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This is a layer on top of normal security, so this isn't a matter of compromising the "brain" instead of RBAC, etc, but in addition to . Attribute-based access control is already a…

Ah yes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that famous election security wing of the US Government

> A compiler will "correctly" process input into unintuitive output, but that's not always what the user intended Importantly, this behavior is deterministic. If the compiler takes…

Forced arbitration seems to be legally enforceable, and I don't see why this would be any different, but IANAL

> Our entire small team thumbs up a PR before it's merged unless there's a big rush on it, and this gives everyone on the team a rough idea of the state of the codebase at any give…

> I got some people who mentioned an Acronym (the project they supported "for years") and asked them to define it, and they couldn't. That could be a valid test, but I do a lot of …

This site certainly makes some interesting usability choices. When the page loads, the article takes up about 25% of the screen, on the bottom right. It's basically in the exact pl…

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They love programs that benefit them, and hate programs that benefit the "wrong" people. Also, the definition of "wrong people" is very easy to guess.

You're asking a question that only applies to rational actors. Corporations exist for one purpose: to get as much money as possible. Side concerns, which can range from "not destro…

People like Altman and Musk are saying that Universal Basic Income will be necessary once AI has fully automated away most jobs, but at the same time they aggressively fight agains…

Nothing about this screams LLM; it's very clearly a riff on Just fucking use HTML and Just Fucking Use Postgres https://justfuckingusehtml.com/ https://www.justfuckingusepostgres.c…

I like go, but a lot of little things stop me from loving it. Like, enums. I get a lot out of the box when I use an enum in Java or Kotlin. Converting to/from a String is trivial. …

> and what iphone model do these americans have? A smartphone is not an optional component of modern life. You need a smartphone to apply for many minimum wage jobs now

Peptides can have very powerful effects. Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) is a peptide, and it's probably the most exciting pharmaceutical in a generation. There are also peptides …

This is a preview of what's to come, but not in the way people think. Oracle has dumped billions of dollars into AI, and planned to be the source of choice to build out AI data cen…

I had to check if it was April Fool's Day

Anecdotally, I haven't seen any real improvement from the AI tools I leverage. They're all good-ish at what they do, but all still lie occasionally, and all need babysitting. I als…

This is what the internet was supposed to be

I am baffled that a site called "grub street" believes anyone is going to subscribe to their newsletter after zero free articles.

I'm not an expert in digital footprint-hiding, but it's probably a good idea to replace / remove the SIM card as well. A factory reset will leave data laying around, just not acces…

> I have a hot take that MAHA is a modern eugenics movement The right wing in America isn't trying to improve the population, they're grifting and hoping that 1. they won't face th…

There is a massive difference between requiring scientifically, medically proven vaccines that have demonstrably ended terrible diseases that once absolutely ravaged our population…

The anti-vax movement was built entirely on a foundation of fraud [1]. That leaves us with two main categories of people who are anti-vaccination: 1. People who are ignorant 2. Peo…

Not OP: sure, just bookmark it