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Since ELIZA, the more we try to apply the Turing Test, the more evidence we get that the Turing Test about human gullibility, rather than saying anything meaningful about the machi…

Moderators seem to have not enough to do. They closed my 16 year (!) old question and added comment: > Do not include solution to question please (post a separate answer instead). …

They get their own build. E.g. * GeForce NOW SDK: https://developer.geforcenow.com/learn/guides/offerings-sdk * Stadia SDK: developer.stadia.com (offline) * Xbox Cloud Gaming: http…

It has nothing to so with NTFS, but all with the Win32 API. The Windows kernel supports this file model, proven by WSL1. There is a blog post somewhere (Old New Thing?) stating the…

This is the WolfSSL maintainer's response[1] > This ticket is rather long and has a lot of irrelevant content regarding this new topic. If I need to bring in a colleague I do not w…

Reminds me of prompt injection: A tool that cannot distinguish between data and instructions.

The time advantage of faking a scan becomes better the more pages you have to scan. https://xkcd.com/1205/

It doesn't matter whether OSS is American (in whatever sense) -- anything that is America-specific (e.g. server addresses) can be patched for a localized European version. The diff…

Live tiles are nearly universally praised in retrospect, but it might be a case of hindsight bias [1]. The video [2] brings up some problems of the concept and why no other company…

The patent expired, but the minifigs is also a EU 3D trademark. This is not possible for the brick which (only) serves a technical function, namely to hold on each other. Trademark…

What is your alternative explanation for why people rent public storage space? Urban growth and growth in suburbs are not mutually exclusive.

Changing execution behaviour based on filename is common in Linux environments too. Some examples: 1. BusyBox is a single executable that executes different commands based on which…

From the GitHub issue it becomes clear that blocking happens by the EasyPrivacy blocklist. The blocked URL youtube.com/api/stats/atr is/can also be used for tracking users, this is…

Please don't downvote comments only because you don't like their opinion (reply to them instead). It cannot be that the same opinion is valueable when someone famous write it [1]. …

Sounds like feature creep. Zip is not a database, at best its just slow. Use a archive utility to handle archives.

Is it just me or does the talk actually confirm all its Python "myths and fairy tales"?

They absolutely do have that infrastructure. They implemented every country's content rating system, such as PEGI, ESRB, ... . Games are regionally banned, such as in Germany [1]. …

https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496101927181-What... I don't think there is an official list. It is security-related and changes over time

GMail (and Fastmail) are rendering the email. It just happens that the email and we webbrowser are both HTML. In no case should they just literally forward the email HTML to the br…

There is also market separation in play: For the base service you only charge cost+small margin. For higher service levels you charge higher profit margins even though the addition…

Researchers trained a deep learning network on photos to make GTA5 more realistic-looking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0 I was surprised that most of it is is just to…

It will also compress worse, making it less like a zip bomb and more like a huge document. Nothing against that, but the article's trick is just to stop a parser to bail early.

Just learned about the ellipsis statement and the !a modifier (I already knew !r and !s).

Result from game discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43745868