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by phba 29d ago
> For instance, I am wondering what exactly you are responding to with this comment It's an ad for their website.
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by phba 1mo ago
There is a game on Steam called "Turing Complete". It teaches you how to build a fully functional computer from scratch. I recommend you play this game while you work through the theory.
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by phba 5mo ago
Not just him, but all the people in his cultural sphere. I've been to a Banksy exhibition, and it also had videos of "critics" commenting on his work. The overtone was how inspiring and brave it is to protest things like war
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by phba 5mo ago
Yeah, I don't understand why it has to be agile XOR waterfall. Agile development simply doesn't work in projects that have so many externally imposed constraints that there is barely any flexibility left.
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by phba 6mo ago
Why would someone go to a place in an actual conflict zone that is under attack by actual drones right now to flee from hypothetical drones in a hypothetical conflict?
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by phba 6mo ago
The primary goal of these efforts is to control communication and the flow of ideas. Information is a control mechanism, since we act on what we believe. In history we had four media revolutions (printing press, radio, television, Internet)
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by phba 7mo ago
Maybe this is the first step towards the Big Beautiful Bailout when the AI bubble inevitably pops.
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by phba 7mo ago
1. Ask questions, and write down the answers in a way that you will find them again. Anki and spaced repetition is useful to learn the terminology or any info that isn't intuitive. 2. https://github.com/ohenley/awe
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by phba 7mo ago
Yup, same for DuckDuckGo.
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by phba 7mo ago
> In literate programming you do not write the code then present it to a human reader. You describe your goal, assess various ideas and justify the chosen plan (and oftentimes change your mind in the process), and only after, once the pl
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by phba 7mo ago
Pretty impressive!
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by phba 7mo ago
Yeah. This is the curse on any legacy software that doesn't enforce strict separation of logic and UI. Any larger change to the UI requires an awful lot of manpower that open source projects usually don't have. I wonder if it woul
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by phba 7mo ago
> a hobby that already raises eyebrows Sounds very interesting, but may I ask how this actually works as a hobby? Is it purely theoretical like analyzing and modeling, or do you build real rockets?
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by phba 8mo ago
There is no incentive to implement such a feature. Bots and paid social media workers drive engagement. Also social media sites are designed to avoid any triggers that make users click away (like showing origin flags that would allow a user
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by phba 9mo ago
A good place to start is OSINT (open source intelligence) for your city/municipality because it requires little commitment, is scoped with regards to complexity and amount of information, and usually risk-free. Gather publicly availabl
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by phba 9mo ago
Thanks for the link. This is a great analysis of Microsoft's open source strategy.
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by phba 10mo ago
> AI enables precision influence at unprecedented scale and speed. IMO this is the most important idea from the paper, not polarization. Information is control, and every new medium has been revolutionary with regards to its effects on
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by phba 10mo ago
Apparently X11 has a security extension [1]. There was a discussion some months ago [2]. Xenocara (X on OpenBSD) improves security by dropping privileges and using features like pledge [3], but I don't know how this affects the feasabi
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by phba 10mo ago
This "joke" is neither funny nor original as it comes up on social media everytime someone mentions Russia as a threat to Europe. Oh, look at that. A fresh account just to make this comment. What a coincidence.
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by phba 10mo ago
Adding to that from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization) : > Thorn works with a group of technology partners who serve the organization as members of the Technology Task Force. The goal of the program i
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by phba 10mo ago
Thank you for the recommendation! I was looking for compiler texts that take a more practical approach.
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by phba 11mo ago
Well, it's impossible to know if Eichmann really thought about the ethics of his job. With regards to his trial, it didn't matter anyway. Every captured Nazi official claimed they were just a cog in the machine and had to follow o
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by phba 11mo ago
The legislation simply says if you collect more data about your users than necessary, you must inform them and they must consent. This has nothing to do with cookies or any other tech. The question a user should ask is why is this website c
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by phba 1y ago
I don't agree with two of the four given reasons for the rewrite. > Modern codebase: Easier to maintain and evolve compared to 30-year-old C code. It's not a modern codebase, but a NEW codebase, so ofc it's easier to maint
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by phba 1y ago
From the second link: > The privacy considerations for digital credentials are not static. They will evolve over time as the ecosystem matures, and may be informed by the behavior of other actors in the ecosystem, improvements in other l
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by phba 1y ago
There is no law that says you must put everything into one file. You can divide your config into logical modules like editing, UI, settings for specific languages or modes etc. Put the Elisp code for each module into a separate file (packag
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by phba 1y ago
Clickbait headline + very shallow article. Nothing to see here.
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by phba 1y ago
Option four: It is all part of a deliberate strategy. The principles of propaganda are well established. Edward Bernays clearly described how to plant ideas and influence public opinion a hundred years ago ( https://en.wikipedia.o
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by phba 1y ago
> We do that for a few rounds, set a direction and then throw it in the trash and start building. Unfortunately PMs tend to forget the throw-it-in-the-trash part, so the prototype still ends up in prod. But good for you, if you found a w
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by phba 1y ago
"Low code quality keeps haunting our entire industry. That, and sloppy programmers who don't understand the frameworks they work within. They're like plumbers high on glue." ( https://simple.wikiquote.org/

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