I'm dying. With this translate tool, I'm finally able to effectuate all my ideation synergies
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For every bit of publicly-visible turbo-quackery that's enabled by AI, I imagine there's 1,000x as much happening out of sight
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If you ask AI to rewrite the entirety of an open-source program, do you still need to abide by the original license? In philosophy, this problem is known as the Slop of Theseus
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This is pretty darn impressive, and also a good counterargument to "nothing ever changes" criticisms of infosec: https://blog.calif.io/p/a-race-within-a-race-exploiting-cve
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To folks upset about 1Password increasing their prices: 3M has got you covered
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I have this intrusive thought that I should spend a lot of money on between 256 and 400 illuminated tactile switches and make a physical version of Conway's game of life
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Some people are avoiding the em dash to dodge the accusations of LLM-generated text. But what if you embrace the future and want to blend in?
Well ⸻ I bring you the U+2E3B dash.
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So, you might have heard about > or ≥. But are you ready for...
≩ U+2269 GREATER-THAN BUT NOT EQUAL TO
⋛ U+22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN (just remember that ⋛ is not equal to ⋚)
⪌ U+2A8C GREATER-THAN ABOVE DOUBLE-LINE EQUAL ABOVE LESS-THAN (compare to ⪋, ⪒, and ⪑)
And of course, let's not forget the classic ⪔ U+2A94 GREATER-THAN ABOVE SLANTED EQUAL ABOVE LESS-THAN ABOVE SLANTED EQUAL (don't mix that one up with ⪓)
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Did you know that Unicode has a symbol for "really equals, but this time I mean it"? It could come in handy for JavaScript
U+003D = EQUALS SIGN
U+2261 ≡ IDENTICAL TO
U+2263 ≣ STRICTLY EQUIVALENT TO
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Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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Why do some mathematicians concern themselves with numbers that can't be represented as IEEE 754 floats?
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I just upgraded to a new laptop and to the designer who dreamt up rounded corners for the LCD panel: hilarious, real hilarious
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The dark side of auto-updates: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/ Don't get me wrong, they are *essential* for some software, but the pendulum might have swung too far,
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In essence, when every niche utility on your computer auto-updates, you're dependent not only on the software being non-malicious at t = 0, but also on every dev and their dog staying safe on the internet for all eternity.
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The dark side of auto-updates: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Don't get me wrong, they are *essential* for some software, but the pendulum might have swung too far, adding risk where little risk existed before.
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New illustrations in the article on DACs and ADCs. Learn everything you never wanted to know about how your computer / gramophone convert bits to sounds and vice versa: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/conversions/
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The most beautiful thing about AI is that it allows us to unleash human creativity
(source: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%22chatgpt+millionaire%22)
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You gotta think outside the hypercube: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/hyper/
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One of the many perks of achieving a modest degree of visibility on the internet is that there's a never-ending stream of people who find it useful to impersonate you on internet forums and say... things
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Fun computer fact: in binary data streams, zeros don't convey information and are included solely for padding purposes. They can be removed to make files smaller, then inserted back if a particular program requires padding for compatibility.
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