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Yes we did. I was on transhumanist mailing lists twenty years ago and the exact same comments were being made then as are in this thread today

That’s exactly how I feel all the time.

I guess I have an AI soul mate now

Sounds like an Interocitor

But not everyone uses wildcard certs so enumeration is a problem. Also lots of people use certs with internal hostnames on public servers (they shouldn’t but it does make some things easier and not everyone is aware of the security issues). When CT first came out I remember running searches for some of our client’s domains and being easily able to identify Exchange servers, RDP servers, etc along with the corresponding internal hostnames which makes it easy to identify potential targets for attack.

Obscurity does have a role to play in security - leaving your front door unlocked is unlikely to be a problem but if you publish that information in a publicly searchable database then you are making yourself a target

Another UK commenter - over here that cotton twill is known as moleskin and a lot of the army surplus is in that fabric which I agree is much nicer than the ripstop stuff

You want the same model but make sure they are from different batches.

When buying SANs the vendor will routinely mix the disks supplied to minimise the chance of any manufacturing defects taking out multiple drivers at once

As I find myself frequently repeating - redundancy without monitoring is not redundancy

For me, noise cancelling ear phones playing pink noise works to blank everything out.

Music I find too distracting and white noise too harsh (makes me feel like I have a hangover) but pink noise is soothing, almost like being in the womb and really helps me focus

Yes they do, you just have to click the link in the email and request the full report

Or maybe not. Turning the Sahara into a forest would have a massive climate impact.

I am not a climate scientist but I’d imagine there would be significant changes to rainfall patterns over most of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Edit - sorry, reply was meant to be to parent

As a native U.K. person that went to school in the seventies (ie long before spell checkers), I can assure you that British English used S rather than Z in the kind of words you are talking about.

Generally when I’m idly visualising something it is ‘in my mind’s eye’ as you put it. But if I’m really focused and close my eyes then everything else seems to disappear and I’m ‘really’ seeing it, not on the inside of my eyelids but it encompasses my entire visual perception if that makes sense

More rarely I also get it with sounds and then it definitely does feel that the sound is originating externally to my mind

You’re right that these experiences are more like hallucinations but I think they are points on a spectrum rather than separate things

Very similar to my process.

Most people struggle with prioritising because they think that it is deciding what order to do things in - I like to say that far more important than that is deciding what things you are NOT going to do.

Thank you for making me laugh at loud while making breakfast

I know so many people that have read the book multiple times but seem to have somehow missed the fact that Cirdan has a beard.

It’s like they have a blind spot and just can’t see it

That’s a bit more than a “mild” spoiler...

I’d have been really annoyed if someone had told me that information before I read it (fantastic series of books by the way)

To me, also a native speaker (UK if it makes a difference), “big old” implies size alone(fairly large) rather than age, while “old big” would definitely mean old and large

The problem with this is the asymmetry of power relationships - if everything is transparent it is very easy for a powerful group to use that against an individual but much harder the other way around

Eventually. Old numbers are held out of use for, I think, five years before being reissued specifically to address security and privacy issues like this

That’s playing the Trust Game. People often see the Status Game as a proxy for the trust game which is a big mistake

And then there is Diplomacy, where you have to cooperate with everyone to get anywhere - right until you stab them in the back

Could you not just set you status in WhatsApp to all people to contact you via Signal?

Not as good as an auto responder but at least people would see it when searching for you in the app

Actually Microsoft are installing a chrome plugin that forces the search engine to Bing so users can’t change the default back until they remove the plugin

Unfortunately it’s opt-out rather than opt-in.

Pity the poor help desks that missed this announcement and get swamped with tickets next month

Try running further.

At 5k your body is only just about warmed up - I never really enjoy a run until after the 5k mark, it gets easier after that point

True, but humans can see a bunch of kids loitering on top of a bridge, get suspicious and change lane or slow down as a precaution

”We will eventually update markings and beacons on the roads to make it easier for the cars”

We have already done this, they are called railways. Some of them evening have self driving trains.

To get self driving cars on roads you need a human level AI. Trying to get away with less intelligence by restricting the environment will never get to the point where it will be safe to have automated vehicles - you can’t provide infrastructure clues to the vehicle to help it tell when a child is about to run out into the road for example (and there are many other examples too) so you would have to segregate them physically from everything else and then you might as well stick to railways

Any reason why you couldn’t renegotiate your contract? I’m sure you could frame it in a non threatening way and get the bit that bothers you redefined

And the author in fact says in the article that that is what he should have done.

The whole thing is about how everyone can be anti social from time to time

Agreed. However that is the point he was making - in the next paragraph he goes on to explain that he was being “a bit of a cock about it” and why