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Aug 14, 2024 09:40
Was it ever established that Griner broke any law? During the time she was held, it was widely speculated that the charges were purely made up to sound plausible based on racist stereotypes, as an excuse to hold an American celebrity hostage.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dale M: Is si…

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Jul 11, 2024 07:57
While this answer is in principle vaguely true, there is a burden on the other party to show that you actually signed what they say you signed, not something else. If it's on a signature pad where the actual document is not shown, and a receptionist (they may not even know which one) allegedly told you something about what document you were supposedly signing, but they have no evidence of that, they're going to have a really hard time proving you "signed" something beyond what the normal expected terms for the interaction you were having might have been.
 

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Mar 3, 2024 16:34
I am completely aware of the origins of the term, as well as that 100% of people who use it actually use it in order to truely advocate for bad things while pretending it's just a hypothetical.
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Mar 3, 2024 16:34
I'd give a second -1 if I could for "Just playing devil's advocate..." too. The devil already has too many advocates lined up. Nothing constructive comes from being the Nth one.
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Mar 3, 2024 16:34
-1 this answer is completely off-base, nonsensical, and apologism for academically dishonest behavior (scam journals).
 

 Discussion on question by AlphaLife: …

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Feb 24, 2024 21:40
A ball large enough for the earth to look smooth to it, and massive enough to be affected by gravity to overcome the non-flatness of the surface, is almost certainly going exactly one direction: straight down through the crust.
 

 Discussion on answer by JBH: What is …

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Feb 2, 2024 20:13
@Hobbamok: That's true for modern high-end CPUs and GPUs, not a hard requirement for semiconductors. And most of the increase in compute power over the past 30+ years is just completely wasted on inefficient software. Basic semiconductor fab can be done in a garage with some decent lab equipment (see: Sam Zeloof); with actual organized human effort by a decent sized team, you could have computers sufficient to aid in re-developing the next generation of computers within a few years.
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Feb 2, 2024 20:13
Even if we were driven back to the 1820s, the existence of any evidence of what we were able to achieve since then, along with some basic knowledge of the right mathematics, theoretical physics, biology, etc. on which it was built, should massively accelerate the return to present technological levels.
 

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Feb 1, 2024 16:24
@RonJohn: No, "homesteading survivalist preppers" just die. The people who survive are the ones who know how to (and know the value of) working together for mutual benefit, and who have the desire to preserve what humans have developed in this area.
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Feb 1, 2024 16:24
But even if your claim were true, that was a time when there was very little written-down technical knowledge (not to mention knowledge for organizing human activity for mutual benefit) that would have been of value to people to read. The degree to which we have documented how to do things in ways that you could recover without any living person still knowing how to do them is completely unlike anything that existed previously in history.
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Feb 1, 2024 16:24
@RonJohn: There is a huge amount of popular misunderstanding of the "dark ages".
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Feb 1, 2024 16:24
@RonJohn: If you still have anyone older than young children from before the apocalypse alive, that will all be taken care of. They will know the language the books are written in and be able to figure out context, look for what they need to understand things they want to learn about. You really need the absence of anyone with language skills to read the books, or even the idea that books can contain ideas to learn about the real world from, in order to have any "hope" that the books will all rot before people recover large amounts of knowledge from them.
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Feb 1, 2024 16:24
@RonJohn: Some. Nowhere near all.
 

 Discussion on question by FrogOfJuly:…

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Jun 16, 2023 21:38
The premise that you need to avoid replication errors seems erroneous. Information can be preserved in the presence of high error rates with error-correcting codes. These are not active measures that undo the error (although perhaps you could couple the instructions with them in such a way) but passive redundancies the eventual reader of the information would have to understand and take advantage of to recover the information from the corrupted copies.
 

 Discussion on answer by Sandro: Shoul…

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May 27, 2023 11:19
@WayneConrad: I asked because, in general, Van Der Graaff generators are a fun and safe toy to learn about electricity. But as Sandro said, indeed, for a kid who's already trying to push limits and play with deadly things, it might make sense to consider them off-limits as part of a blanket rule about HV.
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May 27, 2023 11:19
Would your advice against any high voltage apply even to something like a Van de Graaff generator?
 

 Discussion on answer by Philip Kendal…

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Apr 22, 2023 15:12
@justhalf: Because it's a trick used to deceive people for the advantage of the parties peddling "AI". When someone tries to obscure the mechanism of something and make it look mysterious/magical/unknowable, they're either trying to entertain you (a magic show) or trying to dupe you. If you're asking why, mechanically, "AI" is not like human memory/lerning, that's a topic for a dissertation, but a few very obvious surface-level differences: it's copyable and it cannot be held accountable.
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Apr 22, 2023 15:12
@Dryt: A derivative work that contains sufficient information-theoretic content to derive back from it large quantities of copyright-protected content, especially when the primary purpose for which it's being marketed is to "create content", is not fair use by virtue of being "transformative". It's a laughably bad attempt at circumventing copyright - or it would be laughably bad, if it didn't have billions of dollars behind trying to make it look serious.
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Apr 22, 2023 15:12
@user3067860: For any given fixed piece of training material from which the model is derived, it's not guaranteed or even likely that a randomly chosen output is a derivative of that work. However, there are lots of examples where output is verbatim, unquestionable copying of something unique and creative from the training material. This demonstrates both that the model is derivative and that the output is. This is why I call these models "stochastic plagiarism".
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Apr 22, 2023 15:12
@user253751: The analogies to human memory are just fundamentally invalid here. Stop making them. These are the analogies non-technical judges will end up buying and screwing us all over with.
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Apr 22, 2023 15:12
@Kevin: I don't think anyone really cares what someone does with a model in the privacy of their home. The only interesting cases are when either the model is being distributed (which almost surely happens, even if not to the public) or further derivatives of the model (the "outputs", which unlike the outputs of a program which are not derivative of the program, clearly are derivative in this case) are distributed.
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Apr 22, 2023 15:12
@user3067860: That analogy (human learning to write) is based on a magical-thinking version of what "AI" is, not what the actual math is.
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Apr 22, 2023 15:12
@BartvanIngenSchenau: Not true. You're confusing "use" with "prepare derivative works". GPL already forbids using the software as AI training material unless you plan to GPL the whole resulting model and release it in its "preferred form for modification". That has nothing to do with a field-of-endeavor use restriction, which would be like if a text editor said you couldn't use it as part of working at an AI company developing AI models.
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Apr 22, 2023 15:12
It absolutely is a derivative work, mechanically, but politics, not reality, will determine whether courts rule it as such. As FOSS folks, we should be fighting to ensure they do.
 

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Mar 25, 2023 01:30
"but I don't know if anyone makes such a device for routine use at a reasonable price" <-- you can just use a 240V/50Hz UPS or standalone inverter and small SLA battery, with a DC car battery charger wired up to the battery terminals in it. Around $75 in parts.
 

 Discussion on answer by Graham: How t…

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Mar 3, 2023 17:27
-1. Would you propose doing the same if they had a stroke, or tripped and broke their leg, or got exposed to a severe allergen and went into shock, or anything else like this at the start of the test? No. You'd figure out whatever the proper way to handle an unpredicted medical emergency is.
 

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Mar 2, 2023 18:28
@JerryCoffin: A key observation one makes after working with multilingual/Unicode text is that the concept of character is not actually very useful. Characters don't occupy fixed column space (even in character-cell displays), they don't necessarily correspond to editing/backspace units or text entry units, etc. Almost everywhere, the right abstraction ends up being "substrings" (with various properties) rather than "characters", and at that point, they're variable-length regardless of whether individual characters are, so there's no cost in having characters be variable-length.
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Mar 2, 2023 18:28
Absolutely what @AI0867 said. It was also obvious from the beginning that UTF-8 was the right solution (note: UTF-8 existed before any significant adoption of 16-bit "Unicode" happened) but the major parties involved opposed it for political reasons. It took nearly 30 years for Microsoft to drop their technically incorrect excuse for not supporting UTF-8 as the "system codepage" or "locale codepage" on Windows and finally add it.
 

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Feb 13, 2023 14:22
Big +1 for the first sentence. The question is wrong.
 

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Jul 12, 2022 17:09
This answer isn't wrong but somewhat incomplete I think. At this point the person whose door the police are at probably needs a lawyer, so advice on how to begin looking for one (or better, to have one in mind already) and call them if the police continue to refuse to leave would be a welcome addition.
 

 Discussion on question by Bearishmous…

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May 28, 2022 19:52
...you should expect to be looking at a bare minimum in the 6 figure range.
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May 28, 2022 19:52
@DJClayworth: Nobody competent is going to sign an NDA to do work with a small fee. It's a huge risk to one's future livelihood (what the the NDA-covered material somehow intersects with something you're already working on or intending to work on?! or even if the other party merely falsely alleges or threatens to allege that it does... which seems very likely when dealing with crackpots). I would say for having a serious expert consider work involving an NDA in their field of expertise that's not scoped just to business matters (vs their domain)...
 

 Discussion on answer by CBHacking: Wh…

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Oct 29, 2021 11:15
Talk about email "hops" is historical baggage with little modern relevance. Any "hops" email travels over are the fault of the sender's outgoing mail system or the receiver's incoming mail system. Normally, your outgoing mail will go from your device to your mail provider over TLS protected submission port, internally between your provider's queuing servers on their network (all TLS and private networks, if your provider is decent), then be delivered to whatever the recipient domain's MX server is. This step is opportunistic encryption unless the receiving domain is using DANE and...
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Oct 29, 2021 11:15
...the sender honors it, but it is usually the only step at which there is any serious threat. A bad receiving domain might be outsourcing delivery (secondary MX) to a separate incoming queue provider when they're under load; if so, that's another "hop", but often more secure against an attacker trying to intercept, since many (most?) such bulk incoming providers use DANE these days. Once it's in the receiving domain's systems, it should never travel over the internet again until your IMAP/HTTPS connection to read mail.
 

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Sep 25, 2021 05:32
+1 for framing it as an apology. This is something you can do even if you can't say it in their language, only in English.
 

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Sep 13, 2021 17:27
These are not nation-state level capabilities. They're bored amateur supporting their cost of living on ebay level.
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Sep 13, 2021 17:27
Government agencies are not uniquely equipped to RE firmware. This is basic hobbyist stuff folks do every day that doesn't require spending more than $50 on aliexpress.
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Sep 13, 2021 17:27
Right. As long as you did real encryption, the extra level of supposed encryption the drive is providing doesn't hurt (except possibly making it harder to recover your own data in the event of a crash). But your "step 2" should not be treated as providing any security.
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Sep 13, 2021 17:27
@Polynomial: Because they're intended not just for OP but for general readers, your comments/claims are more harmful. Folks actually do buy up (or get for free) used disks and resell them on ebay. And folks do buy these off ebay to mine for private data to sell (account passwords, credit card numbers, ssns, etc.) and then resell. This is not far-fetched at all.
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Sep 13, 2021 17:27
@Polynomial: In a context where OP has already done this physical destruction, it's irrelevant anyway. However I would not advise relying on ATA Secure Erase and just selling or sending your drives for recycling. One does not need to be targeted to fall victim here; if there's a weakness, someone working in recycling or reselling would just buy up drives in bulk, skim data off them, and sell it along with reselling the drives.
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Sep 13, 2021 17:27
Step 2 likely has little or no value since there is no way to know if a key generated and held entirely by the hardware device was actually created with secure entropy and not something like srand(poweron_count).
 

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Aug 26, 2021 14:41
Can you clarify whether she's on board with the plan to treat this, but just finds eating them disgusting, or whether she's opposed to the whole thing?
 

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Aug 16, 2021 09:43
@schroeder: I understand the context and it does not change my view that the question does not belong on the site, because the product OP is trying to create is malicious from the perspective of the people it will be used on. The context might invalidate an answer like mine, but that could have been discussed and handled by normal users downvoting or voting to delete rather than by unilateral admin action.
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Aug 16, 2021 09:43
> I created my own anti-adblock system Your code is malicious. So you can't prove to users that it's not malicious.
 

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Jul 27, 2021 19:15
@ZeissIkon: Does Capricorn actually make that claim? I only recall seeing it in the listings an Amazon and such that are almost surely counterfeit Capricorn anyway, and didn't think they made any of their own claims about the real thing.
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Jul 27, 2021 19:15
@PerryWebb: They're useful if you want to print materials that need high temperatures, or print "normal" materials at extreme speeds (lots of the #speedboatrace folks print ABS at 275+). Otherwise, they're just more complex to get right than a PTFE-lined one.
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Jul 27, 2021 19:15
Personally from a standpoint of warping, I like layer N to be cooled so much that it won't futher contract from cooling before I put layer N+1 on top of it. If the lower layers are kept hot for the whole print, they'll try to warp at the end when you finally cool down the bed to take it off, and only the structure of the layers on top of them is there to prevent it. This means you may get warping dependent on the geometry of the part (what constraining forces the upper layers provide) and your final part has strong internal stresses in it.
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Jul 27, 2021 19:15
In my experience, the reason for recommending high temperatures is that, if the bed is too cold and has nontrivial heat conductivity, it will leech the heat out of the part while you're trying to bond the second layer to the first layer, making the first layer peel off the bottom after the print is finished. I haven't encountered warping. But I suppose it might help to try a higher temperature.
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Jul 27, 2021 19:15
@ChinchillaWafers: PETG does not need extreme bed temperatures. On an unheated bed the first lines have some trouble adhering, but once things do adhere, PETG adheres too well if anything. I normally use 40˚C for PETG now. PETG is one of the lowest-warping materials you can print.
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Jul 27, 2021 19:15
@ZeissIkon: That is very bad advice. A (modified?) PTFE tube designed for high temperatures might be ok to operate up to 260 but definitely not 300.