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The blog’s suggestions are fine. I’m pointing out that this issue is less about “security” and more a problem of “identity”. And that such issues with identity are likely to increa…

In the movie Sneakers, a whole scene is taken up sending some guy on a date with Mary McDonnell so she could record clips of his voice. Today she'd just need a phone call or his In…

And likewise became EHLO which could also be used as a greeting over the phone if you were you were talking to an email server.

Given the (non-) responsiveness of the page, I’m going with they focused too much on “storage” and not enough on “network attached.”

Childhood card-holding Texan here: can confirm the king's flavor is closer to that of country mesquite smoked BBQ than McDonald's. I mean, it is comparing burgers and briskets, but…

Heh, this one brought a smile - well played.

Yes, we've been using Transkribus for this extensively. My wife is a historian who spends quite a bit of time sorting through old letters and diaries, and it has been a considerabl…

Whereas if we're talking about lossy compression (as is the person to whom you replied) we certainly can compress arbitrary data - almost as much as we want. The hard question, the…

> I do not want a "connection" with a business. That's because we don't make connections with businesses - we make connections with people. That one nice hair dresser. The pharmaci…

Right - and if I ever go to raise VC then that's a guy I'll want to talk to. Even if they themselves don't invest, their recommendation would be valuable. Life's too short to screw…

Agreed. I scanned a short book with my phone, and a dedicated scanner would have been nice to have. But with page flattening and separation and automated capture, it went much fast…

Maybe not years ago, but scanning documents with the phone in your pocket has become incredibly efficient. That combined with AI transcription and indexing for search makes such a …

That’s not necessarily the case. It depends on how autonomous your drone is and what you need to guide it to do…

They're doing transcription, not translation - so, turning someones pages of scrawled script into typewritten text. They have around 20 people nationwide that are able to do this. …

AI had been a super useful for processing historical data. Interviewed a volunteer last month from the diary archive in Germany, and they're using supervised AI for diary transcrip…

Ironically, the reason I used Google the most then was because it indexed Usenet while so many other parts of the Internet offered by the other engines were "slop". My, how the tur…

In general I agree and suspect that memory safety is a tool that will continue to pay dividends for some time. But there are tradeoffs and more ways to write correct and 'safe' cod…

So the intersting question: are we long term safer with "simpler" closer to hardware memory unsafe(ish) environments like Zig, or is the memory safe but more abstract feature set o…

Bananas are like XML that way. If you're not getting the results you want, you're just not using enough of them.

They specifically call out Yingxin Li[1] in the acknowledgements section of the paper? [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/349

Clarification - in the past when I've written high performance data tools in JS, it was almost entirely to support the use case of needing it to run in a browser. Otherwise, there …

As someone who spent hours playing Jedi Knight with friends and lots of mods, allow me to say - thank you :)

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Getting a broad overview of "world history" is useful for having basic context for large events, but, IMHO, history gets so much more interesting and educational when you're deep i…