There are some locks that cannot be opened without the correct key. Abloy and BiLock are two examples.
I assure you, Abloy locks can be picked, e.g. https://youtu.be/oxfUmcMzx08
Readit NewsDamnableNook commented on HP Acquires Humane's AI Software humane.com/media/humane-h... · Posted by u/colesantiago
> Humane’s AI platform Cosmos, backed by an incredible group of engineers, will help us create an intelligent ecosystem across all HP devices from AI PCs to smart printers and connected conference rooms. This will unlock new levels of functionality for our customers and deliver on the promises of AI.
I can't wait for an HP AI printer
“It looks like you are printing out a document that our AI detected ans urgent. Please subscribe to our Urgent Document print plan for $30/month (billed centennially) to re-enable printing.”
DamnableNook commented on M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS eclecticlight.co/2024/11/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
The final straw for me was Apple deprecating modern OpenGL. There's no quick and easy solution to migrating even to Metal. So, they shafted us, and I'll never recommend another game developer bother with an Apple device ever again.
Use Windows for games.
But wasn’t macOS the only major gaming-relevant platform still using OpenGL anyway? If you’re already writing a Mac-specific backend, why not just write directly for Metal instead of OpenGL? Or, at the least, write for Vulkan and use a translation layer like MoltenVK?
There's a really great Radiolab podcast Dealing with Doubt[0] that talks about how high level competitive poker has evolved over the years.
ANNIE DUKE: Sometimes you have to be 40 percent sure. Sometimes you have to be 30 percent sure. You know, if there's $70 in the pot and you only have to call $10, you know, now you're in the 15 percent range in terms of how certain you have to be that your hand is good.
JAD: In that case, you can bet this hand that you're really not sure about knowing that while you might lose this time ...
MIKE PESCA: If I do that a million times in my poker life, the law of high numbers indicates that I'm going to be very much a winner in the long run. It might be the very long run, but you should be ahead in the long run.
ANNIE DUKE: Because it's not—it's not about winning the hand all the time, it's about winning the hand enough of the time.
(The podcast is a great listen!)
[0] https://radiolab.org/podcast/278173-dealing-doubt/transcript
aka “expected value” in statistical terms.
DamnableNook commented on Teenager jailed for 18 months still in prison 18 years later independent.co.uk/news/uk... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
The data isn’t trustworthy and underestimates the true count of crime. For one, cities and states have highly variable rules on what they record and report. Second, the trend of releasing offenders and understaffing police departments has led to citizens simply not reporting many crimes - what’s the point of reporting anything and losing time if no one investigates and even convicted offenders are just released. Third, the west coast of the US has run the experiment on an alternative approach, restorative justice, and it obviously doesn’t work. The last 15 years are evidence of this - leniency induces crime.
This has nothing to do with the “alt-right” or “conservative news” you brought up. Ironically it seems like you’re making this political, despite complaining about politicization.
> The data isn’t trustworthy and underestimates the true count of crime.
You’ll need to back that up with facts, not “it seems to me…”. It’s easy to say “the data are wrong, think about it,” but that doesn’t make it true. That’s just a nice way of saying, “of course those people are criminals, just look at them, but there’s a conspiracy making reality say different.”
DamnableNook commented on FTC announces rule banning noncompetes ftc.gov/news-events/news/... · Posted by u/null0ranje
I thought that non-governmental business association was pro-competition; guess not.
Edit: it was a dig to the pro-competition façade some pro-business people put forward.
Why would you think that? Lobbying organizations exist to advance the interests of their members. Their members in this case are businesses. This will restrict the control businesses have over their former employees. Therefore, they don’t like it.
DamnableNook commented on Vice website is shutting down writing.exchange/@ernie/1... · Posted by u/colinprince
I remember when Gavin McInness was still making content for them. Their strength was always to have stories and bits that no where else would. Not sure how much they strayed from that in the last 5-10 years but they almost never showed up on my radar anymore
Gavin McInness? Founder of the Proud Boys, Gavin McInness?
DamnableNook commented on Vice website is shutting down writing.exchange/@ernie/1... · Posted by u/colinprince
> we basically converted all their different sites to full static and put them on ice. It would have been expensive to keep hosting how they had been, but with everything flattened to static it's super cheap to keep up
I got absolutely tarred and feathered at an agency for suggesting this strategy and I just want to say thank you for validating what I wanted to do.
Out of curiosity, what was the argument against it?
Ironically, their page doesn’t seem to work on Safari. I get a 404 error after signing in, every time. Switching to Chrome on my desktop lets it work.
These techniques used to be exclusive to spyware distributors.