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New comment by hytfyiv3j in "Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)"

hytfyiv3j — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 12:47:23 +0000

In software I have found getting the exact details and parameters very useful even if I don't intend to use them. Because when I try to do the same thing my own way and fail, then I can reference the original ones and gradually make my own version more and more similar to that, and see when it starts working. Or make their version more and more similar to mine and see when it breaks. This allows quickly easily identifying the critical difference.

New comment by hytfyiv3j in "Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too"

hytfyiv3j — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 04:34:06 +0000

If you actually went through with it, traced over that picture and posted it back to the thread that would be nice, as it seems not everyone can see it as clearly as you can.

Maybe even the original authors would appreciate it.

New comment by hytfyiv3j in "Operation Triangulation: What you get when attack iPhones of researchers"

hytfyiv3j — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:03:13 +0000

> It makes you wonder what is on these guy's iPhones that's considered so valuable. Presumably, they were after emails describing more zero days in other programs.

My theory is that defensive cyber security is so hard that it's literally easier to hack the entire world(with a focus on security people) to see if anyone has breached your systems.

New comment by hytfyiv3j in "African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings"

hytfyiv3j — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:32:17 +0000

It must have been obvious from the start that it couldn't last too long, making just waiting it out the logical strategy.

New comment by hytfyiv3j in "African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings"

hytfyiv3j — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:14:09 +0000

It's fascinating to try to imagine the atmosphere in the room as they dust of decades old contingency plans of "what to do if Suez is closed?" and divert a sixth of the worlds shipping around the whole continent of Africa, probably adding a lot of cost in fuel and serious operational concerns as the ports naturally aren't ready for such a huge increase in traffic.