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Post by cherryteastain »

spacemule wrote: post #691
cherryteastain wrote: post #234

Rip 4chan. For all the bad it did, 4chan also made at least one real contribution to science [1], specifically to the study of superpermutations (aka the Haruhi problem), which was cited by genuine academics. We should try to remember it by that. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anim...

I'm not understanding the issue. The article isn't so clear to me. Would you mind clarifying what problem they solved? Per my understanding, there is a show with 14 episodes that the viewer wants to watch in every order possible. How is this not just 14 factorial? I know this can't be the problem, but it's just not clear to me from the article. Edit: I found this link that explains it to anyone else as confused as I…

Given a set of characters, find the shortest string with all permutations of that set. With 2 characters a,b the answer would be "aba", length 3 (not 2! like you suggested).

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Post by worble »

rapidaneurism wrote: post #708
emmelaich wrote: post #621

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There's a related, more polite version of "are you retarded" which is not uncommon even here on HN. It is "I'm confused" . I don't know whether it's a phrase that I'm over analysing, but it always comes across as disingenuous to me. The responder is never actually confused, they have a question that they should just ask.

Haha, I do the I'm confused, but that is: 1 me being polite and not calling you an idiot. 2 me hedging my bets in case I am the idiot.

Yeah I definitely do that too. I've never really thought about why I use that language, but thinking about it, it feels like a short hand and slightly politer way of saying

> I think you're wrong

> Here's why I think you're wrong

> Please correct me if I've misunderstood something

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Post by amadeuspagel »

emmelaich wrote: post #621
ryandrake wrote: post #560

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Speaking of the meta-realm, I've always wondered how messages in forum flamewars always seemed to gravitate toward a very specific pattern: You see this pattern all over the Internet. For example, from that bodybuilding.com thread: Are you retarded? [personal insult] Maybe you should look at a calander, I didn't double count sunday, my two weeks started and ended on sunday, exactly 14 days. [the point] What don't you…

There's a related, more polite version of "are you retarded" which is not uncommon even here on HN. It is "I'm confused" . I don't know whether it's a phrase that I'm over analysing, but it always comes across as disingenuous to me. The responder is never actually confused, they have a question that they should just ask.

There's also "I'm retarded" or "Retard here".

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Post by YurgenJurgensen »

hotfist wrote: post #287
MattDemers wrote: post #111

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I think people also don't acknowledge how much terminology, slang and other culture originate and spread there. When it breaches into Twitter (usually through funposters) people kind of ignore the unsavoury origin and rewrite the history. The anonymous nature kind of provides that petri dish of "if it's strong culture, it'll survive or be modified."

This absolutely was the case for a long time. It was the cultural center of the internet where nearly all memes sprang from or gained traction and context before leaving orbit for the greater internet. That has not been the case for years though. I'd say it shifted to twitter as things shifted to inseparably political on almost all of 4chan maybe 6-8 years back and then shifted away from twitter a while after elon bo…

‘Slop’ was a 2024 Oxford Dictionary word-of-the-year candidate, and what most of the people using it probably don’t realise is that it originated on 4chan as an abbreviation of ‘goyslop’.

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Post by bouncycastle »

xattt wrote: post #550
robotnikman wrote: post #397

I did some digging and the hacker posted which exploit he used. Apparently some boards allowed uploading PDF files, but the site never checked if the PDF file was an actual PDF file. Once a PDF file was uploaded it was passed to a version of Ghostscript from 2012 which would generate a thumbnail. So the attacker found an exploit where uploading a PDF with the right PostScript commands could give the attacker shell ac…

> could give the attacker shell access. How do these exploits work? Does it open an SSH port somewhere or does it show up as a browser-based terminal?

most likely "shell access" was confused with execution of "shellcode" which is a type of code, typically bytecode, that gets injected by the hacker and the server gets tricked into executing it. Once it's executed, it can do anything, leave new files, open ports, disable firewalls, change the admin password, etc

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Post by bayindirh »

raxxorraxor wrote: post #714
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #581

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>If cars (the non-software parts) were made like this, there would be millions of them breaking down by the side of the road daily. I’m an automotive CE… we’re getting there. Cars used to be DONE at lots… now, there are weeks to finish code before the customer lays hands on, and that time is factored in now. Worse with OTA updates. Now, so long as it’s fixed if enough customers complain that’s good enough. Cars used…

> Then some morons connected them to the internet for no good reasons. Bad engineering at this point. To be fair, we could have had good car OS, good smartphone OS. But we didn't because everyone wanted to have their own pie castle. Imagine a smartphone that was actually useful. Or a car OS that supports you with repairs. Possible, but not wanted by manufacturers.

Use a proper RTOS kernel with a good UI layer, and see all the developers complain loudly because they can't use the latest mobile phone stacks on that robust platform.

Sony boots a RTOS Linux system on their cameras in 3 seconds flat, and the firmware is arguably mission critical for that camera. It can be done for an infotainment system.

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Post by gsck »

B1FF_PSUVM wrote: post #567
TZubiri wrote: post #481

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0,1,2,3 That's 5

"Five is right out"

Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

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Post by emmelaich »

dbuder wrote: post #693
thinkingemote wrote: post #686

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"I really don't understand why people would think X" is another example but I think there may be some expression of non-understanding. "So retarted it doesnt make sense." Similar, "are you a n*zi" never seen here but as a simple but clever "Could you elaborate?" often as a reply to a polite but ambiguous comment. It's basically bait for the ambiguous commenter to confirm or deny the morality of their comment.

"genuinely curious" is the new one I see everywhere lately.

Yes! Like "real question" it should be redundant.

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Post by immibis »

codexon wrote: post #512
immibis wrote: post #470

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Is there any evidence that most of Reddit is actually real people (paid shills and bots don't count)?

reddit may have shills and bots but even if they were 90% of the population, they still have way more users than anything like voat, saidit, etc...

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