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Comment · 1 year ago
hearsay
Comment · 1 year ago
you have my IP address and my Accept-Language header, that should be enough for a clever person
Comment · 1 year ago
"Because of how PostgreSQL string escaping routines handle invalid UTF-8 characters, in combination with how invalid byte sequences within the invalid UTF-8 characters are processed by psql, an attacker can leverage CVE-2025-1094 to generate a SQL injection."

UTF-8 and its consequences have been a disaster for information security

Comment · 1 year ago
seems like delaware can't scare tech companies out of re-incorporating any faster
Comment · 1 year ago
rather, homosexuality as a secondary non-lifestyle, non-professed interest, often in one-off scenarios, is WAY more common than culture would like to admit, and the intelligence agencies are in the perfect position to precisely observe that fact.
Comment · 1 year ago
abolish knowledge rentiers
Comment · 1 year ago
by the arbitrary scenario's description, they are the same strength
Comment · 1 year ago
This needs to be top level since a lot of people aren't even looking at where it happened.

The neighborhood it occurred in is 95% black. This isn't racial profiling.

Is the existence of such a neighborhood awful and downstream of prior generations of racial issues? Sure is.

Don't invent things out of thin air to match your priors, that doesn't help your cause at all.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is an age where you can write your own LLM extension.

There's no moat, all the clever prompting tricks Cursor et al. are just that - there is no secret sauce besides the model at the other end.

Complexity isn't an issue either, have the model write the interface to itself.

Comment · 1 year ago
WASD is more of a mouse+keyboard thing since in a standard desk layout you can't extend your arms nicely

ZXCV(ASDF)+arrows I would say is more standard for non-mouse games with keyboard bindings, cave story and touhou both go this route.

Comment · 1 year ago
Google HR is on the record doing this.

I guess shutting one's eyes is an alternative way of seeing the real world, in a way.

Comment · 1 year ago
Where do white males go? Obviously they can't go to Google...
Comment · 1 year ago
i know it's easier to just drop the internet tarball on the transformer, but at some point we need to just be giving these models grade school math homework and times tables.
Comment · 1 year ago
This belongs to the class of bugs/"features" that one could refer to as "Superman 3" issues.

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