GranularRecipe

Joined 7 years ago

Karma
454
Submissions
109
Member since
Jan 31
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 3 months ago
> Yet it is very successful in all its predictions. So obviously the Popperian "falsifiability" is too simple a criteria for science.

Those two sentences contradict each other. If something unobservable implies some observable, i.e. predictable, consequences, then falsifying these predictions would also falsify the unobservable antecedents.

Comment · 3 months ago
I guess there is an inverse effect to bubbles (things go linearly up and then abruptly down), where nothing happens for a long time until all things happen at once.
Comment · 11 months ago
What I find interesting is the implicit priorisation: explainability, (human) accountability, lawfulness, fairness, safety, sustainability, data privacy and non-military use.
Comment · 1 year ago
Is this a new policy? Otherwise, why this sudden and broad implementation so that "suddenly none of the IT employees at the agency could do their jobs properly anymore" (according to the source).
Comment · 1 year ago
> Removing admin from people who don't need it is 100% the correct thing to do according to any IT guidelines you could quote. And of course, every single user will whine that they're special and really really need it.

You assume that "suddenly none of the IT employees at the agency could do their jobs properly anymore" is whining and not substantial?

Shouldn't be least privilege principle a culture (a standardised and automated process) and not something that happens ad hoc?

Comment · 1 year ago
The first month after March equinox has great religious significance across many cultures (in the temperate zone), e.g. Pesach. When different cultures meet, they tend to syncretise.
Comment · 1 year ago
That's the trade-off between efficiency and resilience. Another example are the egg prices in US. The industrialisation of agriculture made it more brittle.
Comment · 1 year ago
Where did you register yourself as an expert? Asking for a friend.
Comment · 1 year ago
In covalent bonds, it's two electrons one pair. Metallic bonds are more polyamorous.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton