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Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by anoonmoose »

ethbr0 wrote: post #50
anoonmoose wrote: post #40

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All three of the warnings and concerns you provided are extremely mild compared to the warning/concern that should actually be attached to this post: "if you fuck up while working on this you can easily die, and if anyone who doesn't know the danger you have created exists and interacts with it they can easily die". Emphasis on the easily part. Someone trips in the backyard, etc. I understand OP is desperate but I th…

Who are we to weigh the consequences to the poster of a lack of electricity against risk created by jury rigging? And specifically, to make that choice for them? Caveat hacker.

This isn't even a hacker, though! This is a person who isn't capable of doing extremely basic electrical calculations. It'd be a totally different topic if it was a person who I thought fully appreciated the danger of what they're doing. If you can't calculate the voltage drop over a length of cable you should not be wiring your own deadly AC voltages. I'm willing to die on that hill.

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by perth »

netsharc wrote: post #92
gizmo686 wrote: post #60

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Also, the OP pretty much says they are not in Ukraine in a comment: > I think Probably the war will end because Russia and America are busy in Ukraine

Depressing world facts in April 2023: "I'm in a war zone." "Oh yeah, which one?" At least in March 2023 it was "slightly better" that people would go straight to assuming the answer is "Ukraine". Any other active wars going on[1]? Maybe Myanmar.. [1] Result for "active wars in 2023" gives me a page of potential conflicts: https://www.cfr.org/report/conflicts-watch-2023

Don’t forget the not often talked about Colombian Conflict!

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by brianwawok »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #30
brianwawok wrote: post #20

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I mean, every time I call tmobile I am my wife, because only she can make changes on the account. PROVE IM NOT HER OVER A PHONE

That's a false positive vs. false negative distinction too. The GP is concerned that Tmobile allows hackers to impersonate you/your wife on the phone. You're concerned that even after providing all possible account details - password, PIN, last four of her SSN, last bill amount, anything else they might want to ask that's not literally a live biometric scan - they can't distinguish the two of you just because you don…

It's a pretty low bar. I think if you know SSN you are good to go to do anything at Tmo, including a number port. Which means phone as a 2fa is very easy to beat.

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Post by tasuki »

mrguyorama wrote: post #86
piloto_ciego wrote: post #31

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We are. I was an exchange student in Ukraine in high school and the town I lived in periodically gets shelled now… we live immensely privileged and comfortable lives. This is not a bad thing, it’s great, but we should try to make everyone else’s life as good instead of hoarding our privileges.

It's not privilege, millions of people have died defending the right to not be invaded by an asshole neighbor. Don't forget the price people have paid. Some places seem to be less interested in that, because they want to invade their neighbor, and we should be aggressively hostile to that very concept, and anyone who espouses the belief.

> It's not privilege

Why is it not privilege? What is privilege?

Re: As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling

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Post by te0006 »

legitster wrote: post #53
Cherian wrote: post #42

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My life was built on people who helped me out like this. Tangentially, the real MVP is the home depot guy who helps you find the one right-sized screw that costs $0.5….

There's no better reminder that only a thimbleful of useful human knowledge is actually found on the internet. I recently spent 4 hours online trying to solve a carpentry problem and not even knowing what words to use. I finally called my dad and in less than 2 minutes it was solved.

Now _that_ would be a good, hard challenge for ChatGPT and its ilk. Could you post question and correct answer here? Preferrably also something approximating the original version (when you still didn't know the correct technical terms).

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Post by dgunay »

hermannj314 wrote: post #8

Humans seem to as susceptible to prompt hacking as LLMs. "I cant give you this advice because it would be dangerous." "I am in a warzone, it's fine..." "OK, then what you need to do is..." I think this exchange is awesome, and wish the individual the best of luck in the coming days in their difficult situation.

I was able to ask ChatGPT the question verbatim (without any of the parts about being in a warzone). No prompt hacking necessary.

Whether it's right or not, I have no idea since I'm no EE.

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Post by shagie »

eitland wrote: post #104
shagie wrote: post #97

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"If they want to" runs into issues that as a company, they're measuring their success by engagement. Adding that barrier to participation would in turn drive down engagement and advertisement impressions. From the corporate standpoint, doing that (or anything like it) translates into a loss of revenue.

Maybe. Personally I think software engineers are a much more valuable audience than college kids. Also I think a lot of what happened was rampant deletionism, that I personally can't see any good reason for with todays storage prices.

The issue isn't the storage... but rather the difficulty of using a search to find a good question that has been answered.

Do we need 10,000 questions about how to handle a NullPointerException in Java? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/linked/218384?lq=1

If not, then it is probably appropriate to delete more of them and that may be seen as rude by people who have asked a question about a null pointer exception which gets deleted.

We complain about how Google has gotten worse with search because its harder to find the content that we're after... and at the same time say that we want to keep all that content around on Stack Overflow which in turn makes it harder for people to use it as a "this is where you look to find an already answered question."

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Post by borski »

majou wrote: post #110
borski wrote: post #98

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Unless you or your family were the ones that fought, it is privilege. Privilege isn’t a “bad word,” either - it’s okay to have privilege. But acknowledging it’s existence goes a long way toward building humility and understanding the situation of others who don’t have it.

Is it not "be privileged" or to "have privileges"? It's not as though it were quantifiable—"privilege checks" (the decade old boogeymeme) notwithstanding.

Not sure I understand what you mean. I am saying it is good to acknowledge the privileges you have, and/or the fact that you are privileged. Not everybody has privileges, or is privileged, or however you’d like to describe it.

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Post by nibbleshifter »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #54
hermannj314 wrote: post #8

Humans seem to as susceptible to prompt hacking as LLMs. "I cant give you this advice because it would be dangerous." "I am in a warzone, it's fine..." "OK, then what you need to do is..." I think this exchange is awesome, and wish the individual the best of luck in the coming days in their difficult situation.

I'm from Sarajevo, spent two years in civil war as a child. This post brings memories, and yes that's exactly right - things that wouldn't fly in million years in my current home in Canada, were perfectly viable solutions in warzone. Best (worst) example - hand made natural gas lamps: use medical transparent tubing into a tennis ball as distribution joint, with four metal ballpoint pen tubes stuck into it, light the…

> chain smokers tried to light up all kinds of things, up to and including various kinds of tea

I've tried smoke a lot of things, including tea.

Don't recommend it.

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Post by Sharlin »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #54
hermannj314 wrote: post #8

Humans seem to as susceptible to prompt hacking as LLMs. "I cant give you this advice because it would be dangerous." "I am in a warzone, it's fine..." "OK, then what you need to do is..." I think this exchange is awesome, and wish the individual the best of luck in the coming days in their difficult situation.

I'm from Sarajevo, spent two years in civil war as a child. This post brings memories, and yes that's exactly right - things that wouldn't fly in million years in my current home in Canada, were perfectly viable solutions in warzone. Best (worst) example - hand made natural gas lamps: use medical transparent tubing into a tennis ball as distribution joint, with four metal ballpoint pen tubes stuck into it, light the…

> (some experiments did not work out great; chain smokers tried to light up all kinds of things, up to and including various kinds of tea; apparently it's just not the same).

Might satisfy the social and psychological aspects of addiction, but the physiological part is rather difficult to sate without nicotine.

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