poincaredisk

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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>async doesn’t go well with scale, Sync is even worse at scale. I had the pleasure of attending standups in a 20-person team. It was a nightmare where I said two sentences and then wasted the next two hours of my life listening to things
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
I must be very clumsy with my phone, because it takes me a painfully long time to make a move on my phone (i estimate it to be a bit under a second), while with a mouse I can click at the speed of thought. It may also be age? I use mouse al
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
I never tip because it's not a custom in my country, but out of your two contradicting stories I believe the other one more. Does the driver even know the tip amount before rating the passenger? It works make sense if they didn't.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
"Please accept the [tech word salad] popup to verify your identity" Maybe this won't fool you, but it would trick 90% of internet users. (And even if it was 20% instead of 90%, that's still way too much.)
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
1. create a working (moderately complex) ghidra script without hallucinating. Granted I was trying to do this 6 months ago, but maybe a miracle has happened. But I'm the past I had very bad experience with using LLMs for niche things (
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
You wouldn't do them intentionally, but they're there waiting to bite you in the foot.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
You are getting downvoted but it made me wonder (I visited CERN a few years ago). I guess there are two aspects in play. One, the pile is massive, which naturally inspires awe, especially in person. Two, I know that what I'm looking at
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
I'm pretty sure EU would love to hammer them with fines for that. Unless they ban F-Droid in the US but not in the EU - similar things have happened in the past, but nothing of this scale yet.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
You link says the opposite - the change was very annoying for people that use non-english languages (like me), and: >By default, qvm-copy and similar tools will use this less restrictive service (qubes.Filecopy +allow-all-names) whenever
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>In my opinion, there should be 3 Linux distribution. That's all. Initially I instinctively agreed with you - certainly there's too many fragmentation in the Linux distro space! Then I recalled I use NixOs, and it probably didn
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
This won't stop the heat death of the universe, just prolong the life of one particular solar system a bit.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>But this has been the norm for a while, no? I can't remember the last time I didn't utilize credit at a restaurant or retail store. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I want to highlight that this is US specific. I&#x2
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
It's clear that this extra 0.5% is there, because the company hopes to make it up on late payment fees extracted from less financial savvy people, or the high fees.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>This is an area where government regulation is actually required, all transaction fees should be disclosed and charged as a surcharge on the base purchase price, whether it's a credit card or BNPL Btw. in Europe the card thing was
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
Only if we assume that the existence of BNPL won't change consumer habits. I think food is easy to buy impulsively ("I'm hangover and hungry - let's order some pizza delivery"), and removing barriers like "I do
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
Why only poor though? There's plenty of middle class people living above their means by abusing credit too. They can deal with the consequences better, but it's equally financially harmful for them
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
"completely solves" is a bit of an overstatement. Imagine a curl-like library that allows you to make requests by URL. You may only ever use HTTP urls, but code for all the other schemas (like HTTPS, FTP, Gopher) needs to be compi
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
This is a pretty wild thing to say. Pope will probably never - or at least for a very long time - be replaced by AI, simply because he's a symbol first and foremost. Actual decisions may be hypothetically made by AI, but you still need
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>Nobody would care otherwise. As long as it's a work computer, what does it matter if it's his current computer or not? Remember that we're talking about an infostealer, it got his credentials and "that's it&quot
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>reasonably good evidence that you are doing something wrong. No need for multiple leaks, just one is enough. And I wouldn't say "do something wrong", just getting infected with an infostealer. Happens all the time.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
Yeah, sure. Seeing a conspiracy and 4d chess in everything is a proof of having an enlightened mind. I work in this space and many actors, including nation state actors, are just incompetent. You may not believe me, that's OK.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
Is it? If I buy EvilCorp stock from you for $1000000 how does that help EvilCorp? Assuming just a few rational actors, stock price should (in theory) stay roughly the same, near the "real" market value. Of course, if everyone did
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>Google received requests for user information for about 900,000 accounts I'm responsible for a few of those btw. All for e-mails clearly related to malware operations, to help with the investigation. It's not like anyone cares
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
Does it undermine the whole idea? You can just assume that everyone with a @gmail account may be compromised (just like people with work email don't really own their mailbox), and keep your secure communication with the others.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>they are phishing resistant But can be easily stolen by malware (unless someone adds a client cert OS support? intriguing idea). But so can passkeys stored on the same device, so I don't know. Long time ago browsers even had a widg
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
It's the other way around in my opinion. With your own domain you own your identity. By ceding it to someone else you risk losing it at a whim of some algorithm or bot or by forgetting password, or getting locked out for some other rea
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
Is it? I never heard that. It's cross platform, but definitely and obviously strongly tied to Microsoft.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
128 bits will never be bruteforced. There's nothing to outsource. The only actual risk is that the encryption algorithm is cracked.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>That’s the entire principle behind the Nigerian prince email scam. I always hear people repeating this, but in my experience this is not true. People doing mass scams are just not very competent.
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by poincaredisk 1y ago
>They now require a DUNS number to submit an app Even for non-us residents?

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