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bradreaves2

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About bradreaves2

Burrito Enthusiast and Associate Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. I get a lot of robocalls. All comments my own.

https://bradreaves.net

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    Comment #48951510

    This position paper argues that classic systems security design principles are what we need to secure AI agents.

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    Comment #48240694

    H1-B is defined as “non-immigrant.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa

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    Comment #48240571

    Is this intended to ensure that students and H1-Bs will not have a path to residency unless they disrupt their lives here?

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    Comment #47600619

    I figured this was “CEO said a thing” journalism [1], but buried in the last paragraph is a real scorcher: > “Undeniable proof that confidently uninformed hospital administrators a…

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    Comment #47520652

    The article misattributes the cause of the public's loss of trust in science. The public has lost confidence in science because commercial and political entities have worked system…

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    Comment #47240309

    Where does it say that it will require age verification? The link you sent basically says "you pinky-promise that you're 18." Later in the doc it also says "you promise not to send…

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    Comment #47004652

    Gave it a try for a language I know (Spanish) and one I don't (Russian). On Russian, the explanations of why some answers were correct/incorrect didn't load (presumably an AI call …

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    Comment #44786877

    All the external noises are a big problem. But the things that irritate me even more are the infernal modals and alerts on my computing devices. It is hard enough maintaining focus…

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    Comment #44260612

    > This scene might feel like science fiction This article is fiction followed by commentary. If the anecdote were real, it would still be an anecdote: tempting to generalize, but w…

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    Comment #43748269

    Counterpoint: the past continues to inspire, surprise, and delight. Your comment about “1700’s newspapers” reminded me of The Past Times podcast, where comedians read random newspa…

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    Comment #43221527

    Certain right wing figures have spent decades coordinating an alternative media infrastructure whose only goal was to sow doubt about truths that were inconvenient to their politic…

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    Comment #42281829

    It's worth noting that this is a paper from 2014. The premise seems well-known now, but I wonder if it was as strong then? I agree root cause analysis would be more interesting, bu…

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    Comment #41274661

    The claim made here is that at 100GbE the sequence numbers wrap in milliseconds. That number seems right (source: vibes). Why isn’t this a serious problem then? I’d love a networki…

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    Comment #40953797

    OP is citing a post about genomics research data sharing, where they have identifiers that are exceptionally vulnerable to Excel’s date inference and conversion algorithm. The prob…

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    Comment #40605948

    Memphis is unique in sitting on a major artesian aquifer, and its tap water is as good or better than can be bought in a bottle. The environmental group here is concerned about uns…

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    Comment #40588719

    The author states the purpose of the Jones Act was to preserve US maritime capacity. He then claims that because the US does not have a global hegemony on this market, the Act has …

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    Comment #38902298

    I am a professor of computer security in the US. Chinese students who want to study this topic in the US face extreme scrutiny in visa interviews. On cursory inspection, there is a…

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    Comment #38902109

    Is this idea the progenitor of SoCs?

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    Comment #38604668

    Supposing they offered this at my house, what could I do with it that I already can't do with gigabit fiber? Google Fiber already offers 2Gbps to a friend of mine, but he hasn't up…

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    Comment #38367335

    Academic who has served on tenure-track hiring committees here. At my (public) institution, none of these identities were discussed when considering candidates. We did look at dive…

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    Comment #38319637

    I bought into the Omada ecosystem in 2020, when Ubiquity was hard to buy and had also just had a major breach. TP-Link has been good about deploying improvements to the ecosystem. …

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    Comment #37971863

    Posture is most affected by muscle (im)balance, so if you want to fix hunching, consider exercises like face pulls that strengthen the back muscles that counter the chest muscles t…

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    Comment #37882475

    Going from sole principal to having a staff is a unique transition compared to the typical “engineer to first level manager” so not all advice is going to work. Here is one approac…

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    Comment #37152279

    Is anyone aware of an independent source for this claim? I'm not finding anything using search. I'm happy to believe the author's account, but I'm curious how widespread this might…