an expectation of privacy in public. And that's the problem, because if there isn't an expectation of privacy, and we record everything that's "in public", we land in a dystopic hellscape.
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by perlgeek 3mo ago
(not op) If a security bug is exploited in the wild, it's an n-day if it's been first exploited n days after the publication of the bug, and a zero-day if it's been exploited before or on the day of the publication. When a bu
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by perlgeek 3mo ago
Let's see... first of all, 14 years ago was the discovery of the base mechanism, not of specific treatments. So specific treatments need to be developed, delivery systems need to be developed, side effects reduced. Then you need safety
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by perlgeek 3mo ago
CRISPR is foremost a research tool. Calling it "extremely overhyped" without restricting it medical treatment seems disingenuous. The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool was developed in 2012, so I don't find it surprising that mer
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by perlgeek 3mo ago
You can target an individual by injecting that very individual with something lethal. If that's not what you want, you'd need something like a virus to spread it. But then you have to ask yourself: what if that virus mutates? The
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by perlgeek 3mo ago
The article is pretty light on details, but > Much like other CRISPR therapies, delivery is a critical challenge, i.e., getting the large genome-cutting enzyme to all the targeted cells efficiently. makes me think this is in vitro so far
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by perlgeek 3mo ago
Apple tries to market its product as privacy-focused, yet the privacy of their new AI features is so bad they don't meet EU standards? Is that the message here?
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by perlgeek 3mo ago
"Castor" was the name of a storage system used for transporting nuclear waste in Germany. There were quite a few protests against shipping nuclear waste through the country. Wouldn't have been my choice for a software project
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
As a side note, I wonder when we'll hear the first reports about employees reselling (parts of) their token budget. Probably not worth it risking your job for a 200$/month good, but at 5K, I'm sure some folks will be tempted.
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
I'd say on a scale of bad 1-10, 9 and 10 are reserved for incidents that cause loss of human life. YMMV.
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
Even more than that, they still have to maintain the software to work on Linux, because they have a paid on Linux. So if they have to keep maintaining it and offer the basic tier for free on Linux... just why? It doesn't make any sen
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
> A Ferrari is about driving Is it, though? Most Ferraris aren't driven much at all. In fact, most Ferraris are bought by collectors. If somebody has 10-20 Ferraris, do you think they drive them much? In Parallel?
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
Try to apply first principles to LLM coding: * Chances are that fewer people (maybe even none) will look at the code when it's LLM-generated * Amount of code being written isn't all that critical anymore * Keeping patches small is
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
What kind of application are you developing?
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
> Software developers should shorten their patch cycles and make security fixes available as quickly as possible. [...] > Network defenders should shorten their patch testing and deployment timelines. Shortening patch cycles will only
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
> the top 1% of users capture 76.5% of profits This seems to be similar to OnlyFans, and the economy at large...
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
I'd guess that most people who run Docker on linux install it through their distro's package manager, which has a dockerd running as root. On Debian derivatives, you need some kind of extra privs to even talk to it (being a member
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
It matters in so far as the production rate for e.g. air defense interceptors is much lower than the rate at which they've been used in the Iran war. Which is probably one of the reasons the US was ready for a ceasefire. They might hav
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
> at least in terms of the carrier being sunk You don't need to sink a carrier to make it more of a liability than an asset. If you hit its radar systems and/or damage the surface enough that landing becomes impossible, it beco
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
Are there any pre-built Linux binaries for this? I tried to install it with cargo, but got "feature `edition2024` is required" (which is the newest cargo available from my current Ubuntu distro). Also, can I configure zerostack to
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
TBF I've had that experience before AI. I think it was just text templates being used by some support staff.
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
I can give you a single data point from Germany. I work at a hosting provider that has pretty conservative customers who don't want to host on AWS/Azure due to data privacy / safety concerns, among other things. For us, sendi
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
LLMs certainly make it more feasible to rewrite a product in a memory-safe language, eliminating a whole class of bugs. Flawless software is hard for an LLM to write, because all the programs they have been trained on are flawed as well. As
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds has some more infos; some is outdated, but it also has a chart showing how many packages are built in the CI, and how many of those are reproducible builds. (Orange = FTBR = "
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
> Do you think 100 enterprises with 1 bln of tokens are going to make a better product than specialized vendor with 100bln of tokens? I'm not sure if this is sound reasoning, because "better product" is very context-depend
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by perlgeek 4mo ago
> Is every company that sells software as their core business model going to go out of business? Probably not, for a number of reasons: * Some software suites are (probably still for a few years) too big to regenerate them through a codi

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