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macrael

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About macrael

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    Comment #49244601

    In this case I would try and have the old resource url display a page that links to the two new resources. It’s not that the content of a page should never change but that links in…

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    Comment #46357625

    I think it quickly needs to become good manners to indicate when text was written by AI rather than a person. I read that text differently and I shouldn't have to spend my time gue…

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    Comment #45842318

    Apple actually attests to signatures of every single binary they install on their machines, before soft booting into a mode where no further executables can be installed: https://s…

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    Comment #45842254

    Great questions! 1. The mechanics of the protocol are that a client will check that the software attested to has been released on a transparency log. dm-verity is what enforces tha…

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    Comment #45840442

    I'm happy to be careful, you are right we are relying on TEEs and vTPMs as roots of trust here and TEEs have been compromised by attackers with physical access. This is actually pa…

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    Comment #45838336

    Howdy, head of Eng at confident.security here, so excited to see this out there. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by inference provider here? The inference workload is not s…

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    Comment #44321374

    Happy Juneteenth! A reminder that we can change as a country. May we never have to liberate by war again.

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    Comment #43165893

    OP found no correlation between railway proximity and quality

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    Comment #43165890

    OP found no correlation between railway proximity and quality

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    Comment #43165882

    OP found no correlation between railway proximity and quality

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    Comment #43164886

    OP found no correlation between railway proximity and quality

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    Comment #43164881

    OP found no correlation

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    Comment #43164874

    LOL we may need to update the title of this post, half the top level comments right now are assuming the study confirmed the hypothesis. > With a mighty Pearson's correlation of 0.…

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    Comment #42978351

    I liked this YouTube video from the blue site: https://www.metafilter.com/206671/The-Greatest-Showman-Richa... A very well researched dive into how his legend came to be, some of t…

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    Comment #42927471

    American here, nope! It was a huge deal. An attempt to disrupt the peaceful transition of power. Not sure what other examples you think were on par but it was the kind of big deal …

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    Comment #42045952

    From the public results only[1] (I don't have a copy of the whole study) they studied the following things looking for correlation with brain decline: * short sleep duration * slee…

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    Comment #41533248

    At least they aren't forcing all of us to build pyramids for them yet

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    Comment #41503810

    Very cool story. The technical bit at the heart of it, that Mark applied stats to determine the safe amount of column supports for ceilings rather than relying on various engineeri…

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    Comment #41217360

    Wow I didn’t know there was a solution where you always weigh 4v4. I’ve only ever solved it with weighings that eliminate coins, never with a sum at the end

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    Comment #41176958

    No! It’s just bad management. There is not some secret 4D chess to discover here. A paranoid billionaire with a ketamine problem is running Twitter into the ground. I think Howard …

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    Comment #40982785

    Write scripts in whatever tooling you have setup for your app. In a typescript codebase, I write typescript scripts. In a go codebase I write go scripts. It's so easy to write a co…

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    Comment #40982776

    use mypy!

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    Comment #40980269

    So good, and I love this SMBC take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJS76Bf-ZYo