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Yes, and that's not what people are reporting flaws in. The reports are "this daemon accepts arbitrary code and then runs it!"

This is common in the hype era of AI models that can look for security bugs. An open-source project I used to work on that is basically "distributed code execution as a service" ke…

Okay but why did this chip have anything to do with that?

I really can't see where the 0.7nm is coming from. The white line looks like it's just an edge of a feature that is "15 rows of silicon atoms", which by some quick arithmetic on Wo…

1 picometer = 0.001 nanometers, 0.01 angstrom 1 angstrom = 0.1 nanometers, 100 picometers 1 nanometer = 10 angstroms, 1000 picometers

I always feel like I'm not quite getting quantum stuff no matter how much I read and learn: what does this advancement have to do with quantum computers?

I disagree - there's already a reproducibility crises in the literature of many fields. And medical adjacent-field like nutrition science are among the worst. I think the trends in…

I was having a conversation with someone about AI taking over medical jobs the other day, and one of the things that came out of my thoughts about it is related: It obviously has f…

"Use your brain before you use mine"

$ login -n root Login incorrect login: backdoor No home directory specified in password file! Logging in with home=/ # I don't agree with the interpretation that Sam tried and fail…

I used FreeBSD on a laptop 2008-2010 and it was usable, other than needing a USB Wifi adapter. Definitely not as usable as Linux, but I was able to do 18 credit hours per semester.…

That gets extremely complicated. My town straddles the border between 2 counties. And you can't trivially have subdomains for counties and cities at the same level, because Wyoming…

Sorry, what is AD in this context? edit: oh, automatic differentiation?

The morality of it aside, Palantir is probably a much safer investment bet than most others in the AI space. They're older and more established than a new startup picking up the st…

Actually every time I've seen something like what I've described above it pre-dated that person's current employment.

> What I find strange about this is that in 2020 nobody would be this openly cynical and selfish about, say, good Python idioms, a useful emacs configuration, git shortcuts, etc. I…

I tend to agree with you - a rising tide lifts all boats and I want my team to be a rising tide. If I'm at a startup and I'm confident my tool is a good fit for what the rest of th…

I used a state (Colorado) healthcare marketplace website when I was going to take a break between jobs for a couple of months, and I feel very violated by the whole process. I ente…

I can honestly say one of my most productive moments ever was when a design came to me in a dream... And who among us hasn't figured out a bug in the shower after taking a break? G…

Too many people think they know better. You're not allowed to think you know better unless you're able to put yourself in the position to be the one to write the directions. You kn…

Some of the comments are unnecessary, but things like this: > wiping $40B and several people's life savings Okay, you shouldn't dump your life savings into a cryptocurrency that cl…

He might be, but this sounds suspiciously like "Trump is playing 4D chess and trolling the media - he would never actually do the dumb thing he just suggested he was about to do."

> Obviously smarter people than I disagree, but my dumdum head just feels that way. That's absolutely not it. What you're describing is part of the UNIX philosophy: programs should…

So yes, there was an informant who was cited as the reason for the warrant, but the credibility is questionable. The informant referenced a basement that county records would show …

If the police possessed the self-control and critical thinking to not drag this whole thing into a lawsuit, I think the raid would likely have never happened in the first place.