Hey. Your friendly neighbour hacker here. I've noticed that you have terrible taste when it comes to porn so I've uploaded a few gig of some good stuff to your drive. You're welcome.
Unfortunately such devices are the next wet dream of Amazon and other Big Tech companies. They hit a data-supply plateau having first extracted all the information available about us online and realised that the brick-and-mortar of our houses was a serious obstacle on their way to advertising paradise so they got creative. By putting smart spies inside our home they are not only able to gather almost every bit of information about ourselves but also users who potentially never joined their platforms - our kids, parents,...occasionally, lovers. They can figure out our relations with neighbours, what are our offline activities and hobbies, what are our plans, wishes, tastes, what time do we come back home and so on. Who knows, perhaps they also secretly sniff the traffic inside our network, discovering what other online platforms are in use in our household. Perhaps not only our networks but the whole neighbourhood.
It amazes me how few people are aware of these risks. Would they still have bought their smart devices if they knew the other side of the story?
Lastly, where does it end? However vast data sets we can provide, they are ultimately finite. What are the big corporations going to do once they penetrate our houses and strip us of the last remaining bits of our privacy and dignity?
Perhaps they'll decide to turn to the medical side of our life. I hope they would offer free rectal probes one day so that they could get a close-up of where I think is their place.
How does it feel to judge other people without knowing a thing about them? Ranting about young devs, systemd, Windows... There's so much else you could stitch in there, you know? How's your own echo chamber doing, eh?
Here's a few corrections to your assumptions and prejudice before we even start the debate on Python vs C:
1. Trust me, I wish I was a youngster again.
2. I've worked pretty much exclusively with Unix and Linux systems for the past 15 years. (systemd wasn't even around at that time).
3, My programming experience started with x86 assembly language.
4. I've used C professionally for a decade.
5. In fact, you are probably using my C code right now - if you dig deep enough you'll find my code in a few places in the Linux kernel.
As to Python...
I still stand by my opinion that a well-written Python code can achieve speeds similar to C. Perhaps not all the time, I'll give you that, after all there's a reason why there are so many different languages out there - horses for courses; Note the word well-written. Python is an easy language to learn but knowing how to use it efficiently requires in-depth knowledge of its internals which only a small percentage of people seem to be interested in.
Talking of which... I've examined the scripts used to benchmark C and Python. Have you by any chance had a look inside yourself? Let's talk about the n-body test which shows the greater differences. I believe the reason why it's so slow is because the devs who wrote it seem to be passing large set of data by values in nested loops instead of using Python's greatest strength - iterators. Memory allocation isn't cheap.
They also make a number of other cardinal mistakes, for example using mutable objects as default params.
1. No, it creates consistency.
2. Again, no. Most of it is comparable with C speed.
3. On occasions, not all the time.
4. Python does not accept mixed indentation. It's either spaces (recommended) or tabs. If you mix the two, you're the one to blame.
5. You need to start looking for different friends then.
I've said this before but OS-as-a-service does not work. Windows is currently unsuitable for any serious business use. It's becoming an always-online, uncontrollable and unpredictable data harvesting tool. You simply cannot use it offline anymore and with this "feature" it is now pure garbage.
The way you say words matters! Plus, it's a rather generous estimate. Just like the ones I give to my project manager when she asks when I'll be done with my current ticket.;-)
This is why companies should be automatically scheduled to be broken down once they reach a specific size/value. They should never be allowed to gain enough power to start pushing their own political agendas which favour no one else but their own pockets.
I knew my utm* -stripping extension would piss them off one day haha. On a serious note, it's not going to work. They don't own the Internet even though they think they do.
That's because all of the learning/reasoning software that we proudly call AI is not AI at all. It's just a series of pattern recognition and reasoning operations which are only as good as the programmers behind it. Some systems are okay. Most, however, terrible. Even if we got anywhere close to true AI, it would have to be more sophisticated than our intelligence to outsmart human deception. It would need to know about not only our language but also psychology and in fact everything we've ever created to have the full context of each end every conversation.
In other words, hate speech filters are not likely to start working any time soon.
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Hey. Your friendly neighbour hacker here. I've noticed that you have terrible taste when it comes to porn so I've uploaded a few gig of some good stuff to your drive. You're welcome.
Newer* lol
I've known (and exploited) this fact for years. Now Times New Roman will unavoidably get banned at schools. ;-)
They let the cat out of the bag too early. What Amazon will do is:
if client.geolocation == 'Brussels':
. . . . play_a_good_boy()
else:
. . . . the_usual_stuff()
Unfortunately such devices are the next wet dream of Amazon and other Big Tech companies. They hit a data-supply plateau having first extracted all the information available about us online and realised that the brick-and-mortar of our houses was a serious obstacle on their way to advertising paradise so they got creative. By putting smart spies inside our home they are not only able to gather almost every bit of information about ourselves but also users who potentially never joined their platforms - our kids, parents, ...occasionally, lovers. They can figure out our relations with neighbours, what are our offline activities and hobbies, what are our plans, wishes, tastes, what time do we come back home and so on. Who knows, perhaps they also secretly sniff the traffic inside our network, discovering what other online platforms are in use in our household. Perhaps not only our networks but the whole neighbourhood.
It amazes me how few people are aware of these risks. Would they still have bought their smart devices if they knew the other side of the story?
Lastly, where does it end? However vast data sets we can provide, they are ultimately finite. What are the big corporations going to do once they penetrate our houses and strip us of the last remaining bits of our privacy and dignity?
Perhaps they'll decide to turn to the medical side of our life. I hope they would offer free rectal probes one day so that they could get a close-up of where I think is their place.
Alexa Piss Off!
with the clock in my car. Works great.
I'm a happy man.
No, but example.com may as well be owned by the same people haha!
Whoever owns @test.com must earn a lot of money from selling all the information that goes to their catch-all inbox.
Also, I recommend you familiarise yourself with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Perhaps it will help you understand why it also matters what platform you compile/run your program on.
"Homeboy" has returned, oh The Wise One.
How does it feel to judge other people without knowing a thing about them? Ranting about young devs, systemd, Windows... There's so much else you could stitch in there, you know? How's your own echo chamber doing, eh?
Here's a few corrections to your assumptions and prejudice before we even start the debate on Python vs C:
1. Trust me, I wish I was a youngster again.
2. I've worked pretty much exclusively with Unix and Linux systems for the past 15 years. (systemd wasn't even around at that time).
3, My programming experience started with x86 assembly language.
4. I've used C professionally for a decade.
5. In fact, you are probably using my C code right now - if you dig deep enough you'll find my code in a few places in the Linux kernel.
As to Python...
I still stand by my opinion that a well-written Python code can achieve speeds similar to C. Perhaps not all the time, I'll give you that, after all there's a reason why there are so many different languages out there - horses for courses; Note the word well-written. Python is an easy language to learn but knowing how to use it efficiently requires in-depth knowledge of its internals which only a small percentage of people seem to be interested in.
Talking of which... I've examined the scripts used to benchmark C and Python. Have you by any chance had a look inside yourself? Let's talk about the n-body test which shows the greater differences. I believe the reason why it's so slow is because the devs who wrote it seem to be passing large set of data by values in nested loops instead of using Python's greatest strength - iterators. Memory allocation isn't cheap.
They also make a number of other cardinal mistakes, for example using mutable objects as default params.
1. No, it creates consistency. 2. Again, no. Most of it is comparable with C speed. 3. On occasions, not all the time. 4. Python does not accept mixed indentation. It's either spaces (recommended) or tabs. If you mix the two, you're the one to blame. 5. You need to start looking for different friends then.
is not a manual book.
...forget we'll ever have safe AI.
...all the Store crap it installed without anyone's permission.
I've said this before but OS-as-a-service does not work. Windows is currently unsuitable for any serious business use. It's becoming an always-online, uncontrollable and unpredictable data harvesting tool. You simply cannot use it offline anymore and with this "feature" it is now pure garbage.
Now we should start writing text on memes using Captcha fonts.
That's why I do strictly 9 to 5 and I'm pretty much always back home at 5:30 to do the fun side of programming on my own projects.
The way you say words matters! Plus, it's a rather generous estimate. Just like the ones I give to my project manager when she asks when I'll be done with my current ticket. ;-)
This is why companies should be automatically scheduled to be broken down once they reach a specific size/value. They should never be allowed to gain enough power to start pushing their own political agendas which favour no one else but their own pockets.
I knew my utm* -stripping extension would piss them off one day haha. On a serious note, it's not going to work. They don't own the Internet even though they think they do.
I always only do what's in my contract. Most of the time - 9 to 5. Sharp.
That's because all of the learning/reasoning software that we proudly call AI is not AI at all. It's just a series of pattern recognition and reasoning operations which are only as good as the programmers behind it. Some systems are okay. Most, however, terrible. Even if we got anywhere close to true AI, it would have to be more sophisticated than our intelligence to outsmart human deception. It would need to know about not only our language but also psychology and in fact everything we've ever created to have the full context of each end every conversation.
In other words, hate speech filters are not likely to start working any time soon.
...but not having one on board didn't stop them from calling their device unhackable.