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malf··on Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021)
This is why it annoys me when journalists say P!=NP is about scheduling flights.
malf··on Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
If I leave other people’s stuff that I promised to take care of on the street and it gets stolen, I would be to blame.
malf··on LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory
> It's a solved problem on the CPU side of things

Is it? gestures at pile of cpu bugs

malf··on Ethernet over HTTPS Protocol
I always assumed you had to talk your way into some committee to submit one of these. Apparently it’s wide open. But why do it? Resume padding?
malf··on Daily coffee habits may affect brain plasticity and learning
> common sense

75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?

malf··on Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
Some people may prefer that to “oh no, Steam did rm -rf $typo/“
malf··on Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes
This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.
malf··on Statistical significance on a shoestring budget
“Using modern experiment frameworks, all 3 of ideas can be safely tested at once, using parallel A/B tests (see chart).”

Nooo! First, if one actually works, you’ve massively increased the “noise” for the other experiments, so your significance calculation is now off. Second, xkcd 882.

malf··on Fairphone 4 is coming to the US
SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.
malf··on FP2: Fully In-Place Functional Programming [pdf]
Noob question: the Top type here is exactly the Node constructor of the stree type. It seems useful to declare a type that is “this ADT, but limited to these constructors”, but even Haskell seems to avoid it. Why?
malf··on Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
strace -e open
malf··on Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration
I think it was 2x total speedup vs previous version, which already used gpu for “most” things, so the real speedup is 2/(1-most), which could be a lot.
malf··on Math has changed the shape of gerrymandering
It’s not football. The parties will balance, sure, but the policy, uh, hyperplane will have shifted.
malf··on HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text
The mustache beefed up to fill in for Homer’s nose in profile. Mwah.
malf··on Bytes are all you need: Transformers operating directly on file bytes
Obligatory four-letter comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room
malf··on A Flexible Type System for Fearless Concurrency (2022) [pdf]
I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?
malf··on Why Oatmeal Is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generation [pdf]
The choice of computer is just an additive constant.
malf··on Local License Key Verification
I remember some tool or other used 128-bit RSA back in the day.
malf··on Temporal quality degradation in AI models
> Another critical decision is that they only investigated pairs of model-dataset with good initial performance.

groan

malf··on Mastodon hit 10M users
The blacklist is visible on the about page of each instance. Feel free to go sample a few. The first one I tried had literal swastikas in the user name of the first post. It went downhill from there.
malf··on Partnering with Fastly–Oblivious HTTP relay for FLEDGE's 𝑘-anonymity server
It’s not immediately clear what stops me from preparing k-1 sybils?
malf··on Launch HN: Blyss (YC W23) – Homomorphic encryption as a service
Same problem as “hash the PIN code”, an attacker can run the algorithm for Alexa-1M.csv.
malf··on Giannis Antetokounmpo put $250k into 50 different banks (2022)
To get the sale? It seems to have worked. Truth is orthogonal.
malf··on Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
That’s odd. I remember using it in the 90s. It’s the obvious way to do things if you don’t like small objects.

(Also GPUI seems to be retained, so completely unrelated.)

malf··on All Books and Science Publications Are Available in IPFS
Is this a copy of libgen or just a frontend with a tip jar?
malf··on Researchers fool self-driving cars with stickers on street signs (2017)
I assume https://xkcd.com/1958/ (2018) was in response to this.
malf··on I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle
> “The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up“

Higher than population average. Do you have any evidence that it is higher than people who are denied treatment?

malf··on Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money
type robotname = string & {_robotname_marker:true}

or some variation. The marker does not actually need to exist.

malf··on Emotionally Intelligent People Use 3-Word Phrase When Criticised
Wait, are writers incentivized to get “scrolls” now?!
malf··on NopeCHA: Captcha Solver
“If it were truly AI, then they would make more money offering their own CAPTCHA service instead of a CAPTCHA-breaking service.”

Please elaborate.

“workers (ie humans)”

Do you know what we call a process that takes tasks from a queue?

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