What do you think an algorithm is?
What do you think an algorithm is?
He says, on social media
How complex does a neural net have to be before you can call any of its outputs ‘pain’?
Start with a lightswitch with ‘pain’ written on a post-it note stuck to the on position, end with a toddler. Where’s the line?
How about a law stating that the terms of all contracts with corporations be listed in a public registry?
You want the state to enforce the terms of your agreement, you put that agreement out in the open. No secret laws, and no secret laws-by-proxy.
If you want something decent, check out ‘Lauren Ipsum’, by Carlos Bueno.
THe phrasing of the message implies that you’re still subject to eg. your employer logging your network access, and third-party sites logging your IP - both of which would be physically unavoidable and not within the browser’s ability to control.
It very carefully avoids saying ‘we’re still selling your identity and browsing habits to ad companies and dataminers even though we could totally prevent that lol’.
Universities aren’t there to teach marketable skills, and they never have been.
In fact they get quite snotty about the distinction; they’re not some trade school, ugh.
They go and market themselves as employment-enablers, because that drives enrolments which drives funding, but a large percentage of adademics see undergrads as a vexing and demeaning distraction from their real work of writing grant proposals. Which to be fair is what their whole career (and the existence of their employer) depends and is judged on, so…
The other thing is that there’s two skillsets involved here: learning to use a specific set of tools and techniques to produce a desired outcome (the trade part), and learning to wrestle large, unwieldly and interconnected tasks in general, while picking up the required specific knowledge along the way (the adademic part).
Teaching just the trade part gets you people who are competent in narrowly-defined roles for now, but it doesn’t necessarily get you adaptable, resilient, bigger-picture people with common sense and a strategic outlook. Teaching just the academic part gets you people who aren’t necessarily productive right now, but have a lot of potential wherever you put them.
Employers would like to hire people who are both. They’re also lazy and cheap, and will use anything they can get their hands on as a resume-filter because they aren’t willing to put time and money into usefully evaluating someone’s potential usefulness as an employee. If they can farm that off to the universities to do (and the students to pay for), they’re happy to let a degree stand in as a not-chaff marker they can require of all their candidates. It’s like bad video game designers using bullet sponges to ‘increase the difficulty’.
Teaching CS is important and useful, but the benefits only really pay off longterm - apart from the bullet-sponge factor.
Teaching programming is important and useful, but the benefits can be short-term and dead-end.
If you only pick one… depends on whether you can afford to eat while those nebulous long-term benefits slowly kick in.
Universities should communicate these things better, and employers should be incentivised to stop using junk degree-requirements to offset their laziness and incompetence. Make it so for every position they require a degree for, they’re taxed the tuition fees for that degree every year.
He says, on the internet.
This is pretty much the textbook definition of moral panic.
It was zero degrees today, and it’ll be twice as cold tomorrow.
“some protected characteristics”
Which would be what, exactly?
It’s almost like you need some of that damn Freeze Peach y’all are complaining so much about.
This is the reason it has to be non-negotiable. Yes, it’s expensive, in terms of a lot of people saying stuff you don’t want them to say. But in return, when people try to pull this shit, you get to laugh in their face and tell 'em go fuck themselves right in their ear.
And I don’t just mean the first-amendment narrow legal definition stuff in the US. I mean the much broader political principle that speech should not be restricted except in commission of a crime.
I’ve had TPM disabled in the BIOS since I got this machine (which is getting pretty long in the tooth, granted). Can’t upgrade, doesn’t bug me about it.
Next computer will be the latest OS at the time, but I get to decide when that is.
Pretty much every service on the internet does password-reset via a token sent to your mailbox, so if someone gets control of your mail, you’re pretty much pwned anyway. It would be slower and more inconvenient for an attacker to reset everything individually, but I’m sure they can automate that.
This is just security theatre. Burning all my data makes my life a lot harder, but an attacker would barely notice.
If I can reset each individual credential via mail token, on the assumption that only the genuine owner has access to the mailbox, then I lose nothing by resetting access to the whole set of credentials via mail token, on that same assumption.
Checked it out: apparently I had a mozilla account at one point in time. Hit ‘forgot password’:
Note: When you reset your password, you reset your account. You may lose some of your personal information (including history, bookmarks, and passwords). That’s because we encrypt your data with your password to protect your privacy.
Forgot your password: fuck you.
This is the exact fucking opposite of the behaviour I’d ever want from a password manager.
Actually it’s an effective cloud-based password manager that doesn’t rely on local storage or weird plugins or backups.
That’s what keeps me using chrome. I could lose everything in a house fire, pick up any device, log in and have access to all my stuff without any further action on my part, right out of the box.
That’s the only feature I care about, and chrome is the only browser I’ve seen that provides it.
Get me that in firefox, and I’ll switch today.
There’s an actual submission from there written by me (and posted by someone else). I am (very) mildly internet famous, under another handle.
Can confirm that at least one of them is genuine.
third party cookies != cookies
Unless they’ve invented a stateful http, cookies aren’t going anywhere.
He committed the ultimate crime, though: stealing from rich people. And he even had the effrontery not to be rich himself while doing it.
That’s what they’re punishing here.
Let me guess, they laughed at trump?