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Comment #43468280
It's not useful, nor is it open source. It's a leaked copy of the Windows source code from a long time ago that has been hacked on. You can look up the "history" of it and how it h…
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Comment #43408303
Not hard to figure this one out: An untraceable connection to any other party anywhere in the world; notably, his handler and anyone willing wanting to know how much a favor will c…
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Comment #43141716
> So you're saying Chernobyl wasn't caused by hurried and ill-prepared testing of a safety feature they failed to verify during initial startup and instead had to do years later du…
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Comment #43075712
It's supposed to go wrong. Government isn't worth anything. Once they "prove" had bad it is, they will bring in corporations that will do it, and they will be able to do it for a p…
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Comment #42975741
> C was created to rewrite UNIX from its original Assembly implementation I don't think I can go with that one. C was created in the same period as people were trying to find a way…
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Comment #42848265
All the other continents are saying so.
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Comment #42795845
> It is like witchcraft seeing someone produce VGA out with some raw/more tangible chips. I think what you're missing is: VGA was designed in the era when this was A Thing™. Monoch…
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Comment #42230980
I have no specific knowledge, but another approach would be to integrate more unusual very-long-instruction-word micro-instructions, like large scale matrix functions, algorithm en…
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Comment #42139167
> It is not clear what the FBI was seeking when numerous agents entered Coplan's apartment at around 6am, or if Coplan and/or Polymarket are the targets of an investigation. We hav…
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Comment #42101242
Having looked at your project, what would you say is difference in ability or philosophy compared to Open Web UI or FlowiseAI? Or, is this "I want to build this because I want to?"…
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Comment #41789674
Being an old, grey beard, it's been interesting to see language change in my lifetime. Things I learned: * Third-person singular indefinite ("he or she") can be replaced with third…
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Comment #41441088
0C is cold 10C is cool 20C is nice 30C is warm 40C is hot
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Comment #41394266
I think way he meant a hashed chain: one where the history is tamper proof. The important part is that the data and logic used to process claim is digitally documented and sealed b…
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Comment #41363518
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke I thought the same thing when using PAR files. They're still useful today if you save th…
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Comment #41306893
There is already one in place. It's called.. librarians. They do a lot more than just stand around a look pretty. There are degrees you can earn which includes things like how to m…
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Comment #41226370
My wife likes astrology. I just put it as one of those quirks in people. This is especially curious because of just how intelligent she is. She has several degrees, including a PHD…
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Comment #41087160
It would appear they use the title is a bit misleading: > Pacific Legal Foundation is primarily funded by donations from individuals, foundations, associations, and small businesse…
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Comment #41035546
That is a solution, but not the cause. The cause is not having a culture that evaluates failure scenarios. From what I have read: * Updates are not vetted or sanity checked. * Upda…
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Comment #40902462
Google funds Firefox and Mozilla knows its purpose is to prevent regulators to looking at Chrome the same way they did at Internet Explorer.
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Comment #39974409
My cohorts and I chat regularly in Slack about things software developer related as well as the occasional joke, gripe about work, etc. We put a bot in place scripted to give some …
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Comment #39974213
The reason why it can't be abused the same way is because of the nature of the paired-one-way-encryption system. A normal password is one-way encrypted. The algorithm makes it easy…
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Comment #39095026
I would argue reasonable to believe it will be notably better until it is catastrophically wrong. The issue with neural nets is that they can be really well trained within the boun…
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Comment #39057042
They don't. American's general education is so poor that just chanting certain phrases garners support. They want _their_ advertising to be considered "free speech" because it invo…
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Comment #37968483
Roughly speaking, CPU wants smaller space and RAM wants bigger space. At a high-level take: * CPU design is the most expensive space due to it having the greatest quality and capab…
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Comment #37665910
Welcome to the Era of [Poe's Law]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law) .