Posts by scarletherring

Re: I'm glad

Hang on. So this is all fairly sophisticated software, used to spy on people. And this judge is telling them to give it to *Meta*? What could possibly go wrong...

..., and plea bargaining -- period.

There's good reasons why most countries don't allow for that awful practice. A shocking percentage of people in US prisons were never actually convicted in court. And a lot of them are likely innocent but simply couldn't pay the lawyer hours they would have needed to combat the prosecutors' threats of outrageous prison terms they would seek if taken to court.

Re: Y oh Y

> Much like Windows 11, then?

You mean X11, Shirley.

Re: Lock him up

Well, there's the fact that the Ds pushed through an historically unpopular candidate in 2016, sabotaging a quite popular candidate in the process, and even actively threw money at the orange abomination's primary because they thought he would be easy to beat.

Re: Am I reading this right?

That's what I was thinking. But then it occurred to me, that's the way it's always been -- we pay for our own oppression.

Re: GPT for QA

This gets to a question I had about this whole GPT craze (and applies to similar systems too). Even if we disregard quality issues, if these networks are trained with data from the www, and more and more text found on that www is actually GPT output -- how will they prevent training on its own emissions? What would happen if they don't? It seems to me that it would be useful if these generated artefacts had some sort of watermark so that they can be recognised as such.

Re: Oh My!

> But didn't the White House already promised to sustain the tourism business, which incidentally will give money to Trump Hotels too?

I read on Politico the other day that UK and IRL are exempt. How convenient.

Re: fun facts

> I belief you.

Huh. Does it count as Muphry's law when it's deliberate?

Re: They used 'i' three times

Well, he's a better actor than he's a writer, apparently.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/21/steven-seagal-deep-state-novel-shadow-wolves-joe-arpaio-217031

Re: What an delightful equilibrium - As long as you are hip

> Trendy shiny shiny hipster smartphone on one side

> Slave Labour Pain Machine on the other...

I don't disagree -- but at the same time I have no illusions about the other brands being any better... Next time I'm up for a new device I'm looking into FairPhone. Anyone tried that?

Re: "I saved the Christmas!!!"

> The claim that Jesus was Arabic is straight-up antisemitism.

You realize that Arabs are semites, yes?

Re: Spreading it thin

>> The young Sun was wrapped around an accretion disk?

> Yes, in the early days of the solar system when the sun thought it would be cool to be a reverse Dyson sphere.

Ah, the folly of youth.

Re: "rape charges sound like bollock"

> the guy is a paranoid

Technically no, he's not. They're really out to get him, you see.

Re: Crap indeed

> I like to be optimistic, not pessimistic

You must be new here.

Re: Anti-American

> So if America is so bad, why not move elsewhere?

Because it's not so bad for the very few who could actually afford to just pack up and leave. And getting a lot better with the current plutocrats in charge.

Re: The results will be meaningless

> Dude, get the dogma right. It's climate change, NOT global warming! That whole CAGW thing wasn't panning out, so the Green priesthood rebranded it so as not to look so much like fools.

Dude, again? This was pointed out to you before, but as you apparently insist on repeating this tripe: that particular bit of newspeak came from *Republican* operators:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Global_warming

Re: Easily javascript

Annoying, to be sure, but not fair. That's just a floating point quirk.

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

printf("%.18lf\n", (0.1+0.2)); // 0.300000000000000044

}

Re: What a bunch of incompetent monkeys

"Kinda like avoiding words "Global Warming" in favor of "Climate Change."

Oh, thanks BJ -- What a perfect example of exactly the kind of dim-witted deflection Kieren was talking about.

That was a *Republican* sleight of words, from this particularly slimy (even for GOP) character:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Global_warming

Re: How come?

No, I rather think it's the other way around -- being an arsehole (sociopath) makes it a lot easier to become filthy rich.

That's not even wrong

Wait. How do they even _have_ the plaintext password to display there? Shirley they should store that well hashed and with a pinch of salt?

Re: Beware of Russians bearing bits

That would be a tragedy.

But seriously. What do the US even remotely have to do with this case?

Can't wait for the Meatfucker to become a real vessel (Excession is still my favourite)

Re: Execution speed...

Absolutely. I work as a scientific developer at a university and we've begun offering Python bootcamps because so many researchers want to learn it.

Re: It beings.

> You may think it's great that these Nazis are being blocked by private companies from having a web presence, but you would sing a different tune were some group you support to be treated that way.

And yet I think it's a pretty safe bet that you were completely fine with that bigoted bakery (private business) refusing to service gay customers? You can't have it both ways, in fact that's exactly what you're accusing others of here.

Re: I guess I know what architectures to avoid...

> I guess I know what architectures to avoid...

Well, yeah. But what remains?

Re: Trump brings out the best in people

> No matter what Trump says, he will be attacked. Seriously.

I seem to remember the same thing happening with conservatives v Obama.

Pretty sure it was actually a lot more out of proportion back then, given that the current POTUS is pandering to actual fucking nazis -- as opposed to, say, trying to provide basic healthcare for all citizens like literally every properly developed nation.

> If the Republicans acted this poorly to Obama, he would have played the race card.

They did. And he didn't.

> Granted Trump is like a dull tool that kinda gets the job done

What has he done, precisely? As far as I can tell, this administration has passed very little in the way of new legislation. Or, famously, even much repeal of previous legislation.

The only reason that there's any good news still in the economic stats is they're so unbelievably incompetent that they haven't been able to actually undo much of the progress made under Obama (who inherited the economic meltdown overseen by Bush Jr, although to be fair the reasons for it go back through Clinton, Bush Sr and Reagan.)

Re: all it needs now

> Antifa

Where did this term come from all of a sudden? Could it be the right-wing media decided that "anti-fascist" sounds too much like they might be the good guys? Obviously they want us to consider them the baddies, but I see how that'd require some sleight of hand, since the other side are, you know, actual fucking nazis.

> BLM

Another meme I've found interesting, equating BLM with the white supremacists. You'll notice that they are not proposing to make the US a black-only nation or even to take away civil rights for all but the black. It's not a black-supremacy organization and so the equivalence, as they say, is false.

Knock it off, will you? The sheets are showing.

Re: Interesting story

@Big John

So... Your logic goes: if [this were true], then [outcome I like], therefore [this is true].

That's not a reasonable argument. Your corollary is worse still: people don't like it when I say this, therefore I'm right.

I have no idea if there's anything more to Seth Rich's death than officials say. Very well might be, I certainly have very little faith in DNC or the travesty known as US law enforcement.

But it's not an either/or scenario. To claim that the moron in the White House and his campaign/staff did not collude with Russia at this point is, respectfully, completely bonkers.

Re: This is why you want anonymous payments

>> You mean like cash?

This. A Thousand Times This.

It's got to the point where clerks look at me funny when I hand them real money.

Re: If he slammed the lottery

"You'd think raising the wage would be an easy vote on both sides of the aisle, but the corporate lobby wants H1B wages as low as possible."

Which makes it an impossible vote on both sides of the aisle. Neither party represents the people these days, they're only listening to donors. There's an interesting Princeton study that found essentially that the US is no longer a functioning democracy:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

Re: Bah!

Have an upvote for the Gosper reference!

I don't recall

So they're basically saying "I don't recall" equals contempt of court? Interesting, that. I seem to remember quite a few high profile cases that hinged on that particular defense!

So "gerdesj" is your actual name? Must have been tough on you in school! Also: Don Martin called, he wants his noises back.

Re: Trumped

<quote>The Left will ALWAYS be a noisy violent minority.</quote>

You, Sir, have that exactly backwards.

Re: A single typo may have tipped US election Trump's way

You mean like how conservatives got over Obama having won? Like not at all, even after 8 years?

Re: Yep - this is the phone to convert iOS users

"Matched to the dollar"

Which makes it more expensive, imho, given that you're still throwing all your personal / private data at the chocolate factory.

Re: "To understand [..] requires understanding how song licensing works in the United States"

"Short version : it's fucked by corporate interests.

You can say that about most of the American judicial system as well."

And politics, diplomacy, military, healthcare, education, media/journalism. Even religion. This has been true for decades, but at this point it's basically a failed state in many ways.

I'm not holding my breath for a revolution, but the rest of the planet can damn well stop following their "lead".

Re: @CaptainDaFT - And exactly how much value does it have to me...

Nobody cares about how much value this scheme will bring you.

Precisely. You're not the customer, you're the product.

I could be wrong about this, but isn't the idea of homomorphic encryption to let software work on data without DEcrypting it?

You're not wrong. The article is.

Top step: Temple OS? http://www.templeos.org/

Re: Known risks with quantifiable outcomes

Yeah, maybe I'd taken that seriously if Gore had managed to win his home state. Or handled the Florida mess better.

This argument against third parties was completely wrong in 2000, and makes even less sense this time around because there are now two third party candidates in the spotlight and they look to be siphoning votes off both major parties.

I personally think that is the only way the US can ever be a proper democracy -- instead of the duopoly it is now, where actually the major parties somehow manage to agree exactly on the issues where the general public doesn't -- is to have viable alternatives for both of them in the same cycle.