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It will get to the point where it could know to ask those questions, like a human would. Clearly these tools are not there yet, but I think the models are probably good enough for …

I'm shocked that Apple hasn't cracked down on this process through App store reviews. It's such an awful experience.

Here's one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi Being skeptical and keeping onself safe is fine, but things can go wrong if people are trying to falsely act like e…

Does the xi editor use a JSON transport layer for all syscalls though? Low-friction interfaces for developers are great but I'm not sure I agree with the comparison here.

There are plenty of other programs with "planned" missions to the moon and mars. You can question whether or not they'll happen, but you can do that about SpaceX too. - https://en.…

If Gmail reads private emails to target ads [1], why would people think that Facebook isn't doing the same thing? Also many companies (including Facebook) have agreed to share hash…

The "zone memory improvements" however were also significant: "Figure 5 shows the peak zone memory improvements since M54 which reduced by about 40% on average over the measured we…

It doesn't appear so, no. The raw bytes seem to be dumped to temp files, local storage, or S3 [1][2] without mention of any sort of encryption step (or reading of a secret somewher…

I initially fell in love with programming by botting Runescape. If you want to look at some old (and very very poor quality) code to see what the botting scripts looked like, this …

I read a paper on this ( https://hal.inria.fr/file/index/docid/71240/filename/RR-5580... ) and implemented it some time ago just for fun ( https://github.com/dwetterau/group-edit )…

Here is a paper [0] out of Berkeley that explains the chart you're asking about (the chart appears on page 8). For more information on each isolation level you might have to refer …

A super easy way to keep yourself accountable when doing something like this is with the contribution graph on Github. My desire to not break my streak keeps me working on my proje…

Neat AI approach to play it. When this first blew up 5 or so days ago I threw together a simple javascript bookmarklet that played the game at: http://www.mrspeaker.net/dev/game/fl…