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Comment · 7 hours ago
Nothing, but that extension would be flagged as "unknown" or "third-party" source or something and you'd get a big warning before proceeding to install it.

Also, a basic scan of the package would have flagged an ssh backdoor, no? It didn't seem to me like its obfuscation was very sophisticated.

Comment · 9 hours ago
You don't need to force everyone, both an coexist in this context. I do believe a company with nearly a trillion dollars of planned expenditure can afford to buy a domain and renew it prior to expiration.
Comment · 9 hours ago
You are correct that I mixed those up. In any case, my point still stands modulo my incorrect use of terminology.
Comment · 22 hours ago
This is absolutely false. But I understand why someone would believe that in this joke of an industry where all the liability often falls on the user.
Comment · 23 hours ago
This is a solved problem, just look at how EFF's certbot works. You cannot just claim that you are porn.com unless you put a payload there that matches what the bot expects.
Comment · 23 hours ago
> saying it will cover all losses from the hack and is working with law enforcement officials to identify who is responsible.

Isn't Binance the one that needs to be prosecuted for negligent security? How does "a compromised laptop" lead to a $6bn wipe in a matter of minutes?

This is why banks are regulated, though I have no idea if/whether these platforms are regulated in any similar way.

Comment · 3 days ago
Interesting, thanks for the clarification. I am on a vpn, so yeah, my IP is probably flagged. But disconnecting from the vpn is not exactly a good trade-off either.
Comment · 4 days ago
Privacy fears from people who didn't see the irony of surrendering their phone number to a company to chat with someone on the Internet.
Comment · 4 days ago
Yes, that is what I meant, thanks.
Comment · 4 days ago
For rasterization, I would recommend: https://pikuma.com/courses/learn-3d-computer-graphics-progra...

If the video format is not for you, I would at least follow the contents, then look up the individual pieces. The black book has a number of them: https://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/

For ray tracing, Ray Tracing from the Ground Up: https://www.amazon.in/Ray-Tracing-Ground-Kevin-Suffern/dp/15...

Then people will jump in to say that the PBRT book (https://www.pbrt.org/) is a better or more comprehensive source, and it is true, but my opinion is that From the Ground Up is easier to get started with.

Comment · 4 days ago
Maybe gp should try squeezing it through the other major cavity of the body. Might have some extra room there.

Edit: guys, come up, muster some sense of humor. This screen is only 14" after all.

Comment · 4 days ago
I've learned more graphics writing software rasterizers and ray tracers than using any APIs. If the goal is to teach GPU rendering specifically, then OpenGL is indeed more amenable to teaching than the others. But if the goal is to teach graphics and rendering concepts, then OpenGL et al are just miserable and counter-productive.
Comment · 6 days ago
TIL: benchmaxxing, aka overfitting?
Comment · 6 days ago
> who don't want to build a multi-thousand dollar rig

Right. Microsoft's handheld is just shy over $1000.

Comment · 6 days ago
That is not the point of the article, though. He posits AI will just do better than humans soon, and he no longer knows whether people should even study math (from the article). So the point is that pursuing those studies is no longer useful; how or whether you grade is irrelevant at that point. (To be clear, I am not defending the statement, just explaining what I understood.)

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