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Something that Python gets right is that their entire docs site is versioned - select 2.7.18, for example, and you get the 2.7 docs right down to the tutorial. The Python developme…

For highly complex technologies that require tons of capex to get anywhere, Chinese firms are perfectly happy to depend on foreign companies if they are allowed to. Chinese chipmak…

The biggest problem I find with AI writing is that it overemphasizes everything - making absolutely everything it does sound incredibly important and critical. This is very, very e…

Yep! Then you’ll never need to train any students ever again. So…are you planning to hire only seniors who already know everything? Where do these seniors come from?

Rejection works when there are multiple tiers of venues; authors often “give up” on a venue if it seems like their work isn’t getting in, which allows higher-tier conferences to ma…

The "Chinese social credit" system is vastly overblown. I'm living here (China, Beijing and Jiangsu) now, and there are exactly two cases in the past eight months where the "social…

At this point, in the field of AI research: - papers are written by AI (as pointed out in this article, and as obvious to anyone who spends a while actually reading recent AI resea…

Well, that's too bad; as the main developer of https://github.com/nneonneo/ghidra-wasm-plugin it would have been really nice to get better support for all the new features that hav…

This exact technique has been around for a while; there are even government resources warning about it (e.g. https://www.michigan.gov/msp/divisions/intel-ops/cyber/mc3/c... - April…

The remaining risk now is that a patient, malicious actor could put out a new, clean source-only release, wait for ~7 days for people to decide it's safe and update to that version…

Oh and one little thing - the first input should be Graphic+Shift+M, not Graphic+Shift+=. (The later mention of Graphic+Shift+= when I test the codes is still correct). I corrected…

I believe the argument is that the passthrough fees can vary by location in a way that makes it hard to produce a precise fee calculation on promotional material. As a random examp…

Yes, I'd be happy if you did so! I tried adding a reply but since I don't yet have a Mastodon account (hopefully soon to be resolved), I resorted to just posting here instead. Here…

Bonus: Here's what all of the tokens >= 0x80 render as, including the corrupt ones: 128 0x80 b'END' 129 0x81 b'FOR' 130 0x82 b'NEXT' 131 0x83 b'DATA' 132 0x84 b'BYE' 133 0x85 b'INP…

Hmm, based on the (handwritten!) notes on Table F-2 in http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/exidy/DP500... , it looks like pressing Graphic+key would allow you to enter…

Given the wild but apparently "consistent" numbers I wonder if we could reverse-engineer the wrong algorithm with enough data points? Maybe the proper cost estimate has some relati…

https://archive.is/zduXN

A Russian friend living in Japan noted that, at least as of a decade ago, a decent number of government services (for citizens) allowed something like 6 characters max for the enti…

This is a dense article but what seems reasonably clear is that someone is pushing hard for an insecure standard. There’s no reason at this point to put all your cryptographic eggs…

You may want to consider that your Group B employee may be conscientious and reliable because they use an apparently “frustrating and inefficient” process. Productive friction is a…

I’m guessing the obvious fakeness of the request is part of it: they’re testing to see if anyone is paying attention. Maybe the author doesn’t care if it gets taken down after four…

TBH - for me, it’s an opportunity to do a different kind of exam, with a level of interactivity and realism that isn’t possible with paper exams. It is possible but much more annoy…

I'm reminded of TIS-100, a game where you program a cluster of tiny, parallel CPUs using a custom assembly language. It's painful to get basic stuff done, but you can do some amazi…

I'm sure you're exaggerating, but the exam process in a CBTF is pretty lightweight. Students arrive, drop off their bags and phone etc., check in (swipe an ID card, get their pictu…

The machines are connected via Ethernet (reliability!) but our exams are hosted on Internet sites like PrairieLearn and Canvas. Those are a lot easier to work with than, say, havin…