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Re:Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021) on Monday October 28, 2024 @02:49AM (#41968355)
This is why it annoys me when journalists say P!=NP is about scheduling flights.
If I leave other people’s stuff that I promised to take care of on the street and it gets stolen, I would be to blame.
> It's a solved problem on the CPU side of things

Is it? gestures at pile of cpu bugs

Re:Ethernet over HTTPS Protocol on Saturday December 30, 2023 @09:19AM (#38815441)
I always assumed you had to talk your way into some committee to submit one of these. Apparently it’s wide open. But why do it? Resume padding?
> common sense

75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?

Re:Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:05AM (#38405305)
Some people may prefer that to “oh no, Steam did rm -rf $typo/“
This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.
“Using modern experiment frameworks, all 3 of ideas can be safely tested at once, using parallel A/B tests (see chart).”

Nooo! First, if one actually works, you’ve massively increased the “noise” for the other experiments, so your significance calculation is now off. Second, xkcd 882.

SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.
Noob question: the Top type here is exactly the Node constructor of the stree type. It seems useful to declare a type that is “this ADT, but limited to these constructors”, but even Haskell seems to avoid it. Why?
strace -e open
Re:Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:16AM (#36307182)
I think it was 2x total speedup vs previous version, which already used gpu for “most” things, so the real speedup is 2/(1-most), which could be a lot.
Re:Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:04AM (#36239900)
It’s not football. The parties will balance, sure, but the policy, uh, hyperplane will have shifted.
Re:HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:54AM (#36209134)
The mustache beefed up to fill in for Homer’s nose in profile. Mwah.
Re:A Flexible Type System for Fearless Concurrency on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:05AM (#35936257)
I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?
The choice of computer is just an additive constant.
Re:Local License Key Verification on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:34AM (#35698264)
I remember some tool or other used 128-bit RSA back in the day.
Re:91% of ML Models Degrade over Time on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:58AM (#35566370)
> Another critical decision is that they only investigated pairs of model-dataset with good initial performance.

groan

Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users on Monday March 20, 2023 @03:30AM (#35228369)
The blacklist is visible on the about page of each instance. Feel free to go sample a few. The first one I tried had literal swastikas in the user name of the first post. It went downhill from there.
It’s not immediately clear what stops me from preparing k-1 sybils?
Same problem as “hash the PIN code”, an attacker can run the algorithm for Alexa-1M.csv.
To get the sale? It seems to have worked. Truth is orthogonal.
That’s odd. I remember using it in the 90s. It’s the obvious way to do things if you don’t like small objects.

(Also GPUI seems to be retained, so completely unrelated.)

Re:All Books and Science Publications Are Available in IPFS on Monday February 27, 2023 @03:37AM (#34954293)
Is this a copy of libgen or just a frontend with a tip jar?
I assume https://xkcd.com/1958/ (2018) was in response to this.
> “The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up“

Higher than population average. Do you have any evidence that it is higher than people who are denied treatment?

Re:Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:07PM (#33845003)
type robotname = string & {_robotname_marker:true}

or some variation. The marker does not actually need to exist.

Wait, are writers incentivized to get “scrolls” now?!
Re:NopeCHA: Captcha Solver on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:15AM (#33771357)
“If it were truly AI, then they would make more money offering their own CAPTCHA service instead of a CAPTCHA-breaking service.”

Please elaborate.

“workers (ie humans)”

Do you know what we call a process that takes tasks from a queue?

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