bss03

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Vocabulary question X + shell + powder = bullet, what is X?

Because usually the threat is that X will be delivered through use of powder the destination of the shell is ambiguous but not included in the delivery.

When you deliver while (unfired) bullets it's generally not considered a threat.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

The DJIA (e.g.) isn't "the house". It isn't something you are competing with in that your losses are its/their gain. You are misunderstanding both investing (in general and the stock market specifically) and gambling when you make that confusion/analogy.

Not beating the market but having positive returns is only "losing" when infinite exponential growth is the goal. Beating the market but having negative returns is not "winning".

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just because you are wrong about your expected value calculations (or were right but the actual return was on the lower end of the range) and have made a bad investment doesn't change the fact that it was an investment because you were doing it for the returns.

In short, performance doesn't matter for this distinction, at least IMO.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 4 weeks ago

The other suggestions are probably better, but you can technically self-host Wire (from Wire Gmbh) but I've never done it successfully.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 4 weeks ago

Cube theory clearly established that hot dogs are tacos. It's all based on the location of structural starches.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 10 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

IMO: When you do it for the entertainment/feeling/rush, it's gambling. When you do it for the returns, it is investing. I also think the other poster that mentioned investing as being interested in the success of the endeavor, that would exclude shorting and I think might be a useful distinction.

Casino games and sports betting all have lower expected value (probabilistic value) than their cost, so they are not something you can do for returns (you have better expected returns by not participating).

There are plenty of people that are misinformed, dishonest, or stuck finding a bigger fool that will sell you a gamble by calling it an investment, and expected value is not guaranteed value.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 54 points 1 month ago (23 children)

New messages will show on all your devices, but yes, it is intentional that old messages are not available to new devices.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

The academy has been using the term "AI" for a while now for things that are much less sophisticated than the current/popular generation of media generators. I took an "Artificial Intelligence" class as part of my undergrad around the turn of the century.

It is confusing though, since sentience and intelligence are synonyms in the right context, but no AI has shown any good evidence of being a non-human sentient being.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

When MS was pushing the Bing challenge with TV ads, it really was quite close. I did the challenge and Google "won" (only) 3/5 of my test searches.

Of course Bing already had a hilariously incorrect "AI" interfering with the first page of results for a week or two before Google decided to further fsck up their search with LLM response generation.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

Web assembly ? It's not driven only by Google, but I think they have been involved.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

Late to the party. Idris had a bash backend (i.e. you could compile Idris to bash), and it's already bit rotted with new Idris versions.

I hope the language is at least as cool as Idris.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 21 points 1 month ago

I think of the Carlin bit... It's the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it.

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