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I think you were reading "... is science fiction" the wrong way out of two possible interpretations. I don't think "it's science fiction" meant "it's made up". I think it meant "it…

iirc it's even invisible to veracrypt until it has your correct password in hand. The hidden volume headers are indistinguishable from random bytes (which Veracrypt fills the volum…

"Eight of the top..." seems useless to know though. "Eight of the top ten" is very different from "eight of the top thousand".

Same. If the whole point is "people should be left alone to do what they want" then fine, but that should also include my right to think, "eh yeah, that's a bit weird". And quite f…

That matches my experience (also not a furry). But there's also a whole additional layer of offsec being (by definition) "doing things you're not supposed to be allowed to do", whi…

... those who argue against adding it heard at some point "security through obscurity is not security" and never dug deeper. Ironically, that makes them the exact type of person wh…

Aah my mistake. I had missed that ML had separate trigger behavior from cybersecurity/etc... Thanks.

I've seen this claim a few times, but when I triggered the guardrails in Claude Code, it clearly notified me that it had switched to a different model ("something something for sec…

Round your "~15%" up to 20%, and you've just discovered the Pareto Princlple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle , aka "The 80/20 rule".

That's super interesting! What sort of feedback? Anatomical feedback ("Uhh, that's not where arms go...") or drawing (like tips on shading etc...)?

Yeah, it was quite clear once I started reading the article. It just threw me for a loop as I read the title - Usually if I hear of grades "soaring" that's a _good_ thing.

Imagine an elementary school teacher told you that many of her students had failing grades, so she had implemented a new reading curriculum. If she told you that afterwards the fai…

What a terribly ambiguous title. "Failing grades soar after xyz" makes it sound like xyz has helped what were previously terrible, failing grades become good ones.

Is this deliberately borrowing from Herman Melvile's "Bartleby the Scrivener"? If so it might be worth mentioning, rather than just referring to it as "my short story", since it's …

Gotta bump that encryption up - rot26 is twice as secure.

My phone's browser picked a heckuva place for the line break in the second sentence: My mom has been regularly beating me at Scrabble since I could spell.

The hitler Grok? What? I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say in this comment.

I really like the idea of iteration 7, but I feel like it would work a lot better with some minimum height on the y axis. Letting it peter out to zero loses the "spectrum-ness" of …

Maybe you're passing the sentence incorrectly. Could be, "They found software about making drugs/explosives, pornography about making drugs/explosives, and articles about making dr…

Pasting a Wikipedia link or saying "just ask an LLM" only helps out the one instance of someone not knowing. I did the same thing as the OP you're replying to. They're right - a br…

Yes. Look up LLM "temperature" - it's an internal parameter that tweaks how deterministic they behave.

> who cares if it can store an exabyte if it takes all month to read it To be fair, if I'm reading an exabyte in a month, my hardware's pushing >3 Tbps, which I'd be very happy wit…

Fair point, but I'd argue that "Google informed [you] of a perfectly viable alternative that might be cheaper" isn't what happened. What happened is "Google offered you Honda first…

Just declaring "oppose this" without any explanation isn't very constructive.

> If the grammar rules you learned in school disagree with (any!) native speaker, the rules are wrong. I understand the sentiment of "the language is defined by its speakers", but …