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Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

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Re: Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

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Post by ionwake »

voidhorse wrote: post #818
ionwake wrote: post #813

Its bizarre how easy it to make smart people on HN just assume people who are doing something weird are just low IQ. Its almost weirdly a personality trait that a trained programmer just goes around believing everyone around him doesnt understand what way the wind blows. Government installation for backups for a government ruled by a weird religious sect, have no offsite backups, it goes up in flames? Well clearly th…

It's a common problem in any field that presumably revolves around intellect, since supposedly being smarter gets you further (it may, but it is not enough on its lonesome). People, in general, severely overestimate their own intelligence and grossly underestimate the intelligence of others. Consider for a moment that most of the geniuses on hacker news are not even smart enough to wonder whether or not something lik…

Is there a better word/assessment for "ability"?

Just wondering what it would be, just "success" in a domain?

I agree with you just wondering

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Post by torben-friis »

alsetmusic wrote: post #489
schrodinger wrote: post #481

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I have sympathy for those affected but this article is disingenuous. I speak Spanish and have just gone to 3 or 4 Spanish news sites, and passed their articles through to ChatGPT to translate "faithfully and literally, maintaining everything including the original tone." First it gave a "verbatim, literal English translation" and then asked me if I would like "a version that reads naturally in English (but still fait…

What isn't tested here, and what I can't test myself as a mono-linguist, is how well english is translated to other languages. I'm sure it's passable, but I absolutely expect it to be less sufficient because most of the people working on this live in the USA / speak english and work the most on that. I want to know how it holds up translating Spanish to Farsi, for example.

Spanish is probably the most likely language to be succesful (due to the amount of spanish speakers in the US). Still English to Spanish, while passable, is very clearly not something that passes for native speech.

Funnily enough, I'd say it reads like most of my American friends here in Spain - the best way I can put it is, it's fluid spanish from a brain that is working natively in English and translating on the fly, rather than a mind thinking in Spanish.

This is obvious to me because I speak both languages, so I can trace back in my mind the original, native English phrase that resulted in a specific weird spanish expression. a Spanish monolingual can probably only tell that it doesn't sound native.

The important point though, is that there is no significant loss of meaning other than the text being annoying to read. it won't work for literature but it's perfectly serviceable for pragmatic needs.

Re: Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

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Post by lima »

whatevaa wrote: post #778
lima wrote: post #143

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What do you mean by "consumer clouds"?

I refer to stuff like onedrive/gdrive/dropbox.

It's certainly not the case for Google Drive, which is geo-replicated, and I would be very surprised if it's true for any other major cloud.

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Post by __bjoernd »

f1shy wrote: post #727
greybeard69 wrote: post #706

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wild speculation and conjecture

Not wild. When you live in Germany and are asked to send a FAX (and not a mail, please). Or a digital birth certificate is not accepted until you come with lawyers, or banks not willing to operate with Apple pay, just to name few.. Speculation, yes, but not at all wild

I'm German and in my 45 years of being so have never been required to send a fax. Snail mail yes, but never a fax.

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arcfour wrote: post #924
alluro2 wrote: post #917

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It's quite wild to think how US wouldn't want access to their data on a plate, through AWS/GCP/Azure. You must not be aware of the last decade of news when it comes to US and security.

The US and South Korea are allies, and SK doesn't have much particular strategic value that I'm aware of? At least not anything they wouldn't already be sharing with the US? Can you articulate what particular advantages the US would be pursuing by stealing SK secret data (assuming it was not protected sufficiently on AWS/GCP to prevent this, and assuming that platform security features have to be defeated to extract…

Airbus was spied on by NSA For the benefit of Boeing: https://apnews.com/general-news-e88c3d44c2f347b2baa5f2fe508f...

Why do you think USA wouldn't lie, cheat and spy on someone if it had a benefit in it?

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