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I'm old enough to remember calculators being banned from the classroom because "you won't always have one in your pocket"

Anecdotal as it may be, an investor in a company I used to work for was from Wuhan. He paid $80k USD to get out of the country in December 2019. They knew it was bad then and anyone who could was fleeing.

I've written safety-critical firmware. You'd be surprised :D

If everyone is a little bit responsible then no one is fully responsible.

It’s like dieselgate. Or the Pornhub chaos.

The VP’s tell the directors to get it done. The directors get it done.

There’s a liability force field and those that protect and serve are elevated.

The sky is in fact black at the moment.

Bit of a green hue towards downtown, regional bank creating the Aurora Desjardins

A lot of sites are moving to OTP instead of passwords now.

Make Auth Gmail’s problem.

It’s not a horrible idea in theory.

The best interview question I've learned to ask.

I used to manage the team that built textual scan tools for PornHub.

12 times a second (out of about 5000 uncached requests per second) we caught this shit.

How slow is this?

I need to get around to making a new pihole.

My last one did it over tor and wasn’t noticeably slow

I don't know where you're at but where I live the cops don't investigate petty theft unless there's violence involved.

Godaddy really should be doing this by default.

Alright I'll admit when I'm hilariously out of my league.

The point of the post was mostly "people are state machines too" and arguing we don't even know what we are, how will we evaluate AI? Google was giving me actual results every time I searched, and my pattern-matching-happy brain went along with it :D

I spent a few hours trying to build a quantum markov chain. Working theory was that directing the phase when words appear in the same sentence meant interference would cancel out different meanings of a word.

Then I loaded a Dr Seuss book and `cirq` tried to allocate 64 Petabytes. It doesn't even matter at that point.

Fair enough. I know guys have that gone there. This was a much smaller amateur track in rural Canada.

It’s nice when it’s busy.

When it’s not the cops spend more time hassling cyclists than people openly using meth because « we asked for more enforcement »