It is strange that MS added third option but lied that there was not.
They could just not include it, could they?
Readit Newsnephrite commented on Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading Australians over 365 subscriptions accc.gov.au/media-release... · Posted by u/edwinjm
LLMs can now detect garbage much more cheaply than humans can. This might increase cost slightly for the companies that own the AIs, but it almost certainly will not result in hiring human reviewers
You're missing the point.
The goal of garbage production is not to break the bots or poison LLMs, but to remove load from your own site. The author writes it in the article. He found that feeding bots garbage is the cheapest strategy, that's all.
nephrite commented on Detached Point Arithmetic github.com/Pedantic-Resea... · Posted by u/HappySweeney
They just reimplemented floating point with bigger mantissa and exponent.
Rounding erorrs will appear with sufficiently large/small numbers.
nephrite commented on Navigational Instruments (2020) exple.tive.org/blarg/2020... · Posted by u/signa11
They keep suggesting "#" and "$" but those don't work.
nephrite commented on Why VR/AR gets farther away as it comes into focus matthewball.vc/all/why-vr... · Posted by u/SLHamlet
What I want to have, and what nobody does, is replace the computer screen with a infinite virtual screen. Same apps, windows etc. except it is in virtual reality. This way we could replace mobile phones/tablets with even smaller devices and outsource the display function to VR glasses.
Use any character you want then use sed to replace it with tabs.
Or use some macro processor.
nephrite commented on Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things sharats.me/posts/shell-sc... · Posted by u/sharat87
> Use the .sh (or .bash) extension for your file. It may be fancy to not have an extension for your script, but unless your case explicitly depends on it, you’re probably just trying to do clever stuff. Clever stuff are hard to understand.
I don't agree with this one. When I name my script without extension (btw, .sh is fine, .bash is ugly) I want my script to look just like any other command: as a user I do not care what the language program is written in, I care about its output and what it does.
When I develop a script, I get the correct syntax highlight becuase of the shebang so the extension doesn't matter.
The rest of the post is great.
In my setup, I use aliases or functions to have short/mnemonic names for commands.
But the files on disk must always have proper extensions like .sh to quickly see what they are.
>What's the point of hiding some of the files in a directory from user? It only makes things more confusing.
If a user doesn't know what .ssh/ or .bash_history are, and it can hurt them to accidentally delete or modify them, why show them by default? It's like training wheels on a bike.
>For example the folder might look empty but in fact it could contain thousands of hidden files. You want to delete it as it is empty but accidentally delete important system files.
If it is possible for a regular user to accidentally brick a system like this, it was doomed to begin with. If a user doesn't know what a dotfile is they shouldn't have administrative privileges, and if they do get them there is no safeguard to stop them destroying the system. It's not a dotfile issue.
>Imagine if you have a project and want to edit an .env file. But as dotfiles are hidden in Linux you don't see this file and cannot open it. It turns out that Windows Explorer which doesn't hide dotfiles is much better for developing projects with Docker!
In what reality is someone developing software and building Docker containers who doesn't understand the concept of hidden files? Seems awfully contrived.
> If a user doesn't know what .ssh/ or .bash_history are, and it can hurt them to accidentally delete or modify them, why show them by default? It's like training wheels on a bike.
You have permissions to prevent from accidental deletions.
In Russian this phenomenon is called "бНОПНЯ" (read "b-nop-nya") and was caused by taking the word "Вопрос" (meaning: "question") in win-1251 encoding and reading it as if it was in KOI-8 encoding.
Also this is called "крокозябры" (read: kro-ko-zya-bry, nonsense word, no translation) especially when reading a binary file in a text viewer.
nephrite commented on Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide” (2019) kevquirk.com/privacy-vs-i... · Posted by u/throwoutway
I work with prosecutors, and some of them will straight up misrepresent innocent facts to paint them as evidence of malicious intent and pressure parties to plead guilty.
I have seen stuff like "defendant had TOR installed - a popular program for criminals" in court filings. ...and judges and juries accept that as fact because they just don't understand the technology. For example, having a bookmark for "Hacker News" would absolutely show up in court. Crazy stuff meant to bias judges and juries that don't know tech.
The point is that the situation is 100x worse in tech where prosecutors, judges, and juries simply do not understand the evidence. ANYTHING can be painted as incriminating evidence.
I have seen saved credentials on automation jobs being used to incorrectly establish people's network activity. I have seen routine maintenance being used to establish obstruction charges just to intimidate possible witnesses... Like stuff you would not believe happens, happens.
It's even worse in civil suits, where opposing counsel will subpoena as much as possible (mountains of data) just to give you more work and fish for trade secrets or anything they can twist in court.
When I was junior, I proudly told my legal team "good news, I added space to keep our transaction records for 20 years!" and was aghast when they said they wanted files deleted THE DAY the legal requirement to hold it expired because it increased legal liability.
Now I totally get it. Today we only store the bare minimum - everything else is deleted immediately. ... and I have to re-explain this to junior employees each year to their disgust.
> having a bookmark for "Hacker News"
I was punished in school for having NetHack source code in my home dir. And it was not because it was a game but because it allegedly was a hacking tool.