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> An AI generates a game. But it hasn't! This is just another step in the BS storm coming out of the latest AI hype. The language model has reproduced something that has existed be…

(Feb 2022)

> > It hasn't aged well. > You’re wrong, it’s aged quite well. Part of the problem is that there are many people in the field of security with overly strong opinions. This is not h…

And sometimes that's what provides the edge over your competition.

> This is a lie Please check out what the word "lie" means and until then stop using the word. Hint: The post you replied to did not claim something of which they know that it's no…

> I am paid to write code not sit in 10 meetings a day. If I raise the issue everyone gets all pouty. Then it's time to move on. This is not a way mature adults should be handling …

> a concrete helmet is literally worse than useless. Is it? It would still absorb energy upon impact. Which, in contrast to popular belief about bike helmets, is its main function.…

> The stationed troops and machines were not nearly enough to handle the situation, see my sibling comments. You can't suppress protests of several millions with 300k not-so-willin…

Transport them? What are you talking about? The Soviets had bases all over the place in Eastern Europe. The case being discussed here, Eastern Germany, was just behind the iron cur…

Playing devil's advocate .. it will also get the kids more disconnected from the natural environment that we're embedded in, after all. You know those statistics of so-and-so-many …

While I appreciate the hacking potential here .. I fail to see the point beyond it. You won't save any money over buying the salad at an expensive organic store. You won't help the…

> For me, hydroponics really drove home how remarkable plants are: from a bin containing nothing but water and salts, a fully-formed plant emerges. I feel this is a remarkably unde…

> If this law, all by itself, was perfectly enforced, the UK would bankrupt itself just on the extra spending in the prison system. That conclusion ignores the interdependence of t…

It saddens me how many smart people are working in such an unethical field.

> The problem is that what's employable isn't actually computer science, but trendy industry nonsense... You may be going a bit hard on the industry. I see where you're coming from…

Check out this paper: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as... Page 2 gives some background in how Turing's work fit into the problems that Church and Hilber…

> There are still some areas I have not covered, because they have never been of much importance for my work I think that's a main difference. With a degree you tend to learn / get…

Where do we find your podcast? http://localhost/ shows really weird contents, I probably have the wrong URL.

Sometimes I'm wondering whether this is the future, or whether we (as an industry teaching the next generation) are taking shortcuts that will hurt us in the long run. Honest quest…

A solution is to have somebody in each FE team with a "that's what the masses use" device. Screen-wise, CPU-wise, RAM-wise, network b/w wise. And let them use it as a primary dev d…

GP may have meant that this is useful outside of bisecting something in the main branch. For example, you may want to get your tree in one of the intermittent states and play aroun…

> since 7 doesn't increase cleanly, I probably have to custom-code the final update to 100 manually, What do you mean with "not cleanly"? bar.update_smooth(i * 100 / 7) Once i is 7…

I've used quoted searches now and then in the past, as recently as last week or so, and it definitely did not work. There were no usable results, none of the results shown did cont…

Hm? The nukes dropped in august 1945. Nazi Germany had long surrendered by then. In part because the Red Army had come all the way to Berlin.

Unfortunately, having a big name from MIT on your grant application as co-applicant significantly increases your chances for funding. You get the money and do the majority of the w…