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·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
There was Quelle, Europe's largest mail-order and retail company. They were excited about mailing their catalogue on CD-ROM, but slept on the Internet. In 2009, they went bankrupt.
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·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
LLMs are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, so I'm not sure they are in advantage.
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·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Note that N=1 for the memory safety vulnerabilities they had with Rust, so the error of the estimated average number of vulnerabilities per LOC is quite large.
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·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It's missing which point?
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·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I agree, but https://www.pcg-random.org/ still advertizes PCG as "challenging" to predict, and critizises other RNGs as predictable and insecure.
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·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yes, but this relation does but apply to statistical mechanics and statistical physics, they mean the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics

What is included in "statistical physics" that is not included in "statistical mechanics"?
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·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
They are synonyms.
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·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Signal asks you to repeat the key immediately before even enabling backups. It cannot fail much later unless you modify the digit after the check.
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·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That's a good question! Especially after Frank McSherry's COST paper [1], it's hard to imagine where the sweet spot for Spark is. I guess for Databricks it makes sense to push Spark, since they are the ones who created it. In a way, it's their competitive advantage.

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...
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·11 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> With that access you can also "do" things, like sending messages or delete stuff.

If you break E2E encryption, you can likely also impersonate and "do" things.
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·11 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
In Python you basically get undefined behavior when encountering NaNs while sorting, Rust let's you choose. This seems much more reasonable to me.
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·11 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Rust's way is more flexible though: You can choose how to treat NaNs, in Ruby you have to fail.