Crap. This is hard.

Wait, do you mean “no, do not” or “no do, not”?

Wait, do what now?

That’s horrible. Especially since I guarantee you and everyone else in that class had it down after the first 50 problems.

It astounds me how many teachers honestly think that teaching/learning is about drills, rote memorization, and slavishly grinding away to get results. While I have no doubt that some people absolutely need to do this in order to get things to stick, I think it under-estimates the intelligence of most kids in the classroom. I would argue it’s not exactly learning and more like programming.

For instance, I can recall “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” like some kind of Manchurian Candidate sleeper-agent. But that tells me nothing about how that organelle metabolizes ATP to fuel other activities, what happens when it breaks down, and so on. Memorization and drills are great for algorithms, formulas, and basic foundational things. But the real learning happens in other ways.

Congratulations!

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I appreciate the workaround here, and I’ve tried this in production environments to one degree or another. This usually fails due to another problem: the number of systems that think unexpected JSON keys are an error, is is too damn high.

POSSUM used Play Dead.

It's not very effective...

Now there’s a comment with teeth.

Also, in the words of Dee Snider and Twisted Sister: “We’re not gonna take it, anymore.”

Early Gen-X went from seeing the horrors of the Vietnam war on TV, straight into Reganism, Iran Contra, and more. All while under the looming shadow of global thermonuclear war, which was pushed heavily into the zeitgeist by cold-war politics at the time. Sure, there’s a lot good stuff from that era too, but there was also plenty to rage about.

I’ll give it a shot, but I must be able to use my laptop to vibe-interview.

We are indeed living inside the stupidest version of Cyberpunk. Time to start building AI countermeasures.

I think we have more to fear from using AI to generate permutations of existing attacks, in a way that evades detection of known behaviors, malware hashes, and so on. Also, having a command & control (C2) style attack dynamically evolve with help from AI, based on intel from the target? That’s kind of novel and scary in its own way.

Meanwhile hacking in and running a rogue AI client on a target system in an enterprise setting… well, you’d have to be blind to not notice all the back-and-forth token and response traffic. It would be the fattest, nosiest, C2-style attack and probably easy to detect with conventional means.

Otherwise, OP and this copypasta is correct to be concerned. It’s not like the typical home user is watching bytes sent/recv on their home router. This could manifest as a very potent botnet problem.

Actually, no, I really think they shouldn’t. In such matters I think it’s crucial to stick to just the facts and journalistic integrity (such as it is). Elevating personal opinion to the same level as wartime photography, reporting, data, etc. has dangerous ramifications for all involved. I’m aware that newspapers and other news/media outlets have bias, one way or another, but I think it important to draw a line and minimize that bias to the greatest extent possible; saying no to op-eds on war is such a line.

WRT to opinions and discussion on war, we have other kinds of media and public forums to serve that.

Ah yes, C64 floppy drive “headbanging”.

IIRC this is because rather than ship a design with a limit switch or any position sensing at all, the drive software just rapidly slaps the read head home a bunch of times to ensure it’s properly aligned with track zero. I have a hard time believing this was to reduce part count, because the drive itself is a whole-ass 6502 computer; the sale price also reflected that. Instead, I think it’s a software fix for a “sometimes an issue” hardware problem.

Is that compared to the war itself, or the time before it? I have a doubt. We were all told that we were in a historic era of peace before things kicked off this month, so the bar is set pretty high. Plus, even after the dust settles, the entire Northern hemisphere will likely still be up to its collective asses in fascists with way too much power to turn around and do it again.

I think opinion pieces are great for matters of taste.

War, on the other hand, is about life, death, money, and politics all rolled into one giant horror-show. Publishing op-ed on such a topic, on such a well-known paper, is basically elevating -whatever- to the same level of validity as actual journalism. It’s a really bad show on the Post’s part.

I honestly don’t know which is more real: The mere existence of an app for an inert hunk of metal, or the fact that it’s a miserable user experience?

Yes, but don’t use a public service for this. Use a local LLM and maintain distinct profiles, one for each online account.

Windows, can I run this 25 year old software I just installed?

As someone that works in software, what he does to turn running code inside out, is kinda sexy. The guy is like a bloodhound for bugs and poorly-built software.

Game developers: Yeah, buy our game and play it however you want. It’s all for fun!

Josh: ::proceeds to out-QA the publisher’s QA department, breaking the game in the most egregious ways imaginable::

Game developers: No, not like that!

Speedrunners:: ::furious note-taking sounds::